Comment 74138

By DowntownInHamilton (registered) | Posted February 10, 2012 at 07:45:34 in reply to Comment 74135

Ah, but the Costco model includes members paying a yearly fee. I've never been inside a Sam's club, but from initial reading online, you are able to buy without a membership at a premium.

Anyone know the yearly fees between the 2 retailers?

Also, what's the comparison like inside the stores? Same selection? Same sizes for product? Has Costco been around longer than Sam's Club, giving it a foot up?

The new reality is that we're reverting back to early industrial-revolution type tactics by companies. You're expendable, you'll get burned out, but you'll move on to the next one. I work in a similar environment where we have high turnover due to things above, however, there's 10 people waiting to fill that 1 spot. I work in IT. With the layoffs at Bell and another large IT firm there's about 1000 people freshly out of jobs exported to other nations. Those people are now going to be willing to settle for less, at least until something better comes along. What's the solution? I don't know, since even the threat of unionization to protect the interests of the workers against those of the company will now cause a place to shut down and ship overseas. I've seen it. One place I work did just that - they caught wind of a possible unionization of about 400 workers at 2 locations and decided it was easier to close up shop here except for a token staff, and outsource to the Philippines where they paid less than half what they did here per person, and without benefits.

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