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Well, I know I said I was through with this thread, but it just got interesting with this CostCo/Sam's Club business.
You can't compare apples and oranges here. Sam's (and for damnsure WalMart as a whole) is a lot bigger than CostCo. So saying, "What should they do, fire down to CostCo levels?", or "But WalMart would go broke if they tried to pay ALL their employees that much!" misses the point.
It's true that WalMart/Sams Club are so deeply entrenched in the low-labor, low-cost approach that there's no way out short of a massive corporate overhaul, which won't happen. The point of the article isn't to give Sam's advice. The point is that a worker-centric approach that treats people generously is the more advantageous business strategy, as demonstrated by the contrast between Sam's Club and CostCo.
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