Episode 653: The Anti-Store

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It used to be that if you ran a store, you wanted to make it easy for your customers. But Price Club and Costco went in the opposite direction: They made shopping harder. And people loved it.

Today on the show: How Price Club and its imitators changed the way we shop. And how a new company is taking what Price Club started to new extremes.

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GGAllinsMicroPenis on September 8th, 2017 at 07:55 UTC »

Costco also pays its retail employees an average salary of nearly $50,000 a year and offers 88% of its 185,000 employees company sponsored healthcare.

I support them wholeheartedly. One of the very few big box chains that actually cares about its fucking workers.

ash3s on September 8th, 2017 at 05:56 UTC »

Costco is one of my favorite cities in america

Spoonenbrock on September 8th, 2017 at 02:21 UTC »

Working at Costco was the same for employees. Customers would ask me questions and I would walk around with them looking.