- I have the 10 things you should never buy
at BJ's Wholesale Club and what so called, the deals
you might want to avoid.
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with the first product I would not buy
at BJ's Wholesale Club.
And that is a lot of Apple products but in particular iPads.
I think a lot of you guys when you are shopping at BJ's,
whether it's online or in store
or at another wholesale club, you see an iPad
and you get excited and they park them prominently
beside a lot of other deals and you think
you should stock up for whatever reason.
When they even put crazy things in place
like limit three per member.
Why would you even wanna buy one of these?
Because the exact same product,
and the most recent of the Wi-Fi iPads, 32 gigs
is 249, with a free year of Apple TV from Best Buy.
So again, number one of what I would not buy,
do not buy an iPad, do not consider other Apple products,
they are usually cheaper at Best Buy.
The $80 off at Best Buy versus that $10 off at BJ's
is obviously significantly more enticing.
The second group of products I do not recommend buying
from BJ's Wholesale Club or typical warehouse
is cooking oil.
Now generally you're not going to find
these cute little cooking oils
that I have in my hands right here.
You're gonna find things that are significantly larger
and a reminder, that once you open a large cooking oil
they generally go bad and should be consumed
within two to three months.
Whether it's a bulk purchase
or they are all grouped together,
you are going to find that in many cases,
the cooking oil will expire before you can consume it.
Of course if you have a large family
then don't necessarily pay attention to that word of advice
but if you're a family of four or three
and you do an average amount of cooking and grilling,
you're going to find that you're better off
at the grocery store when it comes
to that number of products.
In the number three spot of what you should not buy
at the BJ's Wholesale Club or another warehouse club,
for a lot of cases, you will find luggage deals
like the one that I'm gonna show you right now,
are not that fantastic.
A lot of the time you're using Traveler's Choice
and Travel Select and these brands
which are decent depending on what's being offered
around Black Friday or Cyber Monday.
But on a non Black Friday or Cyber Monday occasion,
you're going to find that your luggage sets
with more ratings and more stock are better
at Amazon 39.82 versus this 45.99.
I realize they're not identical sets
but a lot of these in my unboxing
have come through the same factories
they just tack on slightly different names.
So whether it's a Kenneth Cole luggage set
or American Tourister or a Travel Select,
there's a lot of similarities between those luggage lines
and I would not recommend buying them
at a BJ's Wholesale Club.
In the number four spot of what I would not buy
at a BJ's Wholesale Club, Blu-ray movies and DVDs.
These are strategically placed by the cash register
or sometimes beside the snacks
where you have those impulse buys
and you see a movie and you love it
or it's one that resonates with you
and you quickly grab it on the way out
and there's a price tag on it
that doesn't necessarily correlate with anything
because you can watch that movie for free.
I have found that the vast majority of the movies
that I've seen advertised at BJ's
are available on Netflix, Prime Video or Crackle
which is a free legal TV service.
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how to enjoy great TV for free,
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In the number five spot of what I would not buy
at the BJ's Wholesale Club, diapers.
I don't wear them but I'm a dad
and my two-year-old daughter does
and from having gone through the diaper journey
like so many parents watching right now,
the quantities of diapers available at BJ's
in some cases are just completely insane.
You might get a very good deal
but the 192 count of Pampers Swaddlers diapers
is not a realistic number for parents
with kids that can outgrow diapers very quickly.
Their bodies changed quickly, their sizing changes
and loading up on diapers that will last you
unless you have twins or triplets,
probably well past the exact size you need,
I highly recommend Walmart or some
of the other diaper subscription services from Amazon
where you will find comparable prices per count
and then promotions which are also great
that don't require you to buy out every diaper
in the store.
In the number six spot of what I would not buy
at BJ's Wholesale Club, bleach is on that list.
It's not quite the same as what I mentioned
with regards to oil.
Now the bleach quantities are very large
and whether it's a laundry detergent like this
or a bleach alternative or bleach itself,
you're going to find that many of the coupons
they pass along are also available on other websites
and these products break down quickly.
I realized that the shelf life of bleach
is recommended to be around a year
but if you do open up that bleach,
you're gonna find that its composition degrades faster
than that one year mark.
And if you disagree with me, leave me a comment
but I will tell you right now
those large quantities of bleach and laundry products
are not a great buy in my opinion at BJ's Wholesale Clubs.
In the number seven spot of what I would not buy
at BJ's Wholesale Club, probiotics.
I'm not someone that enjoys probiotics on a regular basis,
but I will tell you many of the probiotic products,
not the vitamins, not the pills, but the actual Activia
and other comparable products require refrigeration.
So I'm gonna tell you two things,
for how I've mapped out BJ's and I think
they have more than 218 stores across the United States.
They're not always in the most populated areas
of a specific community or state.
For a retailer to encompass that level of square footage,
it's usually cheaper outside of the metropolitan area.
With that being said it's a long drive for a lot of us.
I've noticed that from the time you get the probiotic
to when you go to the cash register
to when you go to your car, to when you finally drive home,
you might have saved 10 cents, but the actual product
which needs constant refrigerating or a lot of refrigerating
might not actually be what you want to take home.
I also have some refrigeration concerns
pertaining to probiotic products
at different warehouse clubs not BJ's actually,
I have not seen these at BJ's but by the time the product
is moved from the stockroom, and then and on its card
and then it makes its way to the shelf
and the aisles are much longer and they are huge vast areas
for a product to travel to.
I have not seen constant refrigerating,
and it's a little bit different
from how supermarkets handle that.
So, just throwing that out there
as a product you may not wanna grab.
And the number eight spot of what I would not buy
at BJ's Wholesale Club, not necessarily this brand
but that was graceful, look like a moron, bread.
This is what I can tell you about bread,
a lot of people get very excited over
their trial memberships, which BJ's is very generous with
and sometimes it's the membership price you're paying
or the saving that they impart in you.
You go on and you load up on all these things
and you see the bread discounts.
If you for example shop at Walmart,
they heavily discount their one-day-old bread
at the bakery first thing in the morning,
after it's been in circulation.
The other thing to keep in mind,
your grocery store and your supermarket,
they have a lot more bread than a wholesale club
in terms of turnover on a typical day.
And with everything going on in the world right now
and how people stock up in really different ways
on bread than they ever have,
grocery stores do not know
how to handle their inventory effectively,
and I've noticed that the grocery store discounts
are more aggressive than what's being offered
at typical wholesale clubs including BJ's.
So put that in the number eight spot
of what I would not buy.
In the number nine and do not buy at BJ's,
suggestions spot, I'm going to throw canned goods,
we don't actually wanna throw them
'cause they're heavy and actually hurt
when you drop them on your toe
because you're running around your kitchen
like a crazy person as I am from time to time,
but the canned goods, and this is actually a thing,
have a very specific tie to your grocery store
in terms of discounts.
So the canned goods and jarred food,
come tied to an alliance called the Canned Food Alliance.
And the Canned Food Alliance has a strong relationship
with your local grocery store.
The deals and promotions passed along to grocery stores
come with a different level of aggression,
and they come with a higher velocity
and different brands and what does that simply mean to you?
You're gonna do very well at your grocery store.
A lot of us assume that we're always paying more
at the grocery store or that the razor blades
that we buy at the drugstore are always highway robbery.
The promotions passed along at certain times
over the course of the year when you know how to shop,
are actually much more aggressive at certain places
like a drugstore, like a grocery store.
It's just not day in day out.
A wholesale warehouse club like BJ's
imparts year round savings in almost every category,
but they can't do every category perfectly,
which is why I have this top 10 list.
So you're going to find that this would be an exception
to the rule, I would not buy canned goods.
And if you do your price comparisons,
you're gonna see that they actually are much cheaper
on your supermarket at different intervals
over the course of the year.
And the number 10 spot of what I would not buy, condiments.
And in particular condiment packs
that look like this and a variety of others
that are with a larger quantity,
the average shelf life of ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise,
somewhere between three, five, six
and if you're lucky nine months.
And for a lot of these discounts that are passed
along to wholesale clubs, they don't begin
with the longest shelf life.
The condiments are discounted by the intermediary
or a distributor and passed along to the wholesale clubs
at a discount but unless you were throwing a large
backyard picnic, or hosting a party
or you barbecue every day, or your daughter
has an obsession with ketchup like mine does,
even though we're really trying to get her
on the barbecue sauce 'cause I think that's more fun.
I would not buy the condiments
from a wholesale club including BJ's.
And that is, that's a weird punch that I just did,
that is that, so awkward today what's going on?
That's my top 10 list of what I would not buy at BJ's.
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