What to Buy in Bulk

[Food Network Fan]

What to Buy in Bulk

If you can resist the temptation of loading up your cart with non-essential "oh-look-at-thats," buying in bulk at your local warehouse club can indeed save you a bundle.

AOL Money & Finance visited both a Costco and Giant grocery store in Gaithersburg, Md. to see which items make the most sense to buy "big."

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[BerryBaby]

Personally, I think you have to know what your needs are before buying. There are two of us, so buying the double boxed cereal isn't a good deal. It goes bad before we get around to eating it.

I disagree with the gasoline. We watch the prices all over and the Costco price is 9 times out of 10 lower. If we are going there to shop, we will get gas. We don't drive out of our way to get it. Making a car trip with multiple purposes saves money.

[MayQueen]

I sometimes shop at Giant. They are much higher than the stores around them unless the item is a bonus buy.

[bakerman]

With just two of us, a few items in a warehouse club can add up quick, we rarely left there without spending $75.

I keep a sharp eye out for sales in the grocery stores, I work in one chain, but have no problem shopping in competitors stores. I also am a store brand shopper on many items so once again I can usually get a better price in the grocery store, and ALDI without having large amounts of stuff going stale.

I worked at BJ's warehouse club for a while, and even though I had a free membership, I rarely bought anything there. I guess many people do shop regularly because we were amazingly busy, even though we had Sam's Club, and Costco as direct competition.

MAC

[Food Network Fan]

I get some things from their list at Sams, Ketchup and Chocolate syrup are big money savers there for me. I think my kids could eat 25 gallon drums before it went bad if I could get it. I also get the aluminum foil

I my flour and sugar for baking, and they have great deals on chocolate chips to make cookies. And I get some of the little snack packages of crackers and things like that for the kids to take as school snacks. Cheese too, lots of good quality cheese I can reseal in the foodsaver bags.

Paper plates and things like that too.

[BerryBaby]

Box stores are great if you have a family. I do buy TP, paper towels and soap from Costco and meat. They have excellent meat.

[Chefnot]

We have a few here, two in Cinci and one to open in Columbus. Placed several of my students there, the pay is excellent.