welcome back company towns 👋👋👋👋
iirc it's to get around planning laws that reduce scrutiny on planning permission as long as X% of space is used as a residential estate.
"I wish America would get modern mixed-use residential/commercial developments."
monkeys paw curls
Based. 1.50 hotdogs every morning for breakfast lunch and djnner.
(I die of massive organ failure 2 weeks in)
Or Stomach Cancer 40 years later, due to the stuff that is in Hot Dogs I heard.
You load 16 carts and what do you get?
Another day older and a deeper in debt
St. Peter don't you call me 'cuz I can't go
I owe my soul to my local CostCo
I can't believe that Costco has fallen in the hands of the woke communist cabal and are now trying to sneakily introduce 15 minutes cities. This is a threat to all carbrained treatlers all across America
Yeah, they will probably think that costco will use those apartment for human testing or something.
America is just going break it's back contorting capitalism to Communism, trust me bro
Murikkka is collapsing, and you get to live to see it. A nation that never owned up to its pseudo feudalism is trying to turn back the clock just the right amount to give the big bourgeois scum more time to oppress the rest of us.
having a Costco cafeteria just downstairs is a death sentence for my arteries
What happened? Seems like a lesson was learned and I'm too lazy to check the mod log
Sometimes I wish there was a link to the specific modlog in the message but I guess that would defeat the point of removing it.
You can totally go to the mod history of a specific comment. I do it all the time to see what our glorious censors are protecting us from.
oh SHIT
this is going to be bad for my mental health >:D
i dunno about anywhere else in the country but here in the bay area you can't find parking in a costco parking lot any time other than when they first open or are about 2 minutes from closing.. good luck spending an hour trying to park after getting home from work
I have very mixed feelings about this, and I'm seeing that Costco is actually just renting warehouse space from some apartment company that built apartments with a warehouse underneath, and not building and operating the apartments themselves like I thought it would
Also this one in particular demolished a community hospital and replaced it, apparently
Cool cool cool This gonna be baaaad
now introducing "Live at Work"
google had a much funnier version of this with their company sleeping pods
lol looking back at that moment in time when all the tech workers were coaxed into full time daycare labor centers.
Bet they don't even have ball pits and nerf wars anymore.
Before covid, I worked in a couple offices that had stuff like that (ping pong tables, foosball, gaming consoles, etc) and they were 95% used by the sales and marketing bros.
Engineers were always so busy we'd get judged and told to go back to work if we used them
same.. i worked it support and my team was always jealous of all these fuckers that just got to fuck around and play ping pong and foosball all damn day
I still think we’d be better off if tech bros were locked away as much as possible (preferably without internet access so I guess Google was off to a good start)
Post hoc critical support to Google
Putting apartments on top of big box stores seems like a perfectly fine thing to do wherever the stores are in urban or more populated areas. The only real problem here beyond the usual landlord-parasitism is if these start being handed out to Costco employees tied to their employment status (and even then if you're working retail your living situation is probably fucked when you lose your job anyway, so I'm not sure it even exasperates that problem all that much in hellworld).
I mean this is pretty normal already in urban areas. I have friends in NYC who live above malls that have Targets, BJs, etc. It's just a normal apartment building on the top floors and retail/malls on the bottom.
this is normal in literally every country besides the united states
No what I'm saying is this is normal even in the United States, just only in the non-terminally carbrained areas
Costco is the company that I'm the least concerned would do stuff like that. Their employees have the best compensation in the industry.
I hate that I'm saying this, but it might actually be useful to have companies do this and have housing as part of a compensation package to exert some downward pressure on rent.
Realistically I know it will be terrible but I can see how it could be beneficial in our current framework/situation
You hate that you're saying it because you know that in actual fact having your landlord, HOA and your boss all be the same fucken capitalist pig is bad.
You're saying it because there's a gushing artery and we don't get to be picky about the quality of bandage in a crisis.
Show up late to work more than 2 times = eviction. It is terrible, indeed.
"Oh you're calling out because you're sick? We'll send someone up to make sure. It's in the contract you signed for the apartment."
That's probably depressingly accurate. There is a Costco pharmacy, they'll probably ask you to get a note from them or send them up to your room.
I can easily see a world where the pharmacist regularly denies all sick claims to avoid getting fired and evicted themselves.
This is exactly why it doesn’t matter how good the CEO of Costco is
“The purpose of a system is what it does”
You don’t have to dig very deep to realize all we can really do at this point is try to make hell seem more comfortable
Similar ideas like this pop up every few years regarding teacher housing in expensive areas (SF, NYC) where the district owns and operates some housing units
At least one of the charter schools in one of the smaller MN cities had to build an apartment complex next door to attract teachers. AFAIK, the apartments are reserved just for teachers and their immediate families. The charter school salary and benefits are crappy enough that without cheap (and good) housing, no one wants to move there to have a teaching career. I found out recently that this strategy has been given the rather euphemistic name "workforce housing". IOW, they have to build housing as a sort of charity project.
