If you wanted to meet Costco co-founder/CEO Jim Sinegal and president Craig Jelinek this morning, all you had to do was to be at the new Costco that opened up today at 8AM in Rego Park, Queens in New York City. There was Craig checking out the rotisserie chicken samples and saying hello to customers [...]

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There is a big debate going right now in Guilford, Connecticut about whether or not they should do some zoning changes to allow for a Costco to be built in the area.  The name of the site is ‘the rock pile’, at 1919 Boston Post Road, which doesn’t sound like a particularly attractive area that anyone [...]

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There have been a few stories in the news this week about new Costco locations that could be coming to a city near you.  Some of them are just in the very, very early stages, and some of them are much further along in the building stages.  And one of them is already built and [...]

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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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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 Australia are similarly unfinished, [...]

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