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Sent a prescription to the CVS near my house. $95. Transferred the prescription to the Costco across town. $18. Paid for my membership by itself (only a 90 day supply so I'll have to fill it three more times in a year) AND I got a hot dog AND 20 oz. soda (with refill) while I was there!
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Involuntary Sparkle posted:Not always. A lot of the non alcoholic beverages are made by private label manufacturers that don't make the brand name product. I work in the beverage industry and honestly have found most of the non alcoholic beverages under the Kirkland brand to be kinda crappy. Good to know. I've only sold activity kits (chalk) to Costco.
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do chicken bakes make anyone elses farts smell like a rotting skunk carcass
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so after a recent ER visit I discovered there's a whole-rear end Costco like two blocks away from me in Chicago and I've discovered they stock the fig bars I like to snack on at like 50% of the price of where I get them elsewhere and it's making me think about a membership. question for yall though: is it worth it if you don't have a bunch of space to like, store stuff you've bought in bulk? my free space to stash away poo poo is fairly limited here, so it might not be worth it to save a bunch of money on some stuff if I end up tripping over it for the next couple of weeks. I could take my girlfriend though, she's got three kids so they go through a shitton of hot dogs and lunch box snacks and poo poo, that would probably be a pro move
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Feb 8, 2023 21:11
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death cob for cutie posted:so after a recent ER visit I discovered there's a whole-rear end Costco like two blocks away from me in Chicago and I've discovered they stock the fig bars I like to snack on at like 50% of the price of where I get them elsewhere and it's making me think about a membership. question for yall though: is it worth it if you don't have a bunch of space to like, store stuff you've bought in bulk? my free space to stash away poo poo is fairly limited here, so it might not be worth it to save a bunch of money on some stuff if I end up tripping over it for the next couple of weeks. Just split the space intensive stuff with your girlfriend then? Like, paper towels or whatever. What kind of things would you want to buy that would take up a lot of room? If you live literally 2 blocks away then its not like you have to stock up all at once
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Feb 8, 2023 21:14
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I got pulled into a meeting about Costco this morning, so I got paid to talk about Costco. Living the dream.
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Feb 8, 2023 21:20
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Costco also sells fruit and vegetables so the kids don't end up just eating three different kinds of baloney
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Cockblocktopus posted:Sent a prescription to the CVS near my house. $95. fun fact for ontario goons: you dont need a costco membership to fill your prescription at costco pharmacies
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DeadFatDuckFat posted:Just split the space intensive stuff with your girlfriend then? Like, paper towels or whatever. What kind of things would you want to buy that would take up a lot of room? If you live literally 2 blocks away then its not like you have to stock up all at once my first thought would be frozen stuff, since I only have a standard fridge/freezer combo and am not buying a chest freezer or whatever, but I also... don't eat a whole lot of frozen stuff, so if I only buy a single box of whatever and deplete it over a month, that's not such a huge deal maybe I'm overthinking it. maybe I should just go get a bunch of stuff at a great price
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death cob for cutie posted:my first thought would be frozen stuff, since I only have a standard fridge/freezer combo and am not buying a chest freezer or whatever, but I also... don't eat a whole lot of frozen stuff, so if I only buy a single box of whatever and deplete it over a month, that's not such a huge deal Get a membership, if you don’t use it you can return it. (Kind of joke but not really, you can do this)
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Involuntary Sparkle posted:I also used to work with the people who developed some of the alcohol, some of them are also not the same as the name brand. The spiced rum is one. I'm very sure the Costco Bailey's isn't made by Bailey's. I don't think they would sell a $16 product to undercut their $46 product.
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Zero VGS posted:I'm very sure the Costco Bailey's isn't made by Bailey's. I don't think they would sell a $16 product to undercut their $46 product. They might as long as it isn’t called Bailey’s. Got to protect the brand!
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Zero VGS posted:I'm very sure the Costco Bailey's isn't made by Bailey's. I don't think they would sell a $16 product to undercut their $46 product. I also don't think it's Bailey's, because the Kirkland version tastes way better while costing 1/3rd. Bailey's is garbage.
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^^^^ speaking of this, I don't think the thread has talked about the Can it Kirkland tiktoks? They're amazing. Zero VGS posted:I'm very sure the Costco Bailey's isn't made by Bailey's. I don't think they would sell a $16 product to undercut their $46 product. It's not, it has different ingredients and a different abv. Also two products being made in the same factory doesn't mean they're the same, either. Contract manufacturers can make thousands of different products.
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Slotducks posted:fun fact for ontario goons: you dont need a costco membership to fill your prescription at costco pharmacies You don't need a membership for any Costco Pharmacy in any country. You will however need Cash/Debit/Visa/GiftCard for any copay, so don't expect to waltz in with a Mastercard: https://customerservice.costco.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/796/~/do-i-need-a-membership-to-purchase-prescription-drugs%3F They have the best generics, and also had the largest selection of Covid vaccines with the lowest lines of all places I checked including CVS and the VA.
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Death cob, I also live in Chicago and definitely get $60 of utility per year out of my membership. If you use allergy meds at all, Costco is hands down the cheapest option. Eggs, whole bean coffee, flour, sugar, vanilla and cocoa powder if you bake at all, the chicken, meat (vacuum seal into single meal portions and freeze), shrimp, fish, liquor, wine. The key is resisting buying anything in huge packages that can’t be easily processed into single meal amounts. I buy steak once a year now, same with ground beef. Things that I’ve noticed aren’t worth getting in large quantities are things that will either stale fast or frozen vegetable mixes- they tend to freezer burn relatively fast in my garbage apartment freezer. The nice thing about living so close is that you don’t need to buy everything at once. I live on the north side and both the Clybourne and Niles stores are about 40 minutes of driving so I always go out to Niles and do any suburban errands I’ve built up.
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death cob for cutie posted:my first thought would be frozen stuff, since I only have a standard fridge/freezer combo and am not buying a chest freezer or whatever, but I also... don't eat a whole lot of frozen stuff, so if I only buy a single box of whatever and deplete it over a month, that's not such a huge deal I also have limited storage space and it's not a big deal. I think the biggest impact is that I just go less frequently, but still more than enough to make the membership worth it. It does mean I'm careful about freezer items but that's probably a benefit, and there's a lot of things at Costco where it's just "2 of something" which is easy to manage. Plus there's a lot of things that aren't food items where storage won't be a big deal. I find it sort of amusing the thing costco does worst with storage is storage containers. those variety pack of snapwares or whatever are bullshit, it's always 20 pieces of sizes i don't want and 4 that I do. just give me like 10 identical containers costco!!
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The lids on my snapwares broke too and they don't sell replacements
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Hi fellow Chicago churchgoers! I live a fifteen minute bus ride from the Clybourn store and don’t have a car, so I just CTA there and take a Lyft back home. Works out great and still cheap. I’ve sung hymns to the pharmacy before, and always will. Costco + GoodRX save my uninsured rear end literal hundreds of dollars a month.
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bro, do you even eat kimchi?
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Re "snapwares": The Gladware to go containers are microwaveable and perfect for almost anything. When they finally break or mar grab another huge stack for everything
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Soul Dentist posted:Re "snapwares": The Gladware to go containers are microwaveable and perfect for almost anything. When they finally break or mar grab another huge stack for everything I've never been a big fan of microwaving plastic. I've slowly replaced everything with glass containers and it really is much better all around IMO. No more spaghetti stained plastic containers
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pentyne posted:bro, do you even eat kimchi? i'm worried that there isn't any expanded space to make the fermentation better
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currently in the food court line to get a pizza
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Zero VGS posted:You don't need a membership for any Costco Pharmacy in any country. You will however need Cash/Debit/Visa/GiftCard for any copay, so don't expect to waltz in with a Mastercard: https://customerservice.costco.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/796/~/do-i-need-a-membership-to-purchase-prescription-drugs%3F How does it work that places like costco and walmart can sell generic meds for like $10 without insurance while you go to somewhere like CVS and it's over $100? pencilhands fucked around with this message at 05:23 on Feb 9, 2023 |
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Hutla posted:If you use allergy meds at all, Costco is hands down the cheapest option. Yeah, I was going to say for stuff like ibuprofen, acetaminophen, contact solution, allergy meds, and so on that Costco is so much cheaper that you can pretty easily save the membership fee just with that stuff.
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pencilhands posted:How does it work that places like costco and walmart can sell generic meds for like $10 without a prescription while you go to somewhere like CVS and it's over $100? There is so much outrageous profit taking in American health anything basically
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pencilhands posted:How does it work that places like costco and walmart can sell generic meds for like $10 without insurance while you go to somewhere like CVS and it's over $100? Gigantic, insane profit markups. Those cheaper places just aren't gouging as much. Most medicines are not expensive to manufacture, the US has the most absurdly inflated medicine prices in the world.
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Grand Fromage posted:Gigantic, insane profit markups. Those cheaper places just aren't gouging as much. Indeed. One major component of that are the PBMs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacy_benefit_management I have a friend who is a pharmacist, and his view from the inside of the system is grimdark as hell. A major pharmacy chain here had to shut down a year or so ago because they could no longer operate at a profit due to the hosed up and artificial nature of the profit-centered system.
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pencilhands posted:How does it work that places like costco and walmart can sell generic meds for like $10 without insurance while you go to somewhere like CVS and it's over $100? CVS has always been a convenience store first and a pharmacy second. You're paying for the convenience, supposedly. They do have longer pharmacy hours than Costco. Their prices in general are going to be a ripoff compared to a supermarket like Walmart. The one thing I'll give CVS some points for is that they were the first chain convenience store to ban tobacco, in 2014, which was cool and good.
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Zero VGS posted:CVS has always been a convenience store first and a pharmacy second. You're paying for the convenience, supposedly. They do have longer pharmacy hours than Costco. Maybe at one point that had some truth to it, but at this point they are also pushing for vertical integration in a really bad and creepy way. In 2018 CVS bought Aetna, so they have their own insurance company, and they have been working on acquiring their own medical providers. So the same company can provide your insurance, employ your doctor, and decide your pharmacy pricing. https://www.pharmacytimes.com/view/cvs-finalizes-acquisition-of-aetna-and-looks-to-the-future https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/cvs-buys-primary-care-provider-oak-street-for-10-6-billion In conclusion, go to Costco instead.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Maybe at one point that had some truth to it, but at this point they are also pushing for vertical integration in a really bad and creepy way. In 2018 CVS bought Aetna, so they have their own insurance company, and they have been working on acquiring their own medical providers. So the same company can provide your insurance, employ your doctor, and decide your pharmacy pricing. kaiser does all that and seems fine, idk
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Just for the record, I have put the Sam's Club thread out of its misery. PBUC.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Just for the record, I have put the Sam's Club thread out of its misery. PBUC. Seems like the mods/admins are really turning things around lately. Love this! PBUC
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Kaiser is also non-profit. I'm not saying all non-profit is good, but the way you operate is different when you don't have shareholders to respond to.
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I want one of those LG stick vacuums but $500 seems like a lot of money for a vacuum. Is there a decent model at the 'co in the $200 ballpark?
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metachronos posted:I want one of those LG stick vacuums but $500 seems like a lot of money for a vacuum. Is there a decent model at the 'co in the $200 ballpark? There is a Shark one that is one sale, or was recently on sale. I don't have it but another goon was looking at buying one a couple weeks ago. I have bought refurbished Dysons from their ebay store and have had zero issues with them. This might be worth a shot, worst case you return it https://www.costco.com/tineco-pure-one-x-pet-smart-cordless-stick-vacuum.product.4000092313.html This Shark is 60 off right now bringing it down to 239.99 https://www.costco.com/shark-cordless-pro-vacuum-with-clean-sense-iq.product.4000035456.html
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metachronos posted:I want one of those LG stick vacuums but $500 seems like a lot of money for a vacuum. Is there a decent model at the 'co in the $200 ballpark? If you're already bought into a power tool colour family check that too, sometimes those can be good deals. My Ryobi stick vac is great even though I didn't get it from Costco Anyway the weather is super gross today so I'm postponing my Costco visit and I am DISGRUNTLED
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DTaeKim posted:Kaiser is also non-profit. I'm not saying all non-profit is good, but the way you operate is different when you don't have shareholders to respond to. Hmm looking at it again, this may no longer be true. nm then! DeadFatDuckFat fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Feb 9, 2023 |
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