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12-month Costco membership, a £10 in-warehouse voucher, whole chickens, batteries and carrot cake £33.60 @ Groupon
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£33.60 for a 12-month Costco membership, a £10 in-warehouse voucher, two whole chickens, batteries and carrot cake, as well as £20 off a £200 shop online (up to 53% off)
Membership restrictions:
Valid for members employed in medicine, local government, civil service, banking, finance, education, fire rescue services, insurance, health service, police force, post office and airline or those qualified as a chartered architect, chartered civil engineer, chartered surveyor, dentist, optician, pharmacist, qualified accountant, solicitor, barrister, magistrate, advocate, doctor or optometrist
Validity:
Membership must be activated in-warehouse by 31 May 2019. Not valid for online sign-ups.
Restrictions:
Each membership includes a 12-month spouse or domestic partner card. The Costco £10 shopping voucher will be provided after completion of the Costco membership application. Entire value of the Costco membership activation voucher must be used in a single visit. Valid for new members only.
+ 12% cashback on QuidCo (3.96)
Membership restrictions:
Valid for members employed in medicine, local government, civil service, banking, finance, education, fire rescue services, insurance, health service, police force, post office and airline or those qualified as a chartered architect, chartered civil engineer, chartered surveyor, dentist, optician, pharmacist, qualified accountant, solicitor, barrister, magistrate, advocate, doctor or optometrist
Validity:
Membership must be activated in-warehouse by 31 May 2019. Not valid for online sign-ups.
Restrictions:
Each membership includes a 12-month spouse or domestic partner card. The Costco £10 shopping voucher will be provided after completion of the Costco membership application. Entire value of the Costco membership activation voucher must be used in a single visit. Valid for new members only.
+ 12% cashback on QuidCo (3.96)
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Edited by a community support team member, 23 April 2019
518 Comments
sorted byYour definatley right about the meet, there is always someone to say hello before you go in and goodbye when you leave; why can't all supermarkets do this?
You definitely meet the right criteria to pick up on somebody else's spelling.
You don’t have to pay VAT on all goods and to be fair the VAT inclusive price is clearly displayed in store. I’ve managed to get many bargains from there.
Yeah not having VAT is really annoying. They seem to think they're a wholesaler who's main trade is done with small businesses, traders and the like who will claim it all back.
Oh wait, it is.
It’s not about the prices at Tesco it’s about Costco quality versus Tesco and there simply is only one winner and it’s certainly not Tesco.
The meat at Costco is some of the best out there, preprared veg at Christmas is excellent and time saving, you can also use your cards in any Costco including the US cheap better quality painkillers are a must if you go over. If you are into your wine Costco are the biggest seller of wine in the world. And of course the petrol as well always the cheapest.
And another their return policy second to none, took a mattress back after 10 months no questions asked. (edited)
I sort of agree. There are many items where the supermarkets are cheaper. To be fair in many situations the supermarkets have the largest bargaining power with suppliers - which pretty much saw the end of cash and carries. Also bear in mind that you have to make your membership back.
With that in mind, I would say that unless you go monthly and use CostCo as a supermarket for many of your shop's it won't be worthwhile.
I would say the following are CostCo's strengths:
- If you need to buy in bulk (and I mean perishables as well, e.g. cakes and vegetables) then whilst you're not likely to save for the same quantity, the quality is probably better. Their fresh fruit is usually much much better than the supermarkets.
- The Kirkland brand is CostCo's own, but pretty much a lot of stuff is made by branded companies (e.g when you buy tinned shortbread at Xmas) so good value there.
- We find that when it comes to Xmas etc, the main supermarkets sell the same thing. It's nice to see alternatives at CostCo - makes shopping easier and different for gifting.
- You can buy stuff there you can't easily buy anywhere else, e.g. Wanton Soup, large packs of frozen king prawns at a good price.
- Stuff that sells in the trade, e.g. large packs of bacon, generally are good value
- You can sample a lot of stuff.
- Cheap place to have lunch (supposedly you don't need to be a member for this though)
- When bog roll is on offer, its always good value to get in bulk from CostCo.
I would say the following cons:
- No best before dates, e.g. on fruit and veg. They encourage you to get the top item - sometimes you get something not quite as fresh,
- Most items, e.g. McCains chips, Babybel cheese, Muller corner yoghurts, cat litter etc really depend on whether they are on promotion as to whether they are cheaper. It will be cheaper at supermarkets when they do their own promotions.
- It used to be quite a bargain getting Michelin tyres from CostCo. Now, I would say you can find the same price or cheaper elsewhere.
So overall, if you're middle income and don't need to shop around and buy in bulk for a lot of stuff and will go CostCo reasonably regularly, its worth it. Otherwise, it's difficult to say that you've got your money's worth especially as you've bought the membership.
Heet from me..
You get them all last time there was a deal on like this I got a voucher for batteries, a cooked chicken and a large chocolate fudge cake
oh my lord, I just scrolled through 7 pages of arguing to find out if i can do this or not
I thought the person greeting you on the way in was checking you have a membership card, and the person on the way out was checking your receipt to ensure you've paid for your goods? Not there to say hi and bye.
THANK YOU for this.
you stuff the energizers in the chicken and it chases and consumes the carrot cake
Save the membership fee and use the comparison sites to get your goods at the best price. Costco is no longer a viable product.
As for quality, it's second to none. The fruit and veg lasts weeks longer than the supermarket rubbish, they do a regular fresh fish market and the returns policy is amazing. I once bought a mattress from there and decided i didn't like it after sleeping on it for 2 months, they gave me a full refund! Great for electronics and wine. We save enough alone on buying lenses from the opticians there to pay for the annual membership. They have a ridiculous amount of buying power and offer seasonal items which are hard to beat price wise, if not difficult to source from anywhere else in the UK.
Exactly.
ALWAYS caveat emptor.
NEVER think that businesses are on your side.
Both exclusive and inclusive prices are clearly displayed. Unless you are comparing Tesco offers with Costco prices than this may be the case but in a basket of shopping items I would doubt this to be the case. Some items in Costco cannot be beaten in price example Anchor butter and Milk .
as with everything some things are well cheap but clothes and juice not so much
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I'm VAT registered but don't claim VAT back as on the FRS so you can't blanket that everyone that shops there claims VAT back
Have to agree with another comment I read on here, that they are not that cheap and things can often be bought for less elsewhere.
The majority I have bought within the last year is mostly those on the special offer leaflets (edited)
I was thinking the same, perhaps it’s worth writing to their Head Office.
If all else fails, they’ll let you cancel your membership at any time and refund it entirely (just say you’re not entirely happy with the savings), then you could then take out the Groupon offer and pay the upgrade later (if you want a Trade account).
Must aditmit I never come out with a bill less than 300 quid
They seem to be keeping you on without the incentive, why would they offer it?
Catering for the fifty shades of grey crowd.
Definitely...i totally agree.
You're absolutely right. (edited)
They're obviously battery hens !!
Listen, youre having a whine cos you bought a duff shed from somewhere that is subpar in your own opinion. My membership is funded by my own business, and why would you, as a non member, look at the Costco online magazine when you have no entitlement to the offers. That's just plain sad.
I'm not sucked in by Costco, but as a business owner, I know when things are a good deal, and when they aren't. Often Costco have good deals.
your opinion of a duff shed means everyone who shops there is an idiot shows that rather than me being sucked in, it's you who has had a bad experience which has caused you to have a massive paddy and can't get over it, still whining several years later on forums. It's quite sad. Maybe get some counselling over it. You could have the counselling in your shed, which no doubt you live in anyway.
The rest of us will carry on seeing this for what it is. A good deal.
Cheerio. (edited)
Man there's some plonkers in here. Some things are more expensive, but as mentioned previously. Caveat emptor! (buyer beware for those not literate). If you think you can get stuff cheaper elsewhere, what's stopping you, go shop there. Meat is very cheap there and VAT free (like everywhere else). If you buy in bulk you reap the rewards, I'd love to see somebody get 2kg+ of pork belly for less than a tenner from Tesco, same goes for the chicken breast or whole chickens. Good luck! If you are going to costco every week then you're definitely doing it wrong. Bog rolls and other non perishables along with meat are the best bang for buck you're gonna get outside of till glitches/coupon stacking. We go 4 times a year and stock up on the things we need plus a treat or two, Lidl covers the the weekly groceries and we still come in at under £50 a week on food and household supplies total (including the costco visits spread over the year (about £8 a week and that's including the costco membership). It's easily worth it if you budget properly. It saves us over £100 a year (based on how much we would spend buying this stuff weekly from the supermarket). (edited)