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Re:Shopping Sucks Now by mark-r on Friday December 13, 2019 @06:32PM (#21786614)
One of the reasons I have a membership to CostCo is that I've come to trust their product choices. If they only carry one variation of a product, it's almost certainly perfectly adequate and probably better than I could have selected on my own.
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Re:Shopping Sucks Now by DrScump on Saturday December 14, 2019 @04:27AM (#21788617)
Bear in mind that financials in the form of exclusive corporate deals factor in, too.

I used to buy a lot of videotape at Price Club. I really liked the Maxell Hi-Fi tapes; they carried multiple grades of the Maxell line. After Costco took over, only Sony was sold.

Another example: the credit card partnerships. First Discover only, then Amex only, now Citi-branded Visa.

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