Do Warehouse Stores Really Save You Money?
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frozen bagels for, say, $9.60. Or you go to your local bagel shop and buy
them for 75 cents apiece. Which one saves you more money?
i'm generally a disciplined shopper.
Bret_Halford
wrote:
> Consider this brain buster: You go to a discount warehouse and buy two dozen
> frozen bagels for, say, $9.60. Or you go to your local bagel shop and buy
> them for 75 cents apiece. Which one saves you more money?
>
>
> i'm generally a disciplined shopper.
Depends.
Are the bagels the only thing you are buying at the warehouse?
What are your transportation costs to the warehouse?
To the local bagel shop?
Note that IRS is currently estimating the cost of operating a car at
58.5 cents a mile,
and my guess is the IRS will be estimating conservatively.
What is your time worth? How much (if any) time do you free up
by going to the (local? distant?) warehouse once vs. the local bagel
shop 24 times?
Are the frozen bagels really comparable to the (presumably) fresh
bagels from
the local shop?
The real brain-buster is why you don't bake your own and just buy
flour and oil
in bulk.
AllEmailDeletedImmediately
"Bret_Halford" <br...@sybase.com> wrote in message
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Depends.
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bagels aren't as easy to make as you'd think. plus flour and oil will
go rancid after a time.
tin cup
chemicals, except for frozen chicken and a few odds and ends.
We end up throwing half, of it, out because we can't use all, of a
package in a day or so. They only sell large packages.
So, no we don't save money.
We now go to the Fresh Market and pay about one and half times as much
but it gets eaten rather than thrown away. We actually save a bit.
If you have a large family, of course you could probably save.
I don't much care for going to one now as they have limited their
catagories and choices to just a few.
I use to go to look at what new buys they had in tools and gizmos I
didn't actually need, most of the time.
skar...@gmail.com
> I use to go to look at what new buys they had in tools and gizmos I
> didn't actually need, most of the time.
We discontinued our membership at Sam's last year when we realized
that
- we were buying things we really didn't need
- we were buying in quantities we couldn't consume in a reasonable
period of time
- we were driving too far to the club
- price for non-food items was less online
h
"tin cup" <ti...@outdoor.not> wrote in message
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> AllEmailDeletedImmediately wrote:
>> Consider this brain buster: You go to a discount warehouse and buy two
>> dozen frozen bagels for, say, $9.60. Or you go to your local bagel shop
>> and buy them for 75 cents apiece. Which one saves you more money?
>>
>> http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=fcefef8c5f474b7987958945d58f864a&siteid=nwhpf&sguid=LlOmLCZmMkSOlLZa0_8Pmw
>> i'm generally a disciplined shopper.
> We go to Sam's to buy meat, because it is not preserved by weird
> chemicals, except for frozen chicken and a few odds and ends.
> We end up throwing half, of it, out because we can't use all, of a package
> in a day or so. They only sell large packages.
> So, no we don't save money.
Buy a freezer, dude. Sheesh.
catalpa
"Bret_Halford" <br...@sybase.com> wrote in message
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wrote:
> Consider this brain buster: You go to a discount warehouse and buy two
> dozen
> frozen bagels for, say, $9.60. Or you go to your local bagel shop and buy
> them for 75 cents apiece. Which one saves you more money?
>
> http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=fcefef8c5f474b7...
>
> i'm generally a disciplined shopper.
-Depends.
-
-Are the bagels the only thing you are buying at the warehouse?
-
-What are your transportation costs to the warehouse?
-To the local bagel shop?
-Note that IRS is currently estimating the cost of operating a car at
-58.5 cents a mile,
-and my guess is the IRS will be estimating conservatively.
-
-What is your time worth? How much (if any) time do you free up
-by going to the (local? distant?) warehouse once vs. the local bagel
-shop 24 times?
-
-Are the frozen bagels really comparable to the (presumably) fresh
-bagels from
-the local shop?
-
-The real brain-buster is why you don't bake your own and just buy
-flour and oil
-in bulk.
There is no oil used in making bagels.
George
We buy most of our meat at a large local market that has a meat cutting
dept in house. None of their meat is the embalmed walmart style "fresh"
meat and the same with their poultry which is all quality Farmer's Pride
brand. Prices are really good and we can buy whatever quantity we want.
They also have a fantastic produce dept. So the warehouse places are no
value for us.
Lou
it if you want only a couple. The overall time it takes is kind of long
(you have to wait for the yeast to raise the dough) but the actual work
time isn't bad - depending on how far away the store is, the actual work
time might be less than a trip to the store.
'Course, if you go to the store weekly anyway, the extra time to pick up
bagels is negligible.
aemeijers
> In article <PeYCk.1570$MN3....@nwrddc01.gnilink.net>,
> club membership based on only one purchase. That's just silly. A family
> with two or three kids living at home will definitely have different
> needs then a single guy like me who has no kids at home.
I also live alone, and the membership easily pays for itself for me,
most years. You have to be careful and maintain awareness of competing
prices, though. Sometimes the warehouse stores are as much or more for
like items. I probably pay for the membership just on the discount gas,
if I catch them on days that they are 7-10 cents cheaper than the guy
down the street. They are definitely cheaper on tires. Tech toys,
usually, if you don't mind last year's model. Food, not so much, since
they carry few things in packages small enough for people living alone.
Basic clothing items, once in a while. 'No-frills' mattresses and
appliances, almost always the best price in town, but limited selection.
Plus, since I can't stand malls, it gives me a place to do my (doctor
ordered) daily walk, when the weather is cold and nasty.
--
aem sends...
The Real Bev
> Are the frozen bagels really comparable to the (presumably) fresh
> bagels from the local shop?
The local Costco sells Noah's bagels (baked fresh every day, not
frozen). Noah has several bagel shops. They're just as good and just
as fresh if you buy them at Costco. Minimum quantity 1 dozen, 2
packages of 6 each. Bagels freeze really nicely, much better than bread.
> The real brain-buster is why you don't bake your own and just buy
> flour and oil in bulk.
No oil, you're thinking of doughnuts. You boil and then bake bagels.
When I shop at Costco, I go up and down all the aisles to see if there's
anything I want at the price required. I do the same at the
99-Cents-Only Store. I don't regard this as wasting money but as
enriching my life.
--
Cheers, Bev
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey
and car keys to teenage boys." -- P.J. O'Rourke
SoCalMike
> AllEmailDeletedImmediately wrote:
>> Consider this brain buster: You go to a discount warehouse and buy two
>> dozen frozen bagels for, say, $9.60. Or you go to your local bagel
>> shop and buy them for 75 cents apiece. Which one saves you more money?
>>
>> http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=fcefef8c5f474b7987958945d58f864a&siteid=nwhpf&sguid=LlOmLCZmMkSOlLZa0_8Pmw
>>
>>
>> i'm generally a disciplined shopper.
> We go to Sam's to buy meat, because it is not preserved by weird
> chemicals, except for frozen chicken and a few odds and ends.
> We end up throwing half, of it, out because we can't use all, of a
> package in a day or so. They only sell large packages.
> So, no we don't save money.
i shop costco, and found the meat freezes really well. i even season it
and put it in individual ziploc baggies- which are also cheap there.
about the only thing i wont buy is produce, except for maybe whole
hearts of romaine. they keep well in the crisper, and for a couple
bucks, i dont mind tossing 1/5th of em when they go bad.
freeisbest
> tin cup wrote:
> > AllEmailDeletedImmediately wrote:
> >> Consider this brain buster: You go to a discount warehouse and buy two
> >> dozen frozen bagels for, say, $9.60. Or you go to your local bagel
> >> shop and buy them for 75 cents apiece. Which one saves you more money?
>
>
> >> i'm generally a disciplined shopper.
> > We go to Sam's to buy meat, because it is not preserved by weird
> > chemicals, except for frozen chicken and a few odds and ends.
> > We end up throwing half, of it, out because we can't use all, of a
> > package in a day or so. They only sell large packages.
> > So, no we don't save money.
> > We now go to the Fresh Market and pay about one and half times as much
> > but it gets eaten rather than thrown away. We actually save a bit.
> > If you have a large family, of course you could probably save.
> > I don't much care for going to one now as they have limited their
> > catagories and choices to just a few.
> > I use to go to look at what new buys they had in tools and gizmos I
> > didn't actually need, most of the time.
>
> We buy most of our meat at a large local market that has a meat
cutting
> dept in house. None of their meat is the embalmed walmart style "fresh"
> meat and the same with their poultry which is all quality Farmer's Pride
> brand. Prices are really good and we can buy whatever quantity we want.
> They also have a fantastic produce dept. So the warehouse places are no
> value for us.
I wonder what part of the country you live in? We try to do the
same here, but local prices are never frugal. ($6/lb chuck steak,
$5.50/gallon milk for instance). We're in a small town in NC. We have
lots of friends and relatives who live in other states, so we know for
sure that food prices are consistently higher here than in cities in
other parts of the country. Afaics the reason for the high prices is
just that that retailers can get it - there are a lot of people here
who think that they _are_ getting a low price "compared to the rest of
the country", as I've been told several times by both other customers
and store clerks.. Well, I just wanted to complain about that, and
thanks for listening. :^)
SoCalMike
> disciplined consumer. Some years ago, while tire-shopping, I realized
> that Sam's club has nothing to offer me.
not even tires?