If you’ve been on the fence about joining Costco, or maybe you’ve just been looking for a reason to upgrade your GoldStar membership, well, this might just be the deal for you.  For another day and a half, you can get a special offer on Costco US membership from Zulily.com but you can’t laze about [...]

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You would think that executive pay would’t be all that different between Costco and McDonald’s, would you?  You might even think that Costco might pay a little better.  But you’d be so wrong.  It turns out that McDonald’s doesn’t think Costco pays executives enough anymore.  That’s right, you read that correctly, McDonald’s is basically calling [...]

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I have been meaning to write about the new and improved Costco.co.jp for quite a while now, definitely over a month though.  Over the last year it seems like the majority of Costco websites around the world have been updating their look and information.  As a usability person (in my former life), I totally applaud this since [...]

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Recently, Costco was added to the list of Instacart delivery stores.  Instacart is a grocery delivery business in the Bay Area, that allows to order your goods via your iPhone, iPad, or their website.  Once you place your order, it is handed off to an Instacart Personal Shopper and they fullfil the order in as [...]

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Lots of news this month about proposed locations or locations that are pretty far along in the planning process.   I think I’m most excited for the Sioux Falls one though, since that is the first Costco location in the state.  I haven’t heard anything about any of the areas people have been emailing me [...]

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