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Posted by bookofjoe 1 day ago

Costco is the anti-Amazon(phenomenalworld.org)
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James_K 22 hours ago|
Sad that we don't see more high praise of simple things. Not exciting enough, I guess.
mschuster91 1 day ago||
> Amazon often negotiates delayed payment terms with suppliers, leaning on them to allow payment windows longer than the thirty-day industry norm.

Oh how I would wish for this crap to be banned. By law. Simply put, at the scale of "you are even allowed to sell at large volume to Amazon, Walmart, ..." you aren't on equal footing with Amazon. You are subservient.

Contract law still builds on the idea that b2b contracts are made between roughly equal parties because that was how business was done back 200 years ago, and thus there's much less legal protection than for b2c contracts.

This needs to change, and the sooner the better.

zeroonetwothree 1 day ago||
Why? Then we’d have to pay more to buy stuff.
fragmede 1 day ago|||
Because Amazon and Walmart, as the giants they are, aren't hurting for cash. If you're a small time vendor or buyer, those 30 days could be the difference between eating tonight or going hungry. Meanwhile. Amazon and Walmart could just pay it out of their reserves early and Jeff Bezos isn't going to go hungry. Also, why would prices go up?
mschuster91 1 day ago|||
Yeah, and? Redistribute all the wealth that goes to the stonk market to the people. Henry Ford figured that out a century ago - for a healthy economy, you need people to be able to afford stuff!
cute_boi 1 day ago||
I 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.

hammock 1 day ago||
“Costco is the anti-Amazon” Haha OK

Just wait until Amazon turns some of its warehouses into Costco-style retail stores…

forrestthewoods 1 day ago||
Costco is way too damn crowded. There needs to be 2x or 3x the number of stores. It is a great deal. But an utterly miserable shopping experience.
klvino 1 day ago||
Comparatively, as I have both a Costco and Sam's Club memberships, the floorplans on Costco stores are much more efficient. Both stores get crowded but Sams suffers from poor design which makes traffic worse. Although, Sams does compensate with a smoother checkout experience.
cube00 21 hours ago||
Costco checkouts are a nightmare, a giant queue on one side reaching back to the deli while people try to "zip merge" in from the other side in several smaller queues.

At one point they had the pallets at the front aligned so you could just queue behind a single register and then they changed it so the pallets at the front form a long wall facing the checkouts forcing you to join the checkout queues from either side.

zeroonetwothree 1 day ago|||
Part of the reason their prices are low is they are very efficient at using their total hours open.

I often just get it delivered to my house to avoid the crowds though.

pizzafeelsright 1 day ago||
That's because of "them". If they weren't here.

Them is a universal variable you already injected.

vayup 1 day ago||
And yet, Amazon Prime is inspired by Costco membership.
lowbloodsugar 1 day ago||
Personal convenience vs societal cost? Let’s have both ffs. Fucking luddites. Same kind of folks arguing against AI because it will take their shitty low paying job. No post-scarcity future for us! We want to work in debt servitude forever!
investmuse 2 hours ago||
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