Every company is evil. My bad.
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Costco pizza for $10 or hotdog and soda for $1.50 are pretty solid for poor people and you don’t even have to have a membership or go inside.
@least low wage workers are biodegradable
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Thx. Didn’t know that. I’ll throw some in my cart next time I shop there.
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I mean, I’ll take your word for it but in the end I don’t really give a shit what’s motivating their policies, generous return policies are a big plus in my book, regardless of whether it’s because Costco wants to be my friend or because they just figured out that they make more money in the end by having that sort of policy.
you realize that efficiency increases they drive filter out beyond their warehouse doors, right?
There is no ethical consumption under capitalism
This is what passes for “efficiency” from people who have inordinate power in the market. My business has always had to compete with SolarCity (now Tesla Solar) which has been able to lose hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Fortunately they are sooooooo inefficient that it’s still possible to compete with them.
Wait until they expand the solar business to Mars. Then you’re in trouble, mister.
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Yes, as JT eloquently has stated, just their market differentiating “return whatever you want, whenever you want” policy alone is horrendous in practice and the consumer likely has no idea of the abusive practices they are engaged in when they use it.
The consumer doesn’t care. Their role in this opera is to consume. To expect them to worry about the possible impact on wages of employees of manufacturers while saving $1 on a package of ankle-hi’s seems unreasonable at best and probably untenable in practice anyway.
Confession: am decades from econ 101 and admit to not having any grasp of the nuances of this discussion but have appreciated it anyways
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I’m not sure how you guys think the return policy is responsible for the cost savings. they’re obviously in direct opposition.
for Johnny, if your point is that Coscto is unpleasant to deal with for suppliers, OK? That’s tangental (at best) to the arguments that shopping at costco is some sort of faustian bargain that will end with us all hooked up to the matrix human battery thing.
an aspirin doesn’t cost $5
I suspect a number of posts were deleted and/or lost in the excision. It’s not making a whole lot of sense.
Like, @pvn’s original point seemed to be that the root of the problem is a great many people at Costco and Sockco and Widgetco have more money than God and if they didn’t, the price of socks at Costco and tea in China wouldn’t matter. To which I was like fuck yeah brother.