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A WOMAN has documented her experience trying Costco for the first time after being a life-long Sam’s Club fan.
Both are membership-only retailers – but Sam’s Club has a cheaper membership and more branded items, while Costco stores are larger and more widespread.
Posting on TikTok, Kayla Young said: “I’m more of a Sam’s Club girl than a Costco girl, mostly because we’ve never had a Costco.
“But a Costco just opened up three minutes from our house.
“And I got a membership so but we haven’t shopped there yet so we’re gonna go shop there and see what we find.”
The experience got off to a good start as Kayla was allowed to pose with her daughter Madison for the picture on her membership card.
The mom is then sweeping meat, vegetables, ice cream, milk, snacks, drinks, and clothes for Madison off the warehouse-style shelves and into her cart.
After getting back in her car, Kayla shared her thoughts on the experience.
She said: “Just finished up at Costco. I spent $130.
“Now that I have shopped at both, I think I’m 50-50.
The TikToker revealed that her family has the basic membership for Costco.
Meanwhile, they have the highest one at Sam’s Club which gets Kayla cashback – which is a plus for her.
However, Costco has something Sam’s Club does not – Apple Pay.
“But Costco has Apple Pay. You know me, you know I’m constantly losing my card or forgetting it.
“Apple Pay is like essential to me. So we might be Costco girlies but we’re going to keep both memberships until they run out and then we’ll see which one I use more.”
Although Kayla was quick to praise the payment system, other members have recently complained about it.
This is because the retailer controversially doesn’t accept any payment except Visa or Mastercard debit.
This week, Costco members also gushed over a new Maple Butter Pecan Cake with brown butter mousse icing.
One claimed it was “the best item they have ever created.”
Costco has strict rules for membership use that shoppers must follow and they've been cracking down on offenders in recent years.
Another said it was “beyond delicious.”
In other Costco-related news, branches have recently been checking memberships using new scanners.
After the scanners were launched in August, customers voiced their frustration over reportedly longer queues.
The store also hit the news lately for selling an unlikely item.
One-ounce bars of solid gold and silver were spotted for sale in stores, but they quickly sold out.
BILLIONAIRE entrepreneur Mark Cuban has warned businesses would be better off without politicians meddling in the economy, as he insisted the next US president needs to “shut up.”
In an exclusive interview with The U.S. Sun, the Shark Tank judge and Dallas Mavericks minority stakeholder also admitted to losing millions by trusting the wrong person in some of his biggest business mistakes.
“Just work on reducing stress,” Cuban said when quizzed about the best first action the next president should take.
“Just shut up.
“You don’t have to talk about the economy and everything entrepreneurs have been creating…we’ve seen more business creation over the past four years than we have in years previously.
“We’ve seen those businesses grow and doing well for the most part. We don’t need a president who’s just going to talk about it all the time and say what they’re going to do and not do.”
Cuban, who has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris and joined her on the campaign trail this week, also attacked Trump, claiming the country doesn’t need “somebody who’s going to tweet in the morning about some company they hate.”
The billionaire’s comments came after Squad member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused him of playing “footsie” with the election and threatened a “brawl” over his opinions on the Federal Trade Commission chair.
Her threats came after Cuban said he would not keep Lina Khan on as the chair of the FTC if he were Harris, arguing she had overstepped in taking on big tech in the AI space.
The U.S. Sun sat down with Cuban for an exclusive on-camera interview in the New York studio, discussing a number of issues, including politics, Shark Tank, business, the retail crisis, and sports.
According to data compiled by The U.S. Census Bureau and released by The White House earlier this year, America is experiencing a boom in business creation.
With the Covid-19 pandemic creating new opportunities and reshaping the US economy, the nation has seen a massive surge in new businesses opening their doors.
Census data has found the number of private industry establishments grew from an annual rate of 1.4% between 2000 and 2019 to nearly 6% in 2022.
Over the past three years, the annual pace of establishment growth has been faster than any single year in the last quarter-century.
Cuban, who voted for Obama in 2008, initially backed Trump’s first presidential campaign in 2015, calling him “probably the best thing to happen to politics in a long, long time.”
While admitting he had little concern for his policies, the Shark Tank judge said he liked the fact that Trump spoke his mind and gave honest answers.
Cuban appeared to like Trump’s push to disrupt the status quo of US politics.
“I don’t care if he says the wrong thing. He says what’s on his mind. He gives honest answers rather than prepared answers. This is more important than anything any candidate has done in years,” Cuban said in 2015.
However, the billionaire investor has since been a long-outspoken critic of Trump, recently calling his push to impose sweeping across-the-board tariffs on China “lunacy.”
With the November 5 election fast approaching, Cuban has stepped up his campaigning efforts for Harris.
Cuban is set to campaign alongside the Democratic nominee in three swing states this weekend,including Wisconsin, Arizona, and Michigan.
Renowned historian Allan Lichtman has accurately predicted the outcomes of presidential elections since 1984 using his 13 Keys to the White House algorithm. The scholar has revealed who he thinks will be inaugurated as the 47th president in January next year based on his system of true and false statements.
If six or more statements go against the White House party, they are projected to lose the presidential election.
Midterm elections: The Democrats suffered losses in the 2022 House elections, meaning the key turns false. (Harris 0-1 Trump)
There is no primary contest: This key turns in favor of Harris because the Democrats got “smart” and rallied behind the vice president after Joe Biden ended his campaign, according to Lichtman. (Harris 1-1 Trump)
The sitting president is seeking another term: This turns false because Biden suspended his re-election campaign. (Harris 1-2 Trump)
There is no third-party challenger: This statement is true because third-party candidates like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. needed to poll at 10% nationally, according to Lichtman. (Harris 2-2 Trump)
The short-term economy is strong: This key goes in favor of the White House Party. (Harris 3-2 Trump)
The long-term economic growth has been as good as the last two terms: This key also swings toward Harris. (Harris 4-2 Trump)
The White House Party has made major national policy changes: This key is also true, according to Lichtman’s theory. (Harris 5-2 Trump)
There is sustained social unrest during the term: College campus demonstrations have erupted in reaction to the Gaza conflict, but no protests have broken out that threaten the fabric of society. This means the key goes in Harris’ column. (Harris 6-2 Trump)
The White House is untainted by scandal: Despite House Republican efforts to impeach Joe Biden, they have been unable to pin a scandal on him. (Harris 7-2 Trump)
The incumbent is charismatic: Harris is not considered a Ronald Reagan or Franklin D. Roosevelt-like figure so the key is false. (Harris 7-3 Trump)
The challenger is uncharismatic: This key goes in favor of the White House party – even though Trump is a showman. (Harris 8-3 Trump)
Lichtman warned that the two foreign policy keys – whether there has been a major success or no failure – could flip either way.
But, even if both statements flipped against Harris, Trump would not have enough keys in his column to win the election.
In The U.S. Sun’s exclusive sit-down interview, Cuban attacked Trump, arguing that the Republican nominee did not understand the impact they would have on US businesses.
“We don’t need a president who’s just going to talk about it all the time and say what they’re going to do and not do,” Cuban said.
“We particularly don’t need somebody who’s going to tweet in the morning about some company they hate, or some country he hates, or has a bone to pick.”
“He’s not only increasing the price of goods and it being inflationary, he’s literally, if he does what he says he’s going to do, he’s going to put I don’t know how many small businesses out of businesses, and he doesn’t even understand it.
“That’s why I’m so against his presidency.”
Trump this week defended his economic plan in an interview with Bloomberg for the Economic Club of Chicago, arguing his proposal to implement tariffs would bring companies back to the US.
When asked about concerns his policies would drive up inflation, Trump pointed to prices during his presidency.
In contrast, Kamala has been slammed for alleged pandering after she announced a plan to offer 1 million business loans of up to $20,000 each to Black entrepreneurs.
Critics have also complained Harris has failed to articulate a detailed economic plan for the American economy and inflationary pressures faced by voters.
But Cuban praised Harris, claiming she understood businesses.
“I think that’s one of the reasons why I’m supporting Kamala Harris, because she understands entrepreneurs and that they just want to go and go to work,” Cuban said.
Harris has enlisted the billionaire investor to support her campaign amid ongoing concern about her ability to convince American voters to support her economic plan.
The economy and inflation consistently ranked as the most important issues to voters this election, and voters often say they think Trump would be better able to handle the economy.
Meanwhile, tech billionaire Elon Musk is backing Trump’s White House bid.
The world’s richest person has funneled $75 million into Trump’s campaign, according to new documents filed with federal regulators this week.
Musk has also appeared at multiple rallies alongside the former US President, most recently appearing in Pennsylvania on Thursday.
Cuban also revealed he had lost millions of dollars on two occasions, when the U.S. Sun asked him about his biggest mistake he’s ever made in terms of investing.
Cuban said he had made “so many” mistakes and blamed the faults on not doing his due diligence.
“There’s so many, and it’s a long long list,” Cuban said.
“I mean, not doing my due diligence.
“There’s been times when I kind of rushed things and thought it was a great idea and thought, okay, this person seems trustworthy and they weren’t.
“And there’s a lot of things that they said that weren’t true and it cost me a few million dollars twice.”
Cuban said he had been “arrogant” in the past and falsely believed people.
“Those were the biggest mistakes, it’s just because, you know, sometimes as somebody who’s had some success, I’d get arrogant thinking, oh, I know what’s going on.
“I don’t have to do the due diligence my people want to do. And I was wrong and they were right.”
ESPN has given fans an update about fan-favorite analyst Lee Corso.
After missing multiple iterations of College GameDay, the long-time presenter is back.
College GameDay is broadcasting from Autin, Texas this week, and the full slate of presenters will be on the cast.
The University of Texas Longhorns are facing off against the University of Georgia Bulldogs in a matchup of top-25 teams.
Texas is ranked as the No. 1 team in the country while Georgia is ranked at No. 5.
With such a high-class game on their hands, ESPN is making sure to have their best team available for the broadcast.
Rece Davis, Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard, Pat McAfee, and Nick Saban will all be on the show for their picks and analysis.
College GameDay will also have world No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler in the building as the guest picker this week.
In one of the best traditions of College GameDay, Corso will be doing his mascot headgear selection for the winner of the Texas-Georgia game.
It will be Corso’s 419th headgear pick of his career, and the 29th time he has picked Texas or Georgia.
In his last 15 Texas picks the team has gone 9-6 in those games. In his last 13 Georgia picks, the team has gone 8-5.
So far, Corso’s headgear picks are 5-0 this season.
Corso returning to College GameDay was confirmed by Kirk Herbstreit, but fans had mixed opinions about the announcement.
“GREAT NEWS, Welcome Back Coach,” one fan said.
“Lee Corso’s hat rack must be thrilled!” another fan said.
“Please go home and retire. Sad to see him in this condition,” a third fan said.
“Please let that man go home and retire,” a fourth fan said.
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While College GameDay is in Austin for the Texas-Georgia matchup, there are plenty of other great games this weekend.
Alabama and Tennessee are facing off on Saturday at 3:30 pm ET in a battle of top-11 teams.
Michigan and Illinois face off at the same time in a battle of top-25 teams.
Navy and Army are also both playing in games to try retaining their top-25 rankings this season.
Some of the action kicks off on Friday night, with No. 2 Oregon facing off against Purdue.
SPORTING his red MAGA cap on the Berkeley University campus, Luke Riveria is met with withering stares and foul-mouthed abuse.
Perched on his bike at the iconic Sproul Plaza, the former English student at the college told me: “People see me in the hat and call me an a**hole.
“There have been a couple of situations where people spit on the floor and give me the look. I just laugh at them.”
For Luke is wearing his Make America Great Again hat — Donald Trump’s totemic emblem — at a college renowned for woke politics in America’s most liberal city.
The offending garment is about as popular as a Millwall strip at a West Ham home game.
A bastion of Sixties radical and leftist protest, Berkeley found itself home to a “Free Palestine” encampment on campus earlier this year.
It is also presidential hopeful Kamala Harris’s hometown — though she doesn’t like to admit it.
Perhaps worried that her associations with radical Berkeley might put off MidWest swing voters, she prefers to name-check more working-class Oakland as the place she is from.
Nicknamed the People’s Republic of Berkeley, in the 2020 Presidential election Joe Biden won just under 94 per cent of the vote here compared to Trump’s four per cent.
Naturally, Luke is not much enamoured with the Vice President’s politics, insisting that she “doesn’t love America”.
Proud of his Latino heritage, Luke says that “letting in all these illegal immigrants” will “destroy” the country.
“They’ve been marching right across that border,” the 44-year-old insists. “If you want to come here, come legally.”
Luke’s MAGA sensibilities are far from replicated by the majority in California. Voting in the Golden State is a slam dunk for Harris.
Yet California is still at the centre of the presidential race debate as Trump tries to taint Harris by association.
With his political antenna homing in on what he sees as his rival’s weakness, Trump likes to characterise Harris as a typical “San Francisco liberal”.
Last Saturday, the former President chose Coachella in California to deliver a scornful speech on what he perceives as the failings of this state.
He accused California of having “the highest inflation, the highest taxes, the highest gas prices, the highest cost of living, the most regulations, the most expensive utilities, the most homelessness, the most crime, the most decay and the most illegal aliens.”
Then, with a Trumpian flourish, he added: “Other than that, you’re doing quite well, actually.
“We’re not going to let Kamala Harris do to America what she did to California.”
So will Trump’s strategy of damning Harris as the Californication candidate pay off in the vital swing states in America’s rural and religious heartlands?
Harris herself appears publicly reluctant to embrace Berkeley as the community that helped shape her.
At August’s Democratic National Convention, an introductory video narrated by actor Morgan Freeman called her a “daughter of middle-class Oakland”.
Berkeley’s Democrat mayor Jesse Arreguín said recently: “Berkeley is viewed as the most liberal city in the US, and we’re proud of that.
“But maybe for some people in the red states, that may freak them out.” Though it’s true Harris was born in 1964, at the Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Oakland, her parents were living in neighbouring Berkeley.
Her father Donald, now 85, a Jamaican-born professor and economist, met her late mother, scientist Shyamala Gopalan — originally from Chennai, India — when both were students at University College, Berkeley, in the 1960s.
The college’s Sproul Plaza — where we met Luke in his red MAGA cap — was the crucible of the 1964 Free Speech Movement, the first mass act of civil disobedience on an American college campus.
After a brief period living in the MidWest, Harris’s parents divorced, with Kamala and sister Maya returning with their mother to live in a modest apartment on Berkeley’s Bancroft Way not far from the university.
In the 1970s, it was a working- class district, but over the decades it has gentrified and house prices have rocketed.
As we visited the two-storey yellow house that Harris grew up in, a neighbour told me homes here now sell for at least £1.2million.
The upmarket area — known as Poets Corner for roads named after the likes of Chaucer and Browning — has lost none of its 1960s campaigning zeal, with window signs proclaiming “No to fossil fuels” and “Free Palestine”.
Mum Abby Ejigu, 43, who lives close to Harris’s childhood home, believes it is fair to describe Berkeley as America’s most liberal city. “I’m thrilled to see a woman of colour running seriously for the presidency of the United States,” Abby said as she walked her dog Artemis.
That’s inspiring to me, to my children, and to a lot of people all over this country.”
Harris moved away from Berkeley aged 12 when her mum took up a research role in Montreal.
After attending college in Washington DC, she returned to California to study law in San Francisco.
A burgeoning career as a prosecutor saw Harris become the first woman and black or Asian person to become district attorney in San Francisco, then California’s attorney general.
In 2017 she was elected senator to represent California — just as the fentanyl epidemic began to rage. In San Francisco, which gave the world the hippy dream of peace and love, thousands of homeless and often mentally ill people openly snort, smoke and inject what one campaigner called “Hard drugs 2.0”.
Many blame the city’s rampant shoplifting and drug abuse on Proposition 47, a law California adopted in 2014 after a public vote.
Today you can’t walk into San Francisco — she destroyed it
Donald Trump
Designed to slash the prison population, it classified a variety of “non-serious, non-violent” crimes as misdemeanours rather than more serious felonies.
It meant the personal use of most drugs, shoplifting, grand theft, receiving stolen property, forgery, fraud and writing a bad cheque were no longer felonies if the goods stolen were worth less than $950.
One San Francisco shopkeeper who has been robbed repeatedly told me: “I blame liberal politics. The rule of law doesn’t apply here.”
Although Harris was attorney general when the law was passed, she did not indicate whether she was for or against the legislation.
It hasn’t stopped Trump blaming her, and telling a rally in August: “Today you can’t walk into San Francisco — she destroyed it.”
Now Californians are to vote on whether to repeal parts of the law.
The legislation would increase jail time for organised shoplifting and force people with multiple drug possession convictions into treatment programmes.
The scourge of drugs and homelessness extends across the bay to Harris’s home town of Berkeley.
A neighbourhood in West Berkeley has tents pitched on its pavements, with other people sleeping in battered vehicles.
Around 840 homeless were reported to be living in the city in May. Discarded furniture and rubbish litter the roadsides, which are used as open-air toilets.
Now, nine local firms have filed a lawsuit against the Democrat-run City of Berkeley to remove the encampment.
The court documents tell how business owners often find needles and human excrement on their properties and see rats crawling through the detritus.
Emily Winston, owner of the Boichik Bagels factory nearby, said: “People are afraid to come here, and I don’t blame them.”
Barry Braden, owner of Fieldwork brewery, told how a woman came into his premises asking for free food, then swung a ten-foot metal pole at customers and workers.
At the homeless camp nearby, I met mum-of-two Misty Kaunert, who has been sleeping in the back of her friend Jerramy’s dilapidated Toyota Corolla.
She told me: “I’m in limbo. I just left a domestic violence situation.
“It would be dangerous on my own here.
We live in the richest country in the world but the wealth is not even close to being evenly distributed
Misty Kaunert
“There’s a lot of people that are unbalanced without taking drugs. When they do take them, you can times it by a thousand.”
The former nurse, 46, added: “If I vote, it will be for Kamala. We live in the richest country in the world but the wealth is not even close to being evenly distributed.”
Back at UC Berkeley, economics student and local Republican Party leader Utkarsh Jain, 21, said: “The homelessness problem in Berkeley is all over the place, people shooting up drugs, people even half-naked, doing whatever.
“No one cares — it’s just business as usual. No government official is doing anything about it.”
UC Berkeley history student Noah Corea, 23, believes Trump’s demonising of Harris’s career in California may cut through.
He said: “The alienating language that Trump uses does have an effect. I have family in the South and the MidWest and they do buy into a lot of the verbiage he espouses.”
Arriving in New York from the UK last week, I had been sure that Harris would take the White House next month.
Now, after travelling across the country and talking to voters, from the Arizona borderlands to Berkeley on the Pacific, I believe it is Trump’s to lose.
A YOUTUBER has reportedly been kidnapped from a remote village in the Philippines just months after getting married to a local.
Elliot Onil Eastman, 26, was allegedly shot in the leg and ambushed by a group of men with machine guns in the coastal town of Sibuco on October 17.
A witness claimed the Vermont native was shoved into a white speedboat just after 11pm on Thursday in the remote town he’d been living in.
Local resident Abdulmali Hamsiran Jala told cops that four armed pretended to be police officers when they forcibly took the YouTuber, who tried to escape.
Abdulmali said that the men were dressed in black and armed with M16 rifles.
One of the gunmen allegedly shot Elliot’s leg before he dragged him into a speedboat then fled by sea further south.
Cops worked tirelessly to chase the suspects and the YouTuber but failed to locate them so alerted other police and local marine units.
They said: “We confirm that there was a report of the alleged abduction of an American national.
“We want to assure the public, particularly the community of Sibuco, that we are doing everything in our power to secure the safe recovery of the victim.”
The police asked the public to immediately provide any information that could help an ongoing investigation of the reported abduction.
Philippine authorities did not immediately circulate information on Elliot but later confirmed his identity as victim in the alleged kidnapping.
The US Embassy in Manila did not immediately respond to questions about the reported abduction.
Elliot’s Facebook account reveals that he had married a Muslim woman in Sibuco and he updated his profile picture to a sweet wedding day picture just six days ago.
His YouTube bio reads: “I came to the Philippines about a year and half ago where I met the love of my life deep in the mountains of the red zone of the Philippines.”
The southern Philippines has seen decades of stark poverty and insurgency.
Next year, the country will hold mid-term elections and hopefuls in the volatile south are expected to focus on tackling crimes like kidnappings and extortion.
In a chilling Facebook livestream just weeks before Thursday’s shock incident, Elliot admitted he was scared living in Sibuco where he’d settled five months prior, according to cops.
On September 22 he said: “As long as I’m here, my life is still at risk, you know”, according to reports by Daily Mail USA.
He continued: “That’s the reality. especially the area that I’m in…It’s not even just the Philippines.
“This area that I’m in is like the most dangerous are in the country so it’s literally like the red zone.
“There’s nights I’m afraid, there’s times I’m afraid.. but it’s gotten better. In the past, I’ve had a hard time sleeping at night time.”
