Costco Flyer - 09/01-09/30/2021 (Page 24)

imonds from up to 22 different countries are just some of the places where costco's corporate buying team searches far and wide for the perfect nuts “we have such an outrageously high volume of sales on nuts; we need to have multiple loca- tions that we can draw from at any given time." the capability to pull from these locations to maintain supply levels.” checks and balances to visit nut farms and processing plants “we have a lot of criteria in place for the have to abide by the social audits and the law as far as not being allowed to use child labour or forced labour." costco supplier is required to follow specific and clearly defined social-standard guidelines to ensure that these guidelines-such as paying comparable wages-are being followed another important aspect of costco's connec- tion with the suppliers is to help crop farmers in different countries with training on how to continued on page 22