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So you think Costco's master plan is to sell people hot dogs and soda at or below cost, just ordinary hot dogs, and as a result of eating one hot dog and drinking one soda when they do their monthly Costco trip, they will develop chronic illness and need to pick up prescription drugs there? Even if you're that much of a sociopath, there are much better business models.

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Yes. The messaging from Costco is that it's OK to eat this way. It feeds the overall mentality of unhealthy members that this lifestyle goes inline with their over consumption of oversized foods at Costco generally.

That there is nothing wrong with grabbing a hotdog, pizza, and soda on your way to pick up your blood pressure "medication" at the pharmacy once you're done stuffing yourself with the food causing your high blood pressure.

I suspect going around grumpy at the world thinking a hot dog is "borderline child abuse" gives you more stress-induced health issues than the occasional hot dog would.

The way some parents feed their kids straight into obesity and other diseases is indeed legalized child abuse.

Cool, I'd love to hear about the education programs you've started to help inform these parents of the harm they're doing.

You're right in that companies don't really care about you, only your money. Though they don't have a negative agenda to you either. They don't care about you at all.

There is nothing sinister about it.

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