How Costco became the Anti-Walmart

July 5, 2007 9:06 AM

How Costco became the Anti-Walmart.
posted by chunking express (16 comments total)

"To read this archive article, upgrade to TimesSelect or purchase as a single article."

mmmm, nah.
posted by dismas at 9:10 AM on July 5, 2007

Strange, I can read it just fine. Have you ever tried Bugmenot?
posted by chunking express at 9:11 AM on July 5, 2007

Can't read it, either.
posted by etaoin at 9:14 AM on July 5, 2007

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Password rising
posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 at 9:15 AM on July 5, 2007

Single-link post of a two year old NY times article that just-so-happened to be high up on popurls ? Not quite FPP quality.
posted by scblackman at 9:15 AM on July 5, 2007

I found it on diggdot.us. Does that make me a bad person? It's an interesting read if you haven't read it before. If you have, or you hate the NYT, then not so much.
posted by chunking express at 9:17 AM on July 5, 2007

thanks for the popurls link--it took me right to the story. Which i'd read two years ago.
posted by etaoin at 9:18 AM on July 5, 2007

um. what.
posted by Stynxno at 9:23 AM on July 5, 2007

You're right, it is an interesting read, but I think generally when there's a single-link NYTimes FPP, people kind of assume that it's, yknow, current. And really really REALLY interesting.
posted by Zephyrial at 9:29 AM on July 5, 2007

This article is 2 years old.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 9:29 AM on July 5, 2007 [1 favorite]

Also a double
posted by milkrate at 9:30 AM on July 5, 2007

Also a double post.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 9:31 AM on July 5, 2007

*sigh*

*buys milkrate a Coke*
posted by mr_crash_davis at 9:32 AM on July 5, 2007

Hooray! Free Coke!
posted by milkrate at 9:36 AM on July 5, 2007

the article is two years old, but at Costco you can get it for eighteen months old
posted by stupidsexyFlanders at 9:40 AM on July 5, 2007

Damn it. Well at least I didn't post it 2 years ago I suppose.

Here is a the new MIA video, Boys.
posted by chunking express at 9:42 AM on July 5, 2007