Re:The Enduring Enigma of Costco's $1.50 Hot Dog and Soda Combo
by nightski on Friday June 15, 2018 @06:32PM
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I shop at Costco regularly (once every two weeks at least, sometimes weekly). Yes I gasp drive a car. But I put less than 3k miles on my car a year since I work from home. Maybe shopping at Costco isn't the problem for most people. It's working in an office.
Re:The Enduring Enigma of Costco's $1.50 Hot Dog and Soda Combo
by mmt on Friday June 15, 2018 @07:49PM
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To clarify, my point wasn't about the driving itself, but rather, what both driving and Costco (and bulk purchases in general) represent, which is incompatible with a walkable, high-density city.
I'm confident some people also object to the car use itself, but that's way too general a topic.
I suspect this is the real source of the hostility, rather than aesthetics: Costco represents, in general, a larger-land-footprint, car-dependent, suburban (or even semi-rural) lifestyle.
There's likely something of a false dichotomy at work here, as well, in that there could be Costco-compatible dense-city living, but that doesn't seem to be true currently.