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Originally Posted by creaturecat
Walmart and Costco are symbols of the North American dream being flushed down the toilet. For better or worse ......
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I do try to shop locally, but sometimes it's not feasible.
Still have $150 bucks in shares from the residential co-op I'll never cash in.
I'm also a food co-op member, but their prices are through the roof probably due to high downtown rent and the property taxes that create it.
The people that shop there are mostly for extravagant community support programs supported by taxes, so there is that.
From an environmental and efficiency standpoint there is something to the box stores like Costco.
Instead of driving around all day to twenty different specialty stores located on all corners of town and wasting gas, customers can get it all from one source.
The small traditional downtowns used to serve this purpose.
Costco does make an effort to source locally/fair trade on a few items, maybe only as a
PR gesture, but their purchasing dept seems to know what they are doing.
In general they sell descent products IMO.