Does anyone shop at Campbells Cash & Carry?

[witches*wol]

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  

[lyndal1838]

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.

[acacia_pycnantha]

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) 😉

[acacia_pycnantha]

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.

[*crikey*mate*]

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

[acacia_pycnantha]

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?

[lyndal1838]

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.

[soniha-0]

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

[soniha-0]

Bidvest buy from Campbell's

[soniha-0]

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

[kopenhagen5]

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.