Warehouse clubs

jbcohen · 06-14-2011, 09:31 AM

My wife and I joined Costco some years ago when the annual fee was something like $20 a year, that's not too bad. We are currently debating the current $50 annual fee, seems a bit excessive in my opinion as I have been struggling to decide what a maximum I will pay per year to shop at Costco is. Sam's Club is currently $40 and BJ's Wholesale (I was a member there at one time is $50). I am questioning the wisdom of paying any of them a yearly fee for shopping at their store.

Waht is your oppinion on the matter?

rhadin · 06-14-2011, 09:54 AM

The answer depends on how often you shop there and whether you are saving more than $50 over the course of a year by shopping there.

If you shop at the store regularly and save money, then it is worth the fee. Otherwise it isn't.

sakura-panda · 06-14-2011, 10:18 AM

It's definitely an individual choice.

We have memberships at both Sam's Club and Costco -- Sam's is more conveniently located but we prefer the choices at Costco -- but we are a family of five with one in diapers (I think the membership fees are paid with the diaper and wipe savings alone.

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There have been years in the past where we have let our memberships lapse and would wait to renew them until we had some big purchase and could get a good deal with them.

Lately we have been renewing automatically, but I think next year we will be re-evaluating our Sam's Club membership again. We do save money when we shop there, but not necessarily enough to justify the fee, especially when we have a membership at Costco too and buy many of the same things (and more) from there.

jbcohen · 06-14-2011, 10:23 AM

Good point I primarily shop online with free shipping, I absolutely refuse to go to the store with the internet around the store comes to me not the other way around. I would rather be at home taking care of my family then running to the store for this, that or the other thing it doesn't make sense any more.

06-14-2011, 09:31 AM	#1
jbcohen Wizard Posts: 3,025 Karma: 11196738 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Piper College Device: Samsung A21	Warehouse clubs My wife and I joined Costco some years ago when the annual fee was something like $20 a year, that's not too bad. We are currently debating the current $50 annual fee, seems a bit excessive in my opinion as I have been struggling to decide what a maximum I will pay per year to shop at Costco is. Sam's Club is currently $40 and BJ's Wholesale (I was a member there at one time is $50). I am questioning the wisdom of paying any of them a yearly fee for shopping at their store. Waht is your oppinion on the matter?

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06-14-2011, 09:54 AM	#2
rhadin Literacy = Understanding Posts: 4,833 Karma: 59674358 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: The World of Books Device: Nook, Nook Tablet	The answer depends on how often you shop there and whether you are saving more than $50 over the course of a year by shopping there. If you shop at the store regularly and save money, then it is worth the fee. Otherwise it isn't.

06-14-2011, 10:18 AM	#3
sakura-panda Guru Posts: 923 Karma: 9558874 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Southeast Michigan, USA Device: 2017 10.5" iPad Pro (Kobo, NOOK, Kindle, Google Play Books & Scribd)	It's definitely an individual choice. We have memberships at both Sam's Club and Costco -- Sam's is more conveniently located but we prefer the choices at Costco -- but we are a family of five with one in diapers (I think the membership fees are paid with the diaper and wipe savings alone. ) There have been years in the past where we have let our memberships lapse and would wait to renew them until we had some big purchase and could get a good deal with them. Lately we have been renewing automatically, but I think next year we will be re-evaluating our Sam's Club membership again. We do save money when we shop there, but not necessarily enough to justify the fee, especially when we have a membership at Costco too and buy many of the same things (and more) from there.

06-14-2011, 10:23 AM	#4
jbcohen Wizard Posts: 3,025 Karma: 11196738 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Piper College Device: Samsung A21	Good point I primarily shop online with free shipping, I absolutely refuse to go to the store with the internet around the store comes to me not the other way around. I would rather be at home taking care of my family then running to the store for this, that or the other thing it doesn't make sense any more.

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