Stop Shopping at Costco

Originally published on January 16, 2022.
Last Updated on February 28, 2024.

You should not have been giving them your money to begin with. With the news and video’s coming out today, they are making it very clear: You are NOT welcome to shop at Costco.

So why are you there??

Etobicoke cops supposedly arresting a non-masker who according to the story had a medical exemption. That’s a lot of tyranny to arrest one man, but you know, not wearing a bit of paper on your face is VERY criminal! And it’s definitely about your health …

Then this little bit of news:

So, if you are not hearing what is being said, ‘they’ really don’t want you shopping there.

Ok fine. We won’t then!

No more giant stores of Chinese junk. No more support for companies whose business model is to push your local Mom & Pop stores out of business. No more predatory buying practices where if you don’t give them the price they want, they bankrupt you. Just be done with these places.

Instead.

Support your local produce and meat producers. Support your small community grocery and household goods stores … where, yes you will pay an extra $5 for each $100 you spend, but you also know that your money will in turn be spent locally on other local goods. Find Coops, or make your own buying groups. Go in together on a cow … or a community garden. Buy grains from your local farmer.

Be deliberate with your money. Decide what you really need and then buy that thing, and only that thing (not 10 others that you just happen to see when buying that item.) Shopping as entertainment is disgusting. Don’t do it.

There are so many better choices than giving your money to a faceless corporation who hates you.

Buy local.