Costco hits Sheffield
We had a great weekend pottering round the garden, chatting to the man next door who came and cut our hedge, celebrating our friends’ birthdays, watching the World Cup final.
I have to say that an interesting part of our weekend was a trip to the new Costco in Sheffield. I got membership cos I work for the National Health Service so Sam and I thought we’d go and check it out. My Aunt has been raving about it for ages. It’s huge! And full of exciting low price items! It was shopping but even Sam enjoyed it! We got membership cos we thought it would be useful to be able to get food items for mosaic events and stuff. Sam got a t-shirt and we got some exciting food for our Mosaic event on Wednesday at our house. They market it as an “American” thing in the hope that that will attract people.
On every aisle there was someone with samples of food trying to get us to buy it - not a very British approach I don’t think - they didn’t look very comfortable doing it!. I ate all the stuff but didn’t buy any of it! There was a guy trying us to get us to buy “American Beef Jerky”. A “new and different” product! No one was trying it cos they thought it looked horrid! We could have bought a big Cheesecake Factory cheescake - no one had heard of that. We had, having visited three times during our trip to LA! The man on the way out said “It’s nice having something a bit different isn’t it? All those American things to buy”.
In a way, I’d rather not have the American stuff so that we can go and get it in the US! It’s a bit disappointing to get back from California and see all the stuff we saw there, in Sheffield. Oh well, I’m sure it’ll be a good place to get things - appliances, clothes, huge amounts of food!
July 10th, 2006 at 4:17 pm
Love the pics up top…come on Sam…let the rest of us use it!
Yes…just what you need a place where you can buy a jug of pickles and a dishwasher! I’m sure Sam is loving the cheesecake factory though!
We usually only buy our chicken (in huge bags frozen) and diapers there. We don’t ever go without a list because we come out spending a ton of money!
July 10th, 2006 at 4:17 pm
oops didn’t subscribe…
July 10th, 2006 at 5:05 pm
The ability to upload your own header image is on it’s way. For people who want a personalised version of the header on this scape, I can make the header template available to use in a paint package and add unique personal pics.
July 11th, 2006 at 2:31 am
My guess is that they thought American Beef Jerkey looks horrid because it is! And I should know, my crazy Croation relatives up in Minnesota all hunt things like deer and moose and send weird kinds of it to my father– including venison jerkey.
Eeew! Disgusting.
-Mel
July 11th, 2006 at 3:57 am
you never know when a young English married couple might need 40 gallons of water or a 55 gallon barrel of industrial strength cleaner …….
then you can buy a small tank to get it all back home ….the good ol’ USofA - brilliant!
July 11th, 2006 at 10:21 pm
mosied over to say hi rachel, making my way across voxland
Roger and I love costco but we call it the $200 store. I don’t care if I go in for paper, I come out $200 lighter. great place for our office supplies though. I don’t know about your costco but ours has the BEST strip steaks. Dean’s right though, make a list. oh, and try the berry frozen thingy.
July 14th, 2006 at 2:29 am
…..yeah, they give you samples cuz if you buy a case of something and don’t like it…..well, i guess the solution to that would be very american too…..just throw it out…….lol…….sad but true…….happy shopping!!!!
July 16th, 2006 at 10:08 pm
NO…it’s just thrown away
i’m loving the food
cosco…it’s becoming a house hold name.cosco always seems to turn up at mosaic…but i can’t complain
July 24th, 2006 at 4:28 am
aluminum chair folding…
I would love to hear more about this ……