If you might be a heavy Costco shopper, just get the black executive card. With the 2% reward I rarely pay anything, or if I do its very minimal. I think we spend $5000/year at Costco, that’s not very hard and that amount refunds nearly the entire membership.

Or, just give the member your payment card so they can pay but use your funds.

The Romulan chick said something to the effect of “All this Kahn stuff was supposed to start in 1992, but factions in the temporal wars had changed stuff.”

So it’s not a retconn in as much as it is a clue that there are outside forces mucking with the timelines.  

Damn you, autocorrect.

The CEO is not correct, at least in the sense that this is not a thing that Sony started. This has literally been how the industry has worked for decades.

Not old enough to remember devs and publishers complaining about how difficult Sony consoles were to work with

Honestly, most people should just do what I used to do in NY when I had a costco membership.. me and 4-6 friends would split the cost of the executive membership and then when we went shopping... it was a group effort.

This solved 3 things..

Because the shrink costs all of us! I’m getting sick and tired of scofflaws who steal from stores, cross the Columbia to cheat on their sales taxes, refuse to pay the registration fees for their cars and fly Trump flags from the back of their coal rolling pickups. Those are the assholes. As for the Executive…

I’m sorry to be the one to tell you, but our grocery store prices will never go down. Virtually no price hikes on consumer goods get reduced over time. Best case scenario is them increasing less than 2-3% every year, unless there is a massive change in the macroeconomics of our nation.

Yet another reason to throw your neighbor’s costco card in the dumpster.

gas pumps require you to use your membership card prior to pumping. The fraud, at worst is losing your costco membership.
I have exec membership, and the insurance policy from it is very competitive for me. We don’t buy that much in bulk, but our annual purchases is enough to offset the membership.

Speaking as a Costco member, I don’t think the deals are good enough to warrant committing fraud. Other stores like Amazon regularly match or beat their prices on electronics, toys and clothes. I suppose if you’re buying in bulk (10 pound sacks of potatoes, 5 pounds of macaroni, 20 pounds of beef) the savings become…

Because they are enforcing a rule the original card owner agreed to? 

Nope. No option to buy it at all .Just nothing at all until the following year when they launched Paramount plus in those countries.

THIS!

Stan did his best work with Jack, Steve, and John.

Jack did his best work with Stan. Steve did his best work with Stan. John did his best work with Stan (but also with anybody, because he was John Romita).

All of these dudes were essential ingredients in the magic of the finished product. 

Since The Police is my favorie band of all time and I’ve been known over the years to go on philisophical waxing that borders on the obessive ranting, I’ll keep my comments brief....

Same.

Same.

No, that’s pretty much what I expected