Man the fucking Simpsons again! Soon we’re gonna see Trump brand MALK at all schools.
Your bones are disintegrating because you didn’t drink enough MALK.
I don’t get it. Everyone likes rats but no one wants to drink their milk?
Plus, they dropped Callaway Golf after their horrific ad depicting violence against women.
Wait… What?
The golf club company ran an add where a woman went to touch a golf club and her man pushed her down and threatened her for her transgression.
Costco stopped carrying their clubs in response
Does the US not have some kind of advertising standards board that you have to get adverts approved before you’re allowed to publicly post them?
Nope. Free speech.
Free speech just protect you from the government, gone out of the window anyway as of late.
But even when free speech wasn’t forced it wouldn’t force channels to carry your advertisement.
No, the First Amendment only protects you from the government. “Free speech” is a philosophical principle which has nothing to do with governments directly.
However, an “advertising standards board” that decides what can and cannot be posted publicly sounds pretty governmental to me.
But even when free speech wasn’t forced it wouldn’t force channels to carry your advertisement.
Of course, but that still isn’t any kind of universal standards board, that’s individual channels deciding independently.
No one is boycotting the companies which showed the ad.
Imagine commenting this on a comment discussing how an entire retailer is boycotting one of the companies involved.
Yes, the company that made the ad. Unless something happened that I’m not aware of, nothing has happened to the marketing firm who made the ad nor the various companies who served the ad to audiences.
The question was phrased in a way asking if an ad platform ran it across their standards and practices to see if the ad should be aired. The ad was in poor taste, but it could be shown on network television so no one stopped it. The risk for showing a controversial ad is near zero. The only company dealing with a boycott is the company that was advertising its product.
That’s not what free speech is. Free speech doesn’t let you say whatever you want to anyone, it’s intention is to protect you while speaking out against government officials and offices. Last I checked Callaway wasn’t the 4th branch of the government, let’s not give turkey neck any ideas.
The FCC should be regulating ads like this, but this is a clown country and capitalism says domestic violence is a viable commodity to sell.
free speach is to protect your right to tell the world how politicians wronged you and how you hate all minorities
While the topic was abhorrent and in bad taste, I don’t think there was ever a time when the FCC banned jokes about spouse/family abuse.
The Honeymooners regularly joked about the husband finally breaking and beating his wife. I Love Lucy had an episode where Lucy tried to get a sunburn so Ricky wouldn’t beat her as hard for buying an expensive dress. The Simpsons had Homer choking Bart as a running gag. All these shows were on Broadcast TV.
The FCC being useless and bought off still doesn’t mean that Callaway gets special first amendment protections. They’re a corporation, they aren’t protected from consumers and retailers dropping their products for promoting crimes, or from potential lawsuits as a result of harmful marketing.
Again, this topic has nothing to do with free speech.
I bring it up because companies which broadcast and publish material are generally given greater deference by the public for showing material they disagree with. As long as the standards are adhered to evenly, the broadcaster isn’t going to be boycotted for an ad. No one is boycotting the television stations and streamers for airing this ad; all the attention is going to Calloway.
The consequences of free speech are felt by those paying for it in public opinion, not those serving it.
Free speech doesn’t let you say whatever you want to anyone, it’s intention is to protect you while speaking out against government officials and offices.
It sounds like you’re getting freedom of speech mixed up with the First Amendment. They aren’t the same thing. The First Amendment’s intention is to protect your freedom of speech from the government. If you want your freedom of speech protected from other things (such as your employer), the First Amendment won’t protect you.
No sir, no confusion here. You and I both said the same thing. Freedom of speech / free speech are the same thing in the US, a very specific legal construct under the first amendment, which many people don’t understand the boundaries of. I have a degree in this field, so I’m pretty up to speed on basic civil rights. Hence why I questioned the other user on why they think costco boycotting callaway because of a gross chud ad had anything to do with a law that deals with government overreach.
Now if the ad depicted the dude tackling Trump to the ground and threatening him for touching their underage caddy, and the FBI raided their offices in response, NOW we’d be talking about a first amendment issue as that’d be direct political commentary and an illegal response by the government.
We don’t have standards keeping the ass parasites out of the lettuce, take a second and ponder
Thank god it’s just lettuce though… Right?
Only the salad eaters get the unstoppable diarrea. If you want the flesh eating worms you need to choose the beef.
If you eat both, you can let them fight it out in your gut
Sadly it is on brand for the US. Really trying to bring back the good ole days where the white man can do whatever with impunity. Keeping women in their place, bare foot and pregnant without means.
That sounds like it would go against the First Amendment.
We generally presume companies will choose not to do that to their own reputations, but apparently that presumption was wrong.
With economies of scale you end up with basically one producer producing stuff for incredibly cheap. Take poultry for example, Tyson is like the only name you’ll see at major retailers. Even most store brands are just relabeled Tyson product. So it really doesn’t matter to them if they get a couple people sick, cause we’re else you gunna go? Blackbird farms, and pay $38 a chicken? Not the very large majority of price sensitive people living paycheck to paycheck.
Just watched it. I like the idea of it, kind of reminds me of the old Wilkins coffee ads, but it really doesn’t fly the way it’s presented. It’s not shot like a comedy or anything, so you just feel like you saw actual domestic violence occur. Maybe they could have been rough housing back and forth or something?
To be fair, it wasn’t Callaway directly. It was Good Good Golf, a golf youtube channel, that aired the ad. Callaway had a partnership with them to cobrand the golf club, but dropped Good Good immediately after the ad and canceled the branded club.
Callaway still deserves the backlash from associating with them though and apparently someone giving the ok for the ad.
Thank you for the added context. It is slightly less worse, but still bad.
Kinda, callaway approved the ad, os maybe they all just suck
Looked it up, apparently they did an Obsession parody, but no one got the reference so it looked like the CEO of the company just pushed a woman to the ground for trying to touch his golf clubs.
I’ve seen the ad, I didn’t get the reference either. I haven’t seen Obsession, but apparently that’s what that was in reference to…
If you have to be told what the reference is, you’re probably not doing references right.
Why did it have to be his partner he pushed down helpless? Why couldn’t he push down a friend guy?
I honestly don’t give a fuck if it was a reference to something, depicting violence against women to protect your fucking golf clubs from cooties or whatever is wildly unacceptable. The fact that even the script got approved is mind boggling, let alone that the shoot, editing, and distribution all pushed it through.
Callaway is now on my ‘never buy, even used or on sale’ list.
Na, I’m cool with buying second hand preemo stuff. My money isn’t going to them, and no one is going to notice the logo flying 300 yards through the air.
you throw your golf clubs 300 yards?
Only the sand wedge.
Personally I don’t think any anti-woman message was had by it.
I don’t think this is anywhere on the level of “Has good jeans/genes”
That said I don’t play golf so I wasn’t going to buy the clubs even if it was a transwoman shoving Elon Musk
It is awfully suspicious how they make this ad after the CEO sells a bunch of stock while also doing this during a stock buyback.
Some have theorized the ad was done intentionally to make the stock buyback cheaper
Thank you for the context! I’ve seen the ad in passing and really for the life of me, couldn’t understand why anyone thought that was a good idea. Now I kinda get it. It’s still terrible, but at least it’s not just “haha, hurting women funny”.
A joke ad that was blown way out of proportion by a bunch of people saying it promoted women’s violence. An overreaction.
What was the joke?
A woman reaches for his club and he violently SHOVES her to the ground. How is that in any way not violence against a woman.
It was the guys IRL girlfriend and it was an obvious joke commercial. It could have easily been the same commercial with the girlfriend shoving the guy if they were her clubs or a guy shoving his brother and no one would have batted an eye.
Also, you say “violently shoves” and that’s what it was supposed to be made to look like, but if you actually look at the commercial he barely pushes her at all. It had nothing to do with being sexist or promoting violence against women. It was a funny lil “don’t touch my golf club” commercial that had nothing to do with promoting violence.
You keep saying “joke commercial”. What was the joke?
That someone would violently guard against having their golf club touched.
But he didn’t depict the other way around, they depicted a man shoving a woman down on the ground over a golf club. Nothing is funny about that and perpetuates the idea that this is ok for younger generations
Anyone who would actually believe it’s acceptable to shove tackle anyone down from touching a golf club is an idiot. The fact that you’re harping over an ad where it was a guy doing it to a woman is just the proof of that. Sounds like you’re sexist.
It’s such a gross concept. Wild anyone thought this was a funny, gotta be pretty deep in bro to not see red flags.
Lmao, “This is not who I am.” Dude, you’re not an actor, you seemed to do the thing pretty well
Like what is the point they are trying to make even?
Is the club so fragile that it’ll break if touched?
Golfers are seriously superstitious?
Women suck and can’t golf?
If anything it would have been a better commercial to do the opposite, hand the club out to literally everyone that’s playing and they all hit better.
“Our golf clubs are so good, it’ll make you want to beat a woman.” Callaway Golf Clubs
No, they’re playing on a fetish, just like sexy women in a car ad, but infinitely grosser.
They claim they were trying to riff on the movie obsession.
I mean, ‘golf company owner’ is already selecting for the biggest chud in existence.
Personally I think that if you set out to invent the most boring sport you wouldn’t be able to beat golf but I accept that some people strangely do find it attractive and they’re not all toxic masculinity “alpha” types, so they should really have seen that one coming.
I haven’t played golf yet (only minigolf), but i could see me enjoying it on a warm spring day with some clouds to take a stroll on the green while actually pursuing a specific goal. But I would rather take a walk in the woods, which is a much more relaxing area to be in.
I don’t like golf, but at least it gives you an afternoon’s walk in something resembling nature
Cricket on the other hand, takes a week to play and is just running back and forth
There is absolutely nothing about a golf course that resembles nature. It’s nothing but chemicals and underpaid guys with gas fume belching machines.
If you want a wandering outdoor sport with real nature, try out frisbee golf or field archery. They also have the bonus of not destroying habitats and polluting local waterways with way too much nitrogen fertilizer.
Aye and no. Don’t get me wrong, golf courses are as you say fertiliser polluted and lacking in biodiversity. But the rough, surrounding the whole course, and the woods they’re often placed in certainly resemble nature. There’s still birds, foxes, squirrels, etc, going about.
Certainly in Scotland at least, which is my only personal experience of courses. And being the home of golf I don’t think it’s disingenuous for me to use that as a basis for the claim.
I have seen videos and pictures of courses in places like Florida though and if a Scottish course is a tragedy of nature, a Florida course is an abomination.
And being the home of golf
Is it true that golf was invented when someone wacked the severed head of a goblin down a rabbit hole with a shillelagh?
You’re right that Scotland and a few other places with a climate identical to Scotland it’s fine. That is a very small portion of the world’s golf courses.
I’m quite fond of golf (it’s really cheap to play near me) and honestly there’s a steep learning curve. And it’s only fun once you get past that. But I like how you get instant feedback on how you did, especially if you play with friends. Improving at golf feels great, but I imagine it kinda sucks once you plateau.
That was so much more fucked up than I expected. This has to be intentional, it is very hard to believe that anyone thought this made for a good commercial in any way other than to appeal to chuds who enjoy violence against women. It is blatant and explicit, the mask is off.
Even if it was a guy pushing another guy I don’t see how that would’ve ever been a funny spoof skit.
There was no way to salvage this.
Say the guy had just grabbed the woman’s arm or put his arm in front of her to stop her instead. You still have that threat he makes towards her.
Even if that threat was changed to “no one touches my club except me”, you still have that underlying implication of a threat.
There’s no universe that could’ve salvaged this.
I think the only way would be to have it be Bart and Homer replicating the old Butterfinger ads with Homer’s golf club.
So if you walk into an electronics lab and see a piece of equipment with squee 😍 all these cool dials! 😍 and 🥰 🥰 lights!!! 🥰 🥰 and a threatening 😠 sign that says “don’t touch,” and you turn a dial just a little, but you totally didn’t hurt anything, who was in the wrong now that the equipment isn’t calibrated? The person for making the threatening sign? The person for leaving their equipment where any toddler could get to it? Or the the toddler for not having agency enough to know not to touch something that doesn’t belong to them? Are you going to pay for the engineering time it took a team to calibrate the equipment for a First Article Test the next week? You’re going to pay for the customers to fly back home after flying in on a Sunday for a Monday/Tuesday test that now can’t happen?
Just because you don’t assign a value to a golf club doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a value to the person who bought it, trained with it, and went through the effort to carry it somewhere to play golf. And golf clubs or engineering labs aside, you don’t seem like you’ve ever had something broken by someone else before you even got a chance to use it. Are you going to refund the guy’s once in a lifetime golf vacation because you don’t know what forces a graphite shaft can/can’t withstand? Are you going to replace his grandpa’s headcover that he uses because it reminds him of his deceased grandpa teaching him golf?
The engineering lab would obviously have access controls because of people who don’t understand what they’re doing. Someone’s golf clubs on a golf course, within sight of the owner and within asking distance to see if it’s OK to look at one can usually rely on common sense and etiquette. Usually…
That’s no excuse for violence
You’re lucky to live such a charmed life to be so wealthy that you can absorb an infinite amount of the universe’s shots at you.
If someone touching your golf club is the final ‘shot from the universe’ that makes you knock them down, the problem isn’t golf etiquette
So you agree with the ad’s message then? That violently shoving people to the ground if they reach for your golf clubs without asking is okay?
Again, you’re assigning a value of zero to someone else’s property.
If you’re on your way to your landlord with $500 to make rent for the month and get mugged it’s a lot different if you’ve got plenty of money in the bank and need to make another trip to retreive more versus if it’s the last $500 you had to your name and you get evicted for not making rent.
To prove my point, kindly take your most prized possession and destroy it. Post pictures here when you’re done for verification and open another thread moaning about how your stuff is broken and there’s nothing you could’ve done to stop it from happening.
So you agree with the ad’s message then?
I never said that and you shouldn’t put words in my mouth. I didn’t think people being secure in their property was such a debatable topic, but at least I understand now why invite-only, membership-required golf courses exist.
Again, you’re assigning a value of zero to someone else’s property.
So, speaking of putting words in people’s mouths, I never said that.
What I am saying is, if you see someone about to touch your stuff without asking, then the usual, sensible action is to say something along the lines of ‘hey, stop!’ Not tackle them to the ground like a linebacker.
Yes, golf clubs are expensive. I have friends who golf, and one of the things that has convinced me I don’t want to is them talking about the price of their clubs.
However, I have never yet seen a golf club that is so fragile that it will shatter into pieces when touched (and if you watch the ad, all she’s doing is reaching out to touch them). Nor do they electrocute anyone who touches them. Therefore there is absolutely no fucking reason to assult someone for touching them without asking. Yell at them, maybe. Actually attack them, no.
I’m NGL, initially i thought “This is probably one of those wacky ads taken out of context.” And no, it’s really really super gross. There’s nothing humorous about it, it’s just a really serious ad about pushing down and threatening a woman who touches your golf club.
It wouldn’t be any better if the victim was a man either. The fact that there’s no other words except ‘the victim’ is telling.
It’s all so… plausible. His shove, her little cry of pain and surprise and fear, the way he leans down and tells her not to touch his club and then stalks away and furiously grabs the club as he leaves. The ad would have been better if it had been escalated to Looney Tunes levels of reaction, but instead they leave it in this alarmingly real area of domestic violence.
holy shit lmao. i can just imagine all the people involved in making this chuckling to themselves over how funny they think it is.
I work in marketing. There’s a point where where you make so much money you honestly believe you take massive shits and everyone thinks it smells great.
That’s an ad? It looks like such low quality garbage shot on some dumbass’s phone.
i had to watch an ad before i got to watch the ad
To add just a little bit of extra “fuck you” to the situation, this was the first advertisement from Callaway featuring women. Practically progressive!
That was probably the worst ad I’ve ever seen. Concept, execution, humor, morality, all terrible. There’s not one redeeming factor here.
Maga meat is deported immigrants. Sounds crazy, but wasn’t long ago they were telling the world Ohioans were “eating the pets.”
He’s had to have eaten at least one child post rape, right? I mean, that’s his modus operandi.
Also, never met a golfer I could tolerate for more than 20 seconds. Mini golf is where the real ones play.
I got a course with a pirate ship closeish by. It makes me feel like a real adult playing it.
As it should!
All correct except the golf. If you can’t pretend cracking drive ain’t therapeutic.
Sure, so would smashing in some billionaire kneecaps. But we don’t have courses for that.
…Unless, you just do it on golf courses? Hold on, I’m doing my own thing now
They also ate the cost of the tariffs instead of raising prices
Every time I hear anything about Costco it always seems to be the only US company that’s run by someone within an actual brain and who is capable of thinking more than 1 quarter into the future.
Apparently they do exist in Europe but I’ve never seen them
I shill for Costco whenever I can because this has been my experience too. Their employee badges have “member since” on them and there’s a LOT of people who have been there for 15+ years. Also 2 dollars gets you a slice of pizza that takes up a whole paper plate.
They are in Canada too, and yeah they are the best US store chain by far. Still don’t buy from them tho
In Canada it feels like a, “the enemy of my enemy” situation. Yes they’re a massive US company, but our own grocery oligopoly doesn’t feel great to support either. Shopping local is the best option, but cost can often be a problem.
True enough. I’d rather keep money from flowing south tho.
Costco Canada employee here. Yeah there is a lot of corporate bullshit, but also a lot of good. I help send out pallets of stuff to local food banks and animal shelters every day. I have the mid level benefits that give me 80 percent of all my healthcare expenditures. All of them.
In two weeks I will top out on the pay scale at $34.40/hr. I started with Costco in 2022, and I’m just a returns clerk in the back, not a manager or supervisor.
I think there are two Costco stores in Paris. Not sure about anywhere else.
It’s true, and I think a big factor is they have a genuinely brilliant business model.
Basically they sell everything in bulk and roughly at cost, and make their whole profit from membership fees. This is brilliant because it creates upsides for all 3 parties involved:
- the consumer gets cheap items
- the brands selling things get large bulk sales negotiated in advance
- Costco gets a stable and extremely popular store
The meat comes from Russia I’d wager . The CIA director travelled on the c17 Globemaster heavy lift aircraft to deliver Fort Knox as payment.
(I’m being conspiracy sarcastic btw)
If you didn’t say you were being sarcastic, you could probably get bluanon types to run with it.
Costco get most of its meat from US farms**
do americans even realise how garbage their meat is?
So garbage that international demand makes us the 4th biggest exporter of beef. Get over yourself.
Second biggest beef producer (just a hair behind Brazil), but only fourth biggest exporter. Both of which are natural consequences of just being a large landmass.
Most US produced beef is banned in countries with actual food standards due to the use of artificial growth hormones.
lmao. doesnt make your meat good.
4th place is 3rd loser.
the mass produced, factory butchered and packaged shit that might even be sent overseas for processing and come back… yea, that shit can be pretty bad… especially the ‘tubes’ of unknown origins.
the stuff raised out on the farm (sis’ parents used to raise their own, 2 head at a time), or the neighbor’s farm (where we all get it from now)? not the same product. not.even.close.
How much of that goes to Costco, though?
Small farms sell to livestock auctions.
Those tend to have buyers from large meat processing plants.
That meat is then sold as premium grade, usually steak and roast cuts.
The rest is then used for ground meat, or pet feed.
Unless it’s chicken. Then everyone is in the same leaky boat. Seriously, chicken is nasty. Every single country in the world has switched to fast growing chicks, that need to be slaughtered long before adulthood because they get too big to survive on their own.
Then they’re too young to really develop flavor, so the processed meat has to be plumped further with injections of salted chicken broth.
The farm is only part of it. Whether they were raised on a factory farm or your neighbor’s farm, they all go to the same slaughterhouse. Unless you know farmers who do their own slaughtering, which I highly doubt.
That isn’t necessarily better, you have higher rates of accidental additions if you don’t operate the saws perfectly at diy small scale.
do americans even realise how garbage their meat is?
No, they don’t. Part of it is the media doesn’t report on it, but part of it is it’s illegal to take photos or get video from inside of slaughterhouses. Also, a lot of people don’t want to know, because it would be inconvenient. They like the taste of meat, and they don’t want to quit eating it.
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
do you realize how dumb you sound?
America has the greatest, highest quality meat available.
is it dumber than that statement?
As much as this is basically an ad, I agree.
Support businesses that don’t take any shit because then you know they actually care about providing a service in addition to making money, as opposed to strictly the latter no holds barred.
Costco was very clear with the tariffs that they would eat the cost and just sue because they felt it was illegal. Low and behold, it was illegal, and they are getting a refund after not raising costs like everyone else. And their customers loved them for it.
This is actually their entire buisness model as well. They don’t really make much money from their products. They make almost 100% profit from their memberships. If I remember right, over 2/3 of their total profit comes from membership revenue. So if they piss people off and make them cancel their membership, that would really fuck them over.
Costco Canada employee here…
Idk if it’s the same in the US, but up here the highest markup on anything is 14% above cost.
I think it is about the same here.
Who would’ve thought that doing the right thing is good for public sentiment.
Costco is the Bernie Sanders of retail.
Notice that all the employees there smile and laugh as they work. It’s heartening.
The amount of personal expression allowed is honestly impressive, and I love it. I saw an androgynous person wearing mild BDSM accessories working there and my thoughts were “go you, I’m so glad you’re allowed to be yourself in the workplace.”
Hopefully that kind of stuff can spread and we can get rid of treating workers as soulless drones elsewhere too.
Our local Costco banned rainbows and compared them to swasticas. So I don’t go there anymore.
Yikes… Where is that, so I can avoid the area?
I’ve been around the ones in West Denver mainly and the impression I get is that people can wear largely whatever as long as they’re doing their jobs, I could be wrong though
You should message corporate. They would probably like to hear this. If you got enough people to mention it, it will reverse. Their buisness model depends on customers being happy and keeping/renewing their memberships.
Tried that. A few times. Some people agreed with that. Others were really upset by it. And ultimately nothing was done because the policy was instituted after a Karen complained about an employee wearing a rainbow pin.
That was not the Costco and was rather some idiot who was put into a management position. Chances are that if corporate learned of it they’d have something to say.
Welcome to Costco. We love you.
waiting for them to drop their flock contract.
I’m not holding my breath
Flock Contract? None of the stores around me have cameras, from what I’ve noticed. 'Least in comparison to the Lowes and Home Depot, they seem to wear it with pride.
Your local store may use a less identifiable ALPR such as the Axon models that are coming to light, or may somehow be unaffected, but all the ones in my area have straight up flock cameras outside of them.
ALPRs are mentioned in their privacy policy: https://www.costco.com/f/-/privacy-policy
'Preciate that, chief. Something that is notable though is that I can’t find a reference to any external parties in their ALPR section. Usually you see some clause disclaiming that they “Collect this data through a third party that is not governed under this privacy notice,” or something in that vein.
I am personally not going to give the benefit of the doubt to a corporation who I have witnessed working with Flock, or any entity using the 4th amendment breaking “ALPR” technology in general.
If only I could shop at Costco without having to go near Costco…
In case you are serious, they have a website and mobile app and they deliver most things they have in the warehouse. Some things are only available on the app/website.
Even though Costco does a lot of good, they still have just the same amount of bad too. Just because they’re the healthier option doesn’t mean they’re healthy.
That’s why I voted Trump. Kamala did a lot of good, but in the end everything is the same so I just voted Trump because nothing matters.
I feel the need to stress that this is a fictitious event.
I wasn’t saying anything like that but I also don’t agree with that statement. Thank you for voting though.
This is such a lukewarm thought. They’re a grocery store. Of course they sell unhealthy options. They’re being called out as noteworthy here because they go above and beyond other grocery stores and checking to make sure that the food is actually healthy and not going to give you diseases. Take your “both sides” style argument somewhere else.
I wouldn’t say so, it’s more open to a boarder view headed on the post and comments. I’m down to have a specific topic conversation if you like. And my comment may be playing “both sides” but they’re not progressive enough for my taste.
I almost bought some Taylor Farms salad mix from Costco yesterday before my wife pointed out the brand name (what can I say, it was on sale and I’m a sucker for a discount). Costco is better than most retailers, but there are still plenty of problematic brands that they do carry.
AT this point its the only place i trust with my food.
AFAIK Aldi and Trader Joe’s are pretty safe as well.
This is such an 1800’s sentence. Not aimed at you it’s just… Mental.
I get it. 😂 definitely not buying dairy or eggs anywhere else. I can gt local veggies easily.
Is Costco somewhere anyone can shop at in the USA? In the UK they only allow people who work in select professions.
There’s no restriction based on professions. You just have to pay the annual membership fee, which is about $60.
Not sure if this is what they were talking about, but there are some Costcos that only sell to businesses. Have a bit of an uproar where I live because one downtown is switching to that, and there’s not many other grocery options in the area.
The regular Costco members can still shop at a business center but the merchandise is not targeted towards them.
The business centers sell things like cases of cups, plates, disposable silverware, legs, shoulders and other large cuts of meat, cases of common restaurant ingredients, salt and pepper shakers in bulk for tables etc.
We go to the business center by us every so often because they carry real American cheese in bulk, not the Kraft garbage the regular Costco has.
In Canada, you used to have to have a public service ID or select professional societies. They got rid of that a couple decades ago. Now you pay the free for a regular or executive membership and you’re good.
You have to pay for a membership in the US
Huh? What’s this about specific professions?
https://www.costco.co.uk/membership-goldstar-questions
Current or Retired Employee of:
- Banking / Finance
- Local Government
- Fire / Rescue Service
- Post Office
- Airlines
- Education
- Police Force
- Civil Service / Armed Forces
- Medical / Health Service
- Insurance
OR Qualified as:
- Qualified / Certified / Chartered Accountant Chartered Architect
- Doctors (MD) / Dentist / Optician / * Pharmacist
- Chartered Surveyor
- Solicitor / Barrister / Magistrate / Advocate
- Chartered Engineer / Civil etc
OR Pre Approved Membership
You are a current or retired employee of an approved company that has been preapproved and an agreement has been arranged between your company and Costco Wholesale UK Limited. Membership list of Pre Approved Businesses
https://www.costco.co.uk/membership-common-questions
There’s more than that kind of membership
As I understand from what I’ve read on there is to actually physically shop in their shops (rather than only only) it’s that or be a business. Unless I’m completely mis reading it.
It used to be like that in the US a few decades ago, and then they transitioned into a “professional store hours” and “public store hours” situation. Now they’ve scrapped the restrictions entirely for the normal warehouses and in highly populated areas they built more warehouses called “Costco Business” warehouses.
I’ve never heard of it. I wouldn’t buy it regardless.
