Costco

“I'm going to shop at Amazon and Costco because, in the very few instances where I want to return an item that didn't live up to its promise, I can do so without incurring penalties.”

“they are consistently a "good deal" - never the cheapest, but never the most expensive”

“Costco only has a couple options but they are well better and you don't have to do extra work to make sure you're not buying a piece of crap.”

“I expect I will never buy a major appliance from any other retailer as long as Costco continues to care like they do today.”

“Costco vets their products very well, if I see something at costco and its something I need I just buy it.”

“I would rather have a retailer do that curation for me and provide me with effective high value products”

“My average food waste from a Costco trip is significantly lower than other grocery stores.”

“in defense of Costco, you don't go there by bus or bike anyway because you'll be coming home with 200 pounds of stuff”

“If you don't think Costco encourages people to buy things they don't need you've never shopped at Costco.”

“there's a lot of quality stuff at Costco (besides their huge wines collection) that you can't find anywhere else”

“Because of the large quantities my family with 4 children is able to go to Costco once a month and purchase almost everything our family will need”

“It's quite efficient use of land. Costco parking lots tend to be full, people tend to leave Costco with full carts and go once or twice a month.”

“Finally, Costco delivers if you really don't want to leave your house. Now we are back to the same model but with far more flexibility.”

“Costco is one of the few stores in America that attempts to give great value to consumers”

“IMO Costco's food hits the sweet spot between high end grocery store quality and walmart level price.”

“They are not erroding trust and somehow resisting the ratchet of optimizing for the next quarter”

“The former two are fantastic. I live in Seattle metro area where they are headquartered, and the last is horrible.”

“Costco's code of ethics makes this really simple, it is too bad it, or a variation thereof, isn't more commonly observed.”

“The Costco plan more than pays for itself using the built-in rewards program and rx discounts”

“For stores with strong curation, you could just skip the research phase and buy whatever Costco or Lee Valley is selling.”

“Costco's real benefit is that everything they sell is pretty good stuff, and nothing is outrageously overpriced.”

“The quality of the product is good, the prices are good, there's little "choice paralysis" and it's all under one roof.”

“it's just a place that takes advantage of suburbanites' love of buying excessive amounts of crap”

“it's often not worth the hassle of driving, parking, fighting through lines, etc just to get stuff once a quarter”

“the crowds at Costco are much, much worse (in quantity mainly) than any other grocery or big-box store I've ever been to.”

“The parking lots are packed and dangerous, there's too many people in the store, the produce quality isn't there”

“Good luck getting gas much less checking out with 200+ people all trying to get back to the office.”

“offering quality, value, and fair dealing to upwardly mobile strivers from all backgrounds”

“fighting for space everywhere: fighting for a parking lot, avoiding people seeming to ram you with their shopping cart”

“it feels like they're looking out for their customers and offering them a valuable service”

“From everything I hear, I can only gather that the reason is because of extremely experienced and level-headed executive staff.”

“They're selective with what they stock, their margins are capped so I know I'm not getting fleeced buying abject junk.”

“Costco is not universally cheaper. Costco discounts a few categories of products to lure you to shop there, but has higher prices in other categories.”

“Costco is a rare example of a company doing the right thing and succeeding under late stage capitalism.”

“a warehouse full of stuff I don't particularly want in quantities I'll never be able to use”

“Costco has made similar choices with how they treat their employees and they're doing great”

“A buyer at Best Buy or Costco explicitly made a decision to stock the item at the store/warehouse”

“One of the greatest feelings for me is returning from a Costco and knowing I have enough in the house to last a month”

“Costco is absolute king of finding pareto stuff (20% of the investment nets 80% of the quality) and offering that.”

“they often have solid inventory, and the samples used to be a nice touch until all my local locations got way too crowded”