I Shopped At Costco

[A HERETIC I AM]

111. Then you have just acknowledged a conundrum of being liberal.

Most people of a liberal bent, myself included, want to see efforts made in American industry that help the environment. With regard to transportation, increasing the number of piggy backs means less pollution and fewer trucks on the road.

But it also means less work for the
millions of truck drivers in this country. A train carrying several hundred containers and piggy back trailers can be loaded by a crew of less than ten and moved across the country by a similar number of locomotive crew members.

Worrying whether or not a Costco puts others out of business is similar, in my opinion. What about the folks working at the Costco? What about the truckers delivering the goods? It is a difficult question.

It has been said in the past that for every job a Wal-Mart creates, 3 local jobs are lost. But Costco and Wal-Mart serve two different market segments, so whether that is also the case for Costco remains to be determined, as far as I am aware.