Plus, they dropped Callaway Golf after their horrific ad depicting violence against women.
Wait... What?
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The golf club company ran an ad where a woman went to touch a golf club and her man pushed her down and threatened her for her transgression.
Costco stopped carrying their clubs in response
Does the US not have some kind of advertising standards board that you have to get adverts approved before you're allowed to publicly post them?
We don’t have standards keeping the ass parasites out of the lettuce, take a second and ponder
We generally presume companies will choose not to do that to their own reputations, but apparently that presumption was wrong.
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Sadly it is on brand for the US. Really trying to bring back the good ole days where the white man can do whatever with impunity. Keeping women in their place, bare foot and pregnant without means.
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To be fair, it wasn't Callaway directly. It was Good Good Golf, a golf youtube channel, that aired the ad. Callaway had a partnership with them to cobrand the golf club, but dropped Good Good immediately after the ad and canceled the branded club.
Callaway still deserves the backlash from associating with them though and apparently someone giving the ok for the ad.
Thank you for the added context. It is slightly less worse, but still bad.
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It's such a gross concept. Wild anyone thought this was a funny, gotta be pretty deep in bro to not see red flags.
Like what is the point they are trying to make even?
Is the club so fragile that it'll break if touched?
Golfers are seriously superstitious?
Women suck and can't golf?
If anything it would have been a better commercial to do the opposite, hand the club out to literally everyone that's playing and they all hit better.
"Our golf clubs are so good, it'll make you want to beat a woman." Callaway Golf Clubs
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I mean, ‘golf company owner’ is already selecting for the biggest chud in existence.
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I'm NGL, initially i thought "This is probably one of those wacky ads taken out of context." And no, it's really really super gross. There's nothing humorous about it, it's just a really serious ad about pushing down and threatening a woman who touches your golf club.
It wouldn't be any better if the victim was a man either. The fact that there's no other words except 'the victim' is telling.
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Looked it up, apparently they did an Obsession parody, but no one got the reference so it looked like the CEO of the company just pushed a woman to the ground for trying to touch his golf clubs.
I've seen the ad, I didn't get the reference either. I haven't seen Obsession, but apparently that's what that was in reference to.....
If you have to be told what the reference is, you're probably not doing references right.
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They also ate the cost of the tariffs instead of raising prices
Every time I hear anything about Costco it always seems to be the only US company that's run by someone within an actual brain and who is capable of thinking more than 1 quarter into the future.
Apparently they do exist in Europe but I've never seen them
I shill for Costco whenever I can because this has been my experience too. Their employee badges have "member since" on them and there's a LOT of people who have been there for 15+ years. Also 2 dollars gets you a slice of pizza that takes up a whole paper plate.
It's true, and I think a big factor is they have a genuinely brilliant business model.
Basically they sell everything in bulk and roughly at cost, and make their whole profit from membership fees. This is brilliant because it creates upsides for all 3 parties involved:
- the consumer gets cheap items
- the brands selling things get large bulk sales negotiated in advance
- Costco gets a stable and extremely popular store
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Costco is a good, socially responsible corporation, most aren't.
I'll pile on. They threw their weight in and fought back against the tariffs also: https://www.npr.org/2025/12/03/nx-s1-5628405/costco-sues-the-trump-administration-over-tariffs
Costco runs it's own rigorous food inspection program
I feel slightly out of touch here, what's up with this Trump Mystery Meat?
the big orange man wants americans to have government subsidized hamburgers so people think that food costs arent as insane as they are, but he refuses to say where he's getting it from. the general consensus seems to be that he's allowing the import of a bunch of meat that was rejected by other countries for failing to meet quality standards. because that's how you help struggling cattle ranchers, after all.
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If only I could shop at Costco without having to go near Costco....
In case you are serious, they have a website and mobile app and they deliver most things they have in the warehouse. Some things are only available on the app/website.
I might have to go vegetarian if this is the future of meat thanks to Trump.
Why are golfers so weird…?
I get the feeling that the golf is just the structure to get wasted and do mild exercise with tangential friends under the guise of career networking. It beats having to deal with the family.
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Like virtually every other US government body, the corporate capture of the USDA is nearly total, they are little more than a rubber stamp for whatever the meat industry feels is most profitable. It's been a long, long time since the US led in the world in the safety and cleanliness of our food production.
As much as this is basically an ad, I agree.
Support businesses that don't take any shit because then you know they actually care about providing a service in addition to making money, as opposed to strictly the latter no holds barred.
Costco was very clear with the tariffs that they would eat the cost and just sue because they felt it was illegal. Low and behold, it was illegal, and they are getting a refund after not raising costs like everyone else. And their customers loved them for it.
This is actually their entire buisness model as well. They don't really make much money from their products. They make almost 100% profit from their memberships. If I remember right, over 2/3 of their total profit comes from membership revenue. So if they piss people off and make them cancel their membership, that would really fuck them over.
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I almost bought some Taylor Farms salad mix from Costco yesterday before my wife pointed out the brand name (what can I say, it was on sale and I'm a sucker for a discount). Costco is better than most retailers, but there are still plenty of problematic brands that they do carry.
I haven't had meat since I heard the laws were relaxed.
Haven't had a hard time at all. Beans, seitan, impossible meat. It's all delicious!
Never going back.
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The meat comes from Russia I'd wager . The CIA director travelled on the c17 Globemaster heavy lift aircraft to deliver Fort Knox as payment.
(I'm being conspiracy sarcastic btw)
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