[neilv]

I like what I know of Costco, as a service, and as a company. But that architectural rendering, of the cool housing straddling the no-frills Costco big box, reminded me of Idiocracy's "Welcome to Costco; I love you".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdNmOOq6T8Y

[seanmcdirmid]

It is just like how they are tearing down one story grocery stores and building them as 4 or 5+1s with the store on ground floor and housing up top. This is much better land use anyways.

[Apocryphon]

I too am in a Costco household, one of my friends is a long time employee there and loves it, and I would like to visit a Costco apartment open house, and the satire that this proposal (a big box store getting into residential housing) reminds me of is Sorry to Bother You's WorryFree:

https://thebaffler.com/latest/worryfree-seymour