Costco gets you (to open your wallet)
Seattle Now
KUOW News and Information
4.7 • 669 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Costco is more than just a warehouse filled with affordable staples. It’s a company with a rabid fanbase and devoted employees. Just ask someone proudly sporting a Kirkland-brand sweatshirt.
Every workplace and store would like this level of devotion. But how does Costco do it? Journalist Ben Ryder Howe explains.
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| 0:00.0 | These days, there's so much news. |
| 0:01.8 | It can be hard to keep up with what it all means for you, your family, and your community. |
| 0:06.4 | The Consider This Podcast from NPR features our award-winning journalism. |
| 0:10.7 | Six days a week, we bring you a deep dive on a news story and provide the context and analysis that helps you make sense of the news. |
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| 0:19.4 | We get to the truth. |
| 0:22.8 | Listen to the Consider This podcast from NPR. Hey, good morning. It's Patricia Murphy. It's Monday. This is Seattle now. Costco is not |
| 0:33.0 | just a warehouse. It's a way of life for millions of people. Just ask someone proudly sporting |
| 0:38.8 | a Kirkland brand sweatshirt. In a minute, journalist Ben Ryder Howe will explain how Costco |
| 0:44.2 | has become an American institution by knowing us better than we know ourselves. But first, |
| 0:50.2 | here's what's coming up this week. |
| 1:03.7 | The hand recount for the statewide primary for public lands commissioner begins today. |
| 1:06.7 | Democrat Dave Up the Grove is in second place. |
| 1:10.4 | He has a 51 vote lead over Republican Sue Keel Peterson. |
| 1:15.9 | The winner will go on to face Jamie Herrera Butler in the general election in November. |
| 1:23.7 | The state's deadline to finalize voter pamphlets is September 4th, but the Seattle Times reports some counties may need more time. |
| 1:29.7 | Kroger is set to meet federal regulators in an Oregon courtroom today to address the latest legal challenge to its proposed $25 billion takeover of Albertsons. The Federal Trade Commission |
| 1:36.4 | wants to block the deal. In its lawsuit, the government said it would reduce competition and |
| 1:41.4 | increase prices. The Oregonian reports the case in U.S. District Court in Portland is expected to last about |
| 1:48.0 | three weeks. |
| 1:49.7 | And a couple of long-awaited construction projects are set to wrap up this week. |
| 1:53.8 | The Seattle Aquarium's Ocean Pavilion opens Thursday. |
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