Re: Costco Influencers

[rynling]

The target market for Costco is probably people with multiple children who haven't yet become disillusioned with the trappings of the middle-class American lifestyle.

Okay in immediate retrospect this is unnecessarily judgmental.

"How about you start caring for two children and an elderly parent and check back in with yourself about how you feel about giant packs of discount diapers?"

"My parents never had enough to eat growing up, and I find it hard to fault them for finding security in having a freezer full of meat and vegetables and a basement full of corn flakes and canned tuna."

"I volunteer at a local community LGBTQ+ health center, and we go through one of those 500-count boxes of condoms every two weeks."

All that being said, there's still something about Costco that I find uncanny and depressing. It's probably a combination of the fluorescent lighting and the endless parking lot, which together put me in a Suburban Gothic headspace where I'm not entirely comfortable.

Comments

[lassarina]

Suburban Gothic is a good way to describe it. There is something uncanny and unsettling about the sheer....volume of everything, the size of it, when one is used to thinking in terms of the things needed for a household of one or two people. I mean, I like it a lot and find it useful! But it's very Much.

[rynling]

[lassarina]

exactly.