If you’ve opened TikTok, Instagram, or X (formerly Twitter) even once this year, you probably know what a Costco Guy is. If you too want to go shopping while eating a chicken bake or try the new double-chunk chocolate cookie, then you’ll need yourself a Costco membership. Lucky for you, it’s only $60 for the year and right now, you’ll be granted a $20 digital shop card with your purchase.
What Do You Get With a Gold Membership?
A Costco membership will allow you to shop at over 600 locations within the United States as well as over 800 locations worldwide. You’ll be able to use your card at Costco’s business centers, travel, gas stations, hearing aid centers, optical, pharmacies and, of course, Costco’s website.
The real magic however happens right at the warehouses where you can find anything your heart desires. Laundry detergent? Got it. Rotisserie chicken? Oh yeah. 80″ 4K OLED television? You bet. Seven-person hot tub? Yup. And then you can treat yourself after a long day of shopping to a hot dog for one dollar — a price point to which the founder of Costco told a CEO who wanted to raise it, “If you raise the effing hot dog, I will kill you.”
The membership can be shared among anyone in your household. Kid just got their license and wants to drive? Cool! Put them to work doing errands. Perhaps you can entice them with the free samples.
As someone who moved away from home years ago, I finally bit the bullet and got myself my own Costco membership. I honestly don’t know how I was living without one. Stocking up on snacks in bulk is really the only way you should be buying snacks. Bulk also makes it way harder to eat the entire box of Goldfish in one sitting which, yes, is something I was dealing with.
Upon signing up, the $20 Costco card will be sent directly via email from Costco within two weeks after successfully redeeming. The digital credit is not just one-time use, so you don’t have to spend the $20 at once. Good luck with that though. Not because Costco items are expensive, but because there’s so much good stuff you’ll have trouble staying in the double digits each time you go.
Note that this offer is only available to customers in the United States and Puerto Rico and can is only valid for new members or for members whose memberships have been expired for more than 18 months.
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