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	<title>Addicted To Costco! &#187; General</title>
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	<description>Just a few of the reasons why I love Costco</description>
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		<title>Costco Accepting Applications for Fort Oglethorpe Location</title>
		<link>http://addictedtocostco.com/2010/08/03/costco-accepting-applications-for-ft-oglethorpe-location/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimberly</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[costco.com]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chattanooga]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fort Oglethorpe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re one of the people that is interested in applying for a position at the soon-to-be Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia Costco, you&#8217;re going to be joining a long line of fellow applicants.  There have already been more than 1,100 applications submitted in just a couple of days.  But Costco is actually expecting to receive between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 Costco International Photo Contest</title>
		<link>http://addictedtocostco.com/2010/07/27/2010-costco-international-photo-contest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimberly</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Costco Photo Contest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Panasonic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photo contest]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Costco Connection]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s that time of year again, when Costco sponsors their International Photo Contest with a theme of &#8220;Give Us Your Best Shot.&#8221; The contest is co-sponsored by Panasonic Lumix cameras, Your Photo on Canvas, and Old Town.  They&#8217;ve changed it up a bit from last year with different prizes and some changes (for the better) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Costco on Top of Consumer Reports&#8217; Retail Survey</title>
		<link>http://addictedtocostco.com/2010/06/05/costco-on-top-of-consumer-reports-retail-survey/</link>
		<comments>http://addictedtocostco.com/2010/06/05/costco-on-top-of-consumer-reports-retail-survey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 09:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimberly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[In the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consumer Reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[customer satisfaction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[customer service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[surveys]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Consumer Reports recently came out with survey results regarding how American retailers stack up against each other.  The survey asked respondents to judge eleven retail stores on service, speed of checkout, value for money, ease of returning items, product quality, as well as problems with the stores or staff.  There were 30,666 Consumer Reports subscribers that took [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Costco Raising Quarterly Cash Dividend</title>
		<link>http://addictedtocostco.com/2010/04/23/costco-raising-quarterly-cash-dividend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimberly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[In the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dividend]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stock]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Finally Made it to Costco!</title>
		<link>http://addictedtocostco.com/2010/03/08/we-finally-made-it-to-costco/</link>
		<comments>http://addictedtocostco.com/2010/03/08/we-finally-made-it-to-costco/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimberly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Household Items]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chingford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dyson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ghiradelli Brownies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opening hours]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It took us two weeks, and felt like at least 6 more than that, but we finally made it to Costco this weekend!  We picked the one that is closest (according to Google Maps and obviously not the Costco.co.uk site) to our soon to be new flat; it&#8217;s the Chingford Costco.  Eventually I&#8217;ll probably try [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Far is My New Costco?</title>
		<link>http://addictedtocostco.com/2010/02/22/how-far-is-my-new-costco/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimberly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[London]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So, this weekend Dave and I were thinking that we could go visit the new Costco that we will eventually be shopping at.  However, we don&#8217;t have a car here.  Which means that we are dependent on public transportation, at least for the moment.  Lots of planning and figuring ensued and it turns out, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Costco Executive Team Changes</title>
		<link>http://addictedtocostco.com/2010/02/17/costco-executive-team-changes/</link>
		<comments>http://addictedtocostco.com/2010/02/17/costco-executive-team-changes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimberly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[In the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Sinegal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure you have all heard the news by now (I figured I should mention it anyway): there is talk of succession planning at Costco.  Just over two weeks ago, on February 1, the Board of Directors for Costco announced that it was appointing Craig Jelinek as Chief Operating Officer and President.  Prior to this, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AddictedToCostco has a New Home</title>
		<link>http://addictedtocostco.com/2010/02/11/addictedtocostco-has-a-new-home/</link>
		<comments>http://addictedtocostco.com/2010/02/11/addictedtocostco-has-a-new-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimberly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s official and complete, AddictedToCostco has a new server to call home.  Moving it turned out to be a little bit more involved than we were hoping for.  So, we were down for a little bit longer and hopefully that didn&#8217;t annoy anyone too much.
We had to reset a lot of settings and tweaks that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Will Be Down Temporarily</title>
		<link>http://addictedtocostco.com/2010/02/09/we-will-be-down-temporarily/</link>
		<comments>http://addictedtocostco.com/2010/02/09/we-will-be-down-temporarily/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:53:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimberly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://addictedtocostco.com/?p=1948</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ll be moving the server housing my AddictedToCostco.com blog in a little bit.  During that time the blog may be down for a couple of hours.  We had wanted to do this during the middle of the night, but with all the moving and craziness, this is just about the only time we can do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AddictedToCostco.com is Moving&#8230;.and So Am I</title>
		<link>http://addictedtocostco.com/2010/02/06/addictedtocostco-com-is-moving-and-so-am-i/</link>
		<comments>http://addictedtocostco.com/2010/02/06/addictedtocostco-com-is-moving-and-so-am-i/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kimberly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[In the News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the next week, we will be relocating this blog to a hosted server.  It seems that there are just too many people that like to read about Costco for me to keep serving up the content from my home office.  The look and feel should remain the same, but hopefully download speeds will seem [...]]]></description>
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