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This is how they transfer wealth from consumers to corporations
We pay the tariffs Corporations get the tariff refund
Trickle up economics as usual
If you look at Costco's actions in the past they have been pretty fair for their customers. Costco is actually in a very good position where they know exactly who bought what and Costco can issue refunds to their customers based on that data. Even if they just do it as 'store credit' it would still be very welcome to most of their customers and that would help to offset Costco's administrative costs of determining the refund amounts for everyone.
I like Costco as much as the next person but they will absolutely not be refunding us based on what we purchased lol
I’ll happily eat these words but im fairly certain I won’t have to
The article states that on a bunch of items they’ve just been eating the cost so they’ve been paying the tariffs instead of passing them on. For those cases, there is nothing to refund to the consumers.
Yeah but it doesn’t state they’ve eaten the tariffs on everything just certain staple items
And I would wager those items they've eaten the cost on, is what they're seeking compensation on.
It ~~literally~~ says this in the article
Nah as it stands, costco is a bro.
Used to be then they became one of the worst customer service sites to visit. I hate Walmart and Sam's club with a passion, but damn if their denial of my kids to run inside and go to the bathroom while I got gas pissed me off to no end.
This is what I hate about these places. You need your membership card to check out. All the items are too big to fit under your coat which thwarts shoplifting to some degree.
Why the hell do you need to see my card at the door? Just put a scanner with turnstiles at the front of shop if it's that big of an issue.
Sam's club understands this. And frankly it's refreshing.
My local Sam's is hit or miss. Half the time they ask me and other times they don't. I have admittedly stormed past them without providing proof in the past while they call after me lol.
Probably not, but they did state last year that the extra money they made from the gas station (they kept it competitive with other places) was used to keep the yearly “admission” price the same.
I've also heard that costco doesn't suck to work for as far as retail goes and many will actually work most of their career there.
Fwiw the people seem cheerful enough. At least not dead inside like Wal mart or any other big chain.
My stepson works for Costco. They are a fantastic employer compared to other retailers. They also do legitimately promote from within, including for business office professional positions.
I can speak from experience when I say this, Costco is great to the warehouse workers, they treat IT like shit.
From the article:
Honestly, that's pretty decent of them.
Maybe. It depends on if they raised prices first to capture the losses. I know that seems like what a business would do first and what everyone predicted, but did they?
If it's true, then Costco just needs to give away free hot dogs meals (drink and side) to their patrons for a year.
My small business did not raise prices, and recouping that $6k would make a HUGE difference for us. But I know most companies probably aren’t in the same boat.
What do you think quoted price means…? That’s the risk you take when you quote stuff and prices change within the time they accept it.
Lots of material goods change prices daily.
Not holding up your original quoted price is how you lose business and your business in general. You seem to think that you can just choose to not hold up your end of the agreed upon contract? Yikes.
But hey, such a good business doing what you originally agreed to!
There's a difference between lamenting the reality of honoring a quote after things change and wishing you didn't need to. They're saying they wish the government would pay them back for the tariff, not that they wish they could've passed it on to the customer.
So they want the government to fix a regular issue with quoted work…? The price is expected to change, that’s why you quote to begin with…. It’s likely they don’t even know how their system works.
That’s even worse lmfao.
It’s quoted work, it’s volatile already, and the customers game it if they know the material goods in going down. Don’t like it? Don't quote work. It’s not even a relevant detail to their gripe, just bitching for the sake of bitching at this point.
The price would be different with or without tariffs, but complain without realizing how the system works I guess.
Going through my past three days of comments and down voting them all doesn't help your argument.
They aren't just saying "wahhh government, pwease pay the difference of this quote" they're specifically replying to a thread about a company suing the government for tariff reimbursements and talking about a tariff making the price go up after the quote.
Fucking LOL, they responded and guess what, you were wrong! What a shocker!
https://lemmy.world/comment/20811506
You know what they say about assuming? Makes an ASS out of you and me, but you’re the only ass here, but that’s also not surprising. Since you’re just a petty little troll.
Says the person who is still going through my comment history and down voting things. Every accusation you've made is a confession.
Did you miss the detail about the VENDOR increasing price? Their build cost went up, not the price. This would happened irregardless of tariffs, and is expected.
I guess if you ignore details they specify, you could take that from their comment.
But again, person is just bitching for the sake of bitching, the provided details show they either don’t understand how the system work, or just bitching.
They want to applauded for doing what they agreed to, it’s bloody laughable. As a small business owner myself it’s attitudes like this that make the rest look bad.
After going through three days of my comments to down vote them all, you don't need help making yourself look bad. You handled that quite well yourself.
Ah yes, downvote a couple stupid comments you’ve made and suddenly I went through “days”.
How petty and sad is it that you even went and looked lol?
Coming from the person who just admitted to going through days of my comments to down vote them.
Also, for those watching from home, it was over a dozen comments. Not "a couple."
Really @plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works ? Doing this again?
lol, seriously? Do you check your comments religiously to see how they are being voted on? This has to be the saddest thing I’ve seen online in long while.
Mind you, from your comments we can see that you’re just an incredibly aggressive person and frequently get downvoted. So of course you would want to know who it is and harass them.
You’re exactly the reason public logs are an issue. You think every thing is a slight against you. Don’t say stupid shit, don’t get downvoted, what a shocker.
It's very funny to me that you do something petty and get caught, and your only defense is "oh yeah? Well it's actually sad that you noticed I did this."
The passive aggressive thing going on is harassing me by down voting all my posts. You're just upset that you got caught.
Obviously you think public logs are a problem because you got caught being petty and passive aggressive.
Maybe we need a class action saying the same
You didn't actually read the article did you?
Isn't corporate profit at the expense of the consumers like ... the whole point of capitalism?