Monica Sud v. Costco Wholesale Corporation The large company of Costco has seen numerous amounts of lawsuits the one that brought the most uproar was when Costco was purchasing shrimp from Charoen Pokphand Foods. CPF Company purchases fish food from other companies that have slaves. The intention of the lawsuit was to have the company label the product as a product of slavery or stop selling the product completely. This case started at the federal court in San Francisco, California, Costco has been indeed selling and buying products of the slave trade. The Guardian investigation tracked the supplier by using non-governmental organizations such as the United Nations and environmental justice foundation. These poor employees had unbearable working conditions there would work about twenty hours a day, approximately they were at sea for years, and are physically abused daily. In these ships these poor workers witnessed the murderers of salves. Costco response was unpretentious however, they would not …show more content…
Many of the cardholders were concerned about the change, and how it would shape the company and their own benefits. The change Costco was making breakthrough spring 2016, moreover they are now affiliated with Citigroup. Costco made official that starting June 20th, 2016 they began to accept Vise, checks, debit cards and EBT. As soon as the public knew about the change the American Express suffered their biggest one day decline since August 2011 it fell 6.4%. The reason why most cardholders are concerned is because although Costco has bargains one purchase can have a high price. Costumers find it highly efficient to have credit cards so they have enhanced flexibility and more possibility than paying cash or even via debit card. Typically the reason why customers go the AmEx card was because of the partnership Costco had with American