 never been in a Costco this crowded in the US probably because there's plenty more and you can get coffins and caskets people look at the dollar 99 hot dog guys it did not disappoint like I would live there just for that hot dog it was so good every all the food was very good oh that's how you do a hot dog peeps okay so excited about Colby Jack cheese you cannot get that in New Zealand anywhere I'm so getting that and so this is just an overview of some of the food and some of the prices so you can kind of see how it's different in New Zealand compared to the US and this is not something that you would see in the US sausage rolls no you wouldn't so one thing that I noticed was that people didn't have very full carts as you can see we didn't get that much but we had a full cart to get back to Wellington okay so we're leaving Costco and my final thoughts moving to Auckland okay so I hope you enjoyed my we were planning on going on like a family tramping trip that weekend but it was so rainy we ended up just going on an adventure and ended up at Costco and it was great but here are my thoughts my reflections on my time there are a couple things first of all it was so packed like I've never been to a Costco that was that packed ever and probably because there's plenty of caskets and you know when there's you're the only one in the country I guess that makes sense uh so it was really packed I mean like even waiting for food like when we when we bought our food I think they were on number like 61 and we were number 142 that gives you some idea of how long we had to wait for our food so and that took a really long time as well and um one of the really noticeable things was people's carts people's carts were quite empty when I walked in I'm like really because like in the States they're like fill it up you're you're actually there for a shop and it's full and you know but after walking through the store and spending some time there I think I understood why and I think it's because the prices are a lot so like like for example like I know the prices because I can remember like I could give the Skippy's peanut butter the big peanut butter would be like $7.99 but here's $29 so it's not quite the same you know so that's why I don't think people can just buy everything or they're just coming there as like the novelty and not like actually to do a shop and so I thought that that was very very interesting they didn't have any samples when we were there but I was very impressed with the amount of American choices like we got we like you saw the card that we bought all the things that like you can't get here I was quite happy there's definitely a lot of things that New Zealanders would like which obviously would make sense because they need to sell it right people like what they like right but at the same time I was really impressed with how many things that they had from the US that was just so great to see and those like oh my gosh I missed this you know and so that was really nice and so there's lots of options it's like I said not overly cheap so you can't buy everything but so many great things and so I was happy with the variety I was expecting it to be very New Zealand focused and I thought that there was quite right the clothes choices were very good the meat looked amazing just things that like they had like the crab legs where do I get that in New Zealand like I haven't seen maybe I'm not looking hard enough but yeah just so many like really good things and it was just exciting to get some of the fun things that I can't normally get like say in the normal grocery store here in New Zealand so anyway we had a great time and no I'm not moving to Auckland don't worry but yeah it's nice I know that I can order from Costco to be delivered like sent down at some point I don't think that that's running yet but I do have my membership now so I'm good to go and I will definitely be using that in the future so please comment below let me know if you've been to Costco and what your experience has been and what you bought and like just a little bit of your thoughts especially if you're American living in New Zealand you guys have a great week and I'll see you next week