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[–] 114 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Welcome to Costco I love you

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  • [–] 102 points 3 months ago (8 children)
  • [–] 24 points 3 months ago* (5 children)

    At this point they should build a second floor in the Costco to save some horizontal space

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I thought that was the joke. I saw Costco, in a news story, was building 2 stories where the top is Residential zoning. This is the internet so it could've been fake but it sounded like a good idea to have mixed housing. My apartment would only have Kirkland products if I didn't have to go anywhere

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    I've long yearned to see dead malls turned into mixed zoning areas. Turn a section into cheap studio apartments, slap in a grocery store, basically make a micro-city. I'm at the point in my life where I need my own space, but when I was a young 20 something, not having to get in my car to go places would have been a fucking godsend.

    Also because it is my mission to shill Kirkland whenever I can, their granola bars are insane value for price. 64 for like 9 bucks. 100 calories, low sugar, very damn tasty. The dishwasher pods suck ass though, don't get those. Residue for days.

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  • [–] 28 points 3 months ago (4 children)
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    It’s a good place to work and takes pretty good care of its employees including good wages.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    What really drives it home for me is the nametags. They say "employee since (year)" and I've seen a ff of people who have been there for 15-20 years. Meanwhile, find me anyone who has worked at McDonald's for more than one year and hasn't given up on life.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 months ago

    Don't worry scro, plenty of tards are living kick ass lives. My first wife is tarded, and she's a pilot.

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  • [–] 27 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    They’ll need a public transport system. Not for anything as un-American as bringing the carless to Costco, but for the motorists who lucked out and had to park in the outer reaches of the car park.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Or they could just make the aisles between the shelves wider and make the whole thing drive-in

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    What I see lacking is a dedicated way to get all the trucks and trains in for the supply chain.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    The sad irony here is that Costco is by far one of the lesser evil companies, and so thus, more likely to be accepted and this become a reality.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago

    except its going to be a giant datacenter instead.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    Welcome to Costco - I love you.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (12 children)

    I'm 50+ and have never seen a Costco in the wild.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (10 children)

    Where do you live? And do you never travel? It's so odd to never see a Costco.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    I live in a big city. Walmarts everywhere. But for whatever reason Costcos were only built on the other side of town. Same with Ikea and Five Guys. I've never been to those. They're here but it'd be going way out of my way to hunt these places down.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    When asked if you travel you mention they're clear... on the other side of your city. I guess that's a no. Being 50+, I'd suggest seeing some of the world (or at least some other cities in your own country) before the end. Live a little.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    Respectfully and curiously: How did you explore digitally, and end up here, on Lemmy, of all places, but haven't ever seen a Costco?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (6 children)

    If I understand you correctly, I've seen Costco in Idiocracy and on the internet and have looked at them via Google Street view. But I've never seen one with my own eyes in the real world.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    And that's insane, unless you lived in a country that they don't exist.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Where do you live? The nearest one to me is 10 miles away. Within that radius there's like at least a dozen Walmart one of which is within walking distance.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I doubt there are a dozen Walmarts in 10 miles. Also 10 miles is an insanely small radius.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago*

    Cars bigger than houses. Gas pavilions as tall as a skyscrapers. Is this heaven?

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    You gotta love how Lemmy shits its pants when someone posts something AI related, and then someone posts some stupid ass meme generated with AI and no one calls it out. 😂

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    But but I don't have a membership!!!!

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Costco membership will be added as a Constitutional right

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    A public-option retail store sounds awesome actually. Imagine all the basic necessities produced and sold at cost: staple foods, simple clothes, basic housewares, etc.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    Woah you do have a point actually. Although afaik, being commodities, the margins in those markets are already quite small as is

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Even slim margins add up, and basic commodity retail is borderline rent-seeking. Stocking soap because people buy soap isn't really adding any value.

    Stocking fancy soaps, scented soaps, extra delicate soaps, soaps with fun designs, etc. adds some value either through the production of differentiated products or through deliberately curating a selection of differentiated products. But just selling regular soap isn't really a problem suited for the greater market.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago
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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    It almost looks mesmerising at this scale

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Need to add some Waymos to pick up customers from their parking spots and take them to the building entrance and back.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    How much fresh water did you waste making this slop

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Good Lord those cars are massive!

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Someone played SimCity on datura.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    I love you!

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    This is peak borderlands vibe

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    This is the type of dystopian art/fantasy that makes my imagination go rampant.

    Hell no from me though

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Breathtaking

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    They have a time machine there.

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