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My favorite Costco is in Iceland: a place where things are normally absurdly expensive, and Costco Iceland is merely somewhat expensive. Arrive, stock up on food for a week (to supplement with restaurants, but some savings). Costco Japan would be really fun to visit too (haven't yet). Also Costco + Internet (Amazon, B+H, etc.) are essentially 99% of my shopping here in Puerto Rico. Visiting Costco, Walmart, etc. imme…
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What’s wrong with someone coming to HN for the comments? The headline allows for commenting about that subject. For all you or I know, this story has most of its upvotes by people who want to talk about or read comments about Costco, not the story of the article.
> What’s wrong with someone coming to HN for the comments? I don't mind reading the comments without reading the story. I mind people writing comments without reading the story. > most (...) want to talk about (...) Costco, not the story of the article. And that is incredibly shallow. If I wanted to read senseless comments based on the title of an piece, I'd just prompt GPT-3 for random wikipedia entries.
Edit: I’m not sure senseless comments even correlate more with not reading an article.
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Just buying gasoline at Costco is more than enough to pay back the membership fee in California. It’s about 50¢/gallon cheaper than other fuel in the same city.
In Minnesota it is about $0.20 cheaper than the discount gas places. I'd definately pay $2.60 more to avoid the crazy people jamming Costco's parking lots trying to get that 20 cents off. I've narrowly avoided many people going anywhere they could at ramming speed while I was visiting a neighboring business. I now avoid their neighboring businesses on every weekend as I value my life and car to avoid that whole scene…
It might have something to do with the age of their pumps. My Costco just put in new pumps and the long lines go really fast. I don’t know for sure what changed, but more people are tapping to pay now (or using the Costco keychain chip) and the pumps flow twice as fast than before. It has really made a noticeable difference. Before, I would spend 5-10 minutes in the line as well as pumping, and now it’s less than five minutes total when it’s busy.
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Just buying gasoline at Costco is more than enough to pay back the membership fee in California. It’s about 50¢/gallon cheaper than other fuel in the same city.
Costco gas is also Top Tier branded, and I trust Costco to maintain their equipment and tanks and source better quality gas than other independently owned stations.
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It’s not new and that strategy doesn’t always work. I tried to get a hotdog in SF in like 2014 and they wouldn’t let me through. When I asked about purchasing alcohol he said that was allowed but they would have an employee escort me to the liquor and then checkout to ensure I couldn’t go to the food court.
That seems like a dbag employee. Possible that sort of person will make your time difficult regardless of the official rules
I think one of the things in becoming an adult is understanding the trauma of your parents. This was a nice article.
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> What’s wrong with someone coming to HN for the comments? I don't mind reading the comments without reading the story. I mind people writing comments without reading the story. > most (...) want to talk about (...) Costco, not the story of the article. And that is incredibly shallow. If I wanted to read senseless comments based on the title of an piece, I'd just prompt GPT-3 for random wikipedia entries.
GPT-3 comments of any kind would certainly be incredibly shallow. Comments from actual grown people are different, even if it’s just based off domain + headline + a possible skim. Edit: I’m not sure senseless comments even correlate more with not reading an article.
Let me try in another way: I don't think that wading through tens of comments saying "I like/love/dislike Costco" or "I prefer Wegmans/Kirkland/whatever" is the type of thing that hits the mark for being a place that "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity".
This would be for boring conversation already if the topic at hand was a discussion about retail stores, but it's made even worse because the post itself has so many more interesting things to be talked about, that engaging in this type of shallow talk becomes a nuisance to the ones that actually made just a bit of effort to read the piece and are ready for a more interesting conversation.
Haven't read the piece yet, but I definitely will - for a long time I would like to understand why people are so enamored with Costco. I recently joined because they have some good food that is hard or more expensive to find elsewhere, but that's about it. To me it's just a store. Outside of the US/Canada I've never seen people evangelize a store so much.
New Zealand is getting our first store in a couple of months and people are obsessed with it. Stories in the media nearly every week. Long queues for membership. A lot of this is because the local Supermarket Duopoly avoids competing on price and makes great profits. People are looking forward to cutting their costs and also a flow-on as the supermarkets cut their prices a little to compete. Similar to IKEA which is…
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GPT-3 comments of any kind would certainly be incredibly shallow. Comments from actual grown people are different, even if it’s just based off domain + headline + a possible skim. Edit: I’m not sure senseless comments even correlate more with not reading an article.
Are you taking literally something that I wrote just for rhetorical effect? Let me try in another way: I don't think that wading through tens of comments saying "I like/love/dislike Costco" or "I prefer Wegmans/Kirkland/whatever" is the type of thing that hits the mark for being a place that "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity". This would be for boring conversation already if the topic at hand was a discussion a…
I am a first generation person, but I didn’t find the article interesting. I skipped all comment threads about the story once I saw they were similarly uninteresting to me. I enjoyed the Costco comment threads. A Costco opened up near me this year so I care about that. I don’t begrudge the people commenting about the story though.