How Costco Became the Anti-Wal-Mart - New York Times

How Costco Became the Anti-Wal-Mart - New York Times: "Costco's average pay, for example, is $17 an hour, 42 percent higher than its fiercest rival, Sam's Club."

This is interesting. It's never seemed worthwhile to pay for the membership, but maybe I'll revisit Costco. The differences in labor standards is quite striking. They could do more to play it up. I do remember that their wages for entry level jobs in SF was $10/hr in SF a few years ago which was fairly high for cashier/ customer service/ warehouse work, although I had thought that the good standards were because they had to negotiate approval from the Redevelopment Agency to put their big box site in SOMA.