dbd33

Yes, those are the better widely available flat slab cheeses. I'd rather go and buy better cheese for sandwiches and such but either of them is fine in a fajita.

Note that I meant they sell in huge volume overall, not that the individual packages are huge.

SchnookoLoly

Not even going to address the first part.

Costco *IS* cheaper in some areas, I even quoted some examples of where it is and is not cheaper. I don't shop exclusively at Costco, but I do get a lot of stuff there. I have yet to find 4L bags of PurFilter milk that beats Costco's price - Costco charges $4.79, most of the grocery stores have it as $5.99 and up. And that's the PurFilter stuff. I think the normal milk goes for $3.99 for the 4L bag.

But not everything is cheaper. Diapers are cheaper elsewhere if you find them on sale. I'm just sticking to Costco at this point because the Kirkland brand fits Baby Schnooks well. And since the price is at least comparable (roughly 20c per diaper) I just pick them up while I'm there. (And on a separate note, the really big boxes are useful around the house.)

I like the Colliers cheese. They occasionally carry Snowdonia Black Bomber Cheedar, which I've linked to before. Sooooo delicious.

not2old

"Costco *IS* cheaper in some areas" - as for $1 saving on the Milk, most everything else in small quantities is more expensive compared to price match shopping, so $1 savings, $5 more on a grocery basket compared to going to ONE other store on a price match

As for 'cheese selection' and/or the price of it - sure you can buy one or two weeks worth of cheese of the same brand at other grocery stores.

If someone is saying Costco is definitely better & cheaper than a shop at regular stores, its not true, well at least compared to the way that I shop

The closest Costco is 13 KM from where I live, so its not a go to, even if the membership was 'no cost to me' through a works/office or relative freebie.

As for six lettuce or a case of soda pop, such a waste.

To each their own, on numbers alone, I just don't get the Costco shopping waste or bulk

beckiwoo

Yes I tried the Snowdonia - very nice but very rich - they have that in in the winter usually at the downtown Vancouver cost-co

beckiwoo

I have never seen colliers or the Irish chedder that cost-co stock at superstore, safeway etc and even if they did - I'm sure it would be 10 times the price for smaller amounts.

Shirtback

Are you being deliberately obtuse/obnoxious, Not2old?

Oink

I think he grew up in the Depression of the 1930s.

SchnookoLoly

Costco is cheaper if you can buy in bulk, and if you'll actually use it. For me, six lettuce is not a waste, because my family will eat six heads before it goes off. It doesn't get wasted.

Fine, you don't drink soft drinks. I like the occasional one, so I buy them on sale. I don't spend more than $3.60 or so on a 12-pack (regular price $5.99). We like having soft drinks occasionally. And I don't get my soft drinks at Costco, mainly because I don't like their selection. I get it from the grocery store, I use Flipp to find out who has a sale on.

I buy a block of cheddar (Colliers, Snowdonia, whatever) and I eat it, it doesn't go off. It's cheaper than the grocery store and I like their selection of cheddars - and other cheeses.

I don't buy everything at Costco - particularly produce. The quantities are too big and I *DON'T* get through it all before it goes off. I can't buy a bag of 20 onions and finish them, even if they are cheaper on a per-onion basis. We do eat a LOT of berries, though, and berries are WAY cheaper there. (The kidlet would eat an entire bucket of blueberries on her own if I left her to it.)

Once again. It's cheaper for some things, and not for others. It depends how you eat, how you shop, and how many people you're feeding.

BTW, Halloween candy is cheaper at Costco. This mix - http://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/nestl-fa.../6000196194456 - 100 bars for $17 at WalMart, 120 bars for about $14-15 at Costco.

caretaker

If you go in without a membership to get at the corned beef sandwiches the guard at the door will only chase you a little way because she can't leave her post. If there are 3 of you the first 2 can blow by her then when she holds you up just say you're going to go bring the other 2 back. It may not work every time but it did once.

scrubbedexpat091

The point to unions is to improve working conditions and pay, min wage is pathetic for any union job and then to add in union dues on top.

Non-union places will pay you based on experience, where union jobs do not, so no matter how experienced you are, you still make the same as the person who is 18 and never worked.

I don't think min wage is acceptable pay for someone with 20 years of work experience.

not2old

You have issues with me?

I just don't give a crap, you get what it is that I post.

There is a hint of truth to that, its ingrained & handed down from my pre-depression born & raised parents, my Edwardian grandparents & likely from post-war life on a UK council estate. Happy times all round.

Yorkiechef

Those were the days eh, when those that lived on council estates once worked!

Nothing stolen, no anti-social issues, just honest working families....bet you wouldn't live on one now!

not2old

in a heartbeat, poor lad returns after 50 years in Canada, especially at 70 years of age, destitute, turn up in rags, free housing, no TV licence, topped up benefits, social care & support, free travel pass, end of day specials at most grocery stores - with money left over to travel abroad.

Yorkiechef

True, plenty of nice old fellas living on them, many bought their houses when Maggie was about. But, dog poo on the pavement, car nicked, cant go on holiday because locals rob your house, local doctors full of eastern Europeans, next door neighbours always having a row, pit bull constantly barks and barks, kids tell you to F-Off when you tell them off for breaking the bus stop windows for the fourth time this year.

Ok, perhaps a little over the top, but from my experience of someone that lived close enough to one for the past ten years, not far off.

Partially discharged

And with this type of glamourous view from the front door?

https://goo.gl/maps/BiQsriFFLy92

For me sinkhole estate living isn't high on my bucket list.

I think the lifestyle that you may have had post war on a council estate isn't quite as pleasant today on council estates.