This is the Costco of the Netherlands. You can only enter Makro with a Makro card by scanning the card at the entrance. You're officially allowed to bring along one guest who's not a member. So how do you get a Makro card? If you have a KvK number, Chamber of Commerce number, then you can apply for one for free. At Makro they list everything excluding VAT and under that, in small print, the actual price you'd have to pay. When you do the taxes for your business every quarter, you can apply for a tax rebate on all your purchases (at Makro). Don't have a KvK number? Don't feel too bad. This place is HUGE, yes, but is it really cheaper? Mehh. Most, not all but most, of the things they sell are not (much) cheaper than online shops and/or some actual shops. What is interesting however is the array of food products they have. Lots of options you normally wouldn't see at your regular supermarket. What's even more interesting is that the Makro gas station outside is accessible to everybody, i.e. no card required, and they are open 24/7. In addition to that it is one of the cheapest gas stations in Amsterdam. So if you're visiting Wah Nam Hong across the gas station or the Arena nearby, I highly recommend you fuel up here. read more

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This is a pretty good store for specialty food, baking ingredients, canned food, bottled drinks, cleaning products, some electronics, kitchen tools and office stuff. They also have a lot more like a lot of kinds of cheeses and a lot of types of meat that you cannot find anywhere else. The vegetables aren't that trustworthy (I like my vegetables and fruit to be very fresh) and sometimes they're good sometimes, they aren't. Same thing goes for the fruit. In the refrigerated part, you can find a lot of cooking creams and milk, tubs of yogurt and types of butter so that's good. My favorite part are the teas (they have a lot of kinds and boxes) and the Asian/Italian part with all the All the spices and stuff. it's free grades to find some products that you can't find anywhere else in the city, but I do think that a lot of stuff there is very overpriced. So I only go there when I absolutely need to. Upstairs you can find clothing, shoes (yay for cheap socks), electronics and office stuff. I would not buy from their cheap electronic brands, especially for kitchen stuff. Like brands you have never really heard before, because they are horrible and I have had bad a experience with it. So there's a tip. A bad thing is that there always seems to be mice everywhere. I cannot leave the store without at least seeing one mice once. So I always check if the packages of the products that I'm buying are open or something. Overall it is a great place for me to go buy baking products and kitchen tools, and professional cleaning products and specific thing you might need for the house. My boyfriend also loves going there to buy car cleaning and car related stuff. Just remember you have to be a member to the shop there, and you need to own a business to have a card. But if you don't have that and you know someone who has a makro card, they can take you there as a guest shopper. read more