Costco Time
With the past week’s news of pig flu, earthquakes, super viruses and continued economic misery – my friends over at Rapture Ready are kicking the preparedness into high gear. If you haven’t read Rapture Ready I encourage you to do so. You’ll find it’s a wonderful “End of Days” resource and I highly recommend it. There’s a great thread in here somewhere devoted to public transportation and how Obama’s and California’s new rail proposals are really a guise to round up and transport - well you know…
I decided to follow their lead and start stocking up. (Minus the firearms and gas masks.) I don’t have a Costco membership, but accompanied by a guest I visited the Park Meadows location. I usually shop at Safeway or Kroger, but on occasion I visit Super Target for the cheap prices. They’re a tad higher than Wal-Mart but I don’t feel as guilty going to Super Target as I do Wal-Mart.
I can’t seem to find anything at Costco fit to a human scale. This vat of coffee claims to make 380 cups. I only make coffee on the weekends, and with three cups a day times two days a week it would take me years to get through it.
Most products are bundled together so even though the price per unit is cheaper the overall cost is more. For example I buy peanut butter at King Soopers for $1.50 or so on sale. Costco charges $4.99 for two bucket size containers. I guess it’s good for the Duggers, but it creates quite a challenge to consume this much, plus shovel around space in the cupboards.
I didn’t take as many photo as other retail adventures, but here are a couple more shots.
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Above: Enough Mazola to power the cooking oil powered car that I don’t own.
Below: I usually buy one or two pounds of ground turkey per trip. Here’s four packaged together.
Below is my cart. It doesn’t appear that I bought that much, however the cart is enormous. The boxes are also huge.
And a big drum of Skippy.
I have never quite figured out the fascination with buying things in huge quantities at a minuscule discount. I track my grocery costs on a spread sheet at the various stores I shop at. We don’t have a Costco but have WM’s evil twin Sam’s Club. The only thing I buy in bulk is bread flour and possibly sugar. I have found as a general rule that the when purchasing the larger quantities that quite often some gets wasted as it gets stale or infested prior to my being able to use it. No savings in anything that goes in the trash!
I do realize that they were built to service small businesses ie; restaurants and the like and I suppose for those they serve a purpose. Me I am looking for the half sized, single serving cans of sauerkraut or some other desirable goody.
Aaron