Doesn't Costco negotiate pretty brutally to secure favorable terms for its purchasing and that ostensibly reflects in the prices members eventually benefit from? I've heard that multiple times and I can't really criticize Costco since I have noticed they really haven't seemed to have artifically price-gouged or have barely even raised prices on much or what I've come to depend on and expect from them

Think I saw the purchasing negotating rooms, looked like a police station. Very intimidating lol, glad I'm on the member side of that one