See the thread on the cult page itself: Costco Canada.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CostcoCanada/comments/1nb7aj1/are_you_still_buying_canadian_at_costco/
People are dropping their Costco memberships, and slowly weaning their shopping habits away from the American Bank owned: Costco. This is still the minority viewpoint as seen in the comments. But our education campaigns are slowly shifting the tides!
Remember, Costco is an American cult.
The same herd mentality that brought sheep into Costco’s doors will bring them out, and onto a Canadian run option.
Costco has no direct Canadian wholesale competitor, yet.
But I have a sense that’s going to change very soon. Costco is absolutely ripe for Canadian disruption. Go Leafs!
I’m currently rabidly anti-American (haven’t intentionally bought an American product since the trade war began, accidentally bought some plums that were mislabeled a couple of months ago :( ) but Costco gets a pass from me. They pay their Canadian employees far better than a Canadian store does, they haven’t backed off their diversity policies, and their prices on basically everything is much better than Canadian monopolies. I don’t buy American products there at all but I will continue to shop there until something changes probably. They’re the last American company I really do business with.
I could have written your comment, lol.
With inflation hitting food prices especially hard, getting the best value per dollar at Costco makes a huge difference. Anything at Costco is almost always ½-¾ what we’d pay elsewhere, and their return policy is incredible, so there’s much lower risk when buying durable goods, too.
I’m all for minimizing buying American, but I’m not going to pay double to shop local.
Costco is one of the few US companies that is standing up to Trump, though. They refused to drop DEI measures.
