I'm pretty much with Gary on this. My experience with Costco for food is excellent. The vast majority of their food is excellent quality at reasonable prices. Their fresh meats are quite good. Their fresh fish is excellent: our local store has salmon, halibut, red rockfish, tuna and even razor clams in season. As far as the Wally-world comparison, Costco's employees seem happy, I don't see much turnover. I think they must have pretty decent working conditions. Their made-in-China products are like most other sources; much of that stuff is NLA from US sources.
As far as their produce, it is nice and at a good price, but packaged in quantity too much for me and the wife. I do prefer a local family-owned business for produce: http://chucksproduce.com/ which is also closer to home. Are the big-box stores responsible for the loss of American manufacturing? I think it is way more complex than that. Greg -----Original Message----- From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Alex Chamberlain Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 7:50 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] Tar On Nov 21, 2013 4:07 PM, "Gary Hurst" <jabbahur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > yeah, well, i'm about the ultimate > costco jockrider. my current position is that if costco doesn't have >it, i don ;'t want it. great produce! > > You are delusional as a human being and shooting yourself in the foot as a businessman. Costco is almost as bad as Wal-Mart when it comes to destroying domestic manufacturing and small business. Every time you buy something at a big box store, a little piece of America dies. Alex _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
