• ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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    18 hours ago

    Of specific note from your article is them reporting holding food prices in place during shareholder updates.

    Costco is a business, and so they’re not your friend. But they’re one of the few businesses that seems to recognize that long term customer goodwill is more valuable than a few percent on next quarters balance sheet, so they don’t deserve disdain either.

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      14 hours ago

      THEY ALSO treaty thier employees pretty well to, they stay there for long term, and i heard its quite hard to get hired because of that.

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        7 hours ago

        Also a good point!

        Even the best company has an intrinsic unequal power dynamic with their workers, and competing interests.
        That doesn’t mean that a company that has a policy of trying to be fair should be treated with the same attitude as one that doesn’t, it just means that their employees still would benefit from a union, and hopefully the union just has an easier time, since negotiations as equals are easier with a willing company.

        Every anti-capitalist sentiment can be true of every company, while we still acknowledge that the ire doesn’t need to be directed uniformly.