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expiredcitan359 | Staff posted Nov 27, 2025 1:43 PM
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Want a loophole? Get a friend to buy you some Costco gift cards, smallest available denomination (which used to be $25 per card). Your gift card is now your entry pass. When you want to buy something, show the checkout person and ask them to ring you up as a non-member (used to be member 99). Pay using your card and they'll let you use a different card to pay the remainder.
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You still need to show your card up to 4 times in one visit with at least 3 times now. At Sam's I don't even do it once and never wait in line. The Costco line is almost always long and inconsistent. My local one had self checkout but just got rid of it. The one I just went to in MA still had them(still a line). Weird and inconsistent.
There is definitely stuff I like at Costco more but the membership is like 3x the cost and gas would probably be the biggest ROI but I'm not waiting in that crazy line. Mine the phone doesn't work either you you have to dig out the actual card and they have some weird accordion thing that makes the gas stop pumping easily. This seems to also be a "feature" at all the Costco's. While I'm thinking about it, you have to pay with a credit card at Costco too so you need to pull out 2 cards. Probably why it takes so long. Sams you just scan your phone and pay in 1 second.
With Costco Executive Membership - it's actually a good investment. Invest $130 .. get back a few hundred cash back. Plus Visa card benefits.
you can do all that other stuff at Sam's.
You still need to wait for the food. You can order the food on the app before you even go in the store or whenever you want so it's being made while you walk around. Total game changer. You never go to a register, just scan with your phone and walk right out the store. No line, you can even put your phone away while walking out the door! No paper receipt.
Obviously if Costco is your only choice in an area, I'd put up with it. They have good car battery prices company to Sam's but they also don't have lawn mower batteries. I have a list of stuff that's better at each place.
If I have one group of stores selling my widgets for $100 each, but I want to offer a better price at a large retailer like Costco, say $75, I would want to make sure that there's a limit on who can buy them. Otherwise I risk canabalizing those $100 sales, and that first group of stores will not be happy with me.
Sometimes this is farcical, the 'see price in cart' being a prime example.
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And when I tell you that Sam's feels too ghetto is not even close. And we like both. It's just that Costco has better organization, customer service, and pretty darn solid return program.
Again. We own both Sam's and Costco. But we love Costco more.
If you workout 6 times a week, and use 2 scoops per day, it will be gone in a year.
So even if you use 1 scoop per day, it will take 2 years at the same frequency per week.
Wild. I work out once a week and hammer some on that day and that seems to build a ton of muscle, y'all must be beasts!!!
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