Costco. In Glasgow. After all this time.
People were really good about telling us about the Edinburgh Costco, conveniently located next to the Edinburgh Ikea, but we always felt that an hour train trip just to shop for a few bulk items didn’t make sense — Edinburgh is a busy-busy-busy place and we couldn’t see schlepping the amount of stuff home that it would take to make the long trip there and back worthwhile. But a Costco in Glasgow… Hm. What kills me is that it looks exactly the same as the ones in the U.S. — big, boxy building, wide parking lanes, huge cart catchers. You could be looking at a picture of Sacramento, except there are too few cars in the lot, no hot dog/churro/nacho vendors clustered right outside the door and not enough obnoxious people parking crookedly and gunning the engines of their half-ton pickup trucks while waiting for their wives/girlfriends and six kids to race back to the car clutching their giant pretzels and ice cream cones…
You doubtless heard the sad tale of the carry-on and the sticky debacle that occurred when we were dodging airline weight regulations and ran smack into TSA liquid carry-on regulations. It would take a team of MacGyvers and a whole lot of ingenuity — not to mention something that, maybe, burned to come up with an incendiary device made of bulk containers of honey and maple syrup, but we wouldn’t want to bring down the plane, so into the box went our Costco items, and we went away bemoaning the waste (to us, anyway. The agent said that the janitorial staff splits the goods that get pulled. Good for them.). While I doubt very much that we could afford maple syrup — from Canada — purchased in the UK, we might have to check out what else is there. We were assured in the U.S. that our membership card works just as well in all nineteen UK locations, but with our tiny kitchen, shopping in bulk anywhere isn’t something that’s easy. Storage is an issue, for sure. Still we were tickled to find out that we don’t have to go to Edinburgh for anything at all.
Costco. Who knew?!
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Do please tell of your Scotland Costco excursions when you have them!
Silly about the mabple syrup, etc. but those terrorists might have infiltrated Canada and be secretly putting explosive solutions in the maple trees or syrup, right? The real terrorists are jacking up the oil prices.
Hope that you find some fun stuff at the Glasgow Costco…do blog about it. I stay out of Costoc for months at a time because there is too much tempting stuff there…like real Parmesan in a big hunk that costs about $20 and would be eating up in no time…and then we would need some more 🙂
Hey now! We NEVER take our six kids to Costco with us in the pick-up to get our pretzels and ice cream so we can have more money for ourselves to buy pizza slices and orange sodas in gallon slurpee cups. Puh-leaze!
Okay, seriously. Am really sorry you had to leave treasures behind. I’ve come back from Vegas with the oddest things packed in my carry-ons or moved from my carry-ons into my checked bags at the last minute. You guys are much more generous–and the staff will love you for it anonymously.
costco in glascow! who knew! looks like the costco in richmond. nice, clean. now what you need is a trader joe’s. are they international? would the uk know what to do with one? hope you are well. take care.
Tadmack, I’ve tagged you for a meme…hope you’ll play along…plus I put in a plug for your book…hope you don’t mind. Cheers!
Glenna, you know I love you and your six kids dripping ice cream everywhere… just keep your four-by in ONE parking spot, okay?
Jackie — no TJ’s, not here, though they are owned by a German based company. There are Whole Food stores in England, however. That was a surprising discovery, since there are great organic markets here already.
Elle, you’re so cute. “Plugged your book, hope you don’t mind“?! Mind?! Thank you…!