Costco pays its hourly employees an average of 22 dollars an hour.

[DCal430]

Ehhh no, I am guessing you have not been in a Costco? Costco made the square 1gallon jug a thing. They sell milk by the gallon. I've been in Costco's in several states and even Puerto Rico and they all sell by the single gallon.

I go to Costco every week, I have been to Costco through all of California, and Costco through Honolulu. ZERO sold milk by the gallon. I call bullshit.

All sold milk as 3 packs of 1/2 Gallons, or 2 packs of 1 gallon. Every single one of them.

 

[DCal430]

They all sell milk in Boxes like this:

Organic Whole milk is sold as 3 (1/2 Gallons)
Regular Milk is sold as 2 (1 Gallon)
Organic 2% is sold as 2 (1 Gallon).

 

[DCal430]

Google search shows in some states Costco only sells milk in 2 Gallon boxes, while in other it sells single gallons. I wonder why. I wonder if in California, it has to do with our minimum milk pricing laws. The state sets the price for 1 gallon of milk, and retailers can't go bellow it.

 

[Ruptga]

Thats more than I made at a microchip plant in Photolithography.

Psh, I got paid nine an hour to inspect PCB assemblies. Many of our products were motherboards that would easily sell for over a thousand bucks, and had $200-$500 BGAs on board. I stayed there 6 months, which I think was fairly average for the company. I was "temp" though, they had a scam going where they would hire you as full time temporary and keep you that way for at least a year. The few that made it to full-time-permanent made a few bucks more... at least one machine operator had been there almost fifteen years was making about as many dollars per hour. And management was always moaning about how it's a competitive market and the whole plant might go under unless we, a nearly unbroken mass of marginally employable highschool dropouts and geriatrics, picked up the slack. I try not to think about how broken those people must be to settle for such a worthless employer for so long.

You other guys can argue all day about market segments, target demographics, and profit margins, but at the end of the day you still get what you pay for. If you pay just a hair over the legal minimum that is exactly what you will get out of your employees; if you pay almost enough to live on you will get back almost enough to get the job done; don't pretend to be shocked when it happens.

Whatever the compensation (pay + benefits), it always shows in the company's culture/atmosphere, employees' attitudes, turnover rates (and associated training costs), and employees' overall quality of work. It is a real feat when a company can succeed without allowing its employees to succeed.

 

[Engineer]

Walmart does NOT keep cashiers sitting idly by. That is simply NOT TRUE. It's bullshit. There's not been a single time where I've been to a Walmart and didn't have to wait behind at least two orders. Most of the time it's 4 to 6 people in front of every single check stand.

Edit: And every time Iv'e been inside of a Costco, the line has been short or non-existent, with cashiers waiting for customers.

I tend to agree that WalMart (at least in Lexington) has very long lines. Kroger has made that a strong selling point over the last few years and reacts to lines filling up by pulling people from the floor (quickly) and getting the lines out the door. Walmart seems to have done the opposite in cutting the number of check lanes as well as opening up more and more "self service" lanes (as has Kroger as far as self service lanes go).

 

[Capt Caveman]

They all sell milk in Boxes like this:

Organic Whole milk is sold as 3 (1/2 Gallons)
Regular Milk is sold as 2 (1 Gallon)
Organic 2% is sold as 2 (1 Gallon).

Maybe where you are but in Berkeley, CA, Renton, WA and all of MA, you can buy milk in single 1 gallon containers.

 

[DCal430]

I have been to Costco in the Bay Area, not Berkeley specifically. All only sold milk in 2 Gallon.

I have been to multiple Costcos in Los Angeles County, Orange County, Santa Clara County, Sacramento County. All the same. Milk only sold as 2 gallons.

I have never seen a single Costco, and I have been to many of them that sell single gallon milk. Every single one sold it as 2 gallons.

 

[Capt Caveman]

I have been to Costco in the Bay Area, not Berkeley specifically. All only sold milk in 2 Gallon.

I have been to multiple Costcos in Los Angeles County, Orange County, Santa Clara County, Sacramento County. All the same. Milk only sold as 2 gallons.

I have never seen a single Costco, and I have been to many of them that sell single gallon milk. Every single one sold it as 2 gallons.

Well, you can only buy them in single gallons where I've been in multiple states. Thanks for acting again, like you know what you're talking about.

 

[DCal430]

Well, you can only buy them in single gallons where I've been in multiple states. Thanks for acting again, like you know what you're talking about.

You are an idiot, I was saying all of the Costco that I have been to only sell it as 2 gallons. I even pointed out in the next post some places sell it as 1 gallon, and some sell it as 2 gallons. Idiot.

I call bullshit on your claim of Berkely California Costco selling milk by the gallon.

1. There is no Costco in Berkely, there is only a Costco in Richmond
2. I have also been to Costco in Contra Costa (Livermore), and again only 2 gallons. So I doubt Richmond Costco would be different from all of the ones around it.

 

[frostedflakes]

in my opinion costco paying a lot, and expects hard work. you never see costco employees standing around or on their phones. at least in front of house.

Now go to walmart and their employees are working maybe half the time, or at least at half speed.

they are both viable business options. 2 employees for the price of one, and the same amount of work is accomplished.

This is the thing that seems to get overlooked in the minimum wage debate. Raise the minimum wage at Taco Bell to $15/hr, for example, and what's going to happen? Taco Bell will expect more bang for their buck, i.e. more educated, reliable, harder working employees. A lot of the people working there for $8/hr or whatever currently are probably just going to price themselves out of the labor market and end up looking for a job. Why would Taco Bell pay a high school grad or GED holder $15/hr when they could get someone with an associates degree or whatever to work for that? For that kind of pay they're going to expect a higher caliber of employee, and frankly a lot of the ones currently working for not much more than minimum wage probably aren't going to make the cut. There's a reason these people are working for minimum wage, it's because they don't have the skills or experience to command $15/hr.

 

[Ruptga]

This is the thing that seems to get overlooked in the minimum wage debate. Raise the minimum wage at Taco Bell to $15/hr, for example, and what's going to happen? Taco Bell will expect more bang for their buck, i.e. more educated, reliable, harder working employees. A lot of the people working there for $8/hr or whatever currently are probably just going to price themselves out of the labor market and end up looking for a job. Why would Taco Bell pay a high school grad or GED holder $15/hr when they could get someone with an associates degree or whatever to work for that? For that kind of pay they're going to expect a higher caliber of employee, and frankly a lot of the ones currently working for not much more than minimum wage probably aren't going to make the cut. There's a reason these people are working for minimum wage, it's because they don't have the skills or experience to command $15/hr.

I hear what you're saying, but...

There are only so many people with associates' degrees. Also, education is only so important in the hiring process because it is a convenient indicator. There are a lot of smart and hard working employees out there that have little or no post-HS education.

Demand for colleges will be artificially inflated if employers are lazy and don't look at anyone without higher education (as it often is now). But, employers need employees and if they aren't filling enough slots quickly enough they will revise their hiring practices, or they will suffer for their unwillingness to adapt.

On a completely different note, another interpretation of your same information is: Employers will increase wages across the board so they can continue to attract good employees. I mean, why go through all the stress of getting and keeping a white collar job when you can make a living as a grocer? Higher end jobs could have to compete with the low end.

 

[QueBert]

The boxes with 2x1 gallons of milk is to throw people off. A lot of Costco shoppert equate a bigger size with them saving more money. My roommate gets Silk soy milk in this ginormous 3 carton box there. I pay less for the same milk elsewhere but he can't seem to comprehend how he's not getting a good deal.

 

[Capt Caveman]

You are an idiot, I was saying all of the Costco that I have been to only sell it as 2 gallons. I even pointed out in the next post some places sell it as 1 gallon, and some sell it as 2 gallons. Idiot.

I call bullshit on your claim of Berkely California Costco selling milk by the gallon.

1. There is no Costco in Berkely, there is only a Costco in Richmond
2. I have also been to Costco in Contra Costa (Livermore), and again only 2 gallons. So I doubt Richmond Costco would be different from all of the ones around it.

My bad, it's Richmond, right on the border of Berkeley. Who gives a shit what a retarded troll like you says, myself and others have bought single gallons of milk at multiple Costco multiple states. But keep on arguing like a retard.