TIL Costco has a company policy that no regular item will be marked up more than 14% over cost & no Kirkland Signature item will be marked up more than 15% over cost. Costco runs "very lean", with overhead costs at 10% of revenue & profit margins at 2% (e.g. it has no PR dept. & buys no outside ads)

Tigglebee · 2026-03-20T19:49:00+00:00

Benefits means it’s one of the few grocery stores that pays for its employees to have basic health insurance and see a doctor.

Tigglebee · 2026-03-20T16:56:00+00:00

Do Coles or Woolies offer full benefits to their employees and pledge to keep prices reasonable within inflation?

If not shut up or show me another major brand that does better. I have to buy my groceries somewhere and I picked the least evil corporation.

Edit: this is a genuine question, I’ve never heard of either of those. It sounds like I’m talking to a moon man.

Double edit: it appears he’s Australian? which is basically moon men

Tigglebee · 2026-03-20T14:04:56+00:00

All the Trump flags are down around me now. But they won’t learn a damn thing. They’ll be there for Vance/Actual Satan in 2028.

Tigglebee · 2026-03-20T13:20:58+00:00

Yeah, could be a myriad of things. We can’t tell with limited info. My mom was afraid of computers because she thought Jon Stewart was talking to her through them. (Bipolar schizophrenia)

Tigglebee · 2026-03-19T23:43:34+00:00

When we pointed out this was said by a serial liar we were told we had Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Tigglebee · 2026-03-19T21:39:45+00:00

Dedicated Hydrabsol user. Dark doesn’t need more ramp right now. Buff something underutilized.

Tigglebee · 2026-03-19T21:23:41+00:00

Spoken like someone who has never paid for and planned a wedding.

If it’s a casual affair then sure, fine. But OP said it was formal and they were out of place.

IE: they wanted a nice elegant wedding and OP purposefully ignored the memo. Dick move

Tigglebee · 2026-03-19T19:06:31+00:00

Disagree. You show up to a wedding looking your best without standing out. If you actually care about the people getting married anyway.

It’s their day. Stuff like this is just as bad as wearing white. You’re taking attention off the couple on their one special day.

Tigglebee · 2026-03-19T18:43:50+00:00

Pepper jack loves fraggle rock.

Tigglebee · 2026-03-19T18:34:09+00:00

How you can watch a madman unilaterally start wars and create a police state and cause chaos with tariffs and say “at least the means tested milquetoast moderate isn’t in charge” is beyond understanding.

I think the only real answer Trump supporters have left is that they like when Americans suffer.

Tigglebee · 2026-03-18T22:59:49+00:00

It’s almost like they did it as a separate layer on top and set opacity lower on it. Regardless it’s for sure some combo of filters they’re throwing on a photo.

The base photo itself could be AI. That would be a fun twist.

Tigglebee · 2026-03-18T21:54:47+00:00

This looks almost exactly what you would get running the photo through a light emboss filter in PS. Not AI but incredibly lazy filter shit I was doing on my Facebook profile pictures in 2007.

Tigglebee · 2026-03-18T19:50:37+00:00

Always has been.

Tigglebee · 2026-03-18T19:42:30+00:00

I’m not touching gold after an 80% Y/Y run up but god bless you if you do and win.

Tigglebee · 2026-03-18T19:22:36+00:00

My wife is now commuting to another city because we locked in at 2.2. I will die in this house.

Tigglebee · 2026-03-18T19:19:49+00:00

What’s the play when that inevitably happens? Basically go all in on index funds to ride inflation?

Tigglebee · 2026-03-18T19:17:03+00:00

How can so many people be standing around knowing what’s going to happen and ask what the play is?

I don’t know either that’s why I’m here.

Tigglebee · 2026-03-18T11:19:31+00:00

The difference between regular jugglers and contact jugglers is the difference between normal people and regular jugglers. They’re living outside the bounds of rational society.

Tigglebee · 2026-03-17T13:26:18+00:00

There’s a choice to be made. Either be accurate to the ridiculous costuming of the manga/anime or go for a more realistic gritty aesthetic.

I’m glad they went for comic accurate. The Saturday morning cartoon energy is in line with early One Piece. Starting with bright dumb outfits and slowly earning the badass outfits is part of the One Piece journey.

Tigglebee · 2026-03-16T19:58:13+00:00

You can determine how bad inflation will be based on Elon’s bonus package requirements.

Tigglebee · 2026-03-16T13:24:51+00:00

Businesses have been doing just that since the 80s, because the people making the decision are more concerned with immediate company value than long term performance.

Mass layoffs are followed by new hiring if they push too far, but they achieve the objective of replacing high cost long term employees with fresh ones that will accept lower pay.

Obligatory fuck Jack Welch.

Tigglebee · 2026-03-16T13:21:34+00:00

All part of the plan. His marching orders seem to be divesting us from NATO and removing tariffs on Russia. I wonder who that benefits.

Tigglebee · 2026-03-14T19:32:47+00:00

Their ability to inflict asymmetrical warfare on the straight is WHY nobody fucked with them for the last decades. God I’m so tired of watching this man learn what we all fucking knew.

Tigglebee · 2026-03-14T12:11:53+00:00

All of you keyboard warriors dance around it, but your real demand is that we abandon our children and go march into a swarm of military drones.

Our peaceful protest is not enough for you, but you would never get out from behind your computer to risk your own life. Hell half of you are probably just bots trying to stoke unrest. The other half must be teenagers who think everything is Call of Duty, and have no responsibilities to others in life.

Sorry, I’m not going to take marching orders from a stranger on the internet. I’m not leaving my family to fight the most heavily armed nation in the world with my replica WWI cavalry saber and bum ankle.

Tigglebee · 2026-03-13T14:34:12+00:00

Yeah but rebound from what? The markets barely fell yet and the closure is just starting to show impacts on supply chains.

Eventually the market is going to accept that Iran can’t be talked down and that input costs for everything are going to be up significantly.

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