Costco is the anti-Amazon
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Costco is the anti-Amazon
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#2Highly recommend the Acquired podcast and their Costco episode if people want to dive deeper into the history of this company.
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#3I'm surprised e-commerce is still under 17 percent.
It makes me want to check my purchasing habits to see if I'm around that mark.
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#4Whenever someone says America can do great things, I don't think of battleships, fighter jets, or AI models, I think of Costco.
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#5Highly recommend the Acquired podcast and their Costco episode if people want to dive deeper into the history of this company.
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#6I'm surprised e-commerce is still under 17 percent. It makes me want to check my purchasing habits to see if I'm around that mark.
Cars & car parts, food, gas and clothes are still purchased almost exclusively in person. Those are each a massive percentage of spending.
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#7Costco is mostly food, clothes, furniture, other large things, and auto services, which generally you don't get from Amazon even if you aren't a Costco member. The points about less choice more apply to like Costco vs grocery stores or Walmart. And I do like Costco, similar low-choice reason I like Trader Joe's even though Costco is its own league.
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#8They would be , in their own way, competing against "each other"? , with different models to get the product to customer .
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#9I'm surprised e-commerce is still under 17 percent. It makes me want to check my purchasing habits to see if I'm around that mark.
Cars & car parts, food, gas and clothes are still purchased almost exclusively in person. Those are each a massive percentage of spending. https://www.census.gov/retail/marts/www/marts_current.pdf
That tracks. I wouldn't trust e-gas either.
Seriously though, I was thinking on how I had to stop and get cat litter, milk, and cereal on my way home today when I read what you posted. While I get some consumables online; pet food, filters for my odd-sized vent, and until recently Hello Fresh; I mostly buy consumables in person.
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#10I don’t know why people like Costco so much. BJ’s Wholesale is much better and offers more variety. It seems mostly suitable for carnivores.
That being said their refund and the way their employees is great though. I would prefer walmart if they treat their employee better and give better pay.