I guess I’ll buy two memberships now.
Upgrade for sometimes free shipping, deliverable to any address. And car insurance prices with that membership are much better than anything else I’ve been quoted.
oh poopy! DM me the 2nd member card!
I feel owned by proxy
I mean, if Costco said they were busting unions to bring you better prices, would you be mad?
I’m sure this person feels strongly that the tariffs are valuable to reshoring and having actual jobs, so they stand with the tariffs and against their opponents, for a long term benefit even if it means paying taxes now.
Or it could be an Indian troll account.
Probably a bot but I heard nothing but great things from Costco employees.
Well yeah, I’m not saying Costco is busting unions or bad to their employees. Its just an example.
I personally know current employees in Costco IT that say vastly different things. They are good to warehouse workers because it’s the most visible
IIRC the president of Costco said something like, he viewed any attempt by employees to unionize as a failure of management to treat employees fairly. And, well, he’s right; when employers treat employees in a way that they believe is fair, they don’t feel a need to join a union.
Which is the entire game Costco plays, a national retail workers union would still be vastly better for even Costco’s warehouse workers and those across the board. Costco wants to make sure they remain in control and still maintain a “better than the best” reputation.
That’s not necessarily true. In order to remain viable, a company needs to make a profit, or at least break even. If Costco is already at the point where they’re giving as much to their workers as they can while remaining viable as a corporation, then a national retail workers’ union isn’t going to help Costco employees directly.
This is a ‘feature’ of capitalism, and has a lot to do with the way that national and global economic events play out. An individual corporation may or may not be able to do much about the market conditions that it exists in.
I can assure you Costco does not pay their workers as much as they can. They pay the lowest amount they can while still appearing to be decent.
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Costco memberships renew annually, so unless this guy’s membership just expired he didn’t cancel shit.
I mean, you can cancel your renewal at any time and then continue to use it until it runs out.
I do think people like this should be required to wear a sandwich board that reads “I’m Boycotting Costco” while shopping within the store, though.
There’s no way that’s not a troll account. Their tagline is SS for god’s sake. MAGAs aren’t that bright.
Clearly showing how smooth brained he is. Look at this projection. https://xcancel.com/ss_scmb/status/1992330534064918929#m “Non US accounts always in our politics” want to bet its a russian bot account?
Staff Sergeant?
Normally abbreviated “SSgt” or “SSG”
Idk I know people don’t always understand the implications when picking their user names, even if they do hold fascist views. And sometimes they do.
less crowded. yay
EVERY COSTCO around here could use a few less visitors!! I don’t even understand how they keep items in stock there.
It took me 20 minutes just to return my vehicle battery core for a whooping $15
I mean I don’t wish that on them but that place is always packed around here.
I recently had a freaking reserved appointment time at a Costco tire center to fix a nail I picked up. I still had to wait 2 hours, despite the appointment.
A tire patch kit is less than $10. You could have fixed that in your driveway in a few minutes.
It’s free at Costco, covered by the warranty on the tires they sell. I also just knew the tire had a slow leak, and didn’t know it was a nail until they finished the repair. If they weren’t so busy they would have finished before I finished my shopping.
Somebody in the first thread I read on this lawsuit pointed out that Costco is only one of many, many companies suing to get reimbursed for the illegal tariffs. The fact that Costco keeps getting singled out smacks of manipulation.
Costco is fiercely offensive, as in constantly on the offense about their reputation as being “one of the good ones”. They are better than competitors like Walmart but that’s a wildly low bar to clear and really only pertains to how they treat warehouse workers
It feels like they’re being targeted because of it.
Because they are, they pay their workers a fair wage, give them good benefits, and give consumers reasonable prices when nobody else will. Pretty sure the entirety of the rest of the industry wants them to go out of business
Costco also didn’t do the “yay we don’t have to pretend to care about minorities anymore” rug pull that Target and others did, where they went out of their way to signal the dismantling of whatever DEI stuff they had previously implemented.
And a long-ass hot dog and drink for $1.50, or a slice of pepperoni pizza big enough to be a meal by itself for $2.
Costco is fantastic and I’ll die on this hill wearing a Kirkland shirt.
Are any of the others as well known?
narrator.: They would in fact, continue to shop at costco.
Auspicious username, Mr. SS. One less fat fuck whining about the onion slicer in the food court.
The tarrifs are dumb as fuck but Costco isn’t great, they paid the tarrifs and upped prices and will probably get money back but all the consumers will get no money back so it’s like the US consumer paid twice, once in price hikes from tarrifs and in tax money to pay Costco back for the tarrifs so Costco is just gonna win.
Your summary is probably how a lot of US businesses handled this but I don’t think this is quite how Costco responded to the tariffs. They really seemed to try to foot the bill for the tariffs where they could. Especially on produce and staples.
Of specific note from your article is them reporting holding food prices in place during shareholder updates.
Costco is a business, and so they’re not your friend. But they’re one of the few businesses that seems to recognize that long term customer goodwill is more valuable than a few percent on next quarters balance sheet, so they don’t deserve disdain either.
THEY ALSO treaty thier employees pretty well to, they stay there for long term, and i heard its quite hard to get hired because of that.
Also a good point!
Even the best company has an intrinsic unequal power dynamic with their workers, and competing interests.
That doesn’t mean that a company that has a policy of trying to be fair should be treated with the same attitude as one that doesn’t, it just means that their employees still would benefit from a union, and hopefully the union just has an easier time, since negotiations as equals are easier with a willing company.Every anti-capitalist sentiment can be true of every company, while we still acknowledge that the ire doesn’t need to be directed uniformly.
look, I’m willing to pay more for groceries if it means others have to pay more. Fuck you, I got mine. Or something?
