So why are 12 climate organizations across the nation — including Third Act, the climate action group for people over 60 that I helped found — suddenly turning their attention to Costco and asking it to change its ways? Well, as is sometimes the case with basically good people, Costco has gone a little astray by hanging around with the wrong crowd.
In this case, the wrong crowd is Citi. The New York bank provides the credit cards used by Costco shoppers — and it uses the money it makes, in part, to expand the world’s fossil fuel industry, the one thing scientists tell us we must stop doing.
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There are no good companies. They bow to profit at the end of the day
Aldi is pretty cool. It’s too bad they don’t have a lot of options but if they did I would go there more often.
They also treat their workers like crap.
Do they? Don’t they get paid pretty fairly? A few of my friends have been wanting to get jobs there.