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This Was My Aha Moment!

Costco v Target v Amazon

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May the 4th be with you I let my Costco membership lapse because my mother in law is a member and takes me with her from time to time to stock up. While there are a few things that I think are worth going to Costco to get in bulk, I began to wonder if Target or Amazon’s prices were comparable. So I did some old fashioned research and tried my best to compare apples to apples to see if the extra trip to Costco was worth it. Let me mention that if you’re someone who enjoys doing your weekly grocery shopping at Costco I think it’s definitely worth the membership (say if you’re feeding a hungry family of 7!) But it’s not somewhere I would necessarily want to go on a weekly basis so for me it’s it’s more just to stock up on staples like paper towels and TP. I always end up spending more on snacky foods than I intend to anyways! So I did some price comparison based on the prices  in the stores rather than online (because those can be inflated). I didn’t add anything back to prorate the