On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:41:02 +0100, Steve Firth wrote:

the nearest to me is 35 miles away as the crow files (1h15m by car) and
56 miles by dual cariageway/motorway (59 minutes). That's a lot of fuel
to go shopping.

It's about that for us as well. Used to go once a month but now it's
when we need to, about every 2 1/2 months and combine it with the
weekly shop. I reckon we do just about save when you take into
account the membership fee and the 50 extra round trip miles to get
there and back. Bottled beer used to be about £1.50/bottle, two cases
would save enough over Tesco prices to pay the diesel... It really
does depend on what you buy, we tend to go for long life bulk stuff
and shorter life stuff that is needed at the time of the visit.

Are they actually any better on price/service than the likes of
Makro/Bookers?

Makro is further away than Costco. Bookers is better, they have a
branch in Carlisle, but have yet to convince them that I should be
allowed to "join", not that I've tried very hard. Makro have a much
bigger range of goods but prices are not quite as good as CostCo.

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Cheers
Dave.