Costco vs. Sam's paper towels.

[TOM KAN PA]

Their house brand. I go to Sam's and buy Bountys. Costco is too far from home.
My sister brought me a couple Costco double rolls. Not bad. And my neighbor
gave me a roll of Sam's regular. They are about $17 for a case of 30.
Both the Sam's and the Costco's are pleated. And they have the same pattern.
Can I take this mean that they are made by the same paper mill and are
basically the same towel??

[Vox Humana]

"TOM KAN PA" <tomkanpa@aol.comic> wrote in message
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> Their house brand. I go to Sam's and buy Bountys. Costco is too far from
home.
> My sister brought me a couple Costco double rolls. Not bad. And my
neighbor
> gave me a roll of Sam's regular. They are about $17 for a case of 30.
> Both the Sam's and the Costco's are pleated. And they have the same
pattern.
> Can I take this mean that they are made by the same paper mill and are
> basically the same towel??
>
No. Costco's house brand of paper towel is hands-down better than Sam's. In
my opinion they aren't even close to being equal.

[TOM KAN PA]

I just talked to my neighbor and he told me the roll he gave me WASN'T Sam's
house brand.
They come 30 rolls in a cardboard box and are labeled as commercial paper
towels for restaurants, food stores, etc. The brand is POM. So perhaps my
question should be rephrased. Is the Costco and the POM the same towel.

[Wayne Boatwright]

tomkanpa@aol.comic (TOM KAN PA) wrote in
news:20041220122036.08032.00002388@mb-m07.aol.com:

> Their house brand. I go to Sam's and buy Bountys. Costco is too far from
> home. My sister brought me a couple Costco double rolls. Not bad. And my
> neighbor gave me a roll of Sam's regular. They are about $17 for a case
> of 30. Both the Sam's and the Costco's are pleated. And they have the
> same pattern. Can I take this mean that they are made by the same paper
> mill and are basically the same towel??

Dunno. I've never had Sam's or POM paper towels, but the ones from Costco
are superior to any brands carried in the stupidmarkets.

Sometimes I make a trip there just for the paper towels and their dishwasher
detergent.

--
Wayne in Phoenix

*If there's a nit to pick, some nitwit will pick it.
*A mind is a terrible thing to lose.

[Vox Humana]

"TOM KAN PA" <tomkanpa@aol.comic> wrote in message
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> Their house brand. I go to Sam's and buy Bountys. Costco is too far from
home.

I thought you lived near the Robinson Town Center.

[TOM KAN PA]

<< I thought you lived near the Robinson Town Center. >>

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[Gary V. Deutschmann, Sr.]

When Sams first opened they carried (in our area) Fort Howard brand
paper products. Both the Paper Towels and TP were GREAT and much
cheaper than our local supplier.

Then they switched to Marathon Brand which was totally unsuitable.
Marathon Paper Towels scratched almost everything we used them on, and
the TP, besides being rough, caused more waste line clogs than you can
shake a stick at.

Before going to POM Brand, they went through another Fort Something
brand that was only slightly better than Marathon.
Although we buy POM TP, we now only buy the double scored Bounty,
tearable in 1/2 sheets. It's a little higher, but they go a long ways
further in usage and absorbency.

I don't know if Pace Stores were national or not, but when they opened
in St. Louis, their higher quality and lower prices almost ran Sam's
out of town. Sam's did the only thing they could and bought them all
out and turned them into Sam's stores.
We had a Costco open quite a ways from us, I visited it twice and was
not impressed at all with their merchandise. Their prices were lower,
but not enough to make up for the exhorbitant sales taxes where they
opened. So the bottom line was, they were higher priced.

What irks me the most about Sam's is that their sister store WalMart
carries many of the same things, and often for a lower price too, on
the things we buy most often. And you don't have to pay a membership
fee to shop at WalMart. WalMart don't know the meaning of ALWAYS that
they plaster on everything. One day it's one price, the next it's a
whole dollar higher and stays that way for a month. Then it drops
again for a day or two then jumps back up again. They need to take
that ALWAYS sign off the product on the days it's lower in price,
because it is NOT ALWAYS that price.

TTUL
Gary

[Vox Humana]

"Gary V. Deutschmann, Sr." <raiar@bbs.galilei.com.nospam> wrote in message
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>
> I don't know if Pace Stores were national or not, but when they opened
> in St. Louis, their higher quality and lower prices almost ran Sam's
> out of town.

Pace was a division of K-Mart