Grocery shopping often feels more like a chore than a treat. I mean, sure, filling your cart with your favorite snacks is fun—but having to unload everything into the car, then later out of it is a real drag (especially if it’s super hot out or raining). But now, that might be a problem of the past.
Costco is selling 12-gallon collapsible storage bins that make it easy to take groceries from the checkout counter to your car and then to your kitchen in one trip. (Bonus: they’re available on Amazon too for $22 a piece—but at $40 for a pack of four, they’re cheaper at Costco.)
This kind of reminds me of the laundry-basket hack I saw go viral a few years ago; shoppers were taking laundry bins into stores, loading ’em up with groceries, buying their food, and then bringing the basket from their car to their house in one trip.
These Costco containers seem even better, though, because you can collapse them down when you’re done using them for easy storage. Plus, they’re spacious at 12 gallons and each one can hold 50 pounds of groceries, according to the brand.
Since they’re made with plastic, you don’t have to worry about them shifting around your car in between uses (they seem durable)—and they’re easy to wipe down in case of any food spills.
One shopper praised the crates, saying their family uses them in all cars. They wrote, “The crates are so handy for Costco runs, grocery trips, transporting random items, etc. They are easy to pop open and snap in place. I’ve never had one collapse. These are well worth the price.”
Next time you’re on trip number five of unloading groceries from your car, remember that these exist—and they’re here to make your life a little easier.
