Not in costco, but it happened to me with lidl in europe.
Went with my wife and kids to get icecream a hot summer day, and we came back with a swimming pool, one of those you have to kinda build. Not big enough to swim but big enough for a bunch of people without being crowded and sit covered by water entirely.
Long story short, we cannot have such pool on our shitty uneven ground in the yard. At least we bought it with 50% discount so whatever.
Also, we’ll refund that kayak for any reason. Including no reason
Source: I work in the Return to Vendor department of a Costco.
Here’s a kayak we’ve researched and you can be reasonably sure it’s decent. Costco buyers rarely fuck up at last compared to everyone else. I trust them.
I used to never get out for less than $100. In my last place I lived across the street from a Costco and it changed everything. It wasn’t a special trip anymore and I could just pop in and grab lunch, it was great.
I call fake, in a country where it is not possible to walk to a costco, one simply doesn’t go to the shop just for toothpaste.
You didn’t go there for a tube of toothpaste, you went there for a trunkful of toothpaste. You need to be well-stocked in case of emergencies.
It’s not that I want to stockpile, but Costco will literally sell me 6 months of toothpaste for the same price that my local shop will give me 1 month of toothpaste for. That’s just too big of a markup for me to handle.
Or maybe I went for the kayak and ended up with the world’s largest jar of pickles.
I went in for toilet paper and spent 200 dollars.
The kayak is so you have someplace to put your pallet of toothpaste.
Do people actually go to Costco for one thing tho… except maybe the food court? Can’t imagine myself doing a quick grab n go like I would at a CVS or 7-11.
I live in a rural area and my closest Costco is over an hour away. I go once or twice a month, usually when my husband is in town for work, we get everything we’ll need for that month since we’re not going often. If I were closer I’d go all the time because I love it there and I’m one of the lucky ones, mine is never crowded.
Sometimes I’ll run in for just cat litter and a bag of coffee (the local ones carry a regional brand of whole bean coffee that’s okay for the price).
We have both Sam’s and Costco (we generally get different things at each), and they are just a couple of blocks apart, so if our bi-monthly shopping is heavy to one, I might only need a couple of items at the other.
I actually do sometimes depending what it is. For instance I’m low on kosher salt and we cook a ton so we only get it at Costco, I’m gonna stop by later this week for a box.
Be careful, you need a source of iodine in your diet, and hipster salts that taste exactly the same don’t have it.
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.
Dude.
I work in a Canadian Costco.
You get a dollar an hour raise every 1040 hours worked. Which at full time works out to every 6 months. So $2/hr in raises a year.
Next month I top out on the pay scale, after 4.5 years of employment. My wage will be $34.40/hr.
At that point my raises do go down to $1/hr per year.
In 2 years I start getting the long term employee payouts, which is $3,000 every 6 months.
What the fuck are you talking about? Oh, and if need be I can back this all up with photos
“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.
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.
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.
Costco is nice but there are too many people in there. Sams Club is more chill even if they are Walmart.
In most respects sams club is just worse than costco in most ways.
