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Yes. I often do. For example, 1kg of turkey when I only really want about 250g. But, it's cheap so I find ways to eat it all. There are things there though that are good to buy in bulk. To use your example, ketchup - it's good for a long time, you will eventually use it, and it's easy to store. Another one is batteries. Cheaper, easy to store, always a need, and you will use them eventually. Water? 35 bottles for the price of 12 at a normal store, good for over a year, drink water everyday, get the 5cent deposit back for each bottle so that further brings down the price. It's not an illusion really, it's a way for them to move more product at once. Some families are big enough to warrant needing all that food, and it's much cheaper than buying at a supermarket. It's a tradeoff really - the producers move more product and you get more for your dollar.
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I don't shop anywhere that I have to be a member. I do enough damage in regular market.
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I make sure to only buy items in bulk that I can use within a reasonable time. I buy frozen food because it can last a long time, but I divide it before I freeze it. I buy ketchup, but I run through that stuff fast. It's just spending more money up front to save long term, for me. But I have to be careful or I just start buying and don't control it.
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On many items it makes sense to go bulk. I like to get regularly used things in bulk, toilet paper, paper towels, laundry detergent, etc. I also like to get things like chicken and ground beef in bulk, then I divide them up into the size portion I would use to make a meal and freeze it. Some things it doesn't work so well for-like cereal, which can go stale before you at it all. You can also use a bulk qty bottle of something to keep a small dispenser bottle filled, ketchup or liquid soap for example. If you do it right-for your usage and consumption patterns you can save allot of money over time and run out of things less often.
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Usually people who shop there own businesses and/or work for the business. Also, large families shop there for groceries. (I work at Sam's). So maybe if it's just you and your wife (not that I know...just saying) then yall should get rid of the membership if it isn't really needed.
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