There have been a few stories in the news this week about new Costco locations that could be coming to a city near you.  Some of them are just in the very, very early stages, and some of them are much further along in the building stages.  And one of them is already built and [...]

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As the Soda Can Turns…These are the Beverages of Our Food Court The drama of the Costco soda wars continues, this time moving the venue to the food court for a little change of pace though.  There was a comment here not too long ago from Janice about a switch at her Portland, Oregon Costco [...]

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This store is crazy busy.  The worst is that the lines at the cash registers are always super long and seem to move slowly too.  They could really benefit from having some self-checkout lanes or quite a few actually.  When we were in line waiting, I must have looked really frustrated because the woman in [...]

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Good news for those of you that own Costco stock, the Board of Directors has decided to increase the quarterly dividend!   The board decided to raise the dividend from the current $0.18 per share to $0.205 per share, or $0.82 per share on an annualized basis.   The new dividend will be payable May [...]

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If you bought your Omega watch at Costco, Omega wants you to know they’re not happy about it.  They’re not happy that you can buy Omega watches at Costco for a third less than you can at other retailers.  They are so not happy about it that they are suing Costco, in fact.  Apparently, this [...]

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