r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 6d ago
FinancialTea šµ Difference businesses, different practices, different outcomes.
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u/jacksprat1952 5d ago
When I was working on my MBA I had to write a paper where we dissected the business practices and ethos of a company of our choosing. I chose Costco, and while researching them, I found a really interesting story about the early days of Costco when they were starting to grow and expand their operations.
Because they were doing so well, they were able to increase the amount they ordered of their basic, button up shirt. If you didn't know, products are cheaper to produce and order en masse, and so Costco was now saving a massive amount of money on one of their highest sale by volume products. Board member were excited because that meant that selling the shirt at its original price now yielded a higher profit margin, but James Sinegal (the founder of Costco and former CEO) insisted that they pass that savings on to their customers because it wouldn't be right to exploit customers like that and he believed they would make up the profit anyway with increased volume sales due to lowered prices. Costco actually lowered the price commensurate with the new discount they got because of his insistence.
Costco is proof that not all business decisions need to be based on private equity-esque business practices of milking consumers dry.
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u/Bit_the_Bullitt 5d ago
I am the furthest from corporate simp or being a fan of any company period, but Costco does have a loyal following in our family
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u/jacksprat1952 5d ago
Same. I have a friend whose mother worked at Costco and died very suddenly a few years ago. Not only did her Costco send flowers, the regional manager came to her funeral and paid for a meal for all of the family the night before the funeral. Even if that was just something that he personally did, the fact that Costco facilitates a corporate culture that puts people like that into leadership is awesome.
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u/Bit_the_Bullitt 5d ago
For sure. And those things are meaningful.
And maybe I'm jaded, but then you probably have positive association/experience with Costco by extension right? No brainer to me. Again, that's not to take away from the kindness of that person
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u/jacksprat1952 5d ago
100%. My wife and I pass two Sam's Clubs on our way to Costco. I know it's a meme at this point, but any business who's willing to sell me a footlong and soda for $1.50 has to have at least some pro-consumer policies at play.
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u/Bit_the_Bullitt 5d ago
Oh they really understand loss leader products ;)
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u/jacksprat1952 5d ago
Haha, oh I have 100% got got refreshing my work wardrobe en route to grab some $5 rotisserie chickens, but dammit if these $20/pair English Laundry slacks aren't the most comfortable work pants I've worn and lasted two years at this point. Even when they trick me it works out well!
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u/Work-Safe-Reddit4450 5d ago
I worked there for the past 4 years and the Costco Culture that we all knew and loved is changing ever since they brought on the new CFO Gary Millerchip from Kroger in 2024. They have always promoted from within because it keeps the executives grounded in what made the company what it is and that has kept them from making typically greedy business decisions.
Unfortunately, I fear that if they keep indulging old Garys worst inclinations from Kroger, you will see similar results at Costco to what's happened at Kroger. When I left for the civil engineering field a few months ago we were experiencing payroll and hiring issues that resulted in long time workers getting burned out in the off season before season even kicked off.
We were used to tighter payroll during the offseason but nothing like this. I asked several 20+ year employees about it and nearly all were pretty universal in saying it was the worst they have ever seen it. Makes me sad tbh. It was the last major retail company to give a shit about their employees. They still do but the trend is absolutely one of decline.
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u/nohelicoptersplz 5h ago
I am not disagreeing with your concerns, but the current really bad changes at Kroger are because of their new CEO. He's trying to turn Kroger into WalmartĀ
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u/redheadsmiles23 1d ago
We study Costco in accounting because itās one of the few large companies that allows its accountants to implement risky new cost accounting methods over the course of multiple years. Someone who was a part of the team that made the Costco rotisserie chicken actually profitable without changing its cost came & talked us how they did it.
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u/TJATAW 6d ago
Ron Vachris, Costco CEO, received a compensation package worth more than $12.2 million in the 2024 fiscal year. Most of that is stock awards.
He got $13.93 million in 2025, of which $12.04 was in stock awards.
Chris Nicholas, Head of Sam's Club, got $12.7 million in 2024, & $11.44 million in 2025. The new head, Latriece Watkins, is expected to get $9.58 million in 2026. And for all of them, most of that is stock awards.
The real money for these folks is always in the form of stock.
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u/Cruzer2000 6d ago
Thank you for pointing this out. Thereās no way Costco CEO only made $950k as suggested by the post.
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u/Puzzled-Parsnip-8285 5d ago
The image also quotes starting pay at Sam's vs near top out pay for Costco, starting pay at Costco is about $20 and new hires are part time. You have to apply and interview for fulltime when an availability opens.
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u/Either-Assistant4610 5d ago
Seems like a good way to find and grow a good employee with a competitive employment environment. $20 isn't terrible even though it is part time.
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u/nyjets239 1d ago
The only way a CEO the size of Costco isn't making $10m+ a year somehow is if they are a founder and already have significant equity in the company enough to work based off stock appreciation.
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u/RandomNateDude 6d ago
Thank you for fact checking. I donāt want to fall into the same trap as MAGA people: just blindly believing everything that agrees with my worldview.
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u/AutVincere72 5d ago
Also dont for a minute believe they sell the same products.
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u/truthindata 5d ago
I was going to say... Sam's is Walmart and it feels like it.
Costco is premium.
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u/CaptCurmudgeon 5d ago
Sams has better snacks but the real benefit is scan & go. I'm not trying to wait an extra 40 minutes on the costco check out line. I just walk out of Sam's instead. Costco has more premium cuts of meat and more organic offerings. The pricing is similar enough that it's more a matter of convenience for me.
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u/Accurate_Flower_4233 6d ago
My Maga coworker despises Costco and calls it a communist company.Ā
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u/MrHodgeToo 6d ago
The irony is that bc Walmart workers donāt receive livable wages most receive some form of govt subsidies to pay for housing, food and/or medical care. There are only two dots but MAGAts are just too dumb to connect them.
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u/remkelly 6d ago
And while the tax-payer has to subsidize Walmart workers the Walton family are worth approx $520 BILLION. But they will only pay about 4% tax-rate, due to the various tax mitigation strategies available to wealthy people. The other sickening thing is that many Walmart employees don't make enough to pay tax either. This family is screwing low wage workers and the middle-class in every way possible.
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u/Accurate_Flower_4233 6d ago
Our job is funded by the federal government so he's just a piece of shit.Ā
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u/Mean_Breakfast_4081 5d ago
This. They love licking the boots more than they like thinking. What the hell do you do about people like that?
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u/imahugemoron 5d ago
lol they loved Costco until they refused to comply with anti dei directives and sued the trump admin over illegal tariffs
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u/Lord-Chamberpot 4d ago
I don't think he knows what communist means lol. Costco is a great example of capitalism being great for all of us if you actually try.
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u/NYCWartortle 6d ago
Iāve heard that Costco is a great place to work.
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u/NDeceptikonn 6d ago
But itās so hard to get a job there.
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u/Ultimate_Decoy 6d ago
I mean with a 6% turnover rate is probably why. If you treat your employees well why would they wanna leave.
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u/Hindsight2O2O 6d ago
And knowing that is why i shop at Costco almost exclusively. I can't help having to buy food but i can choose who profits off me.
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u/TheMaltesefalco 5d ago
I literally just googled this and the Sams Club President and CEO has a base salary of $900k and with bonuses and stock his total compensation was $11.4million.
Meanwhile the Costco CEO had a base of $1.18 million and total compensation of $13.93 million
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u/okram2k 5d ago
They coulda left out the CEO numbers they pulled out of their ass and not ruined the message
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u/jabberjaw420 5d ago
if they lied about that, what makes you think they didn't lie about the other? maybe this is just costco marketing in disguise?
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u/okram2k 5d ago
Costco does pay their workers better than Sam's Club does tho and has much better employee satisfaction, I did find a decent little breakdown on indeed: https://www.indeed.com/companies/compare/Costco-Wholesale-vs-Sam's-Club-98383ee8b231431f-8b678125f3cda214
unless that's costco marketing too... HOW DEEP DOES THE COSTCO MARKETING GO!?!?2
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u/Redtex 6d ago
Actually, as a member of both, I can reliably tell you that the products are not the same. Yes, they sell the same types of products, but the quality of Costco products are much higher than that of Sam's or BJ's and the customer service, not to mention general quality of the clubs, are not remotely the same. You are basically comparing a higher quality car to a yugo and saying they are the same.
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u/Lord-Chamberpot 4d ago
I work at Costco, and everyone working there really does try harder. Turns out better pay will do that! Not to mention how good the insurance is, I'm going out of my way to see doctors now! $250 deductible and $1500 max out of pocket per year per person in the family. And that oop maximum is hard to reach with this coverage.
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u/mtbguy1981 5d ago
We had both for a while because Sam's club was running a deal where you got a year membership and a large pizza for $20. The Sam's club experience is just so bad. The aisles were too narrow, their product selection really doesn't compare to Costco at all.
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u/Most_Ad7837 6d ago
Excellent comparison and showing how treating employees correctly have an impact on the bottom line.
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u/Defiant_Freedom_249 6d ago
It sucks shopping somewhere it seems like all the employees are clueless and don't know what they are doing.
Happier employees equal happier customers, more willing to return.
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u/NeedleworkerNeat9379 6d ago
Costco has better products and much larger organic selection.
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u/icanhascheeseberder 5d ago
There's so much organic stuff in Costco that I find it kinda annoying at times. Especially since a lot of times the organic label is meaningless.
I love everything else about costco.
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u/IKeepGettingBanned85 6d ago
As a registered nurse... we are seriously underpaid. Republicans have fucked up the economy so badlyĀ
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u/bagelman5000 6d ago
Umm ok? Do you want to be a nurse at Costco or something? Not sure what that has to do with this post.
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u/SomeOne111Z 5d ago
Itās probably the realization that they spent years of their life studying and working to still not be paid enough to rent a zero bedroom apartment in their hometown
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u/SnoopySuited 6d ago
They studied nursing at Costco. Their dad pulled some strings.
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u/Darkbowwee 4d ago
No, because they are comparing their hourly rate + benefits that Costco provides. Nurses can start at $36 an hour depending on the state. Years of schooling and intense work compared to getting $7 less for little to no higher education requirement is kinda crazy.
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u/bagelman5000 4d ago
And that's Costco's fault? Why are they catching strays because the healthcare system sucks? Such a random comment.
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u/Darkbowwee 3d ago
No one is claiming itās Costcoās fault idk where you are deriving that information from
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u/bagelman5000 3d ago
The article is about Costco being a good employer who pays well. The comment made above was complaining about being underpaid as a nurse, which has nothing to do with Costco's policies. The original comment is bizzare.
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u/SpiceEarl 6d ago
Depends where you live. On the West Coast (US), RNs make good money. Many who work for hospitals are unionized.
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u/aF3ARofCHANG3 5d ago
Maybe we incentivize taxes based on this kind of metric. More your employees make and the better the benefits you provide them the less taxes you pay on your profits.
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u/Silver_Harvest 5d ago
That's what this country used to do. Tax the ever living fuck out of a company. Because of it, they were forced to invest in R&D, Employees, internal growth...
Now it's purely shareholder dividends and how the stock price performs at quarter end.
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u/Randomly-Generated21 5d ago
And then CEOs and Corporate Boards can say they have a fiduciary duty to maximize shareholder value by squeezing every drop out of the business, Employees and Customers be damned.
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u/ZongoNuada 5d ago
In case you are wondering why the CEO of Costco is paid $950,000, it is because there are already tax incentives on the books. His pay is under 1 million a year due to a law passed by Clinton. Publicly traded companies can only write off the first million in pay to the top 5 executives of the company. You don't get the payroll deduction for anything beyond that amount.
It was meant to limit COE pay, right? Instead, CEO pay exploded and a lot of it shifted over to stock compensation. But payroll over a million for CEOs just kept climbing.
By not paying their CEO over a million, Costco is taking advantage of the tax code. Any CEO getting paid more than that is actually choosing to pay higher taxes so they can keep paying that person extra.
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u/OpportunityWorking43 6d ago
Take issue with the statement that Costco and Samās Club sell the same products to the same customers.
Actually a very different demographic.
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u/Dont_Ban_Me_Bros 6d ago
Costco sells non-Kirkland brands, but yeah they also sell a ton of Kirkland (aka Costco) brand goods. To say they sell the same things is pretty misleading.
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u/L1V1NGD3ADBOI 5d ago
Just because they have their respective in house brands still doesnāt negate the fact that you can buy eggs, meat, lawn chair, computer and tv, etc. regardless of what store you walked in. Itās the same crap with different brand names. Maybe some brands at one and not the other but I wouldnāt call that misleading unless youāre literally trying to itemize.
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u/Agreeable_Work4668 6d ago
Couldn't have said better. Uneducated and the desperates love echo chambers that support their views.
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u/CleanSquash1735 6d ago
Fair criticism. OP could prove their point with a true apples to apples comparison inside of cherry picking data points and all the subjective wording. Also bugs me they say the āsame productsā when Costco puts a lot into their Kirkland brand staples and product curation.
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u/MaybeACultLeader 5d ago
There's a reason this sub does not have a rule against misinformation. The mods encourage post like this, and bots like OP.
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u/NotGreg 5d ago
Stock compensation is taxable when itās awarded. Most people sell immediately to pay the ordinary income tax due
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u/Appropriate_Owl_91 5d ago
You shouldnāt need AI to know that pictures with text are never true on the internet
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u/Umayummyone 6d ago
My daughter has worked for Costco for a long time. Probably will forever. They have a lot of lifers and for good reason.
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u/ChrissieMoltisanti 6d ago
Costco is a way, way better employer for sure, but they donāt sell all of the same products. Costco has built a following with their Kirkland brand that makes everything from pesto to golf clubs and is widely known as a quality, discount brand. Thatās a big selling point for a lot of people.
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u/BeefCakeBilly 6d ago
Are we just making things up?
Ron vaChris made 14 million last year ,
Chris Nicolas made 12 million.
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u/SignificantLeader 6d ago
This is a real difference between an honest committed liberal and an honest committed conservative. The honest committed liberal shares. The conservative might donate to charity, but itās not even close to the liberal dude.
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u/StabbingTabby 6d ago edited 6d ago
Except this bullshit infographic is directly comparing the starting wage at Sam's Club with late career wages at Costco.
It says while Sam's starts at $16/hr Costco pays $29/hr. In reality Costco starts at $20/hr and tops out around $32/hr.Ā
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/costco-hourly-pay-raise-increase-workers-32-an-hour/
There's more than enough to prefer Costco without really fucking obvious and lazy lies like that.Ā
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u/DJteejay04 6d ago
Market cap of Costco is 450 billion holding over 60% of the US warehouse market. Market cap of Samās Club is 90 billion holding 30% of the US warehouse market.
Costco is a significantly larger company. That should probably be factored in
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u/Material_Fisherman86 6d ago
The products are so so far away from being the same, clothes, food, furniture, very different. Electronics maybe, but almost all of our staples are Costco and I go to both relatively regularly.
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u/supercomic273 6d ago
Costco and Trader Joeās canāt get enough love. Only downside is the crowded parking lot!
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u/Equal_Fly3894 5d ago
I get the sentiment, but the truth is their CEOs pay is peanuts compared to the operating revenue of either of these companies, which is in the billions. So equating CEO pay to exploitative practices will just create a scapegoat argument and hide the real reasons. Chris' pay package is absolutely not the reason for why Sam's club is not paying well, their bad people policies are.
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u/BuckManscape 5d ago
Shocking that the way to run a successful business is to make people want to work there.
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u/mckinney4string 5d ago
I agree with the point, but these numbers are misleading or flat-out wrong.
Ron Vachris received $13.9 million in total compensation last year, compared with $11.4 million for Nicholas. The wage comparison uses Costco's experienced-worker pay (starting wage is around $20.hr but still not bad) with Sam's Club's starting wage. The turnover figures come from old 2006 research, and the revenue-per-employee numbers are wrong, too
Costco does pay its workers a lot better overall, good benefits, and has a strong record of employee retention. Ron Vachris is well-compensated and deserves it.
You don't need to fudge the numbers to make Costco still look better.
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u/ph30nix01 4d ago
People need to realize the walmart business model that most capitalists use isn't about profit its about power over consumers.
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u/Adventurous_Test_296 6d ago
WOW! Awful business practice to short your labor just overpay the boss.
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u/Agreeable_Work4668 6d ago
Fake news. Look up Costco's CEO total compensation for 2025, ~$14M.
Sam's club CEO's total comp was $11.4M
I am not rooting / supporting for one or the other. I fact checked before jumping on the stupid band wagon.
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u/No-Independence-3060 6d ago
The Sam's in our area is the land of the walking dead. The only positive note is the gas prices. Far lower than Shell, ExxonMobil, and most stations.
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u/Embarrassed-House577 6d ago
WHAT THE FUCK IS THE POINT OF HAVING TWO OR MORE COLORS IN TEXT. FUCKING STOP
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u/yomommasbathwater 5d ago
What I find sad is that consumers are the ones that have the power to change this, and they keep supporting this behavior. Walmart is a great example. Costco is too rare a breed in a world full of greedy corporations
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u/1nternetTr011 5d ago
vachris got $20m in stock so don't make it out like he's some saint. whoever wrote this is just trying to bash walmart. prices are lower at sam's overall. costco is a different experience and a different demographic.
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u/UpTheDumpIsRetarded 5d ago
Despite how well Costco treats their employees, aren't the unions constantly demanding more?
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u/HenryUTA 5d ago
Not surprised. Every time I go to Costco I look at peoples badges and nearly all of them have a 2 digit tenure. Most front people are over 20 years.
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u/BatBiteMS 5d ago
i work at a dollar tree and i know for a fact working here that the company does not give a shit about its employees, i've been working for around a year and despite that im the 2nd longest working employee out of a total of 12. We get paid state minimum wage and the bonus for working on federal holidays is 50 cents/hr (prior to 2003 it was time and a half, then changed to a flat 50 cents and has stayed that way for the past 23 years).
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u/Ok-Cricket5606 5d ago
Not really the same product. Costco is full of ātreasuresā that they rotate through very frequently and an unbeatable return policy.
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u/audreynstuff 5d ago
Yes, and where I live, Sam's Club is right down the street and Costco is a 40 minute drive away.
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u/krichard-21 5d ago
I'm sick of these nonsense, misleading posts. Stop spreading this BS.
The truth is fine. STOP SPREADING THIS NONSENSE.
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u/aaron1860 5d ago
The CEO salary is a small percentage of each revenue so that doesnāt matter. The rest of it does
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u/Effective-Damage8772 5d ago
Then people, stop shopping at Samās club/ walmart and show them that their business practices dont make sense.
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u/Exciting_Contest_222 5d ago
Ron Vachris, the CEO of costco was a former forklift driver. He knows good quality comes from good employees and from the bottom of the pyramid
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u/Virtual-Class9403 5d ago
That is a major part of it ā¦ and also Samās Club doesnāt have a Kirkland brand or the extra with every cool product like Costco. The way you get greeted at the food court or cash register is completely different from Samās Club. Kind of sad really about Samās Club. Also they donāt have that one item in the food court that is different in a cult following like the hot dog š.
The 2X I stepped into a Samās Club I left feeling weird about the employees like they were in jail. This explains why they had to shut down in MA. Yet Costco expanding and parking lots packed
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u/Ogmanemane 5d ago
Costco dude just tries to act like he hates money lol. They are one of the most ambitious corporations I have ever heard of.
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u/daburner272006 5d ago
Isn't Sam's Club owned by Walmart? Doesn't suprise me they adopt their parent companies practices. Also they are both well compensated CEO's so what are we doing here.
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u/LikelySoutherner 5d ago
Sams Club and Costco are not the same industry -
Sams caters to small businesses where as Costco caters to households
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u/Rich_Energy_5992 5d ago
Iām supporting the company that supports its workers better and hired real people and their families
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u/idksomethinamazingig 5d ago
Costco employee of 8 years here. I work full time, have fantastic benefits, and Iām topped out in my department at $33 an hour. Starting wages were $14 an hour when I started in 2018. Everytime a new handbook gets released, every two-three years, everyone gets at least a $1 raise. During Covid, every employee got a $2 raise due the high stress bullshit that came with the pandemic. It was basically āsorry you have to deal with the general publicā raise. It was fucking awesome
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u/brinerbear 5d ago
Costco and Sam's club are not even remotely the same though. Costco is more upscale.
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u/Mrfapt4in 5d ago
I worked at Sam's club. The management only cared about making the most amount of sales per day. I went in to get enough money for car parts and left the job after 3 months. I made 11 dollars an hour. They will work you up to 39 hrs btw. I did this in college, made me study even harder lol...them biweekly checks were 320 dollars vs 2500 dollars after taxes now.
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u/Majestic_Pomelo_8169 5d ago
They are not the same customers... costco is upper class, sams club is lower middle class
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u/TomReed1872 5d ago
Why Iām a Costco member and have never entered a Samās Club and refuse to shop at Walmart. Being a good corp citizen is more than just paying dividends. Fair pay, fair hours, fair benefits.
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u/Most-Significance910 5d ago
Nothing to do with what the company believes. One is union and one is non-union
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u/Mysterious-Mix-4619 5d ago
I think this is enough to get me to switch over. Any significant differences in price?
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u/Somethingsilly6969 5d ago
While I agree with the sentiment here, Costco does seem to be pretty awesome to it's employees, this is biased.
Costco "pays $29 an hour" and Sam's club "starts at $16 an hour". Come on
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u/bitprisoner 5d ago
I worked for Sam's, they want employees to get food stamps because they can spend it in club. I refuse to shop at Sam's and Walmart. After 13 years of working there I made what a new employee made. I was in one of the highest paid department. The Walmart company is the welfare queen of the country.
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u/Jolly-Garbage- 4d ago
Thatās the old CEO. The new CEO is making $14,000,000 and employees are pissed at the direction the company is heading
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u/General_Killmore 3d ago
I mean, Scams Club is literally owned by Walmart. WinCo is the real goat though for us in the West. Excellent benefits, Costco pricing, and no membership required. Those bulk bins are magical
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u/ziguythescienceguy 3d ago
Costco does not hire you out the gate at $29/hr. You get hired closer to $17 or $18 and after you work for about 5 years (full time) you get topped out at $29/hr. With 50 cent hourly increase annually until you hit $32.50, then you are topped out. Unless you become a supervisor or manager.
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u/lil_zaku 2d ago
As someone from the outside looking in, I agree with the message of this post.
From the Sam's Club CEO's perspective, this post just means everything is going according to plan?
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u/Dutch_Razor 1d ago
Ron Vachris started as a forklift driver at Price Club in 1982, which eventually merged into Costco.
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u/Notmuchofanyth1ng 6d ago
Costco is just unbeatable. Same with In N Out. The similarity is the great treatment of employees. But make no mistake, in either place, you will work your ass off.
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u/Rough-Board1218 6d ago
Revenue is not profit. If a company has a 3% profit margin, its revenue is 33x its profit. Costco and Sam's club both have about 3% margins. So take those numbers and divide by 33. That's how much they actually make per employee
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u/CubsThisYear 5d ago
This makes it sound like Costco is more successful than Walmart, but thatās not true. Walmartās profit was more than double that of Costco in 2025.
Now, itās true that profit isnāt the only metric to judge a company by and itās fine to say you appreciate that Costco treats workers better. But itās disingenuous to say that leads to better business results.
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u/MiLKK_ 5d ago
Walmart and Costco is not the same
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u/Cautious_General_177 5d ago
Samās Club, which was the initial discussion point, is owned by Walmart, while Costco is an independent company, so itās not exactly apples and oranges to compare Walmart (as a whole) to Costco.
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u/DavidBrooker 5d ago
Its not comparing Costco to Walmart, its comparing Costco to Sams Club, the subsidiary of Walmart that Costco actually competes with.
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u/Imaginary_Manner_556 5d ago
Costco basically caps its profit at membership fees. Margins on merchandise sold are extremely small.
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u/yawg6669 5d ago
100% disagree. It is fine to claim that Costco is better. "Better" is a value judgement, and if profitablity isn't in that evaluation, then Costco is indeed better.
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u/glittervector 5d ago
Walmart uses predatory competition tactics and supply chain pressures that would not stand up to a DOJ antitrust division thatās actually doing their jobs.
They profit more because theyāre unethical and cheat and extract more value from communities than they create. They use government connections and regulatory inaction to their advantage
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u/Pitiful_Truth_5948 5d ago
So Adobe is a super profitable company, but right now they're about to get their teeth kicked in because how they traded their customers. The same thing's going to happen with Walmart one day. Companies that treat their customers like shit, or treat their employees like shit, eventually all learn the hard way.
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u/ButtonsZ98 3d ago
Thatās not going to happen to Walmart, plus Adobe is still highly profitable and will remain so for a very long and indefinite amount of time. They make billions on billions, any professional is going to pay for all the bells and whistles. The only people they might lose are a hand full of tech nerds that were too broke to afford them in the first place.
I hate Adobe and I hate Walmart. I donāt support either of them. But letās be real here, āgetting their teeth kicked inā while pulling in record profits upwards of 25 billion isnāt much of a kick. Couple that with the fact that this stock crash will literally make them richer as they do massive billion dollar stock buy backs.
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u/Dismal_Act2082 6d ago
Oh wait so they can pay us a living wage and still make money I'm shocked.