Today officially marks the second anniversary for my AddictedToCostco.com blog!
In that two years I have published 280 posts.  I honestly didn’t know I had that much to say about Costco or anything else. That’s an average of 2.7 posts per week.  My first few months of blogging were a little sparse, until I got the [...]

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I recently ran across an article talking about how Costco CEO, Jim Sinegal, evaluates Costco and their competitors on his numerous in-store visits every year.  And for him, like most of us probably, it is all about first impressions.  There really is nothing worse than walking into a dark, dingy store with the merchandise looking [...]

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I’ve been meaning to write about guest posts for a couple of weeks now, and today I’m finally doing it. I have so many great comments from people that all have their favorite things (or maybe things they really hate) about Costco, that I thought it would be nice to give them a little [...]

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We’re going to be taking a trip to Germany in the near future and have been looking at updating our digital still camera with something that could actually take movies.  And, all things considered, we would definitely prefer to have an HD camcorder, if the price doesn’t make anyone have a heart attack.  This past [...]

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There’s been a bit of buzz going around because of a recent report by two professors, Michael Norton of the Harvard Business School and Leonard Lee, of the Columbia Business School, that studies the impact of warehouse stores on consumer behavior. Basically, it seems to boil down to: do you spend more at Costco, [...]

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