I fixed my copy.
Posted on 10/29/2009 6:28:01 PM PDT by HarleyD
As a nation, we face...
This is an excerpt. Click on link for full article to read the same old garbage. See my comment below for why this is posted.
(Excerpt) Read more at costcoconnection.com ...
These two people have little in common in terms of politics or stature. (There is only one person I can think of who has both a Nobel Peace Prize and the title of vice president of the United States on his resume.)...
I respond to this nonsense by shopping at Sam’s Club.
CONTACT COSTCO...
Wow! Glad there is not a Cosco near me. Those statements should rile up a few shoppers!
Never shopped in a Costco, but I’ll boycott them anyway if Algore is their ‘spokesmodel.’ Blech!
Thanks for the link, it saved me time sending them my pertinent piece of my mind... membership gone.
Oh, they have a link that says they do not endorse any political views... this is a parallel universe!
I fixed my copy.
Any businessman that touts the need for so-called climate change legislation deserves whatever happens to his business if it is enacted.
This moron needs to consider the amount of income his customers will be able to spend at his establishment after being raped by this garbage legislation that will address an invented “problem”.
I thought I’d take my copy next time I go there and drop it off where COSTCO would have to pick it up and dispose of it. Just giving thier trash back to them .
I was FURIOUS when I got that mag. Then, elsewhere I read that Costco is now going to accept food stamps from their customers. My question: who is paying the membership fees for the customers using food stamps?
I am considering seriously that I should discontinue my membership. I also beong to Sam’s and Sam’s has more things that I need and better hours.
As for the people shopping with food stamps, Costco is not necessarily a good investment for them. THe packages are too large for the average family, take up too much room, and often are not a bargain.
You are welcome. I sent them a piece of my mind as well.
Al Gore drips hypocrisy.
Just paid my yearly membership ($100) last week. They better make the “food-stamp” people pay for their membership like my family.
I don’t care if they take food stamps as long as they don’t get a free-ride off of my membership fees. One reason we have memberships at costco and sams is to avoid all the hassle and drag of shopping elsewhere.
I hate long lines at places like Wal-Mart. If Costco ends up like them, I will stop going there, even though I do save a bunch of cash at both Sams and Costco.
Our membership is due up tomorrow, 31 Oct. After 18 loyal years, we are not renewing.
It's not so much that it is Al Gore on the cover of your most recent magazine or that you pander to his hypocrisy....who cares?
Nope....it is Costco's condescending, insulting attitude of pretending that anyone else has an equal play: such as Glenn Beck, as in "hey, we're fair and balanced!....gosh, we let him pay for a full page ad for his book!"
We are offended by your low opinion of our intelligence. Your utter contempt in thinking we can't tell the difference solidifies our now equally low opinion of your business practice.
Oh, on the other hand....our friends and family have a HIGH opinion of our intelligence....and now a very low opinion of Costco.
18 years? the love affair is over.
I fixed mine too. It’s in the trash. So much for Algore helping the environment. His article caused a magazine to go straight to the trash, not the recycle bin. And he has not done anything for the economy either as I won’t be buying based on the ads in this issue. I did the same thing with the Michael Fox cover edition.
The editor at Costco mag needs to go, and this may be the article that puts him on the sidewalk.
And for all their talk about green, Costco has some great products. Unfortunately, they save people money, which gives those same people money to spend on trips and other carbon activities. So the management at Costco is delusional. If they really thought there was a problem, they’d raise their prices. And if the econuts are really out there like Costco thinks, why doesn’t Costco offer the Eco membership. All their eco members could pay a 10 percent fee on all purchases to help “mother earth”.
I’m dismayed and disappointed to see Costco Connection caught up in the environmental propaganda of global warming. Paying large “carbon tax” does not solve a problem of not having enough fuel. Solar, wind and geothermal energy will not be enough. We will simply not have enough power to fuel all those electric cars unless we tap our vast reserves and follow Europe in building nuclear power plants or clean coal. Something Al Gore and the environmentalists don’t want to do. (How many nuclear plants were built while he was vice president?) There is something unseemly of environmentalists like Al Gore, touting a energy crisis while owning vast estates and flying all over the globe to promote solutions in which he stands to make billions of dollars on if implemented.
Editor David Fuller seems to justify this article by saying Costco Connection gave equal time to Glenn Beck when they allowed him to promote his book “in a full-page paid advertisement in last month’s issue”. Really??? Then he took a cheap shot in suggesting Al Gore must have more stature since he “has both a Nobel Peace Prize and the title of vice president”. Well, as we saw recently, Nobel Peace Prizes can be awarded for no reason and a nightly 2.5 million television viewing audience has far more people talking than the current vice president. I’d suggest you give Glenn Beck equal time since you promote “balance”.
I’ll not cut off my nose to spite my face. The greeter at the Costco here has a son fighting in Afghanistan and is as right wing as me. And the folks, most of them, are pretty friendly. I’ll keep shopping at Costco, but I am dying to see what repercussions this decision to put that overweight spokesperson on their cover has.
I wrote Costco Connection, and told them of my disgust, and let them know I’ll be buying things elsewhere when it makes economic senses.
And the money I save from shopping at Costco? It’ll go to causes I believe in, not to left wing lunatic causes.
The editor at Costco mag needs to go, and this may be the article that puts him on the sidewalk.
I shop at Costco for items that are worth the bulk quantity price/quality.
But the whole concept of a Costco "magazine" baffles me...
why would anybody want to read a Costco "magazine"???
That sounds like something that would give you brain abuse.
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