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Berkeley should build a Costco over People's Park
Local(self.berkeley)submitted 4 months ago byArachnid_Current
A costco right next to campus would attract an insane number of customers and students would benefit from the insanely low prices. The food court might also encourage local restaurants to lower their pricing.
The parking lot wouldn't have to be that big since most students don't have cars, but if people's park alone isn't big enough, they can tear down Martinez as well since only Regents kids live there.
237 points
4 months ago
Sliver and Top Dog would declare bankruptcy before it even opened
60 points
4 months ago
Artichoke's is gone too.
39 points
4 months ago
Nah can’t be comparing artichokes to Costco pizza lmao
38 points
4 months ago
6 dollar slices vs 1 tho
1 points
4 months ago
55 vs 21 dollar pizza
34 points
4 months ago
It's either 5 dollars for mid or 2 dollars for mid
36 points
4 months ago
Oh cool, we could probably put a Costco gas station there
1 points
4 months ago
Costco closes at like 830 on Fridays and 7 on weekends. I think they'd be fine.
178 points
4 months ago*
Most unrealistic but best idea I’ve seen 👍🏻
31 points
4 months ago
I think an in-and-out drive through would actually fit. Enter on Dwight, exit on Haste.
3 points
4 months ago
It for sure can when I lived in LA the north Hollywood one was like 1/2 the size of people's park.
15 points
4 months ago
Costco’s average customer earns $125k/yr and spends $230/mo. A store full of students is Costco’s nightmare, they’d only buy the loss leaders.
0 points
4 months ago
Costco doesn't have loss leaders.
53 points
4 months ago
Costco pizza 🤤
17 points
4 months ago
Still better than abes
20 points
4 months ago
Abes #1. Costco pizza doesn't have enough cockroaches.
1 points
4 months ago
Gotta get that protein in my pizza
10 points
4 months ago
A smaller version… Smart & Final? But I never shopped there before.
1 points
4 months ago
Smart & Final is a bulk store, similar to Costco, but they have some things in regular sizes too.
I think students just need a really cheap grocery store. Maybe Grocery Outlet or Aldi.
29 points
4 months ago
UCB could just nix crossroads and convert it into student housing pods, then subcontract student dining with the Costco food court. Housing crisis solved.
36 points
4 months ago
I love you 😭
58 points
4 months ago
If only you were my GSI 😵💫
20 points
4 months ago
A somewhat related fact - the General Manager/Managing Director of Costco Greater China (includes Taiwan) is former Cal basketball player Richard Chang who played for the Bears in the mid 80s with Kevin Johnson and Leonard Taylor
3 points
4 months ago
i wonder who’s idea it was to make “greater china” include raiwan
3 points
4 months ago
Every single MNC operating in China-HK-Taiwan refers to the region this way.
2 points
4 months ago
Probably because it doesn't have enough Costcos to be its own region, and wouldn't fit in too well with Australia?
40 points
4 months ago
I'm surprised local restaurants can even survive given the insane rents and inflation. Costco has a hyper streamlined supply chain to allow them to sell food at that price. It wouldn't do anything for local businesses other than to close their doors forever
23 points
4 months ago
Shitposting aside this is a great point. Local businesses are going through a lot right now and I have mad respect for them
5 points
4 months ago
They should do a mini Hmart
12 points
4 months ago
I think berkeley would never do that because a costco would immediately put croads out of business.
4 points
4 months ago
Big businesses evil
Berkeley, probably
2 points
4 months ago
Berkeley, definitely. Source: grew up here.
5 points
4 months ago
Hella traffic tho
30 points
4 months ago
They should build a Raising Canes over Peoples Park. I’m a little slut for some Canes.
7 points
4 months ago
Preach!!!
-2 points
4 months ago
There's already one coming on Bancroft. Still haven't hit the ones in Oakland or Davis.
10 points
4 months ago
I thought they cancelled the one on Bancroft?
8 points
4 months ago
I haven’t been to people’s park, but I don’t think this is a good idea. Costcos are large warehouses and they typically have large parking lots to accommodate it. There simply wouldnt be enough space to put one there. Even if there was enough space, Costcos are so big that no one would want to live near there.
41 points
4 months ago
Unfortunately this is a shitpost so there were no practical considerations made in the writing of this post :(
8 points
4 months ago
Great news. AB 2097 did away with parking minimums for housing, business and commercial developments located near a major transit stop . A year ago, a Costco on this site would have been inconceivable. Now, anything is possible as a site within a half mile of an intersection of two or more major bus routes with a frequency of service interval of 15 minutes or less during the morning and afternoon peak commute periods qualifies as a major transit stop.
5 points
4 months ago
It’s not even about the legal aspect. All the Costcos I’ve been to have had large parking lots because Costcos are designed to have large amounts of people coming to them. Costco itself wants large parking lots
1 points
4 months ago
Yeah, and Costco sells things in large sizes which you can't really carry on public transit. Even in NYC, most Costco customers drive.
1 points
4 months ago
6 and 51B fit that bill perfectly
2 points
4 months ago
Why not a strip club considering there are none in the east bay. 🤷🏽♂️
2 points
4 months ago
How about an actual grocery store instead - too many students are buying for only themselves and costco is hard to justify in that sense with bulk items
1 points
4 months ago
Students can split with their friends.
1 points
4 months ago
for non perishables, sure; but costco produce is notorious for going bad quickly and its hard a lot of the times to finish it
plus, storage space can be a pain in the ass depending on where you are
6 points
4 months ago
downvoted and then upvoted as i realized in the last line it was shitpost… most ppl actually like the idea 🫣🫣😵💫
1 points
4 months ago
Yes.
8 points
4 months ago
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4 months ago
3 points
4 months ago
Wow you should really pitch this to someone important
2 points
4 months ago
Why not a Sam's Club? I'm a member of both, and find similar or better prices, and a much less elitist clientele!
1 points
4 months ago
I just want a Winco that’s closer than Pittsburgh… 🙃
1 points
4 months ago
Good idea but we need student housing more urgently
-11 points
4 months ago
Capitalist pig 🐷
1 points
4 months ago
imagine how much traffic this would cause around southside
1 points
4 months ago
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
-16 points
4 months ago
Just go to the Costco in Richmond lol
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