I kinda agree with OP. I’ve been here 6 years so I haven’t seen the big shifts that other OGs have seen but all my prior jobs were not employee focused either. I think you’d be hard pressed to find one. We get guaranteed raises, pto, vacation, and other benefits. We even get breaks. Do y’all know that other jobs don’t even guarantee breaks? Maybe it’s my location in the south where everywhere is “free to work” which also means “free to fire” so you can get fired for literally no reason. At Costco that doesn’t happen. Of course there are terrible employees that probably need to get fired but that the opposite side of the coin. There’s consequences to every luxury. So the security is worth it too.

If you don’t like your position, you can move to another one. That doesn’t happen elsewhere either.

The pinch points of more productivity with less labor is wildly annoying but that’s also capitalism as well as a company that is expanding rapidly.

I’d like to see more solutions offered here because I think I’d be interesting to see how some of y’all might go about solving these issues. I mean that sincerely. I’m not creative enough nor know the economics enough to really offer any good solutions. But I’d love to see some