Costco has its fans, and those fans are loyal in a way that borders on the spiritual, but SuperThrift in Portland, Oregon is making a very compelling case that bulk savings don’t require a membership card or a warehouse full of industrial-sized mayonnaise.
What it does require is a shopping cart, a flat fee, and a willingness to discover just how far twenty-five dollars can actually go.
The comparison to Costco isn’t random.
Both places operate on the idea that buying more for less is a fundamentally good arrangement…