See the thread on the cult page itself: Costco Canada.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CostcoCanada/comments/1nb7aj1/are_you_still_buying_canadian_at_costco/
People are dropping their Costco memberships, and slowly weaning their shopping habits away from the American Bank owned: Costco. This is still the minority viewpoint as seen in the comments. But our education campaigns are slowly shifting the tides!
Remember, Costco is an American cult.
The same herd mentality that brought sheep into Costco’s doors will bring them out, and onto a Canadian run option.
Costco has no direct Canadian wholesale competitor, yet.
But I have a sense that’s going to change very soon. Costco is absolutely ripe for Canadian disruption. Go Leafs!
Costco makes very thin margins on their sales, they make their only real profits from memberships. Not like Walmart is an alternative, they sell nothing but over processed food.
For the purposes of “how much does 5lb of onion cost me? And how much do they pay their employees in my local economy?” that’s kind of irrelevant. Sounds like they found a more economically efficient way to deliver products.