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Costco to MAGA: Shut up and let us run our business.

Can you explain how "the government" instituted DEI policies at pulicly traded companies?

We will all hang up and listen.
My response was to Chris Squawk's # 7, him stating that GOP policy ( none in place as they are not in power yet ) was expanding government.

Can you explain why Chris Squawk thinks future GOP policy on DEI will affect publicly traded companies?

We will all hang up and listen.
Me? A Misissippi pissbeer drinking dipshit CARDINALS fan?

GTFO!

No offense, James.

Go CUBS!
No offense taken. You're not hung well enough to be a Cardinal fan. You're a Cub/Bear perrenial cellar dwellar. You bloviate a lot so you're bound to be wrong a lot. IE you're no Joes Place...
 
My response was to Chris Squawk's # 7, him stating that GOP policy ( none in place as they are not in power yet ) was expanding government.

Can you explain why Chris Squawk thinks future GOP policy on DEI will affect publicly traded companies?

We will all hang up and listen.

No offense taken. You're not hung well enough to be a Cardinal fan. You're a Cub/Bear perrenial cellar dwellar. You bloviate a lot so you're bound to be wrong a lot. IE you're no Joes Place...
So the government in fact does nothing to promote DEI in public companies.

Thanks! Knew I was right and your were wrong. BAU.
 
Lost the argument so you head down the racism road, BAU, Frank...
lol.

Your words:

Eliminating DEI is reigning in government over reach of previous administrations. Get it right...

In a post about a private company’s choice to continue its DEI initiatives. Has absolutely nothing to do with government overreach. You have no argument.

PS it’s “reining” in like a horse. Not “reigning” like a king. Excused though as you may have been “edumacated” in that slave state.
 
My response was to Chris Squawk's # 7, him stating that GOP policy ( none in place as they are not in power yet ) was expanding government.

Can you explain why Chris Squawk thinks future GOP policy on DEI will affect publicly traded companies?

We will all hang up and listen.

No offense taken. You're not hung well enough to be a Cardinal fan. You're a Cub/Bear perrenial cellar dwellar. You bloviate a lot so you're bound to be wrong a lot. IE you're no Joes Place...
Goodness you are dense sometimes.
 
Costco reported having 129.5 million members worldwide. In the United States, nearly half of consumers shopped at Costco at least once in the past year, with 87% of those visiting two or more times. This indicates that a significant portion of the U.S. population frequents Costco annually.
All over now man. They’ll be out of business by March.
Go woke, go broke 🤷‍♂️
 
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It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.

For my money, consumer boycotts are rarely sustainable, regardless of the political bent of the consumers. (And to be clear, if there's power here, it's coming from consumers.) Honestly, I kind of think a lot of companies cave way too early when they should flip the bird. But I get it, particularly among larger companies, that there can be a 'first do no harm' mentality to these things that creates pressure to cave.

I don't know anything about the corporate structure of Costco to have a view on whether they are or aren't uniquely vulnerable or immunized somehow, but I'm sure that they didn't put a public statement like that out without doing some analytics on the consumer base. Who knows, it may well be that they create the blueprint to defend against DEI-related boycott initiatives.
tl;dr
What kind of toilet paper do you use?
 
lol.

Your words:

Eliminating DEI is reigning in government over reach of previous administrations. Get it right...

In a post about a private company’s choice to continue its DEI initiatives. Has absolutely nothing to do with government overreach. You have no argument.

PS it’s “reining” in like a horse. Not “reigning” like a king. Excused though as you may have been “edumacated” in that slave state.
You’ll have to excuse JVW’s lack of ability to spell or form a cogent argument. He’s been pouring concrete since he was 8 years old, and the nuns beat most of the smarts out of him.
 
Is that all? Shit I figured it was free with a gift to go with the gas.
Currently around 35 cents a gallon cheaper in the Milwaukee area burb here. If you’re commuting 40 miles a day. I’m sure that 40 cents means a lot. Plus I’d assume there is some sort of rewards card involved. So it could be another 15 cents a gallon cheaper.
 
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Am I the only one who couldn't care less one way or the other about Costco's DEI policies? Just point me to the bulk TP, cheap rotisserie chicken and delicious pizza.
This. It's not as if you walk in and they're pushing gender transition vitamins or prominently displaying books on toxic masculinity.

I don't even think they offer Subarus in their auto program.
 
Well, my house keeper does this to ALL my TP, so maybe I've just never noticed.

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That there looks like one of them “Illuminatty” symbols…
 
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Currently around 35 cents a gallon cheaper in the Milwaukee area burb here. If you’re commuting 40 miles a day. I’m sure that 40 cents means a lot. Plus I’d assume there is some sort of rewards card involved. So it could be another 15 cents a gallon cheaper.
According to a web search I did, the average gas tank of an American passenger vehicle is 12-16 gallons. So you are saving between $4.20 and $5.60 a fill up.

I get frugality, but hell if I’m dealing with a 30-60
Minute line with a bunch of yahoos to save enough money to buy one latte.
 
According to a web search I did, the average gas tank of an American passenger vehicle is 12-16 gallons. So you are saving between $4.20 and $5.60 a fill up.

I get frugality, but hell if I’m dealing with a 30-60
Minute line with a bunch of yahoos to save enough money to buy one latte.
It certainly adds up with an Audi that takes Premium, but the advantage is two fold for me; 1. I have a Costco right around the corner and 2. The gas cap is on the passenger side--the side where there is never a line other than a few impatient folks stretching the gas hose around to the driver side. ;)
 
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Currently around 35 cents a gallon cheaper in the Milwaukee area burb here. If you’re commuting 40 miles a day. I’m sure that 40 cents means a lot. Plus I’d assume there is some sort of rewards card involved. So it could be another 15 cents a gallon cheaper.
I’m not sure waiting in line an hour for gas would make it worth it.
 
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According to a web search I did, the average gas tank of an American passenger vehicle is 12-16 gallons. So you are saving between $4.20 and $5.60 a fill up.

I get frugality, but hell if I’m dealing with a 30-60
Minute line with a bunch of yahoos to save enough money to buy one latte.
Some folks will walk on glass to save a couple bucks. Depending on the service. Then turn around and throw away 7 bucks on a Starbucks.
 
in this case, it seem to be a dissident shareholder resolution. so weaker than a consumer boycott, particularly given the proclivity of institutional investors to be on board with these sorts of structures.

Yep, the OP mentioned a boycott. That's not happening. Maybe if something super crazy came out about the Costco DEI program, but that seems beyond incredibly unlikely. It's an unnecessary resolution.
 
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It’s not. For some reason gas is an emotional trigger expense.
I don't intend this to be a political statement, but honestly, I think the emotional trigger is a deep-seated psychology that developed during, and has continued since, the Carter years. But it is sort of funny - those few cents a gallon still motivate people in purchasing decisions. It's not an accident that so many grocery and pharmacy loyalty chains entail a fuel point redemption component. Way more powerful in terms of behavioral influence than it has any right to be.

it would be fascinating to see if the user data reflect different utilization patterns when age-stratified.
 
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I don't intend this to be a political statement, but honestly, I think the emotional trigger is a deep-seated psychology that developed during, and has continued since, the Carter years. But it is sort of funny - those few cents a gallon still motivate people in purchasing decisions. It's not an accident that so many grocery and pharmacy loyalty chains entail a fuel point redemption component. Way more powerful in terms of behavioral influence than it has any right to be.

it would be fascinating to see if the user data reflect different utilization patterns when age-stratified.
Yep, it’s way cheaper than offering better goods & services. Part of me thinks it’s also American’s car centric culture. Spend more time with our cars than our families.
 
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It certainly adds up with an Audi that takes Premium, but the advantage is two fold for me; 1. I have a Costco right around the corner and 2. The gas cap is on the passenger side--the side where there is never a line other than a few impatient folks stretching the gas hose around to the driver side. ;)
I have a Costco membership and will fill up if there isn't a line, so yeah, I get it.

What I won't do is wait in line to save $5. I'm not a poor. :)
 
The wait at our Costco is 10 minutes or less and sometimes not at all. Our cars use premium, which is about $0.75-1.00 cheaper there. Totally worth it to save $10-15.
 
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