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jfz9580m

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35. Understood

Reply to usedtobedemgurl (Reply #31)

Mon Dec 15, 2025, 08:43 AM

Dec 15

It’s just someone has to be a wet blanket in any party on a lefty board and so I thought I would be one here

…I know..I know..if someone else had jumped in I would have shut up. I am trying new things lately .

It’s almost our id as an authentic community! I don’t like doing it, but it feels obligatory almost. I didn’t in the other Costco thread where someone else did it..

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It is almost like goodwill is an asset: Costco [View all] applegrove Dec 14 OP

Decent human beings would bargain in good faith with their employees instead of pushing back on an organizing campaign. WhiskeyGrinder Dec 14 #1

You do realize they pay the highest in retail. Henry203 Dec 14 #14

And? People organize around things other than wages. Bosses hate to give up any control. WhiskeyGrinder Dec 14 #15

Go workers! wolfie001 Dec 15 #32

For Christmas, I'd like to see a wave of DEshitifcation. Girard442 Dec 14 #2

So DEI isn't hurting their business ? JI7 Dec 14 #3

DEI is just another way of categorizing resources. haele Dec 14 #17

The Costcos here are always packed full of shoppers IronLionZion Dec 14 #4

From my former life surfered Dec 14 #5

Beat Me To It! ProfessorGAC Dec 14 #7

Were you an accountant, too? surfered Dec 14 #9

No I Was Not ProfessorGAC Dec 14 #16

Then you were smarter than I was surfered Dec 14 #20

The MBA Was Not A Choice ProfessorGAC Dec 14 #22

I remember learning that in my Bookkeeping class in high school. Ilsa Dec 14 #8

CPA firms used pencils and columnar pads into the 80s surfered Dec 14 #10

When I went to work for Bill Gates, Sr.'s law firm in 1977 we were using carbon paper and electric typewriters. OMGWTF Dec 14 #19

A long ways. We prepared tax returns by hand. The early software required an IBM 34 surfered Dec 14 #21

Back in the very early 70s I took a business machines class in junior college LogDog75 Dec 14 #28

Mine as well be the Rosetta Stone to me wolfie001 Dec 15 #33

That strategy worked for the United States for over seventy years after the end of WWII. ChicagoTeamster Dec 14 #6

It is good for their business. Costco knows their shopper demographics extremely well. paleotn Dec 14 #11

Costco makes most of it's profits from membership fees LogDog75 Dec 14 #26

I agree LogDog75 Dec 14 #27

Love this! karin_sj Dec 14 #12

Ha! Good one! Joinfortmill Dec 14 #13

Imagine... Ford_Prefect Dec 14 #18

Wild Concept! Love my Costco DEI! 💙 Cha Dec 14 #23

good will iemanja Dec 14 #24

We are buying Costco gift cards as Christmas gifts. Maru Kitteh Dec 14 #25

Costco is a classy place. The hardworking people who have helped me cheerful and smart dai13sy Dec 14 #29

Don't really know much about Costco jfz9580m Dec 15 #30

I often encourage folks to use Costco as a pharmacy. usedtobedemgurl Dec 15 #31

Understood jfz9580m Dec 15 #35

EXCEPT for Costco's triple blade refill cartidges razors; a reseller snatched them up. GreenWave Dec 15 #34

Yep, Wish the stock would split uponit7771 Dec 15 #36

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