[afavour]

I don't see them as different to any other company, really. I could imagine diversity in their staff of buyers would be useful, for example, to ensure they're stocking products that represent the different desires of different groups.

[nomel]

> I don't see them as different to any other company, really.

The pool of qualified people, for a cashier, is basically everyone.

The pool of qualified people for, say, working at a tech company, is not as diverse [1], and don't match the general population.

[1] https://siliconvalleyindicators.org/data/people/talent-flows...

[afavour]

At the risk of stating the obvious here: Costco hires a great many people other than cashiers.

[nomel]

> I don't see them as different to any other company, really.

My point was in response to this. The idea is the available pool for a specific job may not match that of the general population. Different companies have different ratios of different jobs. So, assuming all things are equal, the diversity at different companies can only match the diversity of the qualified pool of workers. In that sense, different companies will be different.

For example, according to those statistics, Costco should be more diverse than, say, Netflix.