My husband and I hit up Costco this afternoon with a short shopping list and a goal to stay away from impulse purchases.
We were down to one small bag of cat litter, so I fully stocked up as there was an “instant rebate” and I’d rather get ahead of the cost. (We bought three four-packs.) The most boring purchase, but it can’t be avoided when you have a cat. I checked my photo library to see how the prices have changed and was shocked to see that the cost hasn’t changed since I took this photo in December of 2023! Something that hasn’t gone up in price? Crazy.
The other thing on our list was laundry detergent, specifically the Kirkland Signature brand. This tub-o-detergent lasts my family a full year, specifically because I immediately remove the large scoop and replace it with a tiny scoop leftover from some long forgotten container of Dollar Tree oxyclean. My husband and I are not ditch diggers, so a small amount of laundry soap cleans our clothing/bedding/towels without issue.
I would estimate that I use a tablespoon of soap per load.
Of course no trip to Costco would be complete without a loop around the store for free samples.
Beef sticks:
Hotdog:
Quinoa:
La Croix seltzer:
And chocolate chip cookies for dessert!
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That same litter is $23.89 at the nearest Costco here after the instant rebate. I suspect lack of competition makes stuff more expensive.
I buy cat litter at Ollie’s Outlet, which is largely an overstock retailer, for $6.99 for a 20 pound bag and stock up when I have a 10 or 15 percent off coupon. One day I bought nothing but 160 pounds of cat litter, which is the most we have space to store.
We do the same thing with powdered detergent, using a 2 tablespoon coffee scoop instead of the half-cup measure that comes with the detergent.
I’m in Illinois and it’s also $23.89 here
I assumed that Costco pricing was the same throughout the contiguous U.S. I learned something new.
We’re still eating “clean out the icebox.” Husband ate the last of the baked beans and 2 hot dogs without bun/bread. (I need to make bread today.) I ate what I call “Lazy Man’s Macaroni & Cheese.” (Cook and drain macaroni, toss in butter, top with shredded x-sharp white cheddar cheese. Comfort food.
Yesterday (Friday), we went back up to my sister’s to retrieve hubby’s wallet that fell out of his pocket at her house on Thursday. She took us to lunch. Hubby ordered a grilled chicken salad, no dressing; and I ordered a chicken parmesan wrap. Both were huge! We brought home enough leftovers for 2 meals each.
Today’s agenda is HOUSEWORK. No plans to go anywhere, so no temptation to spend. Still lots to eat in the house before buying any groceries. Will use up odds and ends of cleaning products I bought and didn’t care for (e.g. Fantastik – which I didn’t think was so “fantastic.”) Using those things up will help get rid of clutter. Recyclables will go in the cardboard box on our porch (paper) or the garbage can on our porch (plastic and tin). We have another garbage can for aluminum, which we take to a scrap yard for $. We rarely have anything glass, but that gets set next to the paper box, then goes on top of that box when we go to the recycling center.
Yesterday’s score: 1 box of Lucky Charms (1/2 price) and a package of Artisan flat bread with 2 long pieces in it (also half price). We will use the flat bread for homemade pizza. I canned pizza sauce last year and we have mozzarella and pepperoni in the freezer; an onion and a red bell pepper in the fridge. It will make us each 2 meals.
I have house guests coming next week and need to do a “clean out the icebox” to get on top of the random stuff in my fridge.
I pay $24.99 for the same litter at Wmart in MN – wonder if Costco here has that savings….
We have to pay too much for the special kind of litter for long-haired cats. That said, Trash Kitty then doesn’t walk litter all over the place.
I miss Costco. Haven’t been there in months and I won’t get there until September because traffic is too awful.
Frugal: I found some frozen blueberries and made them into blueberry viniagrette for the rest of the never ending arugula. A little red onion and yummo. (Stop writing yummo.)
Tomorrow’s Son’s birthday, so I have to dig around in my stash for the least appropriate wrapping paper I can find for his gifts. I wonder if we still have any pink Paw Patrol?
FYI, Katy, you typoed “Costco” in the hed.
@katy you also duplicated the second Costco photo. Clearly it is Saturday, day of slacking off in the blogging dept 😉
She didn’t. Look at the price expiration dates.
I am a fan of ‘Yummo’ so no complaints here…. and am interested in the manner in which you assemble your vinaigrette?
This is my best guess for amounts. Ish. heh.
3/4 cup frozen blueberries
1/4 cup olive oil
1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
1/4 cup honey
Pinch salt
Toss it together and let it sit for a while for the blueberries to defrost. If you don’t have any honey around, I am sure any other sugar is fine.
The sweetish dressing is particularly nice on peppery sorts of greens.
oh yummo. 😉
I have a plethora of Strawberries right now, might make this up with some of them as I prep them for canning as syrup. As an aside, my 26 year old son got a funny look on his face when I said plethora. I guess my emphasis on the ‘thor’ part is, per my usual pronunciation of words I only read, wrong. Oops. but fun, now I have two words meaning a lot of. one is unique to me and my pronunciation
Pleh-thor-a. I think the emphasis is on the first syllable, but to be honest, phonics etc and where we were supposed to clap between syllables always mystified me. They didn’t know I could read really well in kindergarten (I taught myself to read age 3, as did my daughter), so they still made me try to learn stupid stuff like phonics when I was already years and years ahead. I continue not to understand it. Anyway, better to not know how to pronounce a word you’ve only read than never to have heard of it, so go you.
Isn’t there a classic strawberry vinaigrette with black pepper? In any case, obviously this kind of thing is endlessly tweakable. Change literally every ingredient and it’s still good. Add something crunchy on top like seeds or nuts and some shreddy protein, and dinner is ready.
Rose,
I had no idea there was special cat litter for long-haired cats….but then, we’ve always had shorthand cats. Good info to have, if we adopt another cat at some point.
As you know, Gus just showed up one day in the trash.
I remember. Our Lafayette was a stray that a friend’s dogs cornered under their wood pile. They had seen him many times before that around their house and in the alley behind their house. He’s a flame point Siamese, and was obviously *someone’s* pet before he came to us.
Looks like you’re all set for cat litter stuff! And, yes, it is most unusual for a price to remain the same these days. Lucky you! (You must have iron-clad willpower to avoid impulse purchases in that store!)
Rumor has it that Costco will build a store in my area in a couple of years. I hope it’s true! I’ve heard many nice things about Costco, and have read that they treat/pay their employees very well.
Right now, we only have a Sam’s Club and it is ‘way across the county from where I live. A friend once included me on his family membership, but since I live alone, I didn’t really see much of a benefit shopping there.
Someone mentioned Ollie’s Outlet, and they have extended their deal for 15% everything in the store through Sunday June 29 in my city. Check to see if the deal is the same in yours. You might want to stock up for the coming season if it is. They also put their rugs and carpets on 25% off, but not the vinyl flooring planks.
My frugal 5:
1. I bought 5 more boxes of LVP from Ollie’s at 15% off yesterday, and that gives me enough to do the hallway in addition to the computer room. I already bought 11 boxes for the computer room…..$1.61 a square foot when the 15% discount is applied, and the stuff I got is commercial grade.
2. My neighbors are having a block party today, and I was asked to bring ketchup and paper plates. (Figure I got off easy.) Grabbed a bottle of ketchup from the pantry–it’s from a giant two-pack I got at Ollie’s quite a while ago. Shop your closet, folks, shop your closet. The money you save may be your own!
3. After numerous attempts, the redneck handyman I hired STILL has not been able to install the ceiling fan. All the overhead lights in two bathrooms, three closets and my bedroom are not working, either, thanks to him. I give up! A remodeling company, which advertises it also performs handyman services, is going to come by and give me an estimate for fan and flooring installation. Hope they won’t charge an arm and a leg. Meanwhile, I’m having to go into my walk-in closet with a flashlight so I can see which clothes to wear. Last night I showered by Coleman battery-operated camping lantern (bought it as a hurricane emergency supply).
4. Used up a gift card so no money out of my bank account for those expenditures.
5. I did not waste a perfectly good Saturday by going to an over-the-top wedding extravaganza. In Italy, or any other place. I also am not helping to the former shindig bc I do not shop Amazon.
Forgot to mention, the Ollie’s sale no longer requires a coupon. And their beach towels are $3.99 each. I didn’t get any bc I have all the towels I need. I often use beach towels in lieu of large bath towels.
I have a neighbor who is a professional electrician I call on when I need a simple installation. She’s quick, usually in and out in ten minutes, and I pay her directly for a much lower rate than an electrician. It might be worth it to ask if anyone is an electrician in your neighborhood Facebook group.
Ashley B,
I asked around at the block party and a neighbor said “oh, you should use ours!” She texted him and when I got home, he’d left a message on the answering machine. His price is reasonable and he says it’s usually a 10-min. job for him to put in a fan.
Meanwhile, I got to take home plenty of leftovers, enough meat to feed me for a week plus homemade beans and half an ear of corn. And I got to go swimming!
My experience with electrical companies here in FL is that they want to charge you a base rate of $200 to show up to your home and then another large amount for each item they fix. I think it’s insane. There is one electrical company locally who wants to charge your for their mileage to drive to their home, but you never know where they are coming from unless you are the first job of the day and they are driving from their warehouse. I declined to use that one.
I generally stick to the list at Costco. It makes it a faster and cheaper trip. Browsing takes time and adds cost.
We do occasionally buy frozen GF pizza, when it is on sale at Costco, since my many attempts to make a good GF crust were less than successful. We eat them infrequently and don’t get takeout pizza.
I buy gf pizza from Domino’s when I have a 50% code, which brings the price down. I pick them up to avoid the delivery fee/big tip and call it good.
Oh my word, Katy! Your boring Costco order was identical to mine, with exemption of my Kirkland box of oxyclean. I use the laundry soap for everything: sprinkled on the roof in the fall keeps off moss, a 1/4 cup in 3 gallons to wash down the farm fences. 1/4 tsp to1 gallon of water to mop the bathroom floors is why I constantly get asked how I get my floors to sparkle. 1/4 cup laundry day + 1/8 c oxyclean + 1 tsp dawn in one gallon of warm water to wash outdoor windows leaving them streak free.
I went garage sailing or “visiting” as my sweet mama calls it. I always have a needs list and I filled it! I needed a pitchfork, I picked up a 5 gallon carboy that will be filled with filtered water just in case we lose power $5.
A brand new set of pottery barn queen jersey sheets $2, a cute 30 oz stainless steel water bottle for breast cancer awareness, free.
A prayer plant, spider plant, a split leaf viney plant all free at different sales.
A cedar chest with a split top $2, it is already glued, biscuit ed and clamped.
2 matching Antique bwah ha ha Sears work benches with visas both for $5.
They will be used this week for our huge wood fence rebuild.
A quirky thing I picked up was a curly willow tree named Don, he was a dollar and came in a huge 5 gallon glazed pot. I also bought a 2 ft square x 3 ft square vote collection box. I remember these as my mom worked on the election board and I worked in the county clerks office as a young college kid.
I bought a huge roll of brand new plastic sheeting for $4 it is 20 x 25 ft.
I went to the swanky neighborhood and found a former Pendleton wool dealer and picked up yards for $4/yd. The cedar chest was her mother’s and this sweet lady was 93!
Around the corner was a former classmate and she was selling her last years tshirts (mostly jjill) $.50 each I picked 6. New wardrobe!
She moved to central Oregon, so we made plans to meet up next month for a float down the Deschutes.
I loved the Dollar Tree fake oxyclean, but they’ve stopped selling it. Even after they put it on a smaller package. I’ll have to check out the Costco version.
You can find sodium percarbonate online. It is the active ingredient in Oxiclean and you can use less of it when cleaning. Like half as much. And it works wonderfully. Chemistry FTW!
Where would one buy sodium percarbonate online if one were avoiding Schmezos?
Lots of places–hell, even Walmart has it. Chemistry suppliers, etc. Google it.
We used to have a free Costco membership through a family member that worked there, but we bought so few things there that the savings didn’t justify the cost of membership once they quit. Ours was also way too crowded to shop comfortable, although I hear it is no longer like that now that we, sadly but understandably, have fewer Canadian shoppers coming to visit.
1) My son’s GF needed a ride to a doctor’s appointment yesterday around dinner time. We combined it with an errand she had downtown and with a trip to the library since we are both huge book nerds.
2) Afterward, she requested a stop at taco bell. Although I was tempted to spring for an easy fast food dinner for the wife and I, I held firm as she picked up her and my son’s order. Instead, I went home and microwave-baked potatoes while mixing up some creamed cabbage to serve over the top. Nearly as fast, cheaper, and probably much healthier (even with the bacon and heavy cream I used)!
3) We are heading out to the garage sale day in a nearby lakeside community. We shop garage sales from a list, which we updated last night before bed. Whenever we make a garage sale or thrift list, we also write down the max price we are willing to pay next to each item, so we don’t overpay on a used item due to being carried away by the thrill of finding said item.
4) I made egg salad so we can pack a picnic lunch to take with us. This way we won’t be tempted to stop at a restaurant or cafe while we are away from home all day.
5) While rooting around in the freezer for the bacon last night, I found a forgotten tub of apple sauce that my son or his GF tossed up there because it was about to expire. I used it and half a leftover zucchini to whip up a loaf of zucchini bread (I used applesauce in place of the butter called for in the recipe). Now we have a sweet treat to take with us on our picnic, too!
Great idea, Jenny, about the price list to limit what is spent on a given item! I need to start doing that.
Perhaps we all suspect ourselves of possessing at least one secret frugal superpower, and mine is definitely avoiding food waste. This was put to the test this morning and I’m happy to say my superheroine status has been recertified.
I had a houseguest the last two days. This doesn’t happen often, and this guest is a most beloved friend I hadn’t seen for nearly a decade. Reader, I grossly overshopped. Between my excitement at seeing him and uncertainty over what and how much he would want to eat, I blasted through the grocery store like the Greek army sacking Troy. When in doubt, throw it in the cart. Today’s mission was to salvage the untouched, the remnants, and the what-even-was-I thinking.
Various berries sliced and frozen. Half a loaf of day old French bread cubed and frozen for later french toast casserole (with berries!). Crudites chopped up–some frozen in baggies for soup starters and some roasted along with the Brussels sprouts we didn’t even cook. Fat trimmed from our grass fed steaks (I went all out!) added to the freezer stash for eventual tallow. Crackers that sat beside the crudites too long to go back in the box crushed and bagged for (whatever) crumbs. Leftover coffee cake is soaking in the remains of fresh strawberries muddled with sugar and balsamic and will freeze well unless I eat it first.
Unopened wine will save itself, as will the bottle of prosecco we didn’t drink. (I made gin and tonics.) And ice cream never goes bad in my house.
I threw out one tablespoon of salad dressing I decided I didn’t like that much. And I will sadly be forced to finish the brie, some cold steak, and two fig tarts today,because who wants to freeze those?
Was the celebration excessive? Yes. But if I get the chance and am still around, I’ll do it again in ten years.
Oh, I forgot about the black forest ham. I think it will be fine until tomorrow; there’s just enough for a sandwich, with leftover salad…
Our two relatives are here renovating part of our house. I have done the same thing, whatever I think they will fancy I get. I could not stand the thought that they are doing all this work for free, plus paying their own air fares up, and I don’t go all out for the meals. My husband’s eyes are rolling like slot machine fruits, seeing things coming in the house that I never buy. (“How come you don’t buy me chips, pop, ice cream, fudge sauce, commercial tartar sauce…”) The one big savings is that they love salmon and yesterday my husband counted up that we have 64 king salmon fillets, all prepped and flash frozen, in the freezer. (If you fish in some places, you can walk from the river to a building where they will fillet, shrink wrap and flash freeze your fish. When we fished a lot, we didn’t do that because we had friends who made fish head soup so gave the heads to them. Now we take whatever fisher friends give us.) So, salmon in various forms once a day for the next two weeks, which will save a lot. But if they tire of that and want diced hummingbird tongue, I will find it and buy it no matter what the price.)
Uh….would they like to visit the Hamptons! Ha. We’re more of the ocean fish type, stripers, fluke, bluefish, tuna, blah blah y blah. The fishing boats will filet your fish for you, etc. But I can hook them up if they want sport fishing (swordfish, sailfish, sharks) although I will mentally make a Marge Simpson tsking noise to myself because I don’t approve of fishing sharks.
1. I picked my son up from a two week camp and enjoyed presentations and free lunch at the college for parents and campers. The lunch was a buffet with salad, sandwich buns, burgers, or chicken patties, fixings, chips, dip, and cookies; water and lemonade. It was a nice way to end the camp with families and kids.
2. My son didn’t go through all of his snack food at camp saying he wanted to make sure he had snacks at home. I was surprised that he was thinking this through well ahead. He also said they fed the kids well so maybe he just didn’t need all the snacks. The director made a joke that refrigerators got a two week break at parents homes. He was right!
3. A neighbor messaged me yesterday that she had gone to a food pantry and wanted to give me several things she did not want. I took a box from her, said thank you, then proceeded to give about half of it to another neighbor. Some items I wanted, some I didn’t. I ran out of room in my freezer. I am not considering how to creatively use 2lb of frozen peeled apple slices. Maybe turnovers or an apple pie?
I love how you graciously accepted your friend’s generosity (so she will do it again!!) and also quickly shared what you don’t want/need (so there is no waste, and paying it forward, too!). I am training my kids to do this with my mom (just TAKE what she is offering, damn it all – you can always share it once it is out of her house, and her feelings won’t be hurt). My daughter kind of got it (although they currently are at a challenging part of their relationship) and my eldest is finally getting it. I wish HE would do the same with his own mom (me). He hasn’t quite found ‘gracious’ in his way of communicating with me when offered gifts/hand me downs. Luckily his partner has, so we have some eye rolls when he stumbles in his responses.
Ecoteri,
A good friend told me years ago (probably after I complained about my mom trying to give me things I don’t want) that in such situations, it is our *job* to happily accept the item(s), and then find them a new home (gift/donate/trash). I think of that all the time. Every now and then, someone in my Buy Nothing group offers A LOT of food – it appears to be things from the food pantry – so I offer to pick it up, take what we will use, then put the rest in the “blessing box” thats right outside our local food pantry (anyone can access it 24/7).
Ashley B.,
In my family, an apple pie or an apple crisp would be most welcome! Lol 🙂
My husband likes apple slices sauteed in a bit of butter, with cinnamon and brown sugar. For dessert, no pie crust needed to make him happy. I like that on yogurt.
I often used to serve sauteed apples, butter and a little sugar as a dinner side, not dessert. Why haven’t I done that in years? My one old faithful green apple tree is already groaning with little apples. Can’t wait.
Well done at Costco, Katy! My go-tos are hazelnut coffee beans, a variety of pain meds (!) and vitamins, toilet paper, and ( if I can manage it) a BBQ chicken and croissants. Costco isn’t a regular stop, maybe once every two or three months. and I likely will drop my membership this year as #1 son has one and will pick up my very few needs if I ask nicely.
1. The sheep are sheared! And my sheep shearer diagnosed the limping one with bad arthritis. Knowing that it ‘all’ it is, I will worry a bit less about her, however (like us all) her days are numbered. Wah.
I paid for the shearing with egg money (mostly $5 bills) which made him laugh, then gifted him two dozen eggs from my abundance. He is a lovely man and it is really not worth his while to come shear two sheep, but he likes my dog, my large and stubborn sheep, and me, so I make a point of ensuring he knows I appreciate his yearly trek to visit us.
2. Now that #2 son is back from his conference and holiday in sweltering Ottawa and Montreal, he is again immersed in trying to get his paper completed. Because the work he is writing about is novel, there are a lot of t’s to be crossed and i’s to be dotted, so he was back at work/University on Friday, which I hadn’t expected so hadn’t planned on leftovers for his lunch.
I whipped up some egg salad Thursday night (from the multitudes of eggs) and he created his own sandwich in the morning. When our beloved family members are working really hard, it is a joy to be able to provide support in the form of food and love.
3. The wheelbarrow full of ‘pulled’ daffodils, etc (that my friend had rescued from her neighbour and delivered to me last month) has had the tops die off, but the never ending rain we are having has meant that the bulbs themselves weren’t actually drying while in a pile in the wheelbarrow.
I pulled them off their stalks and spread them on bread trays (large red trays used by bakeries to transport bread – great for gardeners, too). They now should dry, if we get a few days of sunshine. If we don’t have 4 days in a row soon, I will put them into my ‘grow room’ to dry, but I really would prefer to have them dry outside. I am sure that I have been gifted at least 200 bulbs, and probably closer to 300. massive future spring glory, for free.
4. I have been recycling dirt from my spring bulb pots, and collecting the tulip and daffodil (and other) bulbs for planting this fall. They, too, will be spread on a bread flat. My drying rack area is getting crowded. Reusing the dirt, and saving the bulbs are both really frugal – and satisfying, too!. The dirt is being used to pot up some of the tiny plants I have been collecting from the discount shelves at my grocer – and to increase the pot size of some hostas and canna lilies, many of which are jam packed in their existing homes.
Extra points to me for all the steps and stretching and bending exercise I got during my “should have been 1 hour and somehow morphed into 5 hour” gardening adventure. (groan)
5. I had a couple of very demanding days, and for a week or so I have had a hankering for pizza. However I conviced myself both days that I could create a meal from what I have at home. I have been neglecting to make the “dinner decision” for myself earlier in the day, and am noticing that I really struggle to make healthy choices; I am pleased that I managed to avoid the temptations running through my brain.
If I get my act together in the next couple of days, I will create some pizza dough for dinner.
1. I bought some maple syrup yesterday at the small Target that caters to college students. It was overpriced, but I bought it because I knew I was going to use up the leftover pancake batter this morning, and I was in the neighborhood. I eyeballed the artificial syrups, but I just couldn’t go there, having gotten used to the taste of the real thing. So, this morning after breakfast I decided to pour the last bit from the old bottle into the new one, and I knocked the new bottle over, spilling a good bit on the counter and the floor. It was heartbreaking! And I can’t seem to get the sticky off the floor tiles. Frugal fail. That’ll learn me.
2. I walked to the little free pantry today, but there was nothing there. The refrigerator is running hot, so there is a sign posted to neither take nor leave anything. The dry pantry part was empty.
3. I did pick up a book from a little free library. However, it is a second book in a series, so I put the first book on hold at the library, and I’ll hold off on reading it.
4. Heat wave has moderated somewhat today, so I am enjoying open windows and a fan.
5. Found .02! Which begs the question — now that the penny will no longer be minted, will we find more of them, cast aside by people who think they are worthless? And will merchants decide, somewhere down the line, that they won’t accept pennies anymore? I wonder.
I’m curious to see what will happen with pennies too. I’m actually wondering if people will start hoarding or collecting them since new ones are not being produced.
I might be able to scrounge up 5 things…..
1. DD had a pair of shorts that he said fit him “weirdly” so I tried them on and they fit me just fine.
2.I have guests leaving my Airbnb cottage tomorrow and had no one booked until Thursday next week. So for the first time, I edited my title to include “last minute deal”, lowered the nightly rate just a bit and got a three night booking, on the same day.
3. I took the leftover raw veggies from my Dad’s 90th party home from his fridge, as he will never eat them, and have given them to my dogs as treats, and will save some for me to add to my salads. I just had to toss the peppers and the cucumbers.
4. Harvested my rhubard, have cooked up some to add to yogurt, and frozen some for muffins, etc. for later.
5.Spent $10 worth of Airmiles rewards at the pharmacy.
You have a litter container from 2023? Doubt it, some “ingredient” has changed and likely not for the better.
Why would you doubt this?
Because I have worked in corporate america my entire life. Tantrum tariffs excluded, the only thing that has dropped in price is *maybe* TVs, not cat litter.
We re-use cat litter containers, *if* they last a year we’re lucky (for those used outside). The inside only ones – I did not date.
@Katy – how do you justify the Costco membership cost for only two people? We cannot justify the cost for a two person household even IF it was close and no tolls. We can hit an employee owned grocery store closer to the house with NO tolls or stoplights.
It pays for itself as there are a number of items we only buy there.
Olive oil, chicken bouillon, rotisserie chicken, salmon, eggs, detergent, cat litter, cat food, over the counter meds, frozen berries, frozen chicken, occasional appliances, (we bought our fridge from there) batteries, etc. etc. Plus gas.
Katy, we buy many of the items you mention, and we have also bought several sets of tires for our cars there over the years. Hubby and I have also bought eyeglasses through Costco, and I *think* maybe hubby got his hearing aids there as well? Not sure about that last one.
Selena — remember what a very large country we live in….you are lucky that you have the option stated, of the employee owned grocery store close to you, etc.
Not everyone does. I am a happy Costco member and make addtional choices all the time. We all make choices that are appropriate and make sense to us.
We dumped our Sam’s membership a couple of years after we purchased it (business rate). I’ve yet to find a “Great Value” product that is anything close to great.
Does Costco provide any roadside services if said tire fails? Does Costco deliver new appliance and take old for recycling? Rhetorical question. Full disclosure, I own Costco stock. But like Wally, it is a local business killer. Like Wally, I never see Costco as a local sponsor.
Paying tolls, gas, and/or hokey pokey u-turns isn’t saving me money on gas.
Some may be happy with Kirkland and other off name products, I stick with tried and true.