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Wait you guys got conned into paying to go shopping?!?
All those leaded petrol fumes really did a number didn't they lol
I guess you don't know how wholesale club stores work, eh?
I guess you don't realise when someone's profiting off you left, right and centre lol
Think about it; what does the membership fee actually cover?
Employee benefits and wages, mostly. The membership fees are the primary profit of Costco. Without that wages would go down, and prices would rise. You do know that businesses need to turn a profit to stay in business, right?
The fee might be an upfront cost, and if you don't buy enough goods during the year it may not be worth it, but I can tell you from my experience of just my wife and I being empty nesters, we have an "Executive" membership which costs even more than a regular membership (gasp!)with the added benefit of getting a small percentage of our annual spending coming back to us as essentially a gift certificate. That gift certificate pays for our membership, so, yeah, it's worth it.
Dear god.
So you think that your paying the employee benefits and wages should be in advance, regardless of whether you shop there?!? They actually convinced you of that?
They blackmailed you into thinking that prices would rise and wages would go down.... Yes, by approximately the fees you pay for membership, whether you shop there or not
Then you actually, genuinely think that you're getting a "gift certificate" without any idea that you already paid for it
Holy shit 😂
It's honestly scary how gullible the average consumer is
They didn't "convince" me of that. I've looked at their earnings report and could see that their profits are roughly the same as their membership revenue. They convinced me to buy a membership by having lower prices than other retailers so I buy most of my dry goods, electronics, and other sundry goods from them
My wife and I saw how much we were spending there annually and realized that an executive membership would pay for our annual fees in the rebate we'd get each year, so it made the membership essentially free. I'm not a sucker who got tricked into some "scheme". I'm maximizing my purchase power, you dolt.
☝️The capitalist's wet dream 😂
The normal supermarkets gouge you for every penny, so you now believe that you're being gouged less by paying an annual fee
Fuckin hell mate 😅
Ah. I see now. You're a tankie. Well that explains why you're an obtuse moron. Blocking you now
Wait you got conned into enabling the exploitation of your grocery store's employees for the profits of a corporation?!?