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Hit the nail on the head.

1. Low variety of items

2. Quality items

3. Low price items

4. Extremely beneficial return policy

I tried em all, Costco, BJ's, Sam's Club, Aldi, Walmart, Target. Nobody can tell me how it is, I've actually tried it and Costco is by far the best place for my family to shop. Want a raincoat? Oh yeah rainy season they had a North Face beautiful blue jacket for $80.

I will say their bedroom sets are shit. Buy their cheap sets if you must, their premiums are terrible.



Interesting. Could you expand on how they compare to Aldi?


With Aldi, you buy less so you end up throwing out less food. If you're few people, buy from Aldi. However, the quality in their randoms or out-of-the-box foods are noticeably worse.

Bought some Aldi sushi and got sick to my stomach, just nasty cheap salmon cuts, with nasty cheap rice. Mealy and tasteless.

With Costco it's quality all the way, 4 years literally never bought something of poor quality there.


The quality of fresh produce tends to vary a lot by country and even location with Aldi.

I'm mostly asking because I grew up with the German grocery landscape which has been shaped by cutthroat competition from Aldi and Lidl for decades.

Walmart famously couldn't hack it in Germany.


Aldi has dirt-cheap grain products and soy. Everything else is gross.




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