Anyone want to start a petition to cancel their Costco membership if they capitulate?
Hell yeah
Yes please someone start one. I hardly go since grocery prices are too damn high to be able to afford to bulk buy. I can either get a weeks groceries or I can get 3 months of TP and a few other items.
But bulk buying is cheaper per unit normally?
Bulk prices are generally cheaper per unit but it's very, very possible to not be able to bear the upfront cost of a large number of units and be forced by that to spend more money in smaller chunks over a longer time
That sounds like single with no kids lol
I digress, I do now shop at a local store for most things. Cost the same as Costco for less groceries, but there’s less waste
Nope married with 2 kids. Shits expensive yo.
Sorry to hear that. Your area must be more expensive than mine :(
investment arm of the Southern Baptist churches
I'm not one of those people who complains about religious tax exemptions and the like. But if you have an "investment arm" then you are not a church, you are some sort of weird, cultist bank.
And we need to pass as federal law, the moment a church or religious group with any tax exempt status tries to get political they instantly lose tax exempt status and now owe all the back taxes and penalties due to not paying taxes. Make it painful to be stupid
That's technically already the case. Just not really enforced.
Stop giving in to christofascists.
Wait, six thousand??? This really might get serious if they increase their petition by like a hundred thousand more.
I'm fairly certain that my local Costco has at least double that number of transactions every single day.
6,000 Costco customers
172 million in shares
Lol. The combined market cap of those 5 companies is over a trillion dollars. So they own a combined 0.01% of those companies. Whooptie fucking doo
Those 6,000 families will suffer more from the loss of CostCo than CostCo will suffer from the loss of those 6,000 memberships.
If costco rejects them, it almost makes me want to buy a second membership.
They probably lose more money on hot dogs and rotisserie chickens than these weirdos spend
More roast chicken & hot dogs for the rest of us!
Lol get fucked
This is what cancel-membership culture looks like folks.
I can see Walmart caving, but Costco? Yeah right. As long as that chicken is $5, no one is leaving.
This is the kinda shit that they do that makes church membership go down. It's been on a downward trend for decades, and they still think they're some kind of powerful majority. Fuck. Off.
Fuck Christian groups
The religious coalition behind the petition owns about $172 million in shares of the five companies.
OK so basically nothing. Those companies combined are worth hundreds of billions. Maybe even over one trillion in total.
Walmart alone has a market cap of $558 billion.
Who fuckin cares what a bunch of dumbfuck religious fuckwits think‽ Where are the stupid idiots who push bullshit going to shop? Walmart pushed out alternatives years, so they have no choice. Shut the fuck you bassakward assholes
My guess is Walmart will cave, Costco won't. Target waits to see what happens before making official moves.
I dunno. Where are these Christian groups going to shop besides Walmart? We know they can't afford anywhere else and if they could, they wouldn't be shopping at Walmart.
Dollar General is like the most rural store chain to ever exist. It's also crazy extensive; going to where Walmart wouldn't even bother with.
Walmart will probably choose what's more profitable. Probably pills.
Sorry if I wasn't clear but that's my logic and point, yeah. I think maybe it got interpreted the opposite way or I'm tone deaf to your sarcasm or smth
fuck em 🤷♂️
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