So you think Costco's master plan is to sell people hot dogs and soda at or below cost, just ordinary hot dogs, and as a result of eating one hot dog and drinking one soda when they do their monthly Costco trip, they will develop chronic illness and need to pick up prescription drugs there? Even if you're that much of a sociopath, there are much better business models.

Yes. The messaging from Costco is that it's OK to eat this way. It feeds the overall mentality of unhealthy members that this lifestyle goes inline with their over consumption of oversized foods at Costco generally.

That there is nothing wrong with grabbing a hotdog, pizza, and soda on your way to pick up your blood pressure "medication" at the pharmacy once you're done stuffing yourself with the food causing your high blood pressure.

I suspect going around grumpy at the world thinking a hot dog is "borderline child abuse" gives you more stress-induced health issues than the occasional hot dog would.

The way some parents feed their kids straight into obesity and other diseases is indeed legalized child abuse.

Cool, I'd love to hear about the education programs you've started to help inform these parents of the harm they're doing.

You're right in that companies don't really care about you, only your money. Though they don't have a negative agenda to you either. They don't care about you at all.

There is nothing sinister about it.

With misguided expectations so low, you give up any motivation to hold companies to a higher standard.

In fact, companies usually prioritize earning above almost anything else, but there are exceptions. CostCo is one of them. They spent a long time paying their employees much, much higher than stockholders wanted them to. CVS is another, giving up tobacco sales at great cost to focus on health care.

It's possible to be cynical about these or any other things, but it is clearly untrue that every corporation cares only about its own bottom line.

Individuals also don't care anything but their bottom line, so this whole line of reasoning is void of meaning.

That's just not true.

It's not true for companies either.

According to the currently most widely accepted theory of business, public companies have no responsibility to anyone other than their shareholders. In practice this means the bottom line trumps all other considerations.