Costco isn’t nodding off at the wheel.

They basically told these guys to go to hell. They were like, “not only are we not changing, we’re also not going to do some stupid report that you asked for, because it’s a stupid idea”

Finally, a sensible CEO paying their employees well and not bending to evil Wall Street.

That’s why I’m sticking with Costco and dropping BJ’s.

Come through Costco.

so does anyone really know what DEI is? (Diversity Equity and Inclusion). Work for a non profit that part of the work is advocacy for people with disabilities. Let me provide some examples of how we implement DEI. Let’s say a city is planning for Emergency Preparedness – we encourage and advocate for city officials to include people with disabilities in the planning committee so they may get a perspective of what issues people with disabilities may encounter, say in the event of a mandatory evacuation – such as the need for extra DME equipment or emergency vehicles with space for wheelchairs, infographics in Large Print, or ASL interpreters during emergency broadcast. Other examples are having a parks and recreation built playgrounds that are not only accessible but are inclusive. Some city build playgrounds with mulch, this may be accessible but it is not inclusive to a kid with mobility issues that requires a mobility aid, so we encourage they build new playgrounds with padded turf. Just a few but there plenty of other scenarios outside of disability issues.

Costco continuing to be based. Love it.

Isn’t the CEO the same one that threatened to kill a shareholder for wanting to raise the prices of their hotdogs?

A true template for “corporate responsibility and empathy”. If corporation have the rights of humans they should also have to show the decency of the best of us

Let’s support them. Let’s get memberships.

I’m still waiting for someone to explain what is so bad about DEI. I mean, it’s a rhetorical question, but no one has a cogent argument against it.

Hell yeah

Common Costco W

Baller move. I hate Costco with an infernal passion undying for reasons completely unrelated to their business practices but I think I gotta join now.

Good…refuse to just lay over for the fascists.

Love Costco, always have. Great place to work and shop

Before you get too crazy with how altruistic this guy is and the board is, these are activist shareholders who care more about making a political statement than the stock price. The CEO and the board care about the the stock price, as is their main responsibility. They all know that DEI policies are important to customers. If they weren’t, they’d have revoked them themselves.

So when I speak to conservatives on this and try to get their opinions (and they don’t just double down on their own justifications for being bigots)

They usually bring up stuff like Black Rock being being behind all the DEI etc, and how it’s a big conspiracy

What’s yalls thoughts on this?

I didn’t really like Costco, but I do now.


We need to know the shareholders cause fuck them in particular

Eventually someone will just come along and create Evil Costco with expensive hot dogs, bigotry, and massive profits. Until then, we salute you non-evil Costco 🫡

hard


By Any Means Necessary

SAY IT WITH ME: WOKE is a made up term devised to create division and controversy.

The entire and SINCERE premise in “woke ideology” is to understand that certain words, phrases, or actions that seemed innocent actually do offend a person or group of people; Accepting that idea, and adjusting our words/phrases/actions so that it is no longer (reasonably) offensive.

Like, it’s not hard. Just respect others and adapt when necessary.

An example: I was born mid 80s, going to school in elementary, there was a specific sitting position we (at the time) learned as sitting “Indian style”. The controversy surrounding the aforementioned term was not something I was aware of until well into adulthood. But, when it was brought to my attention, almost instantly I could understand (at that point, from at least a surface level) why it was controversial. I was told that sitting style was now referred to at “criss cross applesauce”, it made sense to me, I adjusted…..and let me tell ALL of you (ALL is emphasized for those who most need to hear, interpret, and digest this), adjusting to be more considerate (of those who expressed being, one way or another, impacted by the former term) cost me, all inclusive, emotionally, financially, etc.) NOTHING.

We can all be better, we just need to listen and put in effort.