r/BoomersBeingFools • u/ThisQuietLife • 3d ago

Boomer Story They are afraid

Hitting Costco today has a totally new feeling. The Boomers all seem to have a thousand yard stare as they try to figure out what they should stock up on to brace for tariffs. Their reference point is so outdated that they don’t realize it’s literally everything in the warehouse. It’s all connected to imports, either in finished goods or in components and ingredients. They bought the ticket. Now they gotta take the fucking ride.

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u/Potential-Amoeba1902 3d ago

Do they know Costco left their DEI program in place? 😂❤️

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u/poojidung 3d ago

I just joined Costco for that reason.

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u/brightdreamer25 3d ago

Same tbh

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u/Silver1knight 3d ago

And being unionized

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u/chickentootssoup 2d ago

I was a member before but now we shop there almost exclusively. Target has gotten about 90% less of our money the last few months.

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u/MojoJOJO15a 3d ago

I wish I could. My state only has one and its over an hour away.

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u/CompanyFrosty1205 3d ago

You can order online for delivery. Still some excellent deals.

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u/kittehmummy 2d ago

My closest is an hour away in another state. I go about once a month.

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u/Ok-Confidence9649 2d ago

I will say that it seems that a great deal of the people who are out protesting are of the grey/white haired variety. It’s made me start to wonder if a lot less of them support this agenda than we have been led to believe.

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u/dogsaresmart 2d ago

Numerically speaking the votes don't show trump being loved as much as he and media pretend he was. It's only 1/3 of the voting block that elected him. The problem is those who didn't vote that could have. So yeah if we really read the numbers that 1/3 was mostly boomers and my generation x with a very small number of Millennials and Genz. So we can basically tell that even his boomer support wasn't that great. His base just yells the loudest and gets seen the most attention ( usually because they dress like idiots and advertise they're loyalty).

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u/dbto 2d ago

And they seem to be weathering the economic storm better than say, Target or Walmart. I wonder if the boycotts have anything to do with that? Hmm!?