To: grundle
Costco has a very limited inventory.
2 posted on
09/03/2013 5:46:48 PM PDT by
Paladin2
To: Paladin2
Costco also sub-contracts their employees.
3 posted on
09/03/2013 5:49:43 PM PDT by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
To: Paladin2
For me Costco is useless, it is too expensive, I shop at a combination of 4 stores and markets for what I want, three of them on one route on the same day when my work puts me on that road, and Walmart on it’s own day because it is where I buy mostly staples and toiletries.
5 posted on
09/03/2013 5:54:32 PM PDT by
ansel12
To: Paladin2
In addition to the limited inventory, Costco doesn’t worry about presentation as much as WM. Instead of stocking 2 cases of item X to one spot, two feet down 3 cases of item Y, etc. They normally just drop a whole pallet or disposable cardboard shipper, cut the plastic off and move on. No taking items out of boxes, etc.
8 posted on
09/03/2013 6:02:19 PM PDT by
matt04
To: Paladin2
I'm glad you made this point. The author of the article did as well. She wrote that Wal-Mart has about 108,000 stock-keeping units (SKUs) compared to Costco or Trader Joe's 4000 and that necessarily requires more labor to manage. 108,000 SKUs is a heck of a a lot of products to keep track of.
12 posted on
09/03/2013 6:07:47 PM PDT by
Crolis
("To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it." -GKC)
To: Paladin2
Costco has a very limited inventory.So does Sam's Club. It would probably be more accurate to compare Costco and them rather than Costco and Wal-Mart.
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