Costco is a rip-off. Period. You pay $50 or $100 a year to commit to a block of cheese that you’re not going to finish before it’s a green and blue pile of mold and dust. After we had our baby, everyone gushed and creamed over how awesome Costco was for diapers, formula and wipes.
Nope.
Sorry friends, but just because you’re buying twice as many whatevers (diapers/any other baby product you can possible think of), you’re still paying about 1.5 times what you would pay for the same amount (albeit in more than one package) at Target. And you don’t need a separate 20 cubic-foot-freezer when shopping at Target, either.
I guess you’re not really paying for cheaper stuff; maybe less trips to the store? Maybe you can stock up on a three year supply of Q-tips and pencils and then you know you’re set.
And every Costco I’ve gone to, customers are super bitchy and rude. Perhaps because they’ve realized that the five cents they’re saving per every thousand Snickers bar isn’t justifying the cost of the annual membership. The point is: they are just rude. And then because Costco’s only shopping cart option is double wide (insert trailer trash jokes here), if anyone stops for a moment to deliberate whether they want full fat or 2% cottage cheese (because Costco doesn’t do non-fat cottage cheese for some reason), they hold up the entire flow of people around them. You can barely fit two carts down the isle, let alone make an impromptu stop to grab an item that catches your eye.
I really don’t like Costco. Every time I even attempt to convince myself that this time, when I go to buy toilet paper, certainly the crappy Costco generic brand will be cheaper than the Charmin brand at Target, I AM ALWAYS WRONG. But I’ve already committed the precious few minutes I have during the day to get my shopping done to parking ¼ of a mile away and queuing to get into the “warehouse” store, that I have eliminated any other option for shopping for the week.
I have tried. I have really tried to love Costco like everyone else in the world does for some undisclosed reason. I can’t. I just can’t.
Costco – you suck.
October 19, 2010 at 6:00 pm |
So i have your blog bookmarked and I check it periodically to see if you started blogging again. Surprise for me and David…..you did! Can’t wait to tell him tonight. Your rants and raves are hilarious. PLEASE KEEP THEM COMING.