Costco on the East side

[dakine]

please consider.. costco and all other large national/international corporate retailers are not doing us all that much good in the long run. especially in that we are an island economy. of course they wish us to think that their buying power which results in lower costs to the consumer is all good when in practice it has proven to also encourage the manufactures to create a lower quality product. and, the stores themselves recycle almost none of the dollars they take in back into our community. so in the end they leave us with crap, and take our money elsewhere. how is that benefiting us?