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Faced with the situation described in this article many times in recent years, I've come to appreciate the value of the wholesale buyer at traditional retailers
by macNchz 7y ago
Faced with the situation described in this article many times in recent years, I've come to appreciate the value of the wholesale buyer at traditional retailers.
While obviously there are a variety of incentives involved, the buyer has evaluated a variety of products and found ones that they not only expect to be profitable for them, but that are also something they expect their customers to like and want to buy. Also, it's very unlikely they'll risk selling counterfeits. The majority of Amazon sellers seem to optimize exclusively for profitability, and make up for it by gaming the system with fake reviews and the like.
- kortilla 7y agoThis is pretty much the main reason to shop at Costco. I’m not really convinced anything is actually a good bulk deal. It’s just a matter of having a place to shop where you can safely grab stuff and have a decently high floor on quality.
- chihuahua 7y agoAt Costco, the generous return policy also inspires confidence. If Costco stocks an item that's not very good, they will get many returns which cost them money, so they have an incentive to research any item they sell to filter out bad quality.
- chihuahua 7y agoThere are many things at Costco where you save quite a bit compared to buying elsewhere: Cheese, smoked salmon, maple syrup, vitamins, cereal bars, peanuts, Kerry Gold butter, Chobani plain yogurt ($3 vs $6), socks.
- kortilla 7y agoDo you know of a good resource that tells you which things are significantly better priced?