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[+] 96 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] 91 points 2 years ago

You load 16 carts and what do you get?

Another day older and a deeper in debt

St. Peter don't you call me 'cuz I can't go

I owe my soul to my local CostCo

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  • [–] 82 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Lmao just do communism wtf is this

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago

    Murikkka is collapsing, and you get to live to see it. A nation that never owned up to its pseudo feudalism is trying to turn back the clock just the right amount to give the big bourgeois scum more time to oppress the rest of us.

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  • [–] 79 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I can't believe that Costco has fallen in the hands of the woke communist cabal and are now trying to sneakily introduce 15 minutes cities. This is a threat to all carbrained treatlers all across Americaliberty-weeping

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  • [+] 75 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (11 children)
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  • [–] 55 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Based. 1.50 hotdogs every morning for breakfast lunch and djnner.

    (I die of massive organ failure 2 weeks in)

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    [–] 46 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You've heard of "Work from Home" β€” now introducing "Live at Work"

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    now introducing "Live at Work"

    google had a much funnier version of this with their company sleeping pods

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    lol looking back at that moment in time when all the tech workers were coaxed into full time daycare labor centers.

    Bet they don't even have ball pits and nerf wars anymore.

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  • [–] 50 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Before covid, I worked in a couple offices that had stuff like that (ping pong tables, foosball, gaming consoles, etc) and they were 95% used by the sales and marketing bros.

    Engineers were always so busy we'd get judged and told to go back to work if we used them angery

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    [–] 43 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Putting apartments on top of big box stores seems like a perfectly fine thing to do wherever the stores are in urban or more populated areas. The only real problem here beyond the usual landlord-parasitism is if these start being handed out to Costco employees tied to their employment status (and even then if you're working retail your living situation is probably fucked when you lose your job anyway, so I'm not sure it even exasperates that problem all that much in hellworld).

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    [–] 42 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

    I hate that I'm saying this, but it might actually be useful to have companies do this and have housing as part of a compensation package to exert some downward pressure on rent.

    Realistically I know it will be terrible but I can see how it could be beneficial in our current framework/situation

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  • [–] 54 points 2 years ago

    You hate that you're saying it because you know that in actual fact having your landlord, HOA and your boss all be the same fucken capitalist pig is bad.

    You're saying it because there's a gushing artery and we don't get to be picky about the quality of bandage in a crisis.

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    [–] 42 points 2 years ago

    I'd rather have this than the giant single-story warehouses. I'm a big fan of mixed-use.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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    I have very mixed feelings about this, and I'm seeing that Costco is actually just renting warehouse space from some apartment company that built apartments with a warehouse underneath, and not building and operating the apartments themselves like I thought it would

    Also this one in particular demolished a community hospital and replaced it, apparently

    Cool cool cool This gonna be baaaad

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Am I missing something about whatever thrive is? I mean obviously having to rent your living space is bad but given that, renting from Costco seems no worse than renting from any other private landlord or company and the land use seems a lot better

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    "Thrive" is referring to Thrive Living, a "national real estate development and investment firm" affiliated with Magnum Real Estate Group.

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    [–] 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    woohoo, I get to live above a Costco 10 miles from the city, away from anything actually interesting

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    [–] 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Hear me out though, I would trust costco as a landlord.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    i dunno about anywhere else in the country but here in the bay area you can't find parking in a costco parking lot any time other than when they first open or are about 2 minutes from closing.. good luck spending an hour trying to park after getting home from work

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago

    And put a metro line below next

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Grocery stores with apartments above them are omnipresent in Norway, so this doesn't really stand out to me as a bad thing, if anything it's a better use of space. Is there something I'm missing?

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    [–] 22 points 2 years ago

    Uhh capitalism breeds innovation?

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This is the stage beyond company towns: company arcologies. You will live, work, and die all in one convenient place just so long as you aren't fired into the ash wastes for being 13 seconds late to your 16 hour shift

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    [–] 20 points 2 years ago

    New type of Costco Guys incoming

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    they're gonna bring back feudal society but with the masses bound to corporate entities, arent they?

    the fascism of the 21st century is being owned by a corporate lord and living on your work site isnt it?

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    [–] 19 points 2 years ago

    cant afford, dont care

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