We have 1 Costco in the whole state. It’s about 60 min away and the lines and parking are out of control. The closest Sams club is about 90 min and it’s no less zoo-ish than the Costco.
My tangent...
I consider us fairly lucky as we get our meat from a local guy that delivers to our house. We call him with an order and his wife drops it off on her way to work, we just leave cash in the cooler to her. It’s frozen, but at least we know where it’s from and during the summer our kids go see the cows.
We pick and freeze berries to last us thru the year ever summer, we have 3 freezers. In the fall we pick apples, can some for apple pie and make a bunch of apple sauce for the kids. She cans tomatoes and freezes other veggies for the winter/spring. We use our own honey & maple syrup for our sweeteners. My wife’s trades our maple syrup for the goat milk soaps we use around the house. We get our dairy (yogurt, milk, cream) from a local farm that uses no hormones or antibiotics and has free range dairy cows.
For paper products (paper towels, toilet paper, etc) she gets it from Boxed.com along with other household staples. Other household things come from Vitacost.com
We roast our own coffee to get us thru the year, some are roasted with honey & maple syrup. We buy 2, sacks of green beans a year and blend them.
For us, she will go to Costco 2x a year when her folks comes to visit as they insist on the preservative enhanced breakfast cake thing from the Costco bakery everyday, If they don’t have that breakfast cake all we hear are complaints. But they also refuse to eat local beef when they visit. So we buy them the carbon monoxide filled packaged ground beef from Walmart when they come as they insist on burgers & cheese curls during the July visit.
As I mentioned we are lucky to have local sources of food & produce that can be had at reasonable prices.