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#3528280 16-Sep-2026 15:25

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cat food - roost brand and the dine tubs are way cheaper

The Dine tubs, is this 85g per tub? Care to share how much?

I am not currently a member but might become one if these are cheap enough at Costco...

How do you find out how much items cost at Costco? They don't seem to publish it online. Is there an app or something?

Often they have a brochure but no real online presence.
Facebook pages have been set up where people share prices and availability of particular things.

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#3528285 16-Sep-2026 15:37

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I drink at the pub sometimes with the manager of NZ. We get on well. Have not had any special treatment though lol... he has told me when he has great specials on.

If you think of it - please ask him why they have taken the decision not to run their website here.

There have been so many times that I've gone 'I wonder what Costco has ?' - and I can check what they're selling in Aussie - but not here... without getting in the car and going there - sooo last century ! (Not to mention that it's probably 2 am.)

Even just recommending a product or a deal to a friend - just easier to send a link.
But not possible without a website.

I can't believe that the cost of using their global software would be high.
I've used their Aussie website, bought stuff (London baby gifts) from their UK site, and browsed their French site (for stuff I was expecting to buy there).
Hard to believe that they don't have a fairly-well automated system to pull data from their back-end systems and populate/update their web pages.
Who would be doing that 'manually' in 2026 ?

So given that it's all there... why not roll it out here ?

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#3528286 16-Sep-2026 15:46

duckDecoy:

How do you find out how much items cost at Costco? They don't seem to publish it online. Is there an app or something?

You pay your fee and go :)

They do rebate deals etc quite often and don't always have the same stuff in stock, so no point advertising it all online.

Find a friend who has a card and tag along one day......

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#3528287 16-Sep-2026 15:54

Ok, I'm going to come across as a fanboi - but let's talk about the non-groceries.

I've just bought a second-hand car and I checked what a set of Michelins would cost me.
(I'd been sensitised to tyre costs - looking at Teslas.)
I've always shopped around for 'good' tyres and I found that a Costco set was going to handily beat anyone else.
By rather a lot.
Usual free fitting & balancing plus the benefit of free rotations.

About 2 years ago, we needed a dishwasher - and Costco managed to have an entirely acceptable Midea model on sale at 100+ dollars cheaper than anyone else. Worked for us.

Clothes - have bought a couple of tracksuits. I'm not into 'branded' merch (ie: Nike, etc) - but they were good quality stuff.
You can't try anything on (if modesty is a concern) - but my wife just bought 3 sizes and took two back.
They do practice that 'American' policy of no-worries returns.

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#3528290 16-Sep-2026 16:02

richms:

mrgsm021:

richms:

cat food - roost brand and the dine tubs are way cheaper

The Dine tubs, is this 85g per tub? Care to share how much?

I am not currently a member but might become one if these are cheap enough at Costco...

34.99 for 28 of them, its a pack of 2 boxes of 14 - some fishy one and some meaty one. Last time had a $2 rebate on them making it 32.99

Sometimes they get close to it at the supermarket when on sale, but they are loose and a pain to deal with many loose ones so not worth it. Same for the redbull where its a nice tray of cans thats easy to move around at costco, or the pepsi where its a convenient box of them.

Thanks, that works out to be about $1.24 per pack.

They were at $0.99 per pack at PnS not long ago and so we stocked up on them.

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#3528306 16-Sep-2026 17:32

pdh:

About 2 years ago, we needed a dishwasher - and Costco managed to have an entirely acceptable Midea model on sale at 100+ dollars cheaper than anyone else. Worked for us.

I've always wondered about the whitewares. Do they offer delivery/install or do you just drive up the back somewhere and they load it in your vehicle and off you go?

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#3528307 16-Sep-2026 17:41

pdh: Ok, I'm going to come across as a fanboi - but let's talk about the non-groceries. I've just bought a second-hand car and I checked what a set of Michelins would cost me. (I'd been sensitised to tyre costs - looking at Teslas.) I've always shopped around for 'good' tyres and I found that a Costco set was going to handily beat anyone else. By rather a lot. Usual free fitting & balancing plus the benefit of free rotations.

Reminds me I've had a few sets of tyres from Costco now. They don't do alignment at all. In practice I always need alignment. Costco does tell you if it needs doing so that's good. For that reason I go somewhere else now to minimise the messing around. I also recall the booking system wasn't the greatest, didn't stock Michelin in my size, so order and wait, minor things like that.

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#3528372 16-Sep-2026 20:55

KiwiSurfer:

pdh:

About 2 years ago, we needed a dishwasher - and Costco managed to have an entirely acceptable Midea model on sale at 100+ dollars cheaper than anyone else. Worked for us.

I've always wondered about the whitewares. Do they offer delivery/install or do you just drive up the back somewhere and they load it in your vehicle and off you go?

It was just a dishwasher - so I chucked it in the back of the SUV.

Pretty sure they do deliveries if you need it - different levels/costs (if I remember) ie: (1) drop it off at your door, (2) plus unpack it & position it, (3) plus take away a dead one. Plus some factor for distance.

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#3528395 16-Sep-2026 22:26

KiwiSurfer:

pdh:

About 2 years ago, we needed a dishwasher - and Costco managed to have an entirely acceptable Midea model on sale at 100+ dollars cheaper than anyone else. Worked for us.

I've always wondered about the whitewares. Do they offer delivery/install or do you just drive up the back somewhere and they load it in your vehicle and off you go?

I can't remember if install was included, but they will do delivery (the price was comparable to HN/NL/etc for the same level of service). Was thinking of getting a dryer at one point and had asked.

To the original topic: Ploughman's 2 for $7, the Longacre chips/wedges are a good buy ($8/2kg normally, $5.50 when they have them on special), tried their milk recently and it was perfectly fine, think it was about $7/3L. They have the Taylor Farms Burger Slaw and Japanese Slaw in the vege chiller and that's normally a good buy. Around the bakery the gotos are the Loaf English Muffins (toasted with Spicy Stewed Apple = wonderful), the Couplands Spicy Fruit Loaf & Cheese Rolls (although the latter's quality hasn't looked as good of late so given a miss). The muffins every couple of months, half go in the freezer, half get eaten fresh. Occasionally the Chocolate Chunk Cookies too. As others have said, their mince is good, they have the Hellers Precook Sausages at a usually competitive price too... and of course the roast chickens.

I think the main thing is when going around there, be fairly vigiliant on the unit pricing, there are some things where the quality trumps what the supermarkets have so it's okay, but there are a lot of things that instinctively feel like a good buy, but if you look at the unit pricing are either the same or more expensive than the supermarkets when they have equvilent products on special (or even at normal prices).

For those that haven't been before, but think it might be worthwhile you can actually sign up for membership, go around and if not keen ask for the membership to be cancelled and refunded.

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#3528396 16-Sep-2026 22:47

Latest mailer: These don't capture all currently running discounts and products btw:

https://viewer.joomag.com/costco-nz-in-warehouse-savings-31-august-2026-to-27-september-2026/0383688001787291264/p7

Roll 148x chux cloth for $19.48 I can recommend that one.

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#3528399 17-Sep-2026 01:11

xpd:

duckDecoy:

How do you find out how much items cost at Costco? They don't seem to publish it online. Is there an app or something?

You pay your fee and go :)

They do rebate deals etc quite often and don't always have the same stuff in stock, so no point advertising it all online.

Find a friend who has a card and tag along one day......

Pretty sure it because brands don't want the lower prices messing up the market, then they can run a clearence or do a bulk sale through Costco and not mess up the wider market price match promises etc

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#3528411 17-Sep-2026 07:52

Not a member and they’re so far away I probably won’t be. But a mate is and if he’s heading out there I sometimes get him to grab me a 4-pack of Kirkland golf gloves. $49 and they’re as good as the name brand ones that are $30-$40 each.

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#3528421 17-Sep-2026 08:54

The roast chickens!
The bread at 2 for $7 and the couplands white 3 pack (it all goes in the freezer).
The Kirkland fries - havent found anything better. I get whatever is on special otherwise its the wedges.
Eggs if we are in need of them - 30 eggs lasts a while here.
Alpine Cheese - the tasty is very hit and miss but the colby is generally good.
Grandpas Streaky Bacon.
For myself I always have a block of some sort of fancier cheddar - currently I like the Coastal English Cheddar, I did not like the cave one even though its from the same company.
Bunch of spring onions - man you get so many in the bunch and they are cheap!!
Blocks of their butter.
Agria Potatos 5KG - they almost always work out cheaper than the supermarket and tend to be better quality.
Their beef mince when we run low. We divide it into 200g bags and freeze.
Rolled boneless Pork Roasts which we chop into 4-6 pieces, each which lasts us a few meals.

I bought some of the Pork Knuckles a couple of trips ago and man they are good! I cooked up 2 thinking one each for dinner. Those two lasted 2 dinners and a sandwich!

We tried the kirkland cat pellets. Big noooope from our cat. So now the colony cats down the road have like a 12kg bag of cat food to eat

I have bought a couple of cakes for birthdays in the past (not custom ones, just normal) and didnt really find them overly appealing once eating them. Unlikely to get them again. I didnt mind their branded biscuits but they are a bit too pricey now. I bought a few pairs of jeans and a few pairs of trousers and actually like them, just needed to get the right sizes and google well and truly put me wrong on the last lot!

I do particularly like a brand of Australian licorice, cant remember the name now. Its a 1KG bag. I refuse to go down the lolly sections anymore cause I know I'll buy it! The way it disappears Im pretty sure its the cat eating it all....

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#3528423 17-Sep-2026 09:03

The 1kg cheese price at Costco is almost always above the nearby Pak-N-Save. It looks like they can't compete for a regular price on that one.

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#3528426 17-Sep-2026 09:08

askelon: I have bought a couple of cakes for birthdays in the past (not custom ones, just normal) and didnt really find them overly appealing once eating them.

The giant cakes are excellent for kids birthdays. Extremely edible I thought. Really good value at $40. There is nothing else like that in the market.

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