Plus they have a generous condiment table where you can pile on the diced onions and mustard. Mmmmmm.

I shouldn't post when I'm hungry.

If you are not being paid enough to even meet basic needs, would you really go out of your way to provide anything extra in customer service that you didn't absolutely have to?

When all you have in your pocket is food stamps, you can't very well pull out a ten and say pay it forward. The Walton family is a Cancer in our society.

but I think the original Sam Walton would have a heart attack if he knows what happened to his original ideas for his store: slave wages, cheap chinese imported gimcrack trinkets, C-level executives hoarding up all the cash. I don't think even he had any intention of making such a dystopian consumer-based business.

10 bucks had to have been nearly an hours pay. My sister works at McD's and I know for a fact she'd never think of doing that, considering it would be against their policies to do so.

$23/hr retail... I wonder if anyone even comes close to comparing to that average in this industry.

I have been a Costco devotee for years - - in addition to an overall good shopping experience, I get my business and personal checks from them, and also I save a TON on printer ink because if you bring them your spent cartridges, they refill them for you! I buy all my electronics (and everything else I can, frankly) from them because their return policy is so generous (unlike the other retailers, they don't charge a restocking fee).

Can you tell I love them?

The more COSTCO, more worker friendly an area is, the higher the wages for all. Minimum here is over $9/hr. and likely to go up since this is not a 'right to work for less' state.

the starting salary for cashiers was 12 dollars. At a Walmart in the same area, my friend earned minimum wage plus 16 cents as a cashier at that time. It's a totally different world.

The Oregon based organic product company is not owned by Costco, they just sell their products there, among other places. Costco immediately removed the products from its stores and is attempting to contact members who purchased the products in recent months.

Any particular reason why you felt the need to come shit on Costco in a Costco appreciation thread?

cheap shot.

worship at the altar here.

But "cheap shot"? Ooooh, Costco is in pain from reading my post!

They are pretty good corporate citizens and I like to encourage such behavior.

after paying I picked up my two items to carry them out and one of the items slipped off the other and fell to the floor, spilling the contents. An employee rushed over and picked them all up. I offered to take what was left of the package but he told me to wait while he walked to the back of the store and fetched a new package for me.

I figured they probably have some experience with that happening due to not bagging items and idiots like me thinking they can just pick things up and carry them out.

Most generous.

Every time I think of Walmart, I'm reminded of that incident with Alice Walton, going Sigourney Weaver on the arresting officer. And I'm not exaggerating - I guess because that's such a trashy thing to do and say; not what you'd expect of Old Money.

New Money, yes - with them, anything goes.

I try to do this when ever I get a chance to. Thank you for sharing this story about Costco.

My husband insists on getting our veggies and lunch food there. I think their steaks are the best I've ever eaten and stopped going to steak houses that couldn't match Costco's quality. Hubby and I really like their business model and CEO. If Costco carries the item we need or want, he'd prefer to get it there and will look there first before shopping on-line. Love the employees there too. Friendly, helpful and consistent. We like that they are paid a livable wage WITH benefits like closing on holidays and vacation and sick pay. I've applied to work there and their starting pay in this town is $12.15 an hour.

I usually get the prime steaks, but the regular choice is great, too.

Because they're treated fairly, they're happy to make sure you're happy at Costco, too.

Costco <-

... in the workplace. I remember a time in my life where all businesses were run like Costco. Where the customer was always right. I don't live near a Costco, unfortunately, but if I did, I would be a member. My sister is a member where she lives and wouldn't shop anywhere else for things she can buy in bulk. She saves so much money, and comes home happy.

I visited one in Dallas (when I was evacuated from Hurricane Rita) and found it cleaner and the people nicer than the Sam's Club in my town.

The closest one to me is in Houston so it isn't worth it to get a membership (even though I always want to go in when I see one)

I could not get a lot of other places to do it, but with Costco, just a little paperwork was required.

There is no better store dollar for dollar.
I have bought food, furnaces, Toyotas, Ford trucks, computers,tires and all sorts of paper products from them over the years.
They are always first call for me and Jim Senegal is one hell of a fine human being.

http://www.costco.com/

One of the few bad things about Costco is that it heavily stocks the "overstocked" books of the likes of Hannity, Glen Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Laura Ingraham, etc., etc. and hardly ever gets a decent book from our side stocked there.

I think if enough of us buy one of the few decent books they've stocked recently like Scahill's book, it might send a message to those who are deciding on what books to sell, that their loyal core customer base is far more interested in books like Scahill's than the other right wing crap that sits in stacks.



For right wing books, I see that other DUers have noted the following actions happening...



http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8091474

One item to note is that I imagine it is highly more likely to see liberal's buying ebooks.

Come on DU'ers, someone give me a study, graphic, and/or report that backs up my assumptious allegation. Or that proves that assumptious is even a word.

MUCH cheaper than anywhere else and DELIVERED.

I am moving this week to take a new job and there is a Costco about an hour away. Yay!