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Re: I want to live like Costco people

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Post by relaxing »

antonymoose wrote: post #622
relaxing wrote: post #493

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Then why keep signing up? You clearly don’t need the bulk quantities, so why put up with that inconvenience? To justify the subscription I made the commitment to buy all my necessities there that I could, and in return I get back the equivalent of a month’s worth of free groceries.

That’s my point, it didn’t work and we did quit shopping there. The prices never really worked out in our favor and the experience of finding a cool product we did truly love only to find it not stocked the following month is awful. It really makes me wonder how astroturfed the brand is.

Out of curiosity, where do you shop instead? Around me the prices are better than any other stores except Aldi.

Re: I want to live like Costco people

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Post by prmoustache »

dotancohen wrote: post #321
prmoustache wrote: post #304

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A Tesla is a poorly built expensive semi-luxury car.

The first Teslas were poorly built expensive semi-luxury cars. The current Model 3 and Model Y are properly built competitively priced cars with many luxury features (such as huge trunks, rear climate control, all wheel drive, etc) and gadgets (Netflix on huge touchscreen, self-driving, etc).

They are still out of reach as new to a lot of people. Let's call that premium market instead of luxury.

Re: I want to live like Costco people

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margalabargala wrote: post #229
throw0101c wrote: post #222

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> It’s a foreign concept for many of us who seek out the best product or deals for each purchase and will change brands in an instant if another company releases a better product. Perhaps those folks found certain brands regularly have decent (enought) quality and stick with them, and/or they have a personal aesthetic that they've developed that may be 'limited' to certain brands. Some folks also don't want to go thr…

> Some folks also don't want to go through the effort of constantly/regularly (re-)evaluating things: they've found that Brand X gives them enough quality/value, and have stopped looking This argument stops holding water when those same people start judging other people for not also using Brand X.

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Re: I want to live like Costco people

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Post by adolfojp »

insane_dreamer wrote: post #593
adolfojp wrote: post #370

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These days I just go to Sam's Club. Hear me out. It's right next to Costco, literally in the same mall. Products are kind of shittier but they're good enough. But good enough is better for me because the rest of the experience is just better. Walking through Sam's Club is often a breeze whereas through Costco I waddle like a penguin sandwiched between a waddle of penguins, each competing for enough space and quiet an…

Do they even have Sam's Club in the PNW? I've never seen one. But even if they did, no way am I shopping at Sam's Club for the same reason that I'm never shopping at its parent company, Walmart. Walmart arguably did more to destroy small town America than any other company, and it also treats retail employees like shit. On the other hand, Costco is one of the best places to work as a retail employee (which is why the…

Not shopping at Sam's Club because its parent company destroys small town America is a perfectly reasonable sociopolitical stance so I respect it. Bravo.

But if you're still shopping at Costco then you don't really care about the effects that these big box stores have on small town economies.

You're just into performative activism.

But Costco does have better working conditions so I'll give you that.

Re: I want to live like Costco people

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Post by redeeman »

lurkshark wrote: post #544
jatora wrote: post #533

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I dont understand this. All Costco memberships are functionally $65 at most. How is this beyond literally anyone in America? Am I so out of touch? Why would corner stores have to pool together to get a membership when they absolutely negate the cost of the membership from the cashback? You only have to spend roughly $6,500/year for the executive membership of $130 to cost zero. That seems like something a corner stor…

To maybe add some framing, 37% of Americans don’t have enough cash to cover a $400 unexpected expense. Obviously $400 > $65 but I think it puts some perspective on how tight cash flow is for a good chunk of the population. https://www.federalreserve.gov/consumerscommunities/sheddata...

and what iphone model do these americans have?

I would be very very surprised if there were not adjustments that could be made that would significantly uplift these peoples situation

Re: I want to live like Costco people

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Post by hansbo »

Scroll_Swe wrote: post #627
Aurornis wrote: post #8

> Something about the whole thing always registered to me as, like, lame—too normcore, too boring, perhaps even too cheugy to an informed and taste-driven millennial ur-consumer like me. The kinds of brands I like to buy aren’t what they sell at Costco Good example of how people can build identities through their brand choices and purchasing habits. It’s a foreign concept for many of us who seek out the best product…

Where? I feel like logos are 100% done now. The best clothes here in Sweden, from our own Swedish brands, have no logos. And have not been for a long time. Scandinavian minimalism and quality is the best. Asia is the one obsessed with brands. Europe is not. We care about quality.

But quality is strongly associated with brand. Showing off the logo might be taboo, but everyone can tell the difference between an IKEA kitchen and a Funkiskök.

Re: I want to live like Costco people

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Post by JackFr »

com2kid wrote: post #595
defrost wrote: post #551

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No. Try harder. Gourmand still, in large parts of the English speaking world, carries large overtones of excessive eating under the guise of quality eating. If I were to make a guess, I suspect that in your part of the world some of the French persuasion made frequent reference to those that overstack their plates as gourmands and it has since locally become synonymous with gourmet as the troll escaped them.

American here, only every heard it meaning someone who likes fancy food. Never heard of it being a fat person, except in so far as the word is old fashioned enough to conjure the image of a fancy dressed fat person eating fancy food.

I have lived in the United States for all of my 59 years and have never heard or seen it used as meaning anything other than glutton.

Which is really no better evidence than you offer.

Re: I want to live like Costco people

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Post by jhbadger »

antonvs wrote: post #587
cogman10 wrote: post #365

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> There’s nothing good or desirable about any of it unless you’ve been indoctrinated into thinking that. Ah, that's too harsh. Sugar water tastes good. Fast food is made quickly and it tastes good. There's no "indoctrination" that happens to make people realize that. I agree that coke has 0 nutritional value. However, the flavor is agreeable to most people.

You were addicted as a child to something unhealthy, and that's why it's indoctrination. > However, the flavor is agreeable to most people. Only because most people have undergone that indoctrination. You can't imagine that people could try Coke and think "what is this ridiculously sugary shit?" The reason you can't imagine that? Indoctrination.

Coke is amazingly popular around the entire world, though. You can go to China, India, South Africa, and find Coke for sale and selling well even though they have their own traditional beverages. Obviously sugar water isn't very good for you -- it's liquid candy, but the idea that people only drink it if they've been "indoctrinated" isn't very likely.

Re: I want to live like Costco people

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Post by thomascgalvin »

redeeman wrote: post #635
lurkshark wrote: post #544

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To maybe add some framing, 37% of Americans don’t have enough cash to cover a $400 unexpected expense. Obviously $400 > $65 but I think it puts some perspective on how tight cash flow is for a good chunk of the population. https://www.federalreserve.gov/consumerscommunities/sheddata...

and what iphone model do these americans have? I would be very very surprised if there were not adjustments that could be made that would significantly uplift these peoples situation

> and what iphone model do these americans have?

A smartphone is not an optional component of modern life. You need a smartphone to apply for many minimum wage jobs now

Re: I want to live like Costco people

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Post by kakacik »

Aurornis wrote: post #8

> Something about the whole thing always registered to me as, like, lame—too normcore, too boring, perhaps even too cheugy to an informed and taste-driven millennial ur-consumer like me. The kinds of brands I like to buy aren’t what they sell at Costco Good example of how people can build identities through their brand choices and purchasing habits. It’s a foreign concept for many of us who seek out the best product…

Man, you must move in some shitty circles, no polite way of saying that. The other option is that its self-projection, I've met folks like that who overanalyzed to death what they thought others were thinking, usually being completely wrong since few other folks have OCDish personalities like them.

This is not how we generally work in Europe, but you were not precise of your destinations. Life in 2026 ain't some Victorian novel.

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