Costco and any other single-level grocery marketing scam hatred thread

[Chigworthy]

There are benefits to being a member of these big boxes of shit. Good deals on coffee, batteries, beer, books.

But this is a super-custom thread designed for the venting of what pisses your britches about these places.

In order to "green" up our household, I decided that rather than wasting all this municipal water washing out coffee cups every day, I would get into the disposable paper cup game. I had heard so much about not running the faucet when brushing teeth, tearing out lawns and planting medicinal marijuana, and other eco-tips, so I figured this would be my big effort in saving water and fighting corporate enviro-crimes. So about 6 months ago, we bought a 200 ct bag of what is labeled as 16oz Dixie Paper Cups. The lids are sold seperately, in boxes of 500, and claim to fit 12/16/20 oz Dixie Paper Cups. So, I thanklessly saved the environment for the last 6 months. As the 200 cups dwindled to zero, I noticed that there were still approximately 300 lids left. Strange. Well, why throw out these good lids, when I could just get more cups? So we bought a 100ct bag of 20oz Dixie Paper Cups. Bigger cups=more enivronmentalism. And of course the lids do not fit. I wonder how much extra product Dixie and Costco have sold with the old "different product count" scam, and the blatant "Lying Label" gag.

And I also have the obligatory hatred for the fatties clogging up the aisles around the free sample troughs. I employ a Henry Rollins-esque fortitudinal boycott of these sample stations, and try to plow through the cart blockade with as much rudeness as I can muster.

[Jujubees2]

How do you think using a paper cup is more environmentally conscious than a reusable mug? It takes water and other chemicals to make the paper cups and lids and then they have to be disposed of in a landfill.

[Doom Penis]

Yea what? I hate those places cuz I can't shop there as a single guy.

[KC2OSO]

http://www.downtownpet.com/blog/uploaded_images/reusable-coffee-cup-mug-722414.jpg

I'm not sure how using 200 paper cups and plastic lids is environmentally concious.

[Judge Smails]

I wonder how much extra product Dixie and Costco have sold with the old "different product count" scam, and the blatant "Lying Label" gag.



Sounds to me like you got yourself some Superfluous Lids there.

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[foodcourtdruide]

How do you think using a paper cup is more environmentally conscious than a reusable mug? It takes water and other chemicals to make the paper cups and lids and then they have to be disposed of in a landfill.

Seriously, how much water have you been using to wash your cups?

[KC2OSO]

Seriously, how much water have you been using to wash your cups?

It's not like the water gets used and disappears. It either goes into a septic tank and eventually back into the water table or off to a processing plant to get used again.

The horrible thought either way is that we're all drinking each others' grey water. Try not to think about it too much.

[Judge Smails]

I'm with Chigworthy. In order to conserve water I only use paper plates and cups and plastic flatware. Also, I only bathe with disposable wipes and I take all my shits on my neighbor's lawn.

[Snacks]

You probably shouldn't have created this thread because your reasoning for being mad and doing this might be the dumbest "green" initiative I have ever read about in my life. Reusing and washing things are "Green" buying things you throw away is the opposite. Add to this that you are using plastic you might be the most anti green person to ever think they were "green"

[RoseBlood]

Also, I only bathe with disposable wipes and I take all my shits on my neighbor's lawn.

GOD DAMN!!! Judge Smails is awesome!!! God Damn!!!

[cougarjake13]

I'm with Chigworthy. In order to conserve water I only use paper plates and cups and plastic flatware. Also, I only bathe with disposable wipes and I take all my shits on my neighbor's lawn.

nice

[KC2OSO]

GOD DAMN!!! Judge Smails is awesome!!! God Damn!!!
Smails is the best.

[disneyspy]

Smails is the best.

only the fools don't recognize

[Chigworthy]

When did this place become a parched desert, devoid of any moisturizing sense of sarcastic humor? Do you folks honestly think that a genius of my caliber would actually think that using paper cups was environmentally friendly? Jesusophine!!!

Let's get back to the Costco bashing.

[StanUpshaw]

It's not like the water gets used and disappears. It either goes into a septic tank and eventually back into the water table or off to a processing plant to get used again.

KC2OSO is absolutely right. In order to make some real positive change in your area, what you need to do is buy water that is bottled in a location with a surplus of water. Someplace like Alaska or Minnesota. So now when you use your water, you're actually REPLENISHING your local ecosystem. We're talking real grassroots environmentalism.

[disneyspy]

KC2OSO is absolutely right. In order to make some real positive change in your area, what you need to do is buy water that is bottled in a location with a surplus of water. Someplace like Alaska or Minnesota. So now when you use your water, you're actually REPLENISHING your local ecosystem. We're talking real grassroots environmentalism.

you do know that theres flooding in the lower missisip,drink more memphis springs!

[Chigworthy]

KC2OSO is absolutely right. In order to make some real positive change in your area, what you need to do is buy water that is bottled in a location with a surplus of water. Someplace like Alaska or Minnesota. So now when you use your water, you're actually REPLENISHING your local ecosystem. We're talking real grassroots environmentalism.

That's TOTALLY ridiculous! Don't you fucking realize that transporting water uses up petroleum and is totally inefficient? Your premise is so stupid that I hope your islets of langerhans have uncontrolled growth of mutated cells and that you never post here again.