Doug Freyburger wrote:

> Costco has better meat than any of the local groceries, less expensive
> than any of the local butchers.

Their meat is the reason I joined Costco, I was having trouble finding
decent pork chops. Now I mostly buy chuck roast from them, it's always
great and they come two to a package. Freeze one and make one.
They look much better than anything I find at the supermarket.

They also have something labeled chuck short ribs, which makes
terrific stew meat or braise them whole.

> some at the local butcher now. They also have a lot of products that
> have better price or are just not available at other stores. The
> larger package size rarely matters to us. If we lived in a downtown
> tiny closet sized place it might matter but we live out in the burbs.

Same here, though I don't find that buying paper towels, toilet paper
or soda there is the cheapest alternative. Kleenex, yes.

> Our question now is should we downgrade from the fancy Executive
> membership to the regular membership. We don't quite spend enough in
> the year for the fancy membership for pay for itself and I don't
> recall using any of the other extra services. This is a function of
> just being the two of us now.

If you don't make enough to cover the extra $50, they'll refund that
portion of your membership.

nancy