Go Unions!

Could happen.

Costco, like other long term profitable businesses, are only really concerned about the category of the best way of attracting the widest range of customers for long term profits.

It would be fine if MAGA boycotted them

When a company purchases another, it often pays more than the net fair value of the target's assets and liabilities. This excess is recorded as goodwill, an intangible asset reflecting brand strength, customer loyalty, and proprietary technology, among other factors. It signifies a competitive edge and justifies premiums paid during acquisitions.

Was going to post the same thing. If I had it would nearly have been verbatim.

I was an R&D chemist for 23 years, then was director of stable operations for multinational corporations.
I was involved in due diligence in acquisitions on multiple occasions & worked on a lot of transitional periods after them.
In addition, added to my PhD in chemistry I have an MBA so I was exposed to all that terminology both academically & in practice.
I was also involved in mergers of a few small credit unions into our larger one when I was on the board.
Finally, my MBA was focused in economics & finance.
That's why I can talk like an accountant without being one.

I was sent back to school to be further promotable. The technical path was not developed for another 8 or 10 years.
I was tracking toward VP but the new CEO didn't trust a guy who played in a rock band. This despite the fact that my groups was adding 10 -12 times to gross profit what it cost for our group to exist. Not sure what "tryst" had to do with anything.
So, I topped out at director the last 17 years.

It was all manual back in those days!

I was sitting at the receptionist desk when his son come in to meet with one of the business lawyers about Microsoft. We have come a very long way since then.

We had a variety of adding machines and desktop calculators but my favorite machine was the SCM Marchant Transflo Model TR.




I loved working that machine.

Trumpers sre so ill informed they have no idea that a lot of the market share the US had for their products was people grateful that the US came to the aid of the world and led in Science, Technology, Medicine etc. Sure we also offered quality but a lot of that was a result of US goodwill. Under Trump, that's now gone. He's destroyed our agricultural export market, tourism, University recruitment. Investment in the US dollar. His being an asshole to the rest of the world will cost Americans a lot.

They tend to be middle to higher income and better educated than the traffic at some other retailers. Costco's footprint is cities and big city burbs, not the broad saturation model Walmart practiced for decades. Simply put, a higher % of Costco's customers vote Blue compared to traffic at an average Walmart and they know this. Might be just a smart business decision not to repeat the Target disaster, or perhaps doing it simply for the right reasons. Maybe both. No matter. It's working.

On the flip side, the country is so polarized now we don't even shop in the same stores.

Which helps them keep prices low.

I'm a retired AF SNCO and between my military pension, Social Security, and my required minimum distributions I too am in the middle to higher income and I'm a big fan of Costco. Other than Costco and the exchange, about the only other store I shop at is Target. I haven't stepped into a Walmart store in over 20 years and I have no plans to ever shop there.

Mahalo, apple

Not goodwill. The latter Is a store. I only bring it up because the title is confusing when you’re reading just the subject line from the homepage.

I’ve begun shifting as much of our shopping to them as possible.

As long as Costco is there I know I'll have an honest to shop

They seem like a standard issue corporation for the most part:
https://fresnoland.org/2025/07/22/fresno-costco/

Costco does not require you to have a membership to use their pharmacy. Their prices are usually much lower than a regular pharmacy. I had a friend who had little income. She needed expensive drugs. I told her about Costco. It really helped her a lot. They will give you prices over the phone.

Yes, no person or corporation is perfect. They pay their employees great wages. They give the public good prices on drugs.

Now that reseller is selling them for spare parts on E bay. Another at Amazon.

Why Costco, why?