this wasn't on my 2025 bingo

You load 16 carts and what do you get?

Another day older and a deeper in debt

St. Peter don't you call me 'cuz I can't go

I owe my soul to my local CostCo

Lmao just do communism wtf is this

America is just going break it's back contorting capitalism to Communism, trust me bro
- America is just going break it's back
Murikkka is collapsing, and you get to live to see it. A nation that never owned up to its pseudo feudalism is trying to turn back the clock just the right amount to give the big bourgeois scum more time to oppress the rest of us.

I can't believe that Costco has fallen in the hands of the woke communist cabal and are now trying to sneakily introduce 15 minutes cities. This is a threat to all carbrained treatlers all across America

having a Costco cafeteria just downstairs is a death sentence for my arteries

Yah I know this place pretty good, I went to law school here.

Based. 1.50 hotdogs every morning for breakfast lunch and djnner.

(I die of massive organ failure 2 weeks in)

Bowel obstruction from Hell due to all that minced hog
- Imagine the plumbing systems of these places 💀
- Woah there! They use Hebrew National! It's 100% beef!
Or Stomach Cancer 40 years later, due to the stuff that is in Hot Dogs I heard.
16 tons. Whattaya get?

You've heard of "Work from Home" — now introducing "Live at Work"

now introducing "Live at Work"
google had a much funnier version of this with their company sleeping pods
- lol looking back at that moment in time when all the tech workers were coaxed into full time daycare labor centers.
  Bet they don't even have ball pits and nerf wars anymore.
- I still think we’d be better off if tech bros were locked away as much as possible (preferably without internet access so I guess Google was off to a good start)
  Post hoc critical support to Google

I hate that I'm saying this, but it might actually be useful to have companies do this and have housing as part of a compensation package to exert some downward pressure on rent.

Realistically I know it will be terrible but I can see how it could be beneficial in our current framework/situation

You hate that you're saying it because you know that in actual fact having your landlord, HOA and your boss all be the same fucken capitalist pig is bad.
You're saying it because there's a gushing artery and we don't get to be picky about the quality of bandage in a crisis.
Show up late to work more than 2 times = eviction. It is terrible, indeed.
- "Oh you're calling out because you're sick? We'll send someone up to make sure. It's in the contract you signed for the apartment."
Similar ideas like this pop up every few years regarding teacher housing in expensive areas (SF, NYC) where the district owns and operates some housing units
- At least one of the charter schools in one of the smaller MN cities had to build an apartment complex next door to attract teachers. AFAIK, the apartments are reserved just for teachers and their immediate families. The charter school salary and benefits are crappy enough that without cheap (and good) housing, no one wants to move there to have a teaching career. I found out recently that this strategy has been given the rather euphemistic name "workforce housing". IOW, they have to build housing as a sort of charity project.

Putting apartments on top of big box stores seems like a perfectly fine thing to do wherever the stores are in urban or more populated areas. The only real problem here beyond the usual landlord-parasitism is if these start being handed out to Costco employees tied to their employment status (and even then if you're working retail your living situation is probably fucked when you lose your job anyway, so I'm not sure it even exasperates that problem all that much in hellworld).

I mean this is pretty normal already in urban areas. I have friends in NYC who live above malls that have Targets, BJs, etc. It's just a normal apartment building on the top floors and retail/malls on the bottom.
- this is normal in literally every country besides the united states
Costco is the company that I'm the least concerned would do stuff like that. Their employees have the best compensation in the industry.
- They're still regularly denied a Union though.

I'd rather have this than the giant single-story warehouses. I'm a big fan of mixed-use.

"We're Costco tenants!"

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I have very mixed feelings about this, and I'm seeing that Costco is actually just renting warehouse space from some apartment company that built apartments with a warehouse underneath, and not building and operating the apartments themselves like I thought it would

Also this one in particular demolished a community hospital and replaced it, apparently

Cool cool cool This gonna be baaaad

Am I missing something about whatever thrive is? I mean obviously having to rent your living space is bad but given that, renting from Costco seems no worse than renting from any other private landlord or company and the land use seems a lot better

"Thrive" is referring to Thrive Living, a "national real estate development and investment firm" affiliated with Magnum Real Estate Group.
- Thank you but I still don't understand. It's not like Mom & Pop Landlords are any better. This seems like any given rental situation currently except with better land use
It happens to be the investment firm founded by the brother of the son-in-law* of the once and future President.
*Who, as an advisor to the latter, actually discontinued his ownership stake in the company to avoid a conflict of interest.
I still wouldn't put much trust in that company though.

woohoo, I get to live above a Costco 10 miles from the city, away from anything actually interesting

But right above tons of bulk product values!
- For real, who needs the city when you live next to $15 1.75L of vodka
Not all Costcos are in the suburbs, there is one on Manhattan

Hear me out though, I would trust costco as a landlord.

“If you increase the rent, I will kill you” - the Costco CEO, probably.
- critical support to murderous rent control CEO
More than a random petit bourgeoisie
- Wait.
  is techno-feudalism better for the peasants than capitalism under a compromised democracy?
  I feel weird.

i dunno about anywhere else in the country but here in the bay area you can't find parking in a costco parking lot any time other than when they first open or are about 2 minutes from closing.. good luck spending an hour trying to park after getting home from work

Solution… get a job at the Costco below your apartment.

And put a metro line below next

Grocery stores with apartments above them are omnipresent in Norway, so this doesn't really stand out to me as a bad thing, if anything it's a better use of space. Is there something I'm missing?

I imagine a lot of the reaction here is because Coscos are generally absolutely massive stores that sell everything on earth usually located some ways away from anything at all surrounded by giant parking lots. Building apartments atop large stores in a city is extremely normal.
- Perhaps this could be an opportunity to infill.
I think the only thing you're missing is the pessimism that the only way these will be implemented is in an overly exploitative fashion.
Having mixed-use buildings with residential over commercial properties is very common in the US as well. I think the base assumption leading people to the pessimistic appraisal of the project is that Costco will be the one renting the space from Thrive and subletting to Costco employees among other renters similarly to historical Company Towns. I haven't yet read anything to confirm or deny this assumption.
private capitalist enclaves just have a bad vibe, also it's like a combo of all the bad/annoying parts of the collapsing west rolled into one - your landlord, HOA, your boss, all the same inscrutable entity, you can't advocate for yourself in the workplace without risking your housing, and you can't fight a shitty landlord or HOA ordinance without risking your job.
Also just further atomisation and alienation, people living at the remote megastore instead of leaving their street to go out for essentials.
Also now all your co-workers are your neighbors too.
Those are the things that come to mind.

Uhh capitalism breeds innovation?

cant afford, dont care

New type of Costco Guys incoming

they're gonna bring back feudal society but with the masses bound to corporate entities, arent they?

the fascism of the 21st century is being owned by a corporate lord and living on your work site isnt it?

This is the stage beyond company towns: company arcologies. You will live, work, and die all in one convenient place just so long as you aren't fired into the ash wastes for being 13 seconds late to your 16 hour shift

If Shadowrun's SCIRE is any indication, you're gonna hope you get shot out into the ash wastes.

I mean this would be kinda cool. Double chunk chocolate cookie for breakfast every day. Never run out of toilet paper.

whats sad is this is a great improvement to american urban society

the government should be building housing on top of costcos, and by that, i mean literally ON TOP of them. tear them down and build housing there

I don't get what's so uniquely bad about this? It sounds more like they're just renting out apartments, rather than tying you living there to your employment with Costco? Yes, rent is bad, but this doesn't really make them any worse than any other landlord?

Same, the post doesn't mention Costo workers directly.
Not saying it wouldn't happen, but isn't this only new or unique because it's a big box store and not a small shop?
- There's a Wegmans on the ground floor of an apartment complex at the DC metro area. And living above a Wegmans is considered a selling point. Wegmans is not putting their employees in indentured servitude by living there. So having a big store at the bottom of an apartment complex isn't even unique.

you may not like it but this is what peak mixed-use looks like

Kinda reminds me of the Costco I saw in korea.

"We lived among the people. I think you say, 'convenience store'. We lived above it..."

Is it possible that the apartments above Costco would actually be too expensive for most Costco employees to afford rent?

iirc it's to get around planning laws that reduce scrutiny on planning permission as long as X% of space is used as a residential estate.