It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas at Costco — since June, in some places. While other retailers were stocking back-to-school supplies in July, Costco — as many Redditors pointed out — was already preparing for Yuletide. And while we all love to play it cool, saying “it’s too early for Christmas shopping,” we’re one Hallmark Christmas movie away from getting in full-on elf mode.
As it’s done every year, the retailer has stocked holiday hits that will most likely disappear from shelves before Thanksgiving, so the early bird gets the festive worm. Here are 10 Christmas products that will likely fly off shelves soon.
1. ‘Human-Sized’ 5-Foot Lindt Advent Calendar
Costco obviously understands the urge to eat your body weight in candy around the holidays, so now shoppers can find a five-foot Lindt Advent Calendar in select locations. The 97-ounce version of the traditional chocolate calendar includes 24 full-size treats, like sea salt and dark chocolate bars; a gold, hollow, milk chocolate teddy bear in a Christmas sweater; and Lindt Lindor truffles. Counting down to Christmas Day with a full-sized chocolate doesn’t come cheap — the Advent calendar sells for about $190 and will likely sell out fast.
2. Pop-Up Snowman Family with LED Lights (Set of 3)
If you’re planning to go all in on decking the halls this year (and fa-la-la-ing, as one should), Costco’s giant Snowman Family might be perfect. The set of three snowmen features 435 twinkling LED lights and works both indoors and outdoors. It sells for $199.99, and is available now in select Costco warehouses and online.
3. Grinch Holiday Cookie Jars
Maybe Christmas doesn’t come from a store, but these Grinch Holiday Cookie Jars do. Knowing the green, cheer-stealing troublemaker’s ways, it’ll sell out fast. At $19.99, the jars come with 21.15 ounces of Pirouline crème-filled wafers in dark chocolate and chocolate hazelnut. They’re available in festive Max or Grinch designs, and people say they are going fast. “Everyone is opting for the Grinch, and I had to dig through a layer of boxes to pull one out,” said one Redditor in early October last year.
4. Bonne Maman Advent Calendar
Costco’s back with a mini version of its ultra-popular Bonne Maman advent calendar, and for $15.99, it’s quite a deal. Each day delivers a one-ounce jar of Bonne Maman jam, spread, or honey, including fan favorites like fig, apricot, cherry, orange marmalade, wild blueberry, and that hazelnut chocolate spread everyone pretends to “gift.” The jars now come in their own tiny gift boxes, so you can hand them out individually if you’re feeling generous — or just keep the whole stash for yourself. Because it’s Costco, it’ll probably be gone before you finish your Halloween candy.
5. 7’ LED Triple Lamp Post
If Dickens had a Costco membership, this is what he’d buy. The towering, three-headed lamp post comes wrapped in LEDs and a big red bow, looking like it should be outside a Victorian bakery. It goes for $189.99 and started showing up in warehouses in early fall.
Trending on Cheapism
6. Kirkland Signature Peppermint Bark
There’s no Christmas baking without peppermint bark, and these babies sell fast, so Costco stocked up early. The 22-ounce container goes for $16.99 and includes layers of white and dark chocolate topped with crushed peppermint pieces. If you buy it early enough, you can whip something up to commemorate the festive treat’s own holida,y National Peppermint Bark Day, on December 1.
7. Happy Holidays Tower of Sweets
If there were a sweeter tower to gift, it’d be Costco’s five-tier stack filled with all-time candy favorites like Belvaux Traditional Chocolate Truffles, Lindt Lindor Milk Chocolate Truffles, Quality Candy Butterscotch Flavored Hard Candies, Baker Brother’s Chocolate Brownies with Real Belgian Chocolate Chips, and Liddy’s Confections Cocoa-Coated Wafers. It sells for $39.99; if someone gifted this to me, they’d be my favorite person that year.
8. The Fruit Company Classic 5-Box Tower
Costco’s version of a fruit basket comes stacked like a Christmas skyscraper. The five-box tower includes pears, apples, chocolate-covered cherries, cranberry vanilla cookies, and a single white chocolate pretzel for good measure. It’s stacked, ribboned, and priced at $32.99, sold online only.
Sign up for our newsletter
9. Popcorn Factory 3.5 Gallon Nutcracker Cheer Holiday Tin
For a Costco Christmas, let them eat popcorn. The festive, Nutcracker-themed container comes with 3.5 gallons of popcorn drowned in caramel, cheese, and butter — in December, nothing is considered gluttony. It’s listed at $49.99 and is sold online only.
10. Christmas Sweater Chocolate Caramel Apples (6-pack)
If a holiday dessert isn’t wearing a festive sweater, is it even Christmas? Available for preorder at Costco, Mrs. Prindables Christmas Sweater Chocolate Caramel Apples come in a six-pack and are sold for $59.99. The apples are coated in caramel and milk chocolate, then topped with festive red, green, and white sprinkles.
