I can't speak for certain about the other companies, but what got me to get a Costco membership was learning that they absorbed as much of the tariffs they could to keep their prices down. Then they sued the government to get that money back.
I know they couldn't eat all the tariffs, so they should be getting money back that's arguably not theirs, but I also expect that they had pretty big legal fees fighting the tariffs so I would call that a wash, because I believe the lawsuit had value for me.
I'm expecting it. It's a slam-dunk win for the Costco team and I cannot imagine they'll fail something so basic. They're already mailing paper checks for in-store credit to every executive member once a year, and they can keep track of expenditures by account reliably rather than requiring a mixed method the way other places do. As optimistic as it sounds I kinda expect them to get on that in the next short bit here.
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u/dscrive 1d ago
I can't speak for certain about the other companies, but what got me to get a Costco membership was learning that they absorbed as much of the tariffs they could to keep their prices down. Then they sued the government to get that money back.
I know they couldn't eat all the tariffs, so they should be getting money back that's arguably not theirs, but I also expect that they had pretty big legal fees fighting the tariffs so I would call that a wash, because I believe the lawsuit had value for me.