re: You may want to rethink your Costco membership - shareholders support DEI

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Hook too shiny. I am already on a short leash.

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I was just trying to get a list of the woke groceries I should avoid. So far I have avocados and mayonnaise if it is labeled as aioli.

Not surprised, they're based in Seattle.

It helps that the Costco in my city is not easy to reach, while Sam's Club is.

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Hook too shiny. I am already on a short leash.

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Thanks for making me spit up coffee on my keyboard.

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You may want to rethink your Costco membership - shareholders support DEI

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Here is the problem with that take, and it's a big one.
DEI at Costco was never done to check a DEI box.

Costco's hiring and merit-based employment system was never a forced, compartmentalized, quota-based token operation, like Disney, etc.

IMO the effort here is to message Costco's employees. The message is, "At Costco we've always based our corporate approach on pragmatism and common sense. So while other companies are nuking DEI because their DEI programs were contrived nonsensical garbage, our own policies have been very successful. They've worked well for us. They've worked well for our employees. We're not changing a thing."

A successful business will hire a workforce best able to interface with it's consumer base. For example, a company designed for niche appeal, will do well to hire niche employees. Those employees are better able to relate to the products and customers.

Costco is the antithesis, looking to appeal across the US spectrum. So its business model encourages diversity, but not at the expense of performance. The pay structure is high so the hiring pool is good.

My company employed that exact approach. Excellence was the hiring requisite. Period. Once that threshold was met amongst applicants, we had the luxury of then tilting selection toward diversity. In our instance, diversity translated not only to race/gender but also to background, experience, and training. If one of our needs was for Spanish fluency, and in that particular hiring round the strongest candidates were not Spanish fluent, we'd simply put the Spanish thing off until the next go'round.

I don't know about Costco's DEI, but their checkers at the store in Baton Rouge can clear a line of 50 people in a matter of minutes while Wal Mart takes 30 minutes to ring up two people; the Sam's Club in Denham Springs wasn't much better the last time I shopped their. Don't get me started about their tire department.

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I don't know about Costco's DEI, but their checkers at the store in Baton Rouge can clear a line of 50 people in a matter of minutes while Wal Mart takes 30 minutes to ring up two people

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BINGO!

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I've got news for you if you think Walmart/Sam's is any different. Officially they will claim that they don't hire based on dei but they will continue the practice.

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Big issue now will be how many C-level executives are the that were brought on with a DEI philosophy and will be like a cancer to remove and pitch a fit on the way out.

No longer have my Costco membership and certainly don’t support hiring based on dei v merit, but anyone in this thread that thinks Sam’s or Walmart is a superior shopping experience has obviously never shopped at Costco. Costco employees are great and the lines move quickly. I’d shop there 100 times out of 100 vs Walmart/Sams.

Nah

Costco has the best employees in the retail sector

I have no doubt that they hire based on merit despite the comment

I wouldn’t change anything about what they’re doing