Nope! Costcos business model is masquerade as a benevolent company that cares about its workers and treats customers fairly so they can sell more memberships while treating all the non public facing workers like cattle and giving a maximum of 2% annual raises to only the most sycophantic employees.
It’s all bullshit, just because the warehouse workers are paid and treated better at Costco than Amazon or Walmart does not make them one of the good guys.
Shit one of their largest shareholders is Blackrock.
That mentality leads to people supporting Amazon. If you give people nowhere good to go, they will give up and go to the most convenient thing. This world would benefit if everyone dropped Amazon and moved to Costco. It would not be perfect. It would be better. And better is good.
Sorry friend, I can’t in good faith let them keep pulling wool over peoples eyes. By all means keep shopping there if you need to economically, but they very much need you to believe they are different from the rest
Ok but they are different from the rest though. They treat their employees better, provide good products and services, and as far as I know are the only company who are even pretending to attempt to pass the tariff refunds along to their customers. It’s just not up to your ideal standard. Which is fine, we don’t live in a perfect world and should continue to push for the best.
Also their founder told the CEO “If you raise the price of the hot dog I will fucking kill you.”
Nope! Costcos business model is masquerade as a benevolent company that cares about its workers and treats customers fairly so they can sell more memberships while treating all the non public facing workers like cattle and giving a maximum of 2% annual raises to only the most sycophantic employees.
It’s all bullshit, just because the warehouse workers are paid and treated better at Costco than Amazon or Walmart does not make them one of the good guys.
Shit one of their largest shareholders is Blackrock.
“If not perfect then also not good.”
That mentality leads to people supporting Amazon. If you give people nowhere good to go, they will give up and go to the most convenient thing. This world would benefit if everyone dropped Amazon and moved to Costco. It would not be perfect. It would be better. And better is good.
Doesn’t it? The best could/should be better but that doesn’t change they are still the best.
Costco is publicly traded, anybody can buy their stock. Blackrock owning it should be irrelevant to public opinion of the company.
It’s also probably mostly BlackRock index funds. Which means tons of retail investors are part of this ownership.
Well, except that I’m theory, owning a lot of shares in a company gives you some leverage over that company to drive its policies and direction.
Ah come on lemme just have one man I’m begging you please. Just let me pretend a little longer
Friend, you can have all the men you want
Sorry friend, I can’t in good faith let them keep pulling wool over peoples eyes. By all means keep shopping there if you need to economically, but they very much need you to believe they are different from the rest
Ok but they are different from the rest though. They treat their employees better, provide good products and services, and as far as I know are the only company who are even pretending to attempt to pass the tariff refunds along to their customers. It’s just not up to your ideal standard. Which is fine, we don’t live in a perfect world and should continue to push for the best.
Also their founder told the CEO “If you raise the price of the hot dog I will fucking kill you.”
Is keeping the price of animal abuse products artificially low beneficial to the animals, the climate, or any of us though?
This thread is peak Lemmy.