That’s right, as of Wednesday, November 7, I’ve been writing this blog for five whole years now!  It’s amazing to me that Costco carries just a few thousand items, yet that is enough for me to continuously buy new items and write about them here.  When I originally started my blog I was living in [...]

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Do you think the difference in salaries between Costco and Sam’s Club really makes a difference?  It seems that it does.  According to an article on AllBusiness.com, it makes a surprising amount of difference and can be quite a good lesson for other businesses. The average wage at Sam’s Club is $11.00 per hour, whereas [...]

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On Monday, November 7, it was the official fourth anniversary for my blog.  I am kind of shocked that I buy so much stuff at Costco that I can keep filling up the posts of this blog.  And really, it’s impressive that Costco still has so much new stuff year after year that I want [...]

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Yesterday was the fourth blogiversary for AddictedToCostco!  I can hardly believe it’s been four years that I’ve been writing about Costco, but it has (check back tomorrow for the official anniversary post with lots of fun facts and stats about my blog).  When I first started this blog in 2007, we were living in Austin [...]

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There’s a website called Cheapism.com that does consumer reviews geared toward getting the best value for money.  They claim that they are the only review site that focuses exclusively on low-price products, a part of the market they say is often overlooked by experts.  So, this week they published a report on their comparison between Sam’s [...]

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