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Re:The Slow Death of Authenticity in an Attention Economy by jtr1 on Friday October 27, 2023 @10:49AM (#38039201)
They are implying that Costco's yearly membership fee filters out poor people, who shop at Walmart instead. They consider these people to be undesirable customers because people with money do not like to associate with them.
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Re:The Slow Death of Authenticity in an Attention Economy by jjoonathan on Friday October 27, 2023 @10:52AM (#38039261)
It's not the fee so much as the focus on bulk that selects for big fridges/pantries/houses/cars/families.
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Re:The Slow Death of Authenticity in an Attention Economy by hotnfresh on Friday October 27, 2023 @12:08PM (#38040351)
Costco shopper here who likes shopping at Dollar General and Aldi. Hell, even Dollar Tree and such.

It's not just that they're poor. There's something about wal mart.

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Re:The Slow Death of Authenticity in an Attention Economy by goostavos on Friday October 27, 2023 @12:41PM (#38040747)
I blame it's cold, sterile lighting. I don't know why, but something about Walmart's lights make it feel clinical. More like a laboratory simulating a grocery store and running experiments on the masses. Thus the walmart people (they're plants, obviously)
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