• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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    This comes after 98% of the U.S. retailer’s shareholders last week voted against a proposal requesting a report on the risks tied to its diversity and inclusion initiatives, pushing back against the growing scrutiny such policies face.

    So they’re pushing this despite the shareholders resoundingly shooting this nonsense down. Just “small government” things

  • Rob Bos@lemmy.ca
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    Costco has managed to avoid my USA boycott because if stuff like this. I’ll still avoid products made in the States but Costco itself gets at least a temporary pass.

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      Costco refuses to remove their inclusive policies, despite MAGA pressure.

      Unrelated, but they also refuse to raise the price of their hotdog + soda.

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        The hotdog + soda combo price was the hill their co-founder Jim Sinegal would literally die on.

        To wit: “If you raise [the price of the] effing hot dog, I will kill you.”