Note: This episode originally ran in 2015.
It used to be that whether you ran a store,you wanted to make it easy for your customers. But Price Club and Costco went in the opposite direction: They made shopping harder. And people loved it.
Today on the note: How Costco and its imitators changed the way we shop. And how a current company is taking what Costco started to current extremes.
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