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The most significant value I get from Costco is that the quality is consistently high and the options are well curated. I like not having to go through 100s of

• _manifold 2y ago
  Personally I've found that "well curated" sometimes becomes a double-edged sword in Costco's case. Mainstream brands can be expected to be available perennially; however, smaller/niche items and brands will often get cycled out or replaced by something else which may or may not be comparable. Many times I've found products at Costco that I enjoy, only for them to suddenly stop carrying them a week or a month later.
  • professoretc 2y ago
    A typical grocery store will carry on the order of 40,000 unique products. Costco is hard limited to a max of 3,700 unique products. If a store wants to bring a new product in, something must be rotated out. This also means that if a product wants to stay in Costco, it has to sell a certain minimum number of pallets, per month, to be worth it.
• lazystar 2y ago
  the best example of this can be seen by comparing the experience buying a treadmill on amazon, to the experience buying a treadmill from costco.
• slowmovintarget 2y ago
  That used to be the case under the founder. Not so much any more.