So, recently I was poking around on the Costco Australia website looking for information about hours and holidays in preparation for changes I’m planning to make to my blog.  While looking around, I noticed that they have a section called ‘In the Warehouse’ that is sort of similar to that on the US website.  However, [...]

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Since Costco opened its first Australian location in Melbourne during August 2009, it has been doing incredibly well. From what I’ve read, there was/is lots of room for improvement in prices because of the very small variety of grocery stores. And now, Costco has shaken things up this week in two additional Australian cities this [...]

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For those of you that live in Australia and long for a nearby Costco location, maybe one of their two new warehouses will be closer to you than the Melbourne store.  The first Costco location opened in Melbourne in August 2009, and has done quite well, by most reports even better than Costco had anticipated. [...]

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Despite objections from shopping center owners (they claim Costco will be anti-competitive), plans for the Sydney Costco are moving forward and have been approved.  The NSW State Government has approved a new $60 million Costco development in Auburn, in Sydney’s west.  Previously, Patrick Noone, the Australian managing director for Costco, had said that once planning [...]

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Costco has recently announced that they will be trying to open six new Australian warehouses in the next three years!  That’s got to make all the Costco fans in Australia happy.  The next location they are hoping to open is in Sydney, if they can get the go ahead to start building.  After that the [...]

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