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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Lucky Lottery Winners: I know I mentioned the good fortune of the group of Costco employees that won the lottery already, but it’s such a great story I thought I’d link to a more recent story about it too.  So, as you probably heard a group of 20 Costco employees from the warehouse on Long [...]

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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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[I received this great letter from a new reader to my blog, Laura, who is (as the title suggests) hoping that Costco will consider building a warehouse in the Flagstaff, Arizona area.  I loved her email so much, I asked her if I could use it for a guest post; I love the stories of [...]

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If you shop at the Costco location in San Marcos, located near San Diego, California on Center Drive, you’re about to have a sad six months!  After this Sunday, Costco will be closing the store for about six months to carry out some new construction to improve the store.  The store was originally opened in [...]

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