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Does anyone shop at Campbells Cash & Carry?

witches*wol — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 05:03:51 GMT

Just wondering if it is worth joning Campbells Cash & Carry. Hubby and I both have ABN's so it's not a problem to join but I am wondering if they are really cheaper than regular stores?

Any info would be appreciated.

TIA

Re: Does anyone shop at Campbells Cash & Carry?

witches*wol — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 08:06:45 GMT

Seriously No One?????

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siggie-reported-by-alarmists — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 08:14:42 GMT

Personally, I wouldn't bother.

I didn't think you would want to hear that though.....

You can make better savings at the supermarket.

Look on their website and compare prices per 100g to specials at supermarkets, you'll work it out pretty quickly.

I gave up, as not worth it.

Happy shopping!

Re: Does anyone shop at Campbells Cash & Carry?

witches*wol — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 08:19:10 GMT

Thanks Siggie, I remember years and years ago it was big deal to shop there but I don't know of anyone who shops there now. Hubby goes to a computer supplier right near one so he drives past at least once a week which was why we were wondering if it would be worth joining as it's not out of his way to go there.

Will look at their website and prices. I didn't realise the had an "online" section.... Silly Me!

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danger.will.robinson — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 08:22:35 GMT

I get their catalogues. No real savings . Sometimes I might grab some large bags of frozen chicken wings, but I can't see any real benefit from shopping there.

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lyndal1838 — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 08:38:24 GMT

We used to shop at Campbells here in Sydney. At the time it was well worth it as we used to buy things in bulk....like 25 kgs of salt for our horses. It was handy to be able to get 2.5 litres of tomato sauce when there was a sausage sizzle at the stables.

We did find that there were decent savings if you could use the bulk buys but for everyday sized things the savings were not really there.

When we first joined all we needed to prove was that we were running a business...there were no fees involved. When the membership fees were introduced we let our membership lapse as we worked out that there were not enough savings to warrant paying the fees...by that time the family was grown up and had left home so I was only shopping for 2, with the occasional large order when my daughers came to town.

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icyfroth — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 09:02:20 GMT

Our company used to get our staff room supplies from Campbell's Cash & Carry. I ordered from them for a while but found them expensive (not in touch with the market), inflexible (they would only deliver on a certain day and if you didn't get your order in time, you had to wait til next week), and they charged a $50 delivery fee!

I got rid of them.

You can get your shopping done at Coles Online, at least you can get all the specials!

Re: Does anyone shop at Campbells Cash & Carry?

witches*wol — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 10:54:17 GMT

Thanks for the info - I didn't see anything about a membership fee on the application so will need to look at at it again.

From what you've all said it doesn't seem to be worth the effort.

SO thank you for your imput and I'll tell hubby when he gets home. 🙂

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green.fields — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 14:40:45 GMT

I've been a member for yrs, rarely go, no big deal on pricing, better off shopping in the other stores.

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*crikey*mate* — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 15:05:01 GMT

have a look at Bidvest, it's better than Campbells

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lyndal1838 — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 15:23:20 GMT

It was many years ago that they introduced the fees and I believe they lost a lot of customers. Many would have been like us and decided the saving were not worth the fees.

I do know that we kept getting advertising brochures in the mail trying to get us to rejoin and they did put on some very enticing specials but most were in the catering sized packs so were not really what we would be buying.

If there are no fees involved you could join and have a look for yourself. They used to stock a lot of Black and Gold items...we can now get them at IGA.

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acacia_pycnantha — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 16:00:58 GMT

I usually shop at the smaller grocery shops where the vegetables are fresher and they sell what is in season. I find they are often cheaper than the supermarkets.

The Italian veggie shops are my favourites. You do need to shop around and carry prices in your head but often I get things for half what the bigger chain stores charge.

And as for "fees" . . I would never shop anywhere where they charge me a fee just to enter their shop and give them my custom.

They're a shop and they want to sell me things. No way am I ever goint to pay a fee just to enter a shop.

Same thing with all these "Expos" where there are lots of stalls and booths set up to sell stuff. I have to pay to get in?

No, I don't. If the vendors can't carry the cost of renting their stalls then I'm not going to pay it for them and they lose my custom.

(here endeth the rant) 😉

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acacia_pycnantha — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 16:05:05 GMT

As for canned foods and pre-processed foods . . . well, I never buy them. Same goes for carbonated chem-drinks. never buy them either.

I want to buy real food, not a seething mess of things so artificial that their contents have to stated using numbers.

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*crikey*mate* — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 17:00:45 GMT

LOL, I buy flour in 2o kg bags... other staples too like rice - the smaller grocery stores just don't stock items in those quantities.

and I can't make some of the fruit coulis for what BV's sell them for

and other stuff too like the large couveture blocks for cake decorating etc

some things you just can't get at the supermarket.

they also sell cleaning stuff in bulk

60/20 bug tails

butter sheets

rolls of puff paste so you don't have to muck around with tiny little overpriced wasteful pre cut squares and puff paste is a pain to make.

heaps more than just processed foods/

love BV's

Re: Does anyone shop at Campbells Cash & Carry?

acacia_pycnantha — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 17:14:24 GMT

LOL . . . darn, I once swore I'd never use that.

Pre-rolled pastry? Wasteful pre-processed stuff?

There's nothing to beat home-made. I bet you even buy your pasta in crackly plastic bags?

20 kg bags of flour? please tell me you have a large family (or at least an extended one), otherwise the implications are Huge. 😉

what's a "butter sheet" anyway? do you roll in it?

Re: Does anyone shop at Campbells Cash & Carry?

lyndal1838 — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 20:04:18 GMT

You obviously have no idea what Campbells Cash and Carry is all about.

They are wholesalers, which is why you have to have a business to even buy from them. Here in Sydney their main customers are the owners of the little corner convenience store. We all know how pricy they can be and that is because they do not have the buying power of large supermarkets. At Campbells they can buy 6 packets of tissues, 6 tins of baked beans..........how far would that sort of buying go in the supermarket environment.

Restaurants buy flour, rice and other staples in 20kg packs, sauces in 2.5 litre bottles Sandwich shops can get paper bags etc by the 100s or even thousands.

These smaller businesses would not exist if they had to buy on the scale that supermarkets do so they find it handy to have access to a wholesaler who caters to their scale of buying. But of course it costs them more, which is reflected in the prices we have to pay for convenience shopping.

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soniha-0 — Sat, 24 Nov 2018 14:57:31 GMT

We have to have deliveries on certain days as we have a lot of orders, and we do different suburbs on different days, we need 2 days to be able to pick the orders and yes we do have a picking fee which is now $20 if under $350 or free if the order is over $350.
We are also more for bulk buying, so yes a lot of our products are cheaper to buy at Coles or woolies, but they don't sell in bulk, which is what we are mainly about

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soniha-0 — Sat, 24 Nov 2018 15:00:49 GMT

Bidvest buy from Campbell's

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soniha-0 — Sat, 24 Nov 2018 15:02:07 GMT

It doesn't cost anything to join, and we are mainly for bulk buying

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kopenhagen5 — Sat, 24 Nov 2018 21:30:47 GMT

Good info you have posted.

But just so you know, the OP posted this 5 years ago.

And hasn't been back here for 4 years.