6 BJ’s Wholesale Club Items To Buy To Save Money This Memorial Day
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A standard BJ’s membership costs $55 per year, and if you sign up now, the savings it provides can start paying you back this Memorial Day.
If some of the millions of people who plan to travel over the holiday weekend are headed to your backyard for a cookout — or even if you’re just having a picnic or keeping it small with the family — you can get more for less on all the things you need to make this summer’s kickoff holiday one for the record books.
Memorial Day is Monday, May 27. Don’t pass up the chance to save money with these top picks at BJ’s.
A Grill
If you don’t own a grill, or if the one you have has seen better days, your BJ’s membership could be your ticket to hosting this Memorial Day weekend’s hottest backyard cookout.
A Char-Broil Performance Series four-burner gas grill with a soft cover is $299.99 after $50 off. A small but capable Nexgrill two-burner tabletop propane-fired grill is just $99.99 after $30 off. Roughly a dozen other models are marked down with special members-only prices, and for those expecting more modest crowds, BJ’s has a few petite but powerful portable options for less than $50.
Wellsley Farms Organic Salsa
Chips and salsa can keep hunger at bay while your new grill works its magic, and BJ’s has a special on two 35-ounce jars of its private-label Wellsley Farms brand for $9.79. When you tack on a $1.50 coupon, that’s 70 ounces for just $8.29, or about $0.12 an ounce. A name-brand salsa, like one from Tostitos, at a supermarket like ShopRite will cost you closer to $0.26 per ounce.
Italian Sausage
If Italian sausage will join burgers and dogs on your grill this Memorial Day, BJ’s has you covered with a three-pound container — your choice of hot or sweet — for $9.99. Each contains two 1.5-pound packages that combine for 12 four-ounce links of organic, 80% lean pork sausage for 10 bucks, with a penny to spare. That’s about $0.21 per ounce.
At Kroger, a one-pound package of Italian sausage sells for $5.99, or about $0.37 per ounce.
Corn on the Cob
Whether you grill, boil or bake your corn on the cob, it’s not Memorial Day weekend without this staple food. And with a BJ’s membership, you can get a 20-ounce package of six ears of sweet corn for $5.99 after a $1 coupon — about $0.30 an ounce, or $1 per ear. At Kroger, four ears will set you back $4.99, or $1.25 per ear.
Ground Beef Patties
The price of hamburger meat proves why it pays to buy in bulk with a BJ’s membership.
At BJ’s, packages of preformed patties weigh between 3.75 and 4.5 pounds and cost between $18.71 and $22.46 — $4.99 per pound, or $0.31 per ounce. At Target, the store’s Good and Gather brand patties sell for $7.49 per pound, or $0.47 per ounce.
Heinz Variety Pack
If you can have only three condiments this Memorial Day weekend, they had better be mustard, relish and ketchup — mostly ketchup.
With a BJ’s membership, you can get the whole shebang from the most famous name in condiments in one purchase. A Heinz Picnic Pack contains two 32-ounce ketchups, one 28-ounce yellow mustard and one 26-ounce sweet relish, all squeezable and mess-free.
Your price at BJ’s is $11.49. The exact same four-pack will cost you nearly three times as much at Target, which charges $27.99.
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