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PGF
Joined: 27 Nov 2006
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 Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 5:52 am Post subject: Costco's 35K membership and what? |
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So, we took the trek to Seoul yesterday and went to Costco. I had visions of dill pickles and frozen pizzas, cheap deodorant, garlic cream cheese, pumpernickle bread, Tide, Campbell's chicken noodle soup, and x-large shirts.
What did I find? Not much.
They sell a dill pickle, but they are NOT dill pickles.
The frozen pizza is the US $2.00 variety, except here it is 20,000 W.
They have bagels, but I couldn't find cream cheese.
I could not locate deodorant.
There was no "bread" selection outside of what they sell in E-mart (sweet breads and cheap white bread. Why don't they have whole wheat here!!!
The only Campbell's or Chunky's soup they had was "cream of ....". Sucks for me because I am allergic to milk. They do have a clothes section but it is pretty pitiful... just like the Costco back home though...
Anyway, we have the member ship..... what do you buy there that 1) you can not get locally or 2) is cheaper than local store?
thanks
FWIW, we bought 1) frozen pizza, Bacardi 151 (20K), Jaegermeister (20K for a fifth), ground beef (@20K for 3 pounds? maybe...), a big arsed bottle of herbal essence shampoo @ 10k, hand tossed sea food pizza (extra large- take and bake), 11K.., 24 bottles of 12 oz bud @24K. bacon- two one lb., packages for 13k, pita bread (maybe 10K for a lb.).....and some other stuff to the tune of 250,000 W....ouch... oh yeah, baked beans...
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haute 4 teacher
Joined: 19 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 5:57 am Post subject: |
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| BACON!!! |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 5:58 am Post subject: |
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| Eggo waffles! |
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JustJohn
Joined: 18 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 6:00 am Post subject: |
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The bagels maybe? Even mediocre bagels are expensive around here, and the costco ones are pretty good.
However, not a big Korean Kostco fan myself. It's not actually cheap. Tag along with someone who has a membership once in a while to get your western fix, and leave it at that. |
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steroidmaximus
Joined: 27 Jan 2003
Location: GangWon-Do
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| Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 6:01 am Post subject: |
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So you can't shop. Which costco did you go to?
Cream cheese is in the refrigerators near the milk
decent rye bread is made by shilla bakery, sold in the bread aisle
the dill pickle jar I have actually has dill weed floating about in it, don't see how that makes it NOT dill pickle
Tide is usually on the main floor near the back. The sell several varieties of liquid and powder
Chunky soups are also available in chicken noodle and chicken with rice
tis true, not nearly like the costcos back home, but still a far cry better and cheaper than an emart |
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NightSky
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PGF
Joined: 27 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 6:28 am Post subject: |
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| steroidmaximus wrote: |
So you can't shop. Which costco did you go to?
Cream cheese is in the refrigerators near the milk
decent rye bread is made by shilla bakery, sold in the bread aisle
the dill pickle jar I have actually has dill weed floating about in it, don't see how that makes it NOT dill pickle
Tide is usually on the main floor near the back. The sell several varieties of liquid and powder
Chunky soups are also available in chicken noodle and chicken with rice
tis true, not nearly like the costcos back home, but still a far cry better and cheaper than an emart |
In Seoul... there's only one right?
The offered one brand of dill pickle and I swear, no one from the west would take it and call it dill. Give me a brand name, in case they have dills on two isles.... I would go to Costco in Seoul JUST for the dills, if they have them....
Again, where is the chicken soup? Do they separate soup? I ONLY saw cream of mushroom and some other cream of.... Anyway....dissapointed...
still, not that much cheaper than E-mart-ah outside of Seoul...... |
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petethebrick
Joined: 25 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 6:34 am Post subject: |
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| Of course they have less selection and are more expensive than back home- this is Korea. By the way, you can buy rice, fish, Kimchi, Soju etc for a tenth of the price. Even the smallest town in Korea has a bakery where you can buy pretty decent bread. And with regard to deodorant, maybe its just my luck but Ive never in my years in korea had any trouble getting hole of it^^ |
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tob55
Joined: 29 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 6:39 am Post subject: option |
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| Rather than spend the 35K for the membership you should have considered using the www.ezshopkorea.com website first. They handle many of the Costco brands your normally find. I have used them and they are great. They accept creditcard, bank transfer and I think they will even accept your bank checkcard as well. They are certainly worth the time and they have a good selection of normal western products. Plus they deliver in 24 hours unless it is a holiday or during certain times. They often have several things on sale as well. |
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PGF
Joined: 27 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 6:43 am Post subject: |
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| petethebrick wrote: |
| Of course they have less selection and are more expensive than back home- this is Korea. By the way, you can buy rice, fish, Kimchi, Soju etc for a tenth of the price. Even the smallest town in Korea has a bakery where you can buy pretty decent bread. And with regard to deodorant, maybe its just my luck but Ive never in my years in korea had any trouble getting hole of it^^ |
we buy buy rice and fish at the small markets around incheon it's pretty cheap. I didn't join a western food store to buy eastern food, btw.... the bakery's here do not sell whole grain breads.... they put sugar in EVERY bread here. weird...but true... maybe it's an incheon thing.... |
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bogey666
Joined: 17 Mar 2008
Location: Korea, the ass free zone
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| Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 6:44 am Post subject: Re: option |
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| tob55 wrote: |
| Rather than spend the 35K for the membership you should have considered using the www.ezshopkorea.com website first. They handle many of the Costco brands your normally find. I have used them and they are great. They accept creditcard, bank transfer and I think they will even accept your bank checkcard as well. They are certainly worth the time and they have a good selection of normal western products. Plus they deliver in 24 hours unless it is a holiday or during certain times. They often have several things on sale as well. |
I took a look at their book selection, since I'll be trying to get my hands on books while in Korea.
but it's like "chick'flick" city.. books for chicks. |
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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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| Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 7:03 am Post subject: Re: option |
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| tob55 wrote: |
| Rather than spend the 35K for the membership you should have considered using the www.ezshopkorea.com website first. They handle many of the Costco brands your normally find. I have used them and they are great. They accept creditcard, bank transfer and I think they will even accept your bank checkcard as well. They are certainly worth the time and they have a good selection of normal western products. Plus they deliver in 24 hours unless it is a holiday or during certain times. They often have several things on sale as well. |
They seem to add a 2,000 surcharge in their prices. Is delivery free or is that another charge on top of the surcharge? I noticed they don't sell Doritos or potato chips (except the kettle kind) so they are selling Korean potato chips. sneaky buggers! |
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PGF
Joined: 27 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 7:07 am Post subject: Re: option |
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| blaseblasphemener wrote: |
| tob55 wrote: |
| Rather than spend the 35K for the membership you should have considered using the www.ezshopkorea.com website first. They handle many of the Costco brands your normally find. I have used them and they are great. They accept creditcard, bank transfer and I think they will even accept your bank checkcard as well. They are certainly worth the time and they have a good selection of normal western products. Plus they deliver in 24 hours unless it is a holiday or during certain times. They often have several things on sale as well. |
They seem to add a 2,000 surcharge in their prices. Is delivery free or is that another charge on top of the surcharge? I noticed they don't sell Doritos or potato chips (except the kettle kind) so they are selling Korean potato chips. sneaky buggers! |
they mostly have korean food.....in bulk... not worth it....IMO
where's the fuc king DILL pickles god dam n it! |
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tob55
Joined: 29 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 7:12 am Post subject: friends |
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I selected them when looking around Thanksgiving and Christmas last year. They do have occasional sales of different things like the dill pickles, but things change regularly, so I check back. My friends especially like the cheeses and such they get. They do have regular taco chips and such on occasion as well, but as I said they do change their offerings frequently depending on the new lot of things they get in stock. I know they will consider special ordering something if enough people request it. Please don't shoot the messenger, I am just trying to come up with some options for people.  |
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Yaya
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 7:26 am Post subject: |
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| Try E-Mart or Homever, they seem to have really cheap prices and no membership fee. |
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