I quite like Costco. And Winco. I really gotta do some research and make sure they’re not secretly shitty, but they’ve both been pretty great for me.
EDIT:
Ok well I did some reading.
Costco is owned by shareholders mostly. It pays better than most other grocery stores, has a small amount of unionized stores, and also negotiates a non union employee agreement thingy for other employees. Not as protective as a union tho. They also have a few lawsuits and controversies regarding egg/meat production, specifically in treatment of hens at one point. They’ve paid some fines and committed to only producing cage free or whatever eggs. Some still claim the farms are cruel, but I didn’t see any more results on lawsuits yet. They have a couple cases of “fucked up and had to recall food” as well as one case of an employee dying in SK from heat stroke. They were found at fault in that they didn’t strictly enforce the breaks and water rules that were required for summer workers.
Overall, Costco seems better than most, but with some real flaws and things I hope they improve on.
Winco doesn’t have a lot of info, it’s privately/employee owned, and they don’t have a controversies section on wikipedia lol. Their history mostly just talks about how they were established. Winco generally seems to pay its employees better than other big grocery stores (ballpark $16 vs $13 for walmart for example). I think the other big thing is they do an employee stock option thing so there’s that too.
I quite like Costco. And Winco. I really gotta do some research and make sure they’re not secretly shitty, but they’ve both been pretty great for me.
EDIT: Ok well I did some reading.
Costco is owned by shareholders mostly. It pays better than most other grocery stores, has a small amount of unionized stores, and also negotiates a non union employee agreement thingy for other employees. Not as protective as a union tho. They also have a few lawsuits and controversies regarding egg/meat production, specifically in treatment of hens at one point. They’ve paid some fines and committed to only producing cage free or whatever eggs. Some still claim the farms are cruel, but I didn’t see any more results on lawsuits yet. They have a couple cases of “fucked up and had to recall food” as well as one case of an employee dying in SK from heat stroke. They were found at fault in that they didn’t strictly enforce the breaks and water rules that were required for summer workers.
Overall, Costco seems better than most, but with some real flaws and things I hope they improve on.
Winco doesn’t have a lot of info, it’s privately/employee owned, and they don’t have a controversies section on wikipedia lol. Their history mostly just talks about how they were established. Winco generally seems to pay its employees better than other big grocery stores (ballpark $16 vs $13 for walmart for example). I think the other big thing is they do an employee stock option thing so there’s that too.
I liked going to winco when I lived in their area. They had 24 hour stores and store brand La Croix that was better than the name brand