Pays a higher percent back, we get the exec membership because it pays for itself in a few months.
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Pays a higher percent back, we get the exec membership because it pays for itself in a few months.
Oh I do. The West Des Moines store is exactly what Costco strives for. The last thing they want is an overlapping foot print and that's what a Grimes location would do, it would just be pulling a lot of current members to a different store.
Just thinking about this and there are 3 Costco’s in the Columbus metro. And the most recent one isn’t very old. Columbus metro is like 3X the population of DSM metro and the actual square mileage is probably even more than 3X that of DSM.
The interesting thing is that they are all on what I would consider the “north side” of the metro. Nothing south. That tells me their calculation has an income component to it as well.
Well now you can get one pack for basically the same price as you use to get two.
They are doing it here in the western Milwaukee suburbs. Waukesha County has 400k people and Costco is in the process of getting a 4th Costco here. Granted, they are spread out pretty well -- the current 3 are all around 25 minutes apart, and the new one would be about 20 minutes from the closest of the three. And two of them are near the edge of Milwaukee County, which has none.
A good snack item from Costco is the Kirkland signature super-large peanuts. They are described as roasted and salted, Virginia variety, extra crunchy. They come in a 2 1/2 pound can.
Which makes sense. Look at how densely populated those areas are. A second Costco on the west side of the metro makes zero sense.
It's cheap and I eat a lot of cottage cheese trying to lose weight. But yeah it's not as good as AE or Good brand.
Sams sells Kemps and it's pretty good. Fareway store brand is also up there with AE.
You mean there's no Costo in White(trash)hall or Reynoldsburg? Lol.
I'm surprised there's nothing on the east side, I remember Gahanna being a pretty nice 'burb.
That's fair. There's maybe around 700k people living within 30 minutes of the two DSM-area Costcos. In the Milwaukee area, there are five including the proposed one (four in Waukesha County, one in Washington County), and I estimate around 1.7m people living within 30 minutes of one. It seems to me DSM could support a third store, but Grimes might be an odd choice.
( rough approximations using https://www.freemaptools.com/find-population.htm )
I feel like Costco is more consumer oriented and Sams is more Business oriented. It seems like I just like the quality of items and what Costco has more than Sams.
A coworker of mine calls it the three hundred dollar store since you can't get out of there without spending $300 or more lol.
I buy these all the time. Taste really good and a large can for $8
I'm trying it this first year because I saw that if you don't use it enough to make it worth it, they'll reimburse you the gap.
