Costco

This is my favorite Costco. It takes some planning ahead for me to buy in bulk as a single person on a budget. I love getting the chicken breast which is already individually packaged and ready to stick in my freezer. It’s also great for deals on everyday items such as toilet paper, laundry detergent, dish soap. If you haven’t tried their hot pizza you should! You can get a slice or a box to take home for a group. The only downside to this Costco is that Utah law won’t allow them to sell liquor.

Don’t get me wrong… I love everything there is to love at Costco BUT their tire department. The tires are great but their customer service stinks it up big time. My last tire purchase has been the worst experience I’ve ever had. It did make me realize that I made the mistake of leaving Discount Tires who have excellent customer service!!! Even though I didn’t purchase my last set of tires at Discount, they were more than happy to do my rotation in less than 15 minutes. Cosco always tells me an hour and a half wait and are rude when telling me. Sorry Costco, your tire department is missing the boat.

Buying bulk is always best when you’re planning ahead. Costco’s got ya covered when it comes to that.
My girlfriend and I decided to get a membership about a year ago and have no regrets whatsoever. We stock up on paper towels, dish soap, contact lens cleaner, and a bunch of other stuff you know you’re going to need a lot of. They also have an amazing bakery with their signature muffins and croissants, a gigantic meat section with decently priced quality meats, and some awesome bulk snacks that will last you forever!
Don’t go during busy times! There’s a cart or a person every which way you turn. The best time to go, like most places in Sandy, is on Sunday morning. Grab a delicious hot dog and drink for just $ 1.50 on your way out!

Awww costco :)
This is one of the many locations in salt lake city and also one of the best! How can you have a bad experience, when there’s free samples every few aisles! The employees at this costco are friendly and helpful. The store is kept clean and tidy.
I am always impressed with the large quantities and low prices. The best part of costco, is that you don’t sacrifice quality in order to receive low prices in large quantity.
Costco is always great about accepting returns and/​or exchanges.
Membership is cheap: usually around 50 $ a year.
I always have to get a 1 $ hot churro on my way out (These alone will keep me coming back time and time again).
Fin’

I switched from Sams to Costco and I must say I’m quite sad of my decision. Higher prices, rude service (specially at the door), and everything seems to be organic! Where is the regular stuff?
My question is why do you need to show your card at the door if you can’t buy anything without it? Anyways, I’ll sucking it up for a year and back to Sam’s I’ll go…

Who doesn’t like Costco, certainly not this guy. Costco is great except for one thing. that one thing is the bank account. There are so many good things that suck you right in to spending more than you had planned and what’s even worse is that I never seem to regret spending the extra cash.
Some of my favorites include…
Large containers of fresh fruit
Dark chocolate covered mangos
Coconut crusted cashews

Unilocal keeps pestering me to review this place but it’s Costco. Do people really need a review to convince them to shop at Costco?
That’s like needing a review to convince people to breathe.
«I really enjoy breathing because it makes me not die…5 stars!!!»
Seriously, what’s there not to like about Costco? There’s the cheap gas. Almost everything they sell is a good value… not cheap, but a good value… the Costco demographic understands what this means.
Plus, they let you return whatever you want, pretty much whenever you want… and, you don’t even need your receipt because they track EVERYTHING (take that NSA!).
I once returned a lobster tail, that I already cooked, but didn’t know until I cut into it that it was bad… and, they took it back. I scrounged the foam container from the recycle bin, rinsed it, put the lobster tail on it, plastic wrapped it and drove back to Costco the next day. The Costco staff was cool about it, no funny or dirty looks, they took it back and even apologized for the inconvenience.
Well, I guess there’s one bad thing about this Costco. It’s too damn busy on the weekends… but aren’t all Costcos like that?
Oh wait, here’s a funny story about Costco. Everyone knows about the free samples on the weekends right? Well… true story. I think it was the day before Thanksgiving 2015 that Costco had a Dorritos table. There was a huge crowd around that table, at least 3 people deep clamoring over each other to get 2 or 3 Dorritos chips for free.
Directly across the aisle, Costco also had a quinoa table… crickets. It was like she was trying to hand out ebola samples.

This Costco is bigger and obviously better than the one in American fork. They have same choices but more of them then the one in American fork and of course the crowd and parking here just got crazier than ever. It (the crowd that is) almost felt like I was in one of the busiest streets in India than Utah and at times when I kept bumping into someone it almost felt like the whole of Utah was here and shopping. Great place to shop and have fun as always while you shop. Have a great day Unilocaling fellow Unilocalers and a great holiday season ahead.
Update:
I would like to add that there is great customer service here and it was slightly better than the one I have experienced at American fork. They had great Black Friday deals and I ended up buying a dyson vacuum cleaner that had a $ 125 off of list price, sounds great right, go here for sure for sure.

Costcos are awesome, I think that’s a proven fact.
This Costco can get pretty crowded on weekends, but they provide with quality items for cheap price and some yummy samples.
The food court (you do not need a member id to get in) provides hard-​to-​beat $ 1.50 hot dog with drinks and other cheap food.
My favorite part of Costco may be the cheap gas. Members get member-​exclusive gas price that is usually more than $ 0.10 cheaper per gallon
You won’t regret getting a Costco membership especially if you have a big family

This Costco is less packed than it used to be– which is awesome since it is right down the street from me. They almost always have what I’m looking for. They are quick with checkout. Samples are good. Prices are good. Quality on everything is great. Returns are uneventful and easy. Carts are big and spacious. Good selection on clothing etc. Fuel line is usually busy but moves quite quickly. Pizza is amazing.
1 complaint is that the food court is always understaffed.
I am a huge fan of this Costco!

Awesome place for bulk items. Quality and price make a trip to Costco worth it. Also can’t beat their cheap and tasty hotdog and drink combo! Will be coming back for sure.

I love Costco, they sell everything you could want but in bulk! The produce are always high quality, the bakery has delicious croissants, and I love everything from the meat department.
And after you’re done shopping it’s almost mandatory to stop at the food court and get a polish dog combo for $ 1.50! Plus they now take debit cards, so no more need to make sure you have cash.
Overall it’s a great place to: get gas, buy groceries, pick up clothes, books and movies, all while treating yourself to the samples.

I trust Costco. I trust the products they carry and have had nothing but great experiences from their customer service and employees.
I wish I could get out of there for under $ 200, but that’s my fault. Everything there is of great value, so I want it all!
My only gripe with this place… is Please… PLEASE… enough with the smiley faces on my receipts! The door checkers see I have a young child with me, I get it, you want to draw a cute face and hand he receipt to my kid… But what you’re really doing is slowing up the process of leaving. You take more time with your sharpie illustrations, than you do actually checking the contents of my cart. I appreciate the gesture, but it’s not necessary every time. Especially during the weekend rush.

Like most Costcos this one is always packed! So be prepared for the crowd. You can almost always save .10 cents or more on gas, so that is great, but there is usually a line. Costco muffins are so delicious, half my reason for going to Costco is the muffins. I by a lot of my non perishable items here in bulk and it ends up saving a lot. Their freezer section is also really great, a lot of selection, my favorite is the Ling Ling Potstickers.
The samples are also really awesome! The most samples are out on weekends before 2 pm. I love the samples and you can have as many as you like. The food court has some really good cheap food, the hot dog and drink for 1.50 is of course a staple. The bbq brisket sandwich is also really good, but kind of spendy. The pizza is also pretty good, but Sams has better and Sams has soft pretzels which are my favorite!
They have really high quality electronics and goods, and their prices are hard to beat. I feel like in the last couple of years Costco has moved more and more into the organic, healthy food area. This is great but now the only fresh chicken I can find there is organic grass fed chicken from some fancy farm and it costs 3 dollars or more a pound. So I feel like Sams Club actually has cheaper basic meat selection, which is what I am looking for.

I have never seen so many big ol’ suburbans in all my life! And out of them come pouring out kid’s. The whole location is weird, kind of on the frontage road but having to drive thru car dealerships to get there. Inside everybody has a cart with children hanging off of them, sitting in them or holding on to them so they can skate with the weird shoes that have skates. This location seems to be crowded at any given day and time. Products are the same. Not my favorite costco.

I love me some Costco!
I buy gas at Costco!
I buy groceries at Costco!
I buy lunch at Costco!
I buy furniture at Costco!
I buy electronics at Costco!
I buy clothing at Costco!
I should probably just have my paycheck direct deposited to Costco.

Costco will always get 5 stars for me.
The only downside with this location. is its location. I live on the other side of the freeway which makes it harder to get to this Costco, but that’s not big enough of an issue for me to drop one star.
I should drop a star because there is no alcohol selection, but it’s the government’s fault not Costco’s.

I like Costco as this is the place whereby our family does our weekly or biweekly groceries. We found that Costco offer relatively good price and good quality items
We loved coming to the one in Sandy (non Utah county), as they also offer alcoholic choices like beers.
They also provide good food/​drinks trial as you walk across the isle.
The only improvement item would be on the contractors serving the testing food/​drinks to let the customers have the trials first… I noticed some of contractors, who are not serving that particular stands (other contractors are serving at that time) are blocking some of the customers who would like to try them.

Ugghhh. I could never bring myself to give Costco one star, but the Sandy Costco is actually the worst one in existence. Very poorly planned. Both the parking lot and the store itself are terrible to navigate.
I was in a hurry and only came for dog food. With much difficulty, I made my way to the back of the food side only to find that, unlike virtually all other Costcos in Utah, this location houses pet supplies on the OTHER SIDE OF THE STORE. The place was wall to wall with families eager to while away their Saturday evenings trying EVERY sample and it took several minutes to finally get my bag Kirkland lamb & rice. Then, of course, the lines were out of control.
Listen, Craig Jelinek, it is CRAZY to think that one Costco is sufficient to serve the needs of the huge families of both Sandy AND Draper. I say raze this location and build two more further away from the hustle and bustle of the South Towne Center area.

This Costco had been around for long time, road access used to be a nightmare with just 11 000, but now they have an alternative entry route from the Scheels side. A third route is to go around their loading dock from behind, which will get you minimal traffic.
They got the usual Costco products here, as usual, name brand items tend to be pricier than Sam’s, while they have more variety and less pricey generic products. Perishables were definitely higher quality here.
As for their food court, their whole pizza is about 50% cheaper than the other wholesale chain, but their drink cup is smaller and they only accept cash/​check for some weird reasons, maybe Amex fee is too high.
Overall, there are things I prefer to get from Costco and other things I would get from Sam. Gas prices rarely differences.