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Eating at the Costco Food Court Will Now Require A Membership
- Thread starter Walter White Walker
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IIRC correctly all the margins are in membership fees. Their model prices and times shipments and sales so there's no wasted inventory, but they barely make any profit on that. The board frequently complains about having to make the five dollar rotisserie chickens, but the guy insists they must keep making them because it increases membership visits.
I define exploitation as unfair or paltry wages for labor, unskilled or otherwise.
Paying a living wage with benefits isn't exploitation by any metric outside of those pushing for pure socialism, which is as fundamentally a flawed economic concept as pure capitalism. The best models are those that find an equilibrium between the two and ensure that people who work hard and generate wealth for others have the ability to share in at least some of those dividends.
There are ways to practice an ethical form of capitalism; we're just not particularly good at doing that here in the states.
Why the fuck would you go to Costco to eat when you live in Daytona Beach, wtf is wrong with you?
Sounds good too me. I think the costco food court is garbage tier though so It doesn't affect my eating habits. However as a member I do feel only members should have access to the perks of the store...i mean thats the whole point right??
Not me. I blame the effects of late-stage hot dog digestion on late-stage capitalism.
Yup, those $5 chickens are a essential. We get a couple whenever we actually go shopping inside.
Can you use a US Costco membership in Japan? Last time I was in Hiroshima I wanted to go there, but I wasn't sure if it would work.
Yeah dude the membership applies to more than just the food court (and you know that), but keep waving the corporate banner.
The ups and downs of capitalism aside, I have no problem allowing non-members access to the food.
I'd even pay a bit more if it meant letting poor people get grub.
I'd even pay a bit more if it meant letting poor people get grub.
Because Costco is the only place with cheap food? I can go to my nearby Quik Trip and get 2 hotdogs for only $2.49. That's an even better deal.
I'm not sure what your point is here, are you suggesting that Costco needs to let non members use its service as some form of essential community benefit?
Bro, you're bringing up an extreme situation as to why Costco should be obligated to sell their fucking hotdogs to non-members when they're a membership club, and when people can buy hotdogs at the fucking store for far less. And then you keep ratcheting up the story as to why people should be allowed to hang out all day and just eat their samples.
You seem to be mistaking Costco with something it's not.
You hear that poor people? If it's not a soup kitchen or charity I guess you don't deserve anything. Late stage capitalism is awesome!
EDIT: Why not just raise the price on the hotdogs for non-members, actually? Why the total ban?
Get the fuck out of here with this bullshit. That is clearly not what I said.
Poor people can get cheap food like hotdogs for cheaper at a fucking grocery store.
Wouldn't that just mean the poor people would also have to pay more? Because they're not going to let members pay more than non-members.
Ok dude, whatever. We're just gonna keep spinning the wheels on this topic and I see exactly where you stand on this and we're both unwilling to budge. Take it easy out there.
You're talking to someone that whines in the stock market thread, and is over joyed by Biden victories. They literally could not give a shit about actual poor people.
We obviously need to just have everyone disclose their total net worth before being allowed to comment on anything. When you develop the tech, sell it, sorry GIVE it to Costco so they can use it to determine if someone deserves the ability to purchase a $1.50 hot dog without having a membership.
It is correct that the membership fees are the profit center for the whole company.
That said, I wouldn't at all assume that they lose money by selling a hot dog for $1.50 to a non-member, as so many people in this thread are basing their argument around. As many of those same people have also described, those same hot dogs are sold in multipacks in the store for a much lower price, after all. It's the same thing with the pizza: some people are arguing that selling their pizza to non-members is creating some sort of massive money sink that Costco is addressing, while others are claiming that this change is no big deal since their pizza is not that much cheaper than a pizza from any other restaurant. I have difficulty squaring those two perspectives.
To me this move seems more intended to encourage new memberships rather than prevent some sort of unsustainable loss.
Right, saying that a membership club should be allowed to require memberships, and pointing out the obvious that people can get more food for much less elsewhere is not giving a shit about poor people.
Christ Era goes off the rails with hyperbole sometimes.
News at 11: Costco hates poor people
You realize Costco employees have some of the best benefits and pay for their jobs right? That they actually close on holidays so their employees can be with their families.
You realize Costco employees have some of the best benefits and pay for their jobs right? That they actually close on holidays so their employees can be with their families.
Okay, tell me this. Why aren't you arguing that Costco should just give away the food for free?
I don't think that's actually the case for anyone. There's a world of people eating terrible food to get by because they are poor and live in a food desert, but Costco wouldn't be caught dead building a store in poor neighborhoods. That's partly what makes the argument seem so disingenuous -- "actual poor people" wouldn't have regular access to Costco hot dogs anyhow.
More like News at 11: The most expensive to make foods around, hotdogs and pizza, are putting Costco out of business. They had no choice but to exclude the unprofitable layabouts, and that's objectively a good thing™.
http://www.costcoconnection.com/connection/200903?pg=23#pg23
This is what they say about it.
I've been going to Costco for almost 20 years, never used the food court once. It honestly doesn't look all that appealing to me. Where I live there's no shortage of great pizza or hot dogs, if I'm in the mood for those, and I've just never had the urge to try any of it out before/after doing some shopping.
For me it's a time issue, I like to gas up when I'm running errands, usually takes me 5 minutes to get in and out. Since it's in the same complex, it's a time saver for me.
Memberships work worldwide. The 2% reward checks are the only thing locked to your home country.
I totally get that. I wish the closest one to me had gas.
If anything, the worst part about the food court is that its on the exit side and not the entrance. Eating before you shop is the proper way to do things, which Ikea have figured out. People with their carts full of stuff clogging up the food court is annoying. Also if you get frozen stuff its thawing out while you eat, another reason to eat before you shop.
Did you know poor people can drive to places outside of their neighborhood?
I wouldn't assume that the people who are disappointed by this are unaware of that (and indeed that might be why they find it especially disappointing).
Just because a corporation is better than average in some ways does not mean that every decision they make is to society's benefit, or that they should be absolved from criticism.
It's okay to expect more from a corporation, especially one that holds itself up as a vanguard for fair wages and benefits. Just my two cents. :)
Yours doesn't have gas? The main one I go to is one of the rare ones with propane, and I believe the only one with a carwash. lol
Or hear me out, let members pay monthly so they only have to pay 5 bucks for a membership monthly
This really isn't a big deal. So you need a membership to go to the food court now. If you care that much about it, go get a basic Costco membership. It's just $60 a year. That's just $5 a month. Every so often go get yourself a rotisserie chicken, buy a years worth of paper towels and TP or get some of the best prices on liquor. $60 a year. People spend more than that going out a to restaurant.
Speaking of Costco food court I'm still pissed they got rid of the Pepperoni pizza here in Japan at the food court. Replaced with a crappy margherita. So now the pizza options are cheese, margherita and deluxe. Whats the point of having two cheese pizzas? Only difference is margherita seems to have less cheese with some green bits thrown on.
Except that a great many impoverished citizens don't have cars - it's why people complain about food deserts. Not to mention that if you're driving to out to the suburbs where Costco tends to put their stores, that kinda defeats the purpose of buying the cheap hot dog in the first place.
That is kinda weird. Even more odd that pepperoni would be the least popular as they would replace it.
The combo/deluxe is still the best though
I don't think the people this change will have the biggest negative effect on are the people spending $60 on an evening dining out.
For a lot of families, getting a Costco pizza is their version of dining out.