Well done video. I'm glad someone is praising companies that are being ethical rather than companies that just grow and are rich at the expense of everyone else
I work building Costcos, and the culture trickles down all the way to us. Despite having the most aggressive build timeline in the industry most people are quite happy. Costco works with mostly reasonable general contractors, and having Span construction (a 100% employee owned company) erecting every non-union job there is good consistency across sites.
@ honestly unclear, because they certainly do not open as many stores as demand would suggest, we have very consistently done 15-25 stores a year. I think it’s that once the store starts going up the community gets very anxious for it, always a lot of hype. Also given the warehouse style of the building allows for an aggressive timeline. You don’t really see new construction warehouse style commercial buildings too much these days, Walmart, Target, etc. aren’t really opening a ton of new stores. If you even consider those the same style. Fun fact: Home Depot essentially stopped building for over a decade, but in the last year the same builder for Costco has erected nearly a dozen, in the same style as Costco. You can find these mostly in Texas and AZ.
Would have tried to talk to a Costco employee. There is nationwide dissent growing from within Costco and it is not the employee focused company it used to be.
Totally fair, I didn't see much dissent in my research but I appreciate the feedback and would like to incorporate more viewpoints in the future. Obviously every company has some degree of problems and not every single employee will be happy.
Loved Costco as both a consumer and an employee, but recent years the work culture has shifted a lot. There is a darkside to Costco that not a lot of people know or hear about...
Costco is a great company with a great ethos and great products. Best big box retailer out there. Inversely you have stores like walmart and target who are quite literally evil. As one example, walmart used to take out life insurance policies on their older employees, and it wasn’t to payout the surviving members of the family member (employee) who’d passed. It was to collect money for the company so they could continue profiting off that individual after they’d passed. Truly a $h** company and I haven’t shopped there in over a decade.
When there's only two types of cheddar 1 is private label at 19.99 and Kirkland is 14.99 it's easy to make a choice without compromising quality. One thing I'd point out too is that costco at least where I am has to be "given" land to build and doesn't purchase outright saving them a lot of money to open stores. Costco is one of the only affordable places to buy food in my area.
Costco is a great store. I love it but I’m also a member of Sam’s and one thing I do like about Sam’s is they are better on tech they have scanning go so you don’t have to wait in line and they have delivery services so you can just order online
Great video! It's very simple. Costco promotes quality while creating great value for their customers and by treating both customers and employees with respect and care. They put their products and services and people above profit. Other corporations should study this coop model. It's the only potentially sustainable one. We see almost all other companies in decline while Costco continues to thrive and be loved.
I love Costco but avoid it from Thanksgiving until after New Years. Being selective in avoiding unhealthy ultra processed foods; Costco has a fairly good selection of high quality food but their main thrust food wise is horrible. Have not purchased clothing from them in years as most of the clothing has awful brand logos on them; weird synthetic stretchy materials and size selection for those who are well over their ideal weight. I do buy paper goods and household cleaning supplies. Occasionally a bottle of wine or champaign. For me, I buy my gasoline there most times. Clean pumps and good attendants. Living in Las Vegas however, the customer base is not affluent and most of the products reflect that. In San Diego, much higher quality items.
Costco is pretty much Walmart for clothes, but with lower prices. I want higher quality for clothes, high-end athletic, and not the 'supreme' markup / artificial scarcity junk, and get clothes mostly from specialized sources.
I been to Costco once with a Costco member lot of stuff Costco I can get for the same price or less at places I like to like Walmart and Aldi that way closer to my house than Costco
Costco is a rare phenomenon and yet it should be standard practice if evil men knew how profitable being a good man could be more of them would practice good business standards
Membership is only a modest deterrent for shoplifting. The anti-membership-sharing is cutting down on the shoplifting though, as is the membership card barcode scan on entry for all customers. These are also keeping the welfare/EBT people from flooding out the food court, send them back to Walmart and shoplift there. Costco has anti-shrinkage receipt inspections for all customers.
No it didn’t, whoever died were already on their way. Old, sick, getting sick, weakened immune system. You know anyone healthy that died besides your uncle’s friend’s great grandpa directly from Covid? I doubt it.
Sorry, but I have to ask this. Why do you edit-out the pauses between sentences (you know…your breaths). Do you think we have such short attention spans that we won’t keep watching if you dare to take a breath during your narration? As a listener, you don’t notice it right away, but you do notice that the longer you listen the more irritated you feel. The human brain is conditioned to hear occasional pauses when somebody is speaking. It needs that split second break to absorb what’s being said. Narrating an entire 16 minute video so it sounds like one long sentence is just obnoxious. Do you have to manually go and remove all of your breaths or is there software that does it for you? Honestly, I know it’s not just you. I’ve been hearing it more and more on TH-cam and I can’t be the only one that has noticed. I don’t get it. Why is this a thing? Anyway, aside from that I enjoyed your video. Thanks for putting it out there.
Well done video. I'm glad someone is praising companies that are being ethical rather than companies that just grow and are rich at the expense of everyone else
appreciate that, thank you!
I work building Costcos, and the culture trickles down all the way to us. Despite having the most aggressive build timeline in the industry most people are quite happy. Costco works with mostly reasonable general contractors, and having Span construction (a 100% employee owned company) erecting every non-union job there is good consistency across sites.
Why do they have the most aggressive build timeline?
@ honestly unclear, because they certainly do not open as many stores as demand would suggest, we have very consistently done 15-25 stores a year. I think it’s that once the store starts going up the community gets very anxious for it, always a lot of hype. Also given the warehouse style of the building allows for an aggressive timeline. You don’t really see new construction warehouse style commercial buildings too much these days, Walmart, Target, etc. aren’t really opening a ton of new stores. If you even consider those the same style.
Fun fact: Home Depot essentially stopped building for over a decade, but in the last year the same builder for Costco has erected nearly a dozen, in the same style as Costco. You can find these mostly in Texas and AZ.
MUCH respect for this company!
Would have tried to talk to a Costco employee. There is nationwide dissent growing from within Costco and it is not the employee focused company it used to be.
Totally fair, I didn't see much dissent in my research but I appreciate the feedback and would like to incorporate more viewpoints in the future. Obviously every company has some degree of problems and not every single employee will be happy.
I have to agree with that statement, they need to focus on the staff
Loved Costco as both a consumer and an employee, but recent years the work culture has shifted a lot. There is a darkside to Costco that not a lot of people know or hear about...
DOUBLE CHUNK CHOCOLATE COOKIE
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Well done. You deserve more subs which I’m sure you’ll get on this path.
This video was great! Well done!
Costco is a great company with a great ethos and great products. Best big box retailer out there. Inversely you have stores like walmart and target who are quite literally evil. As one example, walmart used to take out life insurance policies on their older employees, and it wasn’t to payout the surviving members of the family member (employee) who’d passed. It was to collect money for the company so they could continue profiting off that individual after they’d passed. Truly a $h** company and I haven’t shopped there in over a decade.
Who knew a $1.50 hot dog combo was part of a genius business model? Costco is redefining what success looks like in retail. 🔥
I’ve worked at Costco a long time. Jim was the man!
The $1.50 hotdog/soda combo, the $10 pizza (they got rid of supreme though), and the $5 rotisserie chicken. All great stuff.
When there's only two types of cheddar 1 is private label at 19.99 and Kirkland is 14.99 it's easy to make a choice without compromising quality. One thing I'd point out too is that costco at least where I am has to be "given" land to build and doesn't purchase outright saving them a lot of money to open stores. Costco is one of the only affordable places to buy food in my area.
One difference between normal subscription models is that Costco Is once per year most of the time it's Once per month
Costco is a great store. I love it but I’m also a member of Sam’s and one thing I do like about Sam’s is they are better on tech they have scanning go so you don’t have to wait in line and they have delivery services so you can just order online
Look, I’ve had my Costco card officially for 3 weeks. Do not badmouth my new religion.😂😂😂
Really well done video. Very informative.
appreciate it!
Solid video man, I really enjoyed that
thank you boss
0:29 modern society lmao 😂
Great video! It's very simple. Costco promotes quality while creating great value for their customers and by treating both customers and employees with respect and care. They put their products and services and people above profit. Other corporations should study this coop model. It's the only potentially sustainable one. We see almost all other companies in decline while Costco continues to thrive and be loved.
Great content!!
Thanks for watching!
We need a Costco between Killeen and Temple Texas
Welcome to Costco, I love you.
I love Costco but avoid it from Thanksgiving until after New Years. Being selective in avoiding unhealthy ultra processed foods; Costco has a fairly good selection of high quality food but their main thrust food wise is horrible. Have not purchased clothing from them in years as most of the clothing has awful brand logos on them; weird synthetic stretchy materials and size selection for those who are well over their ideal weight. I do buy paper goods and household cleaning supplies. Occasionally a bottle of wine or champaign. For me, I buy my gasoline there most times. Clean pumps and good attendants. Living in Las Vegas however, the customer base is not affluent and most of the products reflect that. In San Diego, much higher quality items.
Costco is pretty much Walmart for clothes, but with lower prices. I want higher quality for clothes, high-end athletic, and not the 'supreme' markup / artificial scarcity junk, and get clothes mostly from specialized sources.
I been to Costco once with a Costco member lot of stuff Costco I can get for the same price or less at places I like to like Walmart and Aldi that way closer to my house than Costco
Costco is for groceries, hygiene, food court, and some housewares. Supplements, electronics, car parts, tools, pet food I prefer the competition.
Superb video bro, keep at it you will do great.
Costco customers are like crack addicts, its my Dads crack
Go Costco!
It’s kind to f like how company’s we’re before jack Welch came along
Costco is a rare phenomenon and yet it should be standard practice if evil men knew how profitable being a good man could be more of them would practice good business standards
I love these videos
Obey the law is the first words of ethics?
It is, I would have to assume that was influenced by Sol.
Becouse of membership the shoplifters are out of the picture here
Membership is only a modest deterrent for shoplifting. The anti-membership-sharing is cutting down on the shoplifting though, as is the membership card barcode scan on entry for all customers. These are also keeping the welfare/EBT people from flooding out the food court, send them back to Walmart and shoplift there.
Costco has anti-shrinkage receipt inspections for all customers.
I know London (ON) when I see it 🤣
Are you from around here by any chance?
Rather Controlled Greed.
Thinkinh Long Term for the Stocks instead of pump and dump that we see in many.
really interesting video. very cool, kanye
Is this sponsored by Costco?😂
Definitely not. Just wanted to share a cool story.
Great vid
One day I'll go to 'murica and will buy shitton of gummies and cheap tech
America's production is guns, factory machinery, and junk food.
Greed is just a matter of time
They maintained their retail scavenger hunt strategy during COVID. Let’s keep in mind that that almost certainly killed customers and employees.
How? Start with the customer’s.
No it didn’t, whoever died were already on their way. Old, sick, getting sick, weakened immune system. You know anyone healthy that died besides your uncle’s friend’s great grandpa directly from Covid? I doubt it.
Sorry, but I have to ask this. Why do you edit-out the pauses between sentences (you know…your breaths). Do you think we have such short attention spans that we won’t keep watching if you dare to take a breath during your narration? As a listener, you don’t notice it right away, but you do notice that the longer you listen the more irritated you feel. The human brain is conditioned to hear occasional pauses when somebody is speaking. It needs that split second break to absorb what’s being said. Narrating an entire 16 minute video so it sounds like one long sentence is just obnoxious. Do you have to manually go and remove all of your breaths or is there software that does it for you?
Honestly, I know it’s not just you. I’ve been hearing it more and more on TH-cam and I can’t be the only one that has noticed. I don’t get it. Why is this a thing?
Anyway, aside from that I enjoyed your video. Thanks for putting it out there.
The chats in most twitch streams (alphas and younger zoomers) have the attention span of a toddler.
Being *as* greedy