Cash & Carry

Also excellent are Costco croissants, bagels, fruitcake and some cheeses. Fresh meat is also very good, particularly their lamb.

Their fruit and veg looks superb (though not cheap) but the packs are usually too big for us.

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Reentrant
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Jesus, is there anything that dennis isn't wrong about? Perhaps he's picked up Duhg's mantle now that Duhg has become a good socialist (i.e. a dead one.)

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Huge

Exactly.

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Bob Eager

Nobody has actually posted anything that is cheaper there, yet!

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dennis

FWIW, I have experience of Macro and there were various things of lousy value. Booze was the most notable. Spirits all had a non-VAT shelf price that was higher than Tesco/Sainsburys/Asda's non-offer inc-VAT prices. The only possible advantage was the availability of 1.5l "optics" bottles - which were still no cheaper per litre.

Non-bulk fresh foodstuffs (a bizarre idea for a C&C) like cakes and cheese were expensive and often poor quality.

OTOH, proper bulk buying of loo-roll, kitchen towel, dishwasher gubbins, washing liquid, etc was well worth while. I've a funny feeling my dinner jacket came from there...

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Scott M

I've not been to Makro for decades but when I used to, I came to the conclusion that a lot of goods were there so that people could buy luxuries for their own consumption and sneak them through on a business invoice. I think they'd have been more likely to get away with it then than they would be now. It didn't matter if the goods were more expensive if the money wasn't coming out of their own pockets.

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Mike Barnes

Not been to Makro, but Costco would seem to have 3 types of customer.

  1. Local corner shop, for stocking their shelves
  2. Catering establishments (who buy oil by the drum, flour by the sack, Danish pastries by the tray, etc)
  3. Professionals, who want to bulk-buy (rather than waste time buying small qtys every week), but are also interested good value high-end goods which are not applicable to 1. and 2.

Costco seem to manage to cover these 3 diverse customers well, whilst also carrying relatively few stock lines compared with a supermarket.

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Andrew Gabriel

The curse of Costco is the here today, never to be seen again problem. They are a very unreliable source for some constantly required items. But lunch there is very good value.

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Capitol

We use Makro for convenience, rather than cost, although a few select things are waaaaaaaay cheaper. Foil cartons, for example. You can get them at 10 for £5 or something, in the supemarkets. In Makro it's 50 for £4.xx. Very hand for doing cook-ups.

Also big boxes of washing powder, which last a year. Probably no cheaper than the supermarket, but much more convenient.

*Some* of their meat can be good ... YMMV
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Jethro_uk

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