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Sam's Club periodically mailed one-day membership promotional coupon that you can shop there by paying 5% surcharge. Or you can go to their website to download the coupon.
Each store has items that their competitor does not have. IMO Sam's Club makes better pastry than Costco does. And Sam's Club has some really particular items, i.e twin pack of entire beef tongue, that Costco does not have. Costco meat department also offers some products that cater to the local, i.e. very fat pork belly.
In fact, Costco affects the grocery store in certain way.
It used to be that during the three holidays -- Memorial Day, July 4 and Labor Day -- locally grown watermelons flooded the supermarkets. Usually it was as cheap as 10 or 15 cents per pound and had been down to 5 cents per pound.
But after Costco started to sell watermelon, there is no more sale of watermelon in the supermarkets at those days.
yeah, costco does pork belly and oxtail. I think it's the only place I've seen that sells an entire pork belly slab. Usually places have it sliced up in 1" slices. Side tangent - Its kinda crazy how expensive oxtail is, especially as oxtail historically is an undesirable waste cut of meat. I mean $7/lb?? (think costco is a bit cheaper) You'd think you're buying decent cuts of steak, but no, you're buying bone, cartilage, and a bit of meat. lol
I'm not experienced in the way of sams club membership, but my impression was always that it's cheaper than costco, and you can occasionally get deals on membership? Costco membership tends to be set rates (and more expensive).
Ossobuco used to be po' folk food too... for the local Italians in the NYC/NJ area..
But nostalgia kicked in and everyone wanted to remember their childhood when Nonna made it...memories raised the price per lb. dramatically.
Way off topic. We would occasionally have stewed lamb shanks, rice and reheated, tinned spinach as a Sunday dinner as youngsters. My parents were children and incredibly poor during the Great Depression. This was a very infrequent and nourishing meal when they were in their youth. Of course, this is what we consumed as children too. They really didn't know or experience more; it worked for them, and for the most part, they ensured it worked for us too. We didn't really have a choice, and there were consequences for rejecting what was put in front of us. For my parents, lamb shanks was a Sunday treat when they were growing up, and as a matter of course, they were determined to ensure lamb shanks would be forever tattooed to our frontal lobes. When my parents were young, lamb shanks went to the poor. Today, I stare at them in the grocery store, unable to bring myself to purchase them at their price, but rather fondly remember leaning against my mother's apron, as she braised them in a stew pot for a Sunday meal.
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