I know it's hitting my household. House of 4, usually cost $350 for the monthly restocking at Costco. For the 2nd month this year I'm breaking $550. That's easily a 40% plus increase in cost thanks to fuel costs, tariffs and general price increases across the board. And we're not buying luxury stuff. It's groceries like bread, soy milk, yogurt, burritos to avoid buying food out, frozen veggies, oatmeal, laundry detergent, carbonated water instead of soda, cheese, and so on. These are staple foods, not premium choices like steaks or prepackaged microwave meals. Had we been buying like that, we probably would have had double our cost.
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We're spending a lot more at Costco too, but some of it has been from relying more on Costco and less on other retailers.
Same. I was aggressively using coupons at Safeway and similar, saving $30-40 a trip, but still dropping hundreds per round. Costco became the primary simply because for the same price I bought more of the same food. It gets to a point were bulk buying becomes the norm instead of the option. Less trips but more per trip.
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