Happy Moon Festival @ Costco!
Happy Moon Festival 2024! @ Costco in Beitou! LOL
Please, get serious
It’s funny how often people tell me my membership has expired. Oh, no! My peacock membership has expired (almost daily)… Costco too. Sirius XM is going to be removed… and I’ve forgotten to pick up a package. EVERY DAMNED DAY! How many peacock accounts do spammers think I have? How many packages? How many Sirius…
Costco Shopping List: Any bargains?
Costco is running promotions in Taipei this month! And some of them are pretty tempting. You can buy such things as: LCD TVs, vitamins for men, chicken legs, toothpaste, tissues, tyres, wine, juice and even fish. If you are lucky, you are a member already so you’ll get the catalogue each time it comes out….
Costco does well while UK retailers tend not to: Retailing in Taiwan.
Costco is a generally wonderful place to shop, but I never seem to leave there without spending more than a NT$1000 as a minimum. Let’s face it: if you stock up on a bag of coffee beans $500, a carton of diet pills for sale $350, plus some socks or detergent or cereal or whatever….
Costco says: "Summer IS coming! Hold in there!"
In the stores, today, I realized that while the weather is still inclement (we’re facing cold northerly winds and low temps again)… the stores are preparing for summer with ice boxes, patio furniture, summer brollies and beach equipment! I’m so glad that they are feeling confident, but when I looked out my window this morning…
Coffee Beans from Costco
Where do you get your coffee beans from? I’ve been buying them from Costco of all places. I was surprised by the range of beans available (though not all are good beans) and the prices. Typically, we can buy a decent sized bag of beans there for about the same price as Starbucks. While I’m…
Not your typical Costco – or is it?
A surefire way for me to break the monthly budget is to go to Costco! Taiwan is now blessed (or cursed) with five branches, including a newly opened one in TaiChung County. I’ve been a member for a few years now, and an advocate since I discovered their hotdogs a few years earlier! Of course,…