I’ve been saving up news stories about new locations or possible new locations for a while now, so I decided I’d just put them all in a big post.  These seven little news blurbs will give you a pretty good idea of where you can expect new Costco locations in 2011 and even out to [...]

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Yesterday, Costco Canada announced a safety recall for two varieties of their Kirkland Signature bakery cookies because they might have little bits of metal in them.  Luckily, no one has been injured or gotten sick from the cookies though.
The cookies that are being recalled are the really delicious Chocolate Chunk Cookies (Item #: 237361) and the Chocolate [...]

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If you’re one of the people that is interested in applying for a position at the soon-to-be Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia Costco, you’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 [...]

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If you shop at Costco and use a fair amount of olive oil, you have probably picked up the Kirkland Signature Extra Virgin Olive Oil.  Or at least considered it.  But did you ever wonder how it stacks up against other extra virgin olive oils that are on the market?  And what is so special [...]

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In a recent comparison, Consumer Reports finds that Costco’s Kirkland Signature Beer is every bit as good as other name-brand beers like Sam Adams, Sierra Nevada, Paulaner.  I’m not sure how widely available the KS beer is at this point, but I thought I should share the results of the taste test anyway.  According to [...]

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