[lbo-talk] end of the Wal-Mart era?

[Carl Remick]

> > Mirabile dictu, now we've gone from Wal-Mart's downscale dreariness to
> > a nascent new business model:  Costco's upscale meretriciousness.  I
> > see consumers going still further into hock to buy pretentious crap
> > they don't need.  Ah, bliss is it in this dawn to be alive!
> >
> > Carl
> >
> My wife's had a Costco membership for some time, and I can report from
> trudging up and down the aisles there that the above is a
> misrepresentation of the typical stuff people buy at the store.  At the
> Costco in Portland, I've never seen a $500 bottle of wine.  On the other
> hand, I have seen 36 roll packages of toilet paper, 12 lb blocks of
> cheese, and 2 gallon bottles of ketchup.  Buy in quantity, baby!
>
> Miles

Hmm, then maybe that $500 wine price is for a 10-gallon bottle -- a real deal :)

Carl