COSTCO! in London!

I was so excited to hear that there was a Costco in London, however I was disappointed to find out that without a car, it would take 1.25 hours to get there. As this weekend, I had rented a car to drive to Bath, this was the perfect opportunity to go check the island of American consumerism out.




Costco is awesome. The prices (if you ignore the pounds to dollar conversion) are the same as in America, and all the portions are HUGE. It is almost disgusting how huge they are after seeing the small size portions everything is sold in, in central London. Of course, no one has the space to store this much stuff.



They sell a proper American (large) refrigerator with water and ice in the door just like our (snif) refrigerator back home. We drooled over it for 5 - 10 minutes alongside some other people who had lived in the US for a while. Sigh. . .










It is great to find some of the "hard to find" American food items that are staples of our culture.





Skippy's Super Chunk peanut butter, French's Yellow Mustard, Giradelli's Brownie Mix, Krusteaze Pancake Mix, and






They even sell some products you would never see in a Costco in the US: Haggis and and jumbo sized rolls of Black Pudding (Shriek!). When in Rome, however. . .

Of course you can also while doing your grocery shopping, pickup a pool. In England, you don't even need to fill it up. The regular rain showers will do that for you. . .








It was also nice to see that you can get a traditional Costco slice of pizza (which was actually better that the pizza served at the Costcos back home) and a Hot Dog.

Before we knew it, like any good visit to Costco, we'd bought more than we had planned to and began to wonder how we would fit it all in the car along with our luggage and the 2 dogs.

A Fantastic place for any ex-pats living in London to get that feeling that they've died and gone to America.