Okay, that might actually be sugar coating it…quite a bit. If you aren’t in the UK, then you’ve probably never looked at the website for Costco in the UK, but go ahead and do it. I’ll wait. Pathetic, isn’t it? And you know, the websites for Costco Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and [...]

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Usually I can find a cohesive theme for the news stories about Costco, however, this time I’ve got a bunch of stuff that doesn’t really flow together.  There’s some news about new locations, American Express in Canada, and a new green (as in environmental, not color) product.  So, just a whole lot of stuff that [...]

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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’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 [...]

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I’ve been collecting a series of articles about new locations and updates to existing Costco warehouses for a while now.  I keep meaning to add them to the Locations page, but I keep forgetting.  So, I’m finally going to just add them all to a single post here.
First, I’ll start with a cool update that [...]

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Now, I know that technically this isn’t all about Costco, but this is about their biggest warehouse competitor, so I thought I should share it.
Walmart has decided that there are ten Sam’s Club locations around the country that aren’t performing up to their financial standards since they continue to lose money.  So, Walmart will be [...]

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