Best things about Costco

Aldi is the goat

You can get a package of raspberries for like $2.50 vs $5 at other places

Half gallon of organic milk for $3.50 vs $6

The only place that comes close to the cost savings of Aldi is Costco but that’s another 5 miles away from me

Aldi closes way earlier than the Costco here so I still find myself at Costco a good bit during the week as I usually wait for the kids to go to bed to run my errands

Costco here is out of eggs. Replaced the former egg shelf space with butter. :frowning:

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Last time we were at Costco someone had filled their entire cart with those big flats that I think have 96 eggs each. I assumed it was a breakfast place stocking up.

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Credit.

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/23/nx-s1-5272664/costco-board-rejects-anti-dei-motion-hiring

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I think my last trip to Costco and Sam’s Club each had a limit on eggs.

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HMMM.

A little googling learned to me that Aldi started accepting credit cards in 2016, so almost 9 years ago. I was unaware. From antiquity (by which I mean the 1980s) Aldi did not accept cc’s and I never heard otherwise until knoath told me so.

10 points to Hufflepuff !

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Ha! That’s about the time I started going to Aldi. They don’t have them out west.

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Marc’s also didn’t accept credit cards until sometime after 2015. I shopped there in college and had to bring my checkbook, which was unusual even back in 2004/2005.

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How far west are you saying?
We have a very ugly and dark Aldi in my SoCal city.
We walked in, looked around, and left with nothing.

Should say north and west of Colorado. I don’t remember it being in California when I was there but that was some years ago.

I’m the same way. Comes from not having oj when I was growing up. We didn’t have luxuries like that.

Except what I do is add an extra tin of water. I think it calls for three tins of water. I put in four. You can pass that pro tip on to your father :).

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I refuse to drink frozen concentrate orange juice. This dates back to the 1980’s when speculators such as the Duke brothers controlled the FCOJ market.

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Same reason I don’t eat pork bellies.

TIL the CME stopped trading pork belly futures in 2011.

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Thanks Billy Ray.

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man, i remember thinking i arrived when i upgraded to the high end minute maid frozen. now I don’t drink oj at home at all, but if I did it would not be the frozen kind.

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I occasionally feel like maybe I should buy OJ, but with the whatever blight hitting the FL citrus crop, it’s running about $7 for a half gallon at my local store.

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Don’t a lot of OJ’s in bottles say, “from concentrate?” Seems most fruit juices are made from concentrate.