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Costco workers in Norfolk have unionised and Costco are seething.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah, some of the upper echelon even got chewed out and threatened to never raise the price of a hot dog. While I see them as a company that treats their employees well, and customers fairly, I do see the C-suite and their teams generally as capable of changing all that to squeeze out more money.

That said, time will tell; if they don't pull a starbucks and start closing down businesses, then they aren't anti-union. Then again, unlike Starbucks, Costco typically buys the land and builds massive warehouses... that cant normally be said for Starbucks's investment in their stores; they typically rent in a shopping center.