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today </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Costco_today-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Locations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Locations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2 Locations </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Locations-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Locations subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Locations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-International_locations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#International_locations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.1 International locations </div> </a> <ul id="toc-International_locations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Largest_and_smallest_locations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Largest_and_smallest_locations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.2 Largest and smallest locations </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Largest_and_smallest_locations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Costco_Business_Centers" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Costco_Business_Centers"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.3 Costco Business Centers </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Costco_Business_Centers-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Locations_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Locations_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 2.3.1 Locations </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Locations_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Finances" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Finances"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3 Finances </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Finances-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Ownership" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Ownership"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4 Ownership </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Ownership-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Business_model" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Business_model"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5 Business model </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Business_model-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Business model subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Business_model-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Sales_model" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sales_model"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.1 Sales model </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sales_model-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Management_model" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Management_model"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.2 Management model </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Management_model-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Online_shopping" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Online_shopping"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5.3 Online shopping </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Online_shopping-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Products" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Products"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6 Products </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Products-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Products subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Products-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Alcohol" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Alcohol"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.1 Alcohol </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Alcohol-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Books" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Books"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.2 Books </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Books-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Gold_bars" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Gold_bars"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.3 Gold bars </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Gold_bars-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Kirkland_Signature" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Kirkland_Signature"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.4 Kirkland Signature </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Kirkland_Signature-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Publications" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Publications"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7 Publications </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Publications-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Publications subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Publications-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Costco_Connection" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Costco_Connection"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7.1 Costco Connection </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Costco_Connection-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Services" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Services"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8 Services </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Services-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Services subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Services-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Concierge_service" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Concierge_service"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.1 Concierge service </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Concierge_service-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Costco_Auto_and_Home_Insurance" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Costco_Auto_and_Home_Insurance"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.2 Costco Auto and Home Insurance </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Costco_Auto_and_Home_Insurance-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Costco_Optical" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Costco_Optical"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.3 Costco Optical </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Costco_Optical-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Costco_Travel" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Costco_Travel"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.4 Costco Travel </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Costco_Travel-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Food_service" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Food_service"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.5 Food service </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Food_service-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Costco_credit_card" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Costco_credit_card"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.6 Costco credit card </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Costco_credit_card-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Costco_Audiobook_App" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Costco_Audiobook_App"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.7 Costco Audiobook App </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Costco_Audiobook_App-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Labor_relations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Labor_relations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9 Labor relations </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Labor_relations-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Labor relations subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Labor_relations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Employee_rights" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Employee_rights"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9.1 Employee rights </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Employee_rights-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Contractors" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Contractors"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9.2 Contractors </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Contractors-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Discontinued_concepts" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Discontinued_concepts"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 10 Discontinued concepts </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Discontinued_concepts-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Discontinued concepts subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Discontinued_concepts-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Costco_Home" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Costco_Home"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 10.1 Costco Home </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Costco_Home-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Costco_Fresh" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Costco_Fresh"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 10.2 Costco Fresh </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Costco_Fresh-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Controversies" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Controversies"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 11 Controversies </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Controversies-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 12 See also </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 13 References </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 14 External links </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header 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class="vector-dropdown mw-portlet mw-portlet-lang" > <input type="checkbox" id="p-lang-btn-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox mw-interlanguage-selector" aria-label="Go to an article in another language. Available in 40 languages" > <label id="p-lang-btn-label" for="p-lang-btn-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--action-progressive mw-portlet-lang-heading-40" aria-hidden="true" > 40 languages </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%88_(%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%A9)" title="كوسكو (شركة) – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="كوسكو (شركة)" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">العربية</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costco" title="Costco – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Costco" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Asturianu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%DA%A9%D9%88" title="کاستکو – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="کاستکو" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">تۆرکجه</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costco" title="Costco – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Costco" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target">閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BA%D0%BE" title="Костко – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Костко" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Български</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costco" title="Costco – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Costco" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costco" title="Costco – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Costco" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costco_Wholesale" title="Costco Wholesale – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Costco Wholesale" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costco" title="Costco – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Costco" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Eesti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costco" title="Costco – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Costco" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costco" title="Costco – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Costco" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costco" title="Costco – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Costco" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%DA%A9%D9%88" title="کاستکو – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="کاستکو" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costco" title="Costco – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Costco" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%BD%94%EC%8A%A4%ED%8A%B8%EC%BD%94" title="코스트코 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="코스트코" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%94%D5%B8%D5%BD%D5%BF%D6%84%D5%B8" title="Քոստքո – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Քոստքո" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Հայերեն</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costco" title="Costco – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Costco" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costco" title="Costco – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Costco" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Íslenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costco" title="Costco – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Costco" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%A7%D7%95" title="קוסטקו – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="קוסטקו" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costco" title="Costco – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Costco" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Melayu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%82%B3" title="コストコ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="コストコ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costco" title="Costco – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Costco" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk bokmål</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costco" title="Costco – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Costco" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk nynorsk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costco" title="Costco – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Costco" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costco" title="Costco – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Costco" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Polski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costco" title="Costco – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Costco" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Português</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costco" title="Costco – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Costco" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Română</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costco" title="Costco – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Costco" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Русский</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sah mw-list-item"><a href="https://sah.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costco" title="Costco – Yakut" lang="sah" hreflang="sah" data-title="Costco" data-language-autonym="Саха тыла" data-language-local-name="Yakut" class="interlanguage-link-target">Саха тыла</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costco" title="Costco – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Costco" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple 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<div class="vector-body-before-content"> <div class="mw-indicators"> </div> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">American multinational warehouse club chain</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Not to be confused with <a href="/wiki/Cosco_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Cosco 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.infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1242257876">.mw-parser-output .ib-company .infobox-label{padding-right:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .ib-company .infobox-data,.mw-parser-output .ib-company .infobox-below{line-height:1.35em}.mw-parser-output .ib-company-logo img{background-color:#f8f9fa}.mw-parser-output .ib-company-locality,.mw-parser-output .ib-company-country{display:inline}</style><table class="infobox ib-company vcard"><caption class="infobox-title fn org" style="font-size: 125%;">Costco Wholesale Corporation</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image ib-company-logo logo"><a href="/wiki/File:Costco_Wholesale_logo_2010-10-26.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Costco_Wholesale_logo_2010-10-26.svg/330px-Costco_Wholesale_logo_2010-10-26.svg.png" decoding="async" width="260" height="93" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Costco_Wholesale_logo_2010-10-26.svg/500px-Costco_Wholesale_logo_2010-10-26.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Costco_Wholesale_logo_2010-10-26.svg/520px-Costco_Wholesale_logo_2010-10-26.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="183" /></a><div class="infobox-caption">Logo since 1997</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image ib-company-logo logo"><a href="/wiki/File:Costcoheadquarters.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Costcoheadquarters.jpg/250px-Costcoheadquarters.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="167" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Costcoheadquarters.jpg/375px-Costcoheadquarters.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Costcoheadquarters.jpg/500px-Costcoheadquarters.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5184" data-file-height="3456" /></a><div class="infobox-caption">Headquarters in <a href="/wiki/Issaquah,_Washington" title="Issaquah, Washington">Issaquah, Washington</a>, United States</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Company type</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Public_company" title="Public company">Public</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Ticker_symbol" title="Ticker symbol">Traded as</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist 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class="infobox-data agent"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/James_Sinegal" title="James Sinegal">James Sinegal</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Brotman" title="Jeffrey Brotman">Jeffrey Brotman</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data adr"><div class="ib-company-locality locality"><a href="/wiki/Issaquah,_Washington" title="Issaquah, Washington">Issaquah, Washington</a></div>, <div class="ib-company-country country-name">U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Number of locations</div></th><td class="infobox-data">890 (2024)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Area served</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><link 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James">Hamilton E. James</a></li><li>(<a href="/wiki/Chairman" class="mw-redirect" title="Chairman">chairman</a>)</li><li>Ron Vachris</li><li>(<a href="/wiki/President_(corporate_title)" title="President (corporate title)">president</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chief_executive_officer" title="Chief executive officer">CEO</a>)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Brands</th><td class="infobox-data">Kirkland Signature</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Services</th><td class="infobox-data category"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Merchandising" title="Merchandising">Merchandise</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Cash_and_carry_(wholesale)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cash and carry (wholesale)">Cash & carry</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Warehouse_club" title="Warehouse club">Warehouse club</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Gas_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Gas station">Gas stations</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Revenue</th><td class="infobox-data"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/20px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/40px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /> US$254.5 billion (2024)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Earnings_before_interest_and_taxes" title="Earnings before interest and taxes">Operating income</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/20px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/40px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /> US$9.285 billion (2024)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Net_income" title="Net income">Net income</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/20px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/40px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /> US$7.367 billion (2024)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Asset" title="Asset">Total assets</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/20px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/40px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /> US$69.83 billion (2024)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Equity_(finance)" title="Equity (finance)">Total equity</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/20px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/40px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /> US$23.62 billion (2024)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Members</th><td class="infobox-data"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/20px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/40px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /> 136.8 million (2024)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Number of employees</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/20px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/40px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /> 333,000 (2024)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.costco.com/">costco.com</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below">Footnotes / references <a href="#cite_note-Corporate_profile-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-Costco_AR_20230903-2">[2]</a><a href="#cite_note-Costco_20240905-3">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-FY24-4">[4]</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Costco%27s_original_logo_2010-01-16.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Costco%27s_original_logo_2010-01-16.png/330px-Costco%27s_original_logo_2010-01-16.png" decoding="async" width="261" height="52" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Costco%27s_original_logo_2010-01-16.png/392px-Costco%27s_original_logo_2010-01-16.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/Costco%27s_original_logo_2010-01-16.png 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="80" /></a><figcaption>Original logo (used until 1993, but carried by stores until 1997)</figcaption></figure> Costco Wholesale Corporation is an American <a href="/wiki/Multinational_corporation" title="Multinational corporation">multinational corporation</a> which operates a chain of membership-only <a href="/wiki/Big-box_store" title="Big-box store">big-box</a> <a href="/wiki/Warehouse_club" title="Warehouse club">warehouse club</a> <a href="/wiki/Retail_stores" class="mw-redirect" title="Retail stores">retail stores</a>.<a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a> As of 2021, Costco is the <a href="/wiki/List_of_largest_retail_companies" title="List of largest retail companies">third-largest retailer in the world</a>.<a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a> As of August 2024, Costco is the world's largest retailer of beef, poultry, organic produce, and wine, and just under one-third of American consumers regularly shop at Costco warehouses.<a href="#cite_note-Howe-7">[7]</a> Costco is ranked #11 on the <a href="/wiki/Fortune_500" title="Fortune 500">Fortune 500</a> rankings of the largest United States corporations by total revenue.<a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a> Costco originally began with a wholesale business model aimed at enrolling businesses as members, then also began to enroll individual consumers and sell products intended for them, including its own private label brand.<a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a> Costco's worldwide headquarters are in <a href="/wiki/Issaquah,_Washington" title="Issaquah, Washington">Issaquah, Washington</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Eastside_(Seattle)" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastside (Seattle)">eastern suburb</a> of Seattle, although its Kirkland Signature house label bears the name of its former location in <a href="/wiki/Kirkland,_Washington" title="Kirkland, Washington">Kirkland</a>. The company opened its first warehouse (the chain's term for its retail outlets) in Seattle in 1983.<a href="#cite_note-spoketh-10">[10]</a><a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a> Through mergers, however, Costco's corporate history dates back to 1976, when its former competitor <a href="/wiki/Price_Club" title="Price Club">Price Club</a> was founded in <a href="/wiki/San_Diego" title="San Diego">San Diego</a>, California.<a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a><a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a><a href="#cite_note-highlights-14">[14]</a> As of November 2024<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit">[update]</a>, Costco operates 890 warehouses worldwide: 616 in the United States and Puerto Rico, 109 in Canada, 41 in Mexico, 36 in Japan, 29 in the United Kingdom, 19 in South Korea, 15 in Australia, 14 in Taiwan, 7 in China, 5 in Spain, 2 in France, 1 in Iceland, 1 in New Zealand, and 1 in Sweden.<a href="#cite_note-Form_10-Q-15">[15]</a> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:CostcoTlalpan.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/CostcoTlalpan.JPG/220px-CostcoTlalpan.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/CostcoTlalpan.JPG/330px-CostcoTlalpan.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/CostcoTlalpan.JPG/440px-CostcoTlalpan.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3872" data-file-height="2191" /></a><figcaption>A Costco in Tlalpan, Mexico City, Mexico</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Costco_Melbourne.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Costco_Melbourne.jpg/220px-Costco_Melbourne.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Costco_Melbourne.jpg/330px-Costco_Melbourne.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Costco_Melbourne.jpg/440px-Costco_Melbourne.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>Australia's first Costco, located in Docklands, Victoria, Australia</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Costco-GifuHashima.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Costco-GifuHashima.JPG/220px-Costco-GifuHashima.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Costco-GifuHashima.JPG/330px-Costco-GifuHashima.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Costco-GifuHashima.JPG/440px-Costco-GifuHashima.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="2448" /></a><figcaption>Hashima, Gifu, Japan</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Price_Club">Price Club</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Price Club">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Price_Club" title="Price Club">Price Club</a></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Icelandic_Costco_membership_card.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Icelandic_Costco_membership_card.jpg/156px-Icelandic_Costco_membership_card.jpg" decoding="async" width="156" height="117" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Icelandic_Costco_membership_card.jpg/234px-Icelandic_Costco_membership_card.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Icelandic_Costco_membership_card.jpg/312px-Icelandic_Costco_membership_card.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4032" data-file-height="3024" /></a><figcaption>Costco membership card from Iceland</figcaption></figure> Costco's earliest predecessor, <a href="/wiki/Price_Club" title="Price Club">Price Club</a>, opened its first store on July 12, 1976, on Morena Boulevard in <a href="/wiki/San_Diego" title="San Diego">San Diego</a>, California. It was founded three months earlier by <a href="/wiki/Sol_Price" title="Sol Price">Sol Price</a> and his son, Robert, following a dispute with the new owners of <a href="/wiki/FedMart" title="FedMart">FedMart</a>, Price's previous membership-only discount store.<a href="#cite_note-LAT-PriceClub-16">[16]</a> Price Club was among the first retail <a href="/wiki/Warehouse_club" title="Warehouse club">warehouse clubs</a>, beginning with its Morena Boulevard store inside a series of old <a href="/wiki/Airplane_hangar" class="mw-redirect" title="Airplane hangar">airplane hangars</a> once owned by <a href="/wiki/Howard_Hughes" title="Howard Hughes">Howard Hughes</a>.<a href="#cite_note-membership-17">[17]</a><a href="#cite_note-SDUT-2021-18">[18]</a> The store, known as Costco Warehouse #401, is still in operation today.<a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a><a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a> Price Club's sales model targeted <a href="/wiki/Small_business" title="Small business">small business</a> owners, selling items in bulk for a discounted price at no-frills outlets that were accessible only with an annual membership fee.<a href="#cite_note-BH-1986-21">[21]</a> The company launched an <a href="/wiki/Initial_public_offering" title="Initial public offering">initial public offering</a> in 1980 and expanded to 24 locations in the Southwest and 1.1 million members by early 1986.<a href="#cite_note-highlights-14">[14]</a><a href="#cite_note-BH-1986-21">[21]</a> Price Club expanded into Canada in 1986, opening a store in <a href="/wiki/Montreal" title="Montreal">Montreal</a>,<a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a> followed by a <a href="/wiki/Mexico_City" title="Mexico City">Mexico City</a> store in 1992 as part of a <a href="/wiki/Joint_venture" title="Joint venture">joint venture</a> with hypermarket chain <a href="/wiki/Controladora_Comercial_Mexicana" class="mw-redirect" title="Controladora Comercial Mexicana">Controladora Comercial Mexicana</a>.<a href="#cite_note-AP-ESPPOR-23">[23]</a> The company also announced plans to open stores in Spain and Portugal through their Canadian subsidiary.<a href="#cite_note-AP-ESPPOR-23">[23]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Costco_opens">Costco opens</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Costco opens">edit</a>]</div> <a href="/wiki/James_Sinegal" title="James Sinegal">Jim Sinegal</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Brotman" title="Jeffrey Brotman">Jeffrey H. Brotman</a><a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a> opened the first Costco warehouse in Seattle on September 15, 1983.<a href="#cite_note-Conroy-25">[25]</a> Sinegal had started in wholesale distribution by working for Sol Price at <a href="/wiki/FedMart" title="FedMart">FedMart</a>; Brotman, an <a href="/wiki/Attorney_at_law_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="Attorney at law (United States)">attorney</a> from an old Seattle retailing family, had also been involved in retail distribution from an early age. During this time, small businesses were given an 8% or 9% discount on <a href="/wiki/Inventory" title="Inventory">inventories</a>.<a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a> Sinegal began his retail involvement as a <a href="/wiki/Bagger" title="Bagger">grocery bagger</a>.<a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a> A second store opened in <a href="/wiki/Portland,_Oregon" title="Portland, Oregon">Portland</a> in October, and a third in <a href="/wiki/Spokane,_Washington" title="Spokane, Washington">Spokane</a> in December 1983.<a href="#cite_note-spoketh-10">[10]</a> The company <a href="/wiki/Initial_public_offering" title="Initial public offering">went public</a> in 1985 with 17 warehouses nationally and 1,950 employees.<a href="#cite_note-Conroy-25">[25]</a><a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a> The company was initially headquartered at its first warehouse in Seattle but moved its headquarters to Kirkland in 1987.<a href="#cite_note-Conroy-25">[25]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_"PriceCostco"_merger">The "PriceCostco" merger</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: The "PriceCostco" merger">edit</a>]</div> In 1993, Costco and Price Club agreed to merge operations after Price declined an offer from <a href="/wiki/Walmart" title="Walmart">Walmart</a> to merge Price Club with their warehouse store chain, <a href="/wiki/Sam%27s_Club" title="Sam's Club">Sam's Club</a>.<a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a> Costco's business model and size were similar to those of Price Club, which made the merger more natural for both companies.<a href="#cite_note-highlights-14">[14]</a> The combined company took the name PriceCostco, and memberships became universal, meaning that a Price Club member could use their membership to shop at Costco and vice versa. PriceCostco boasted 206 locations generating $16 billion in annual sales.<a href="#cite_note-membership-17">[17]</a> PriceCostco was initially led by executives from both companies, but in 1994, the Prices left the company to form <a href="/wiki/PriceSmart" title="PriceSmart">PriceSmart</a>,<a href="#cite_note-highlights-14">[14]</a><a href="#cite_note-Costco-Nov-1994-SC-13E4-30">[30]</a> a warehouse club chain in Central America and the Caribbean unrelated to the current Costco.<a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a> Costco moved its headquarters from Kirkland to Issaquah in 1996. It chose to build a new headquarters campus next to a warehouse store to allow buyers to check sales and merchandise.<a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a> They had originally planned to move by December 1993 to <a href="/wiki/Redmond,_Washington" title="Redmond, Washington">Redmond</a>, another Eastside city, but delays in road construction near the warehouse site caused the company to reconsider.<a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a> The former Kirkland headquarters, a 10.7-acre (4.3 ha) campus, was sold in late 1996.<a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a> The company began testing store conversions to Costco branding across the Southwestern United States in late 1996. It officially reverted to using the Costco name and stock symbol in February 1997, with all remaining Price Club locations subsequently rebranded as Costco.<a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a><a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a> In March 2020, Costco announced the acquisition of Innovel, a logistics company, for one billion dollars.<a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_company_milestones">Other company milestones</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Other company milestones">edit</a>]</div> The first Costco warehouse in Seattle was replaced with a new building on an adjacent lot to the north in March 2005;<a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a> the company was able to arrange to keep the same address for the new building, which was on land acquired from <a href="/wiki/Seattle_Public_Schools" title="Seattle Public Schools">Seattle Public Schools</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Conroy-25">[25]</a><a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a> The original building was demolished and replaced by a parking lot, gas station, and car wash—the company's first—that opened in 2006.<a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a><a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a> In 2014, Costco was the third largest retailer in the United States.<a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a> That year Costco announced plans to open an online store in China using <a href="/wiki/Alibaba_Group" title="Alibaba Group">Alibaba Group</a>.<a href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a> Costco announced the opening of 29 new locations in 2016, the most in one year since 2007.<a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a><a href="#cite_note-highlights_2017-45">[45]</a> Span Construction, led by <a href="/wiki/King_Husein" title="King Husein">King Husein</a>, has constructed almost all of Costco's buildings since 1989.<a href="#cite_note-metal-46">[46]</a> Costco opened its first warehouse in China on August 27, 2019, in Shanghai. The store attracted so many customers that it had to close after only a couple of hours.<a href="#cite_note-:Mao-47">[47]</a> The first Costco in New Zealand was first opened at <a href="/wiki/Auckland" title="Auckland">West Auckland</a> in September 2022,<a href="#cite_note-stuffnz-costco-48">[48]</a><a href="#cite_note-nzherald-costco-49">[49]</a> delayed from mid-August due to the <a href="/wiki/Economic_impact_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic" title="Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic">economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic</a>.<a href="#cite_note-costco-rnz-50">[50]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Costco_today">Costco today</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Costco today">edit</a>]</div> In the United States, Costco's main competitors operating membership warehouses are <a href="/wiki/Sam%27s_Club" title="Sam's Club">Sam's Club</a> (a subsidiary of <a href="/wiki/Walmart" title="Walmart">Walmart</a>) and <a href="/wiki/BJ%27s_Wholesale_Club" title="BJ's Wholesale Club">BJ's Wholesale Club</a>.<a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a> Costco employs 316,000 full and part-time <a href="/wiki/Employment" title="Employment">employees</a> worldwide.<a href="#cite_note-Corporate_profile-1">[1]</a> Costco had 90.3 million members in 2017.<a href="#cite_note-Costco-IR-Profile-52">[52]</a><a href="#cite_note-2018_Annual_Report-53">[53]</a> In 2020, Costco had 105.5 million members.<a href="#cite_note-2020_Annual_Report-54">[54]</a> In 2021, the company had 111.6 million members.<a href="#cite_note-2021_Annual_Report-55">[55]</a> As of November 2023<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit">[update]</a>, Costco had 129.5 million members.<a href="#cite_note-Corporate_profile-1">[1]</a> Costco was the first company to grow from $0 in sales to $3 billion in sales in under six years.<a href="#cite_note-membership-17">[17]</a> For the fiscal year ending on August 31, 2012, the company's sales totaled $97.062 billion, with $1.709 billion net profit.<a href="#cite_note-Costco-Oct-2012-10-K-56">[56]</a> As of 2019<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit">[update]</a>, Costco is ranked #14 on the <a href="/wiki/Fortune_500" title="Fortune 500">Fortune 500</a> rankings of the largest United States corporations by total revenue.<a href="#cite_note-Fortune_500-57">[57]</a> The ACSI (The American Customer Satisfaction Index) named Costco number one in the specialty retail store industry with a score of 84 in 2014.<a href="#cite_note-58">[58]</a> From December 2013, Costco's board of directors was chaired by co-founder Jeffrey H. Brotman and included James Sinegal, co-founder and director, and two officers of the company: president/CEO <a href="/wiki/W._Craig_Jelinek" title="W. Craig Jelinek">W. Craig Jelinek</a> and CFO Richard A. Galanti. On August 1, 2017, Jeffrey Brotman died.<a href="#cite_note-59">[59]</a> As of August 2017<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit">[update]</a>, James Sinegal and W. Craig Jelinek remained on the board. Jim Sinegal stepped down in 2018.<a href="#cite_note-2018_Annual_Report-53">[53]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Locations">Locations</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Locations">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Costco_footprint_map_USA_2021-01.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Costco_footprint_map_USA_2021-01.png/250px-Costco_footprint_map_USA_2021-01.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="130" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Costco_footprint_map_USA_2021-01.png/500px-Costco_footprint_map_USA_2021-01.png 1.5x" data-file-width="2936" data-file-height="1530" /></a><figcaption>Map of Costco warehouses in the US, as well as parts of Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico (January 2021) Red: Wholesale locations Blue: Business center locations</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Costco_footprint_map_Mexico_2021-01.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Costco_footprint_map_Mexico_2021-01.png/250px-Costco_footprint_map_Mexico_2021-01.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="153" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Costco_footprint_map_Mexico_2021-01.png/375px-Costco_footprint_map_Mexico_2021-01.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Costco_footprint_map_Mexico_2021-01.png/500px-Costco_footprint_map_Mexico_2021-01.png 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1226" /></a><figcaption>Map of Costco warehouses in Mexico, as well as parts of the US (January 2021)</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Costco_global_locations.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Costco_global_locations.svg/220px-Costco_global_locations.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="112" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Costco_global_locations.svg/330px-Costco_global_locations.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Costco_global_locations.svg/440px-Costco_global_locations.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="2754" data-file-height="1398" /></a><figcaption>List of countries that operate Costco (dependent territories and foreign possessions marked separately from their sovereign state)</figcaption></figure> As of September 2024<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit">[update]</a>, Costco operates 890 warehouses worldwide:<a href="#cite_note-Form_10-Q-15">[15]</a> <ul><li>616 in the United States, including Puerto Rico</li> <li>109 in Canada</li> <li>41 in Mexico</li> <li>36 in Japan</li> <li>29 in the United Kingdom</li> <li>19 in South Korea</li> <li>15 in Australia</li> <li>14 in Taiwan</li> <li>7 in China</li> <li>5 in Spain</li> <li>2 in France</li> <li>1 in Iceland</li> <li>1 in New Zealand</li> <li>1 in Sweden</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="International_locations">International locations</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: International locations">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Costco_Perth-Front_Enterance_(During_First_Morning).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Costco_Perth-Front_Enterance_%28During_First_Morning%29.jpg/250px-Costco_Perth-Front_Enterance_%28During_First_Morning%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Costco_Perth-Front_Enterance_%28During_First_Morning%29.jpg/330px-Costco_Perth-Front_Enterance_%28During_First_Morning%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Costco_Perth-Front_Enterance_%28During_First_Morning%29.jpg/500px-Costco_Perth-Front_Enterance_%28During_First_Morning%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="1836" /></a><figcaption>The Costco in Perth Airport opened in March 2020.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Aerial_perspective_of_the_Costco_roof_at_the_Docklands._March_2019.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Aerial_perspective_of_the_Costco_roof_at_the_Docklands._March_2019.jpg/250px-Aerial_perspective_of_the_Costco_roof_at_the_Docklands._March_2019.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Aerial_perspective_of_the_Costco_roof_at_the_Docklands._March_2019.jpg/330px-Aerial_perspective_of_the_Costco_roof_at_the_Docklands._March_2019.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Aerial_perspective_of_the_Costco_roof_at_the_Docklands._March_2019.jpg/500px-Aerial_perspective_of_the_Costco_roof_at_the_Docklands._March_2019.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="2250" /></a><figcaption>Aerial perspective of the Costco roof at Melbourne's Docklands store in March 2019</figcaption></figure> Warehouses outside the US are similar to the company's domestic locations, featuring generally identical layout, signage, and even parking lot markings.<a href="#cite_note-60">[60]</a><a href="#cite_note-61">[61]</a><a href="#cite_note-62">[62]</a><a href="#cite_note-63">[63]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources" title="Wikipedia:Reliable sources">unreliable source?</a>] Food court menus are tailored to international tastes, with <a href="/wiki/Australian_and_New_Zealand_meat_pie" class="mw-redirect" title="Australian and New Zealand meat pie">meat pies</a> on offer in Australia; <a href="/wiki/Poutine" title="Poutine">poutine</a> in Canada and France; seafood-topped pizza in Asian locations; <a href="/wiki/Tacos_al_pastor" class="mw-redirect" title="Tacos al pastor">pastor taco</a>-topped pizzas in Mexico; <a href="/wiki/Clam_chowder" title="Clam chowder">clam chowder</a> in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan; <a href="/w/index.php?title=Plokkfiskur&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Plokkfiskur (page does not exist)">plokkfiskur</a> in Iceland; and <a href="/wiki/Jacket_potatoes" class="mw-redirect" title="Jacket potatoes">jacket potatoes</a> in the UK.<a href="#cite_note-buckscoopcostcomelbourne-64">[64]</a> In Canada, it is a participant in the voluntary <a href="/wiki/Scanner_Price_Accuracy_Code" title="Scanner Price Accuracy Code">Scanner Price Accuracy Code</a> managed by the <a href="/wiki/Retail_Council_of_Canada" title="Retail Council of Canada">Retail Council of Canada</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Harris-65">[65]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Largest_and_smallest_locations">Largest and smallest locations</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Largest and smallest locations">edit</a>]</div> In 2005, the world's largest Costco by square feet was warehouse #692 in <a href="/wiki/Hillsboro,_Oregon" title="Hillsboro, Oregon">Hillsboro, Oregon</a> with 148,663 sq ft (13,811.2 m2).<a href="#cite_note-66">[66]</a><a href="#cite_note-67">[67]</a> In 2015, Costco completed an expansion in <a href="/wiki/Salt_Lake_City" title="Salt Lake City">Salt Lake City, Utah</a>, making it the new largest Costco at 235,000 sq ft (21,800 m2).<a href="#cite_note-68">[68]</a> Costco is currently working on getting approval to build their new largest ever retail store in <a href="/wiki/Fresno,_California" title="Fresno, California">Fresno, California</a> at 241,000 sq ft (22,400 m2).<a href="#cite_note-69">[69]</a> In 2019, Costco opened its biggest store in Canada, in <a href="/wiki/St._John%27s,_Newfoundland_and_Labrador" title="St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador">St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador</a>; the store is 182,000 sq ft (16,900 m2).<a href="#cite_note-70">[70]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Panorama_of_the_largest_Costco_Wholesale_store,_located_in_Salt_Lake_City,_Utah,_United_States.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Panorama_of_the_largest_Costco_Wholesale_store%2C_located_in_Salt_Lake_City%2C_Utah%2C_United_States.jpg/250px-Panorama_of_the_largest_Costco_Wholesale_store%2C_located_in_Salt_Lake_City%2C_Utah%2C_United_States.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="79" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Panorama_of_the_largest_Costco_Wholesale_store%2C_located_in_Salt_Lake_City%2C_Utah%2C_United_States.jpg/330px-Panorama_of_the_largest_Costco_Wholesale_store%2C_located_in_Salt_Lake_City%2C_Utah%2C_United_States.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Panorama_of_the_largest_Costco_Wholesale_store%2C_located_in_Salt_Lake_City%2C_Utah%2C_United_States.jpg/500px-Panorama_of_the_largest_Costco_Wholesale_store%2C_located_in_Salt_Lake_City%2C_Utah%2C_United_States.jpg 2x" data-file-width="10702" data-file-height="3864" /></a><figcaption>Panorama of the Largest Costco warehouse location, in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States</figcaption></figure> In 2011, Costco's highest-volume store was in Seoul, South Korea.<a href="#cite_note-71">[71]</a> In 2018, the store in <a href="/wiki/Taichung" title="Taichung">Taichung, Taiwan</a>, ranked at the top in the number of members and was second in the world in sales volume, behind South Korea's Yangjae store in Seoul. Of the 14 Costco operations in Taiwan, three – Taichung, <a href="/wiki/Neihu_District" title="Neihu District">Neihu</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Zhonghe_District" title="Zhonghe District">Chungho</a> – ranked in the top 10 in the world in sales volume.<a href="#cite_note-72">[72]</a> As of 2019<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit">[update]</a>, the smallest Costco is in <a href="/wiki/Juneau,_Alaska" title="Juneau, Alaska">Juneau, Alaska</a>, at 76,696 sq ft (7,125.3 m2).<a href="#cite_note-hsieh20190329-73">[73]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Costco_Business_Centers">Costco Business Centers</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Costco Business Centers">edit</a>]</div> Costco Business Centers are warehouses similar to regular Costco warehouses, and are open to all Costco members, regardless of membership type. Their merchandise caters predominantly to <a href="/wiki/Business" title="Business">enterprises</a>, with a focus on <a href="/wiki/Small_business" title="Small business">small businesses</a>. Business Centers do not carry most consumer items like clothing, jewelry, media, and tires, while carrying larger quantities and more options for the business products they do carry.<a href="#cite_note-lvsun-74">[74]</a> More than 70% of the items that can be acquired from a Costco Business Center cannot be found in a typical Costco store.<a href="#cite_note-bc-2018-75">[75]</a> Some locations do have a food court, a gas station, or both. They have large <a href="/wiki/Parking_space" title="Parking space">parking spaces</a> for trucks and are capable of delivering goods to businesses in bulk quantities, with a delivery charge of $25 for orders that are below $250.<a href="#cite_note-bc-2018-75">[75]</a> Costco Business Center operating hours<a href="#cite_note-76">[76]</a> are shorter than regular warehouses (usually opening at 7:00 am on Mondays to Saturdays and closed on Sundays), while discounts and coupons for Business Centers are issued separately from regular warehouses.<a href="#cite_note-77">[77]</a><a href="#cite_note-78">[78]</a> The first Business Center was a converted Costco warehouse in <a href="/wiki/Lynnwood,_Washington" title="Lynnwood, Washington">Lynnwood, Washington</a> that reopened in October 1996 following renovations; the change was made after a conventional Costco warehouse had opened in nearby <a href="/wiki/Everett,_Washington" title="Everett, Washington">Everett</a>.<a href="#cite_note-79">[79]</a><a href="#cite_note-80">[80]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Locations_2">Locations</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Locations">edit</a>]</div> As of August 2022<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit">[update]</a>, there are 26 Costco Business Centers in the United States.<a href="#cite_note-sddt10-81">[81]</a> The first Costco Business Center outside the US opened in Canada in <a href="/wiki/Scarborough,_Ontario" title="Scarborough, Ontario">Scarborough, Ontario</a>, in March 2017.<a href="#cite_note-BusinessCentreCA-82">[82]</a> In September 2020, the second Canadian Costco Business Centre opened in <a href="/wiki/Saint-Hubert,_Quebec" title="Saint-Hubert, Quebec">Saint-Hubert, Quebec</a>, near Montreal.<a href="#cite_note-83">[83]</a> A third Canadian Business Centre opened in the Ottawa neighborhood of <a href="/wiki/Gloucester,_Ontario" title="Gloucester, Ontario">Gloucester</a> in March 2021.<a href="#cite_note-84">[84]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Finances">Finances</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Finances">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable floatright"> <caption>Sales by business (2023)<a href="#cite_note-:1-85">[85]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Business </th> <th>Share </th></tr> <tr> <td>Food and sundries </td> <td>40.5% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Non-foods </td> <td>25.6% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Warehouse ancillary and other </td> <td>20.5% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Fresh foods </td> <td>13.5% </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable floatright"> <caption>Sales by region (2023)<a href="#cite_note-:1-85">[85]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Region </th> <th>Share </th></tr> <tr> <td>United States </td> <td>72.9% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Canada </td> <td>13.6% </td></tr> <tr> <td>Other international </td> <td>13.5% </td></tr></tbody></table> For the fiscal year 2023, Costco reported earnings of US$6.292 billion, with an annual revenue of $242.29 billion.<a href="#cite_note-Costco_AR_20230903-2">[2]</a> <table class="wikitable float-left" style="text-align: right;"> <tbody><tr> <th>Year </th> <th>Revenue in mil. US$ </th> <th>Net income in mil. US$ </th> <th>Price per Share in US$ (year end)<a href="#cite_note-86">[86]</a> </th> <th>Warehouses </th> <th>Employees </th> <th>Ref(s). </th></tr> <tr> <td>2005 </td> <td>52,935 </td> <td>1,063 </td> <td>33.80 </td> <td>433 </td> <td>115,000 </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><a href="#cite_note-87">[87]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2006 </td> <td>60,151 </td> <td>1,103 </td> <td>36.47 </td> <td>458 </td> <td>127,000 </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><a href="#cite_note-88">[88]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2007 </td> <td>64,400 </td> <td>1,083 </td> <td>48.58 </td> <td>488 </td> <td>127,000 </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><a href="#cite_note-89">[89]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2008 </td> <td>72,483 </td> <td>1,283 </td> <td>36.93 </td> <td>512 </td> <td>137,000 </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><a href="#cite_note-90">[90]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2009 </td> <td>71,422 </td> <td>1,086 </td> <td>42.23 </td> <td>527 </td> <td>142,000 </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><a href="#cite_note-91">[91]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2010 </td> <td>77,946 </td> <td>1,303 </td> <td>52.22 </td> <td>540 </td> <td>147,000 </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><a href="#cite_note-92">[92]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2011 </td> <td>88,915 </td> <td>1,462 </td> <td>60.96 </td> <td>592 </td> <td>164,000 </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><a href="#cite_note-93">[93]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2012 </td> <td>99,137 </td> <td>1,709 </td> <td>78.29 </td> <td>608 </td> <td>174,000 </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><a href="#cite_note-94">[94]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2013 </td> <td>105,156 </td> <td>2,039 </td> <td>95.38 </td> <td>634 </td> <td>184,000 </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><a href="#cite_note-95">[95]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2014 </td> <td>112,640 </td> <td>2,058 </td> <td>114.90 </td> <td>663 </td> <td>195,000 </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><a href="#cite_note-96">[96]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2015 </td> <td>116,199 </td> <td>2,377 </td> <td>136.72 </td> <td>686 </td> <td>205,000 </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><a href="#cite_note-97">[97]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2016 </td> <td>118,719 </td> <td>2,350 </td> <td>137.10 </td> <td>715 </td> <td>218,000 </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><a href="#cite_note-2017_Annual_Report-98">[98]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2017 </td> <td>129,025 </td> <td>2,679 </td> <td>167.77 </td> <td>741 </td> <td>231,000 </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><a href="#cite_note-2017_Annual_Report-98">[98]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2018 </td> <td>141,576 </td> <td>3,134 </td> <td>185.54 </td> <td>768 </td> <td>245,000 </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><a href="#cite_note-2018_Annual_Report-53">[53]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2019 </td> <td>152,703 </td> <td>3,659 </td> <td>270.33 </td> <td>782 </td> <td>254,000 </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><a href="#cite_note-2019_Annual_Report-99">[99]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2020 </td> <td>166,761 </td> <td>4,002 </td> <td>358.50 </td> <td>795 </td> <td>273,000 </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><a href="#cite_note-2020_Annual_Report-54">[54]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2021 </td> <td>195,929 </td> <td>5,007 </td> <td>544.25 </td> <td>815 </td> <td>288,000 </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><a href="#cite_note-2021_Annual_Report-55">[55]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2022 </td> <td>226,954 </td> <td>5,844 </td> <td>440.54 </td> <td>838 </td> <td>304,000 </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><a href="#cite_note-2022_Annual_Report-100">[100]</a><a href="#cite_note-Costco_PR_20220922-101">[101]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2023 </td> <td>242,290 </td> <td>6,292 </td> <td>656.27 </td> <td>871 </td> <td>316,000 </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><a href="#cite_note-Costco_AR_20230903-2">[2]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2024 </td> <td>254,453 </td> <td>7,367 </td> <td>954.07 </td> <td>890 </td> <td>333,000 </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><a href="#cite_note-FY24-4">[4]</a> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ownership">Ownership</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Ownership">edit</a>]</div> Costco is mainly owned by institutional investors, who own over 70% of shares. The largest shareholders as of September 2024 are:<a href="#cite_note-102">[102]</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Vanguard_Group" title="The Vanguard Group">The Vanguard Group</a> (9.40%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/BlackRock" title="BlackRock">BlackRock</a> (7.56%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_Street_Corporation" title="State Street Corporation">State Street Corporation</a> (4.06%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geode_Capital_Management" title="Geode Capital Management">Geode Capital Management</a> (2.14%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morgan_Stanley" title="Morgan Stanley">Morgan Stanley</a> (2.13%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fidelity_Investments" title="Fidelity Investments">Fidelity Investments</a> (FMR) (2.10%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bank_of_America" title="Bank of America">Bank of America</a> (1.59%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norges_Bank" title="Norges Bank">Norges Bank</a> (1.20%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Trust" title="Northern Trust">Northern Trust</a> (1.05%)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/BNY_Mellon" class="mw-redirect" title="BNY Mellon">BNY Mellon</a> (1.01%)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Business_model">Business model</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Business model">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Costco_in_Brampton_ON-Canada_2021.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Costco_in_Brampton_ON-Canada_2021.jpg/220px-Costco_in_Brampton_ON-Canada_2021.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Costco_in_Brampton_ON-Canada_2021.jpg/330px-Costco_in_Brampton_ON-Canada_2021.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Costco_in_Brampton_ON-Canada_2021.jpg/440px-Costco_in_Brampton_ON-Canada_2021.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4032" data-file-height="3024" /></a><figcaption>Costco warehouse interior in Brampton, Ontario, Canada in 2021</figcaption></figure> Costco is a membership-only warehouse which generates a majority of its profits from membership fees and a small percentage from retail sales.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] Customers must buy memberships to access the warehouse and make purchases. This is executed through the direct sourcing and efficient inventory management techniques.<a href="#cite_note-Pratap-103">[103]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources" title="Wikipedia:Reliable sources">unreliable source?</a>] Costco divides its business into three segments: United States Operations, Canadian Operations, and Other International Operations. These three business segments are reported by revenue and operating income.<a href="#cite_note-Reiff-104">[104]</a> Of the three, the United States Operations was the largest, followed by Canadian Operations.<a href="#cite_note-Pratap-103">[103]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sales_model">Sales model</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Sales model">edit</a>]</div> One company rule states that no regular item may be <a href="/wiki/Markup_(business)" title="Markup (business)">marked up</a> more than 14% over cost and no <a href="/wiki/Kirkland_Signature" class="mw-redirect" title="Kirkland Signature">Kirkland Signature</a> item may be marked up more than 15% over cost.<a href="#cite_note-Gabler-105">[105]</a> The company runs very lean, with <a href="/wiki/Overhead_Costs" class="mw-redirect" title="Overhead Costs">overhead costs</a> at about 10% of revenue and profit margins at 2%.<a href="#cite_note-Gabler-105">[105]</a> For example, Costco has no <a href="/wiki/Public_relations" title="Public relations">public relations</a> department and buys no outside advertising.<a href="#cite_note-Gabler-105">[105]</a> Costco's annual membership fees (US$65/year for Gold Star, US$130/year for Executive as of September 2024<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit">[update]</a>)<a href="#cite_note-Costco-Join-106">[106]</a> account for 80% of Costco's <a href="/wiki/Gross_margin" title="Gross margin">gross margin</a> and 70% of its <a href="/wiki/Operating_income" class="mw-redirect" title="Operating income">operating income</a>.<a href="#cite_note-107">[107]</a> Costco's sales model is to focus on limited selection over variety.<a href="#cite_note-Gabler-105">[105]</a> Although consumer products often come in <a href="/wiki/Product_differentiation" title="Product differentiation">many different varieties</a>, Costco will not carry most of those variants, but instead will carry only one or two examples of what is essentially the same product and try to sell a higher volume of units at a lower price.<a href="#cite_note-Gabler-105">[105]</a> Thus, a typical Costco warehouse carries only 3,700 distinct products, while a typical <a href="/wiki/Walmart" title="Walmart">Walmart</a> Supercenter carries approximately 140,000 products.<a href="#cite_note-Gabler-105">[105]</a> If Costco feels the <a href="/wiki/Wholesale_price" class="mw-redirect" title="Wholesale price">wholesale price</a> of any individual product is too high, they will refuse to stock the product. For example, in November 2009, Costco announced that it would stop selling <a href="/wiki/Coca-Cola" title="Coca-Cola">Coca-Cola</a> products because the soft-drink maker refused to lower its wholesale prices.<a href="#cite_note-108">[108]</a> Costco resumed selling Coca-Cola products the following month.<a href="#cite_note-109">[109]</a><a href="#cite_note-110">[110]</a> Finally, Costco insists that manufacturers must package their products in large sizes and properly arrange them on pallets suitable for deployment to its warehouses.<a href="#cite_note-Wynn-111">[111]</a> However, unlike most chain stores, Costco does not <a href="/wiki/Slotting_fee" title="Slotting fee">sell shelf space</a> to manufacturers.<a href="#cite_note-Howe-7">[7]</a> Due to its massive size and its extremely selective approach to buying products, Costco has become a powerful "arbiter" between manufacturers and consumers.<a href="#cite_note-Howe-7">[7]</a> From the perspective of small manufacturers, the reward for jumping through all these hoops to sell products to Costco is the possibility of obtaining international distribution through the company's warehouses in other countries.<a href="#cite_note-Shaw-112">[112]</a> If a manufacturer's product is popular at warehouses in its home country, Costco may look into whether members in other countries might also be interested in that product.<a href="#cite_note-Shaw-112">[112]</a> Although the company engages in visible efforts to reduce costs, the stores themselves are expensive. In 2013, Costco spent approximately $80 million on each of the new stores it opened.<a href="#cite_note-Kalogeropoulos-113">[113]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:COSTCO_gas_station.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/COSTCO_gas_station.jpg/250px-COSTCO_gas_station.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="138" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/COSTCO_gas_station.jpg/330px-COSTCO_gas_station.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/COSTCO_gas_station.jpg/500px-COSTCO_gas_station.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3663" data-file-height="2291" /></a><figcaption>Costco gas station in <a href="/wiki/Eau_Claire,_Wisconsin" title="Eau Claire, Wisconsin">Eau Claire</a></figcaption></figure> The cost is partly driven by the cost of <a href="/wiki/Real_estate" title="Real estate">real estate</a>, as each new store requires enough space to support a building of approximately 150,000 square feet (14,000 m2) in size, a large parking lot, and often a gas station.<a href="#cite_note-Kalogeropoulos-113">[113]</a> Lighting costs are reduced on sunny days because most Costco locations have several <a href="/wiki/Skylight" title="Skylight">skylights</a>. During the day, electronic <a href="/wiki/Light_meter" title="Light meter">light meters</a> measure how much light is coming in the skylights and turn off an appropriate percentage of the interior lights. During an average sunny day, it is normal for the center section of the warehouse not to have interior lights in use.<a href="#cite_note-114">[114]</a> <a href="/wiki/Rotisserie_chicken" title="Rotisserie chicken">Rotisserie chickens</a> are a major driver of customer traffic and sales for Costco, which has sold them since 1994 amid the then-rising popularity of <a href="/wiki/Boston_Market" title="Boston Market">Boston Market</a>.<a href="#cite_note-115">[115]</a><a href="#cite_note-116">[116]</a> In response to the annual growth of per-capita <a href="/wiki/Chicken_as_food" title="Chicken as food">chicken consumption</a> in the United States,<a href="#cite_note-117">[117]</a> Costco opened a factory in <a href="/wiki/Nebraska" title="Nebraska">Nebraska</a> in 2019 that implemented <a href="/wiki/Vertical_integration" title="Vertical integration">vertical integration</a> across all aspects of poultry production in a bid to keep their pricing intact while maintaining consistent quality control of them.<a href="#cite_note-118">[118]</a><a href="#cite_note-CNN_chicken-119">[119]</a> In some international markets, Costco also offers <a href="/wiki/Sushi" title="Sushi">sushi</a> that is made in-house; the Issaquah warehouse became the first US store to have in-house sushi in 2023.<a href="#cite_note-120">[120]</a> Costco is known for its "exit greeters", who briefly compare receipts against shopping cart contents as customers exit. They are trained to quickly count cart contents and serve as a form of customer service to verify that customers were charged correctly, have redeemed any voucher-based items (e.g., tickets), and have not missed items placed in their cart's lower racks. Costco has used exit greeters since its first store in 1983.<a href="#cite_note-121">[121]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Management_model">Management model</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Management model">edit</a>]</div> Costco is known for a strong <a href="/wiki/Corporate_culture" class="mw-redirect" title="Corporate culture">corporate culture</a> which encourages and rewards loyalty and promotes from within.<a href="#cite_note-Howe-7">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-Stearns-122">[122]</a> As of 2024, Costco claims to have a retention rate over 90% for new employees who make it to one year.<a href="#cite_note-Stearns-122">[122]</a> Many of its senior executives started out as front-line employees in its warehouses and spent many years rising through the ranks to reach their current positions.<a href="#cite_note-Howe-7">[7]</a> For example, Ron Vachris started in 1982 as a forklift driver at a Price Club in Arizona and became only the third chief executive officer in Costco's history in 2024.<a href="#cite_note-Howe-7">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-Stearns-122">[122]</a> Since 95% of the company's workforce is in its warehouses, and so many of its executives started their careers there, the company's culture is tightly focused on supporting the warehouse experience.<a href="#cite_note-Stearns-122">[122]</a> At Costco headquarters in Issaquah, all 7,000 headquarters employees sit in cubicles, including the chief executive officer.<a href="#cite_note-Stearns-122">[122]</a> However, the CEO does get to have a slightly larger cubicle.<a href="#cite_note-Stearns-122">[122]</a> All Costco executives are expected to get out of the office regularly and spend the majority of their time in the field visiting warehouses and solving problems.<a href="#cite_note-Stearns-122">[122]</a> The CEO attempts to visit as many warehouses as possible around the world in a cycle every 18 to 24 months, while executives responsible for smaller geographical areas are expected to visit all the warehouses under their supervision much more often.<a href="#cite_note-Stearns-122">[122]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Online_shopping">Online shopping</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Online shopping">edit</a>]</div> Costco primarily focuses on getting members to come in to a warehouse for purchases, instead of ordering products online.<a href="#cite_note-cnbc-brickmortar-123">[123]</a> Due to the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a>, Costco's online sales increased dramatically, with more online sales growth in 2020 than the previous five years combined.<a href="#cite_note-124">[124]</a> In November 1998, the company launched Costco Online, its <a href="/wiki/Online_shopping" title="Online shopping">online shopping</a> site.<a href="#cite_note-125">[125]</a> The site expanded to incorporate <a href="/wiki/B2B_e-commerce" title="B2B e-commerce">B2B e-commerce</a> on April 17, 2001.<a href="#cite_note-126">[126]</a><a href="#cite_note-127">[127]</a> <a href="/wiki/Instacart" title="Instacart">Instacart</a> offers Costco delivery in a select number of states, including Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia.<a href="#cite_note-128">[128]</a> Similarly, in March 2017, Costco initiated a partnership with <a href="/wiki/Shipt" title="Shipt">Shipt</a>, an online grocery delivery service. Unlike Instacart, Shipt charges its own membership fee, $99 a year or $14 a month, in exchange for free delivery on orders over $35. As of November 2018<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit">[update]</a>, Shipt offers Costco delivery in select Florida markets.<a href="#cite_note-129">[129]</a> In October 2017, Costco launched same-day and two-day grocery delivery options for members.<a href="#cite_note-130">[130]</a> In June 2023, Costco in Iceland opened up for click-and-collect <a href="/wiki/Alcohol_monopoly" title="Alcohol monopoly">alcohol sales</a>, having previously only been open to businesses.<a href="#cite_note-131">[131]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Products">Products</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Products">edit</a>]</div> Costco frequently rotates its inventory, often stocking items temporarily or seasonally.<a href="#cite_note-132">[132]</a> In a 2017 speech in San Diego, Sinegal explained that "we have created a treasure-hunt atmosphere".<a href="#cite_note-Howe-7">[7]</a> Costco's unique business model creates a "sense of urgency" in shoppers to <a href="/wiki/Impulse_purchase" title="Impulse purchase">impulsively buy</a> a good deal as soon as they spot one, since it will probably not be there the next time they come back to a Costco warehouse.<a href="#cite_note-Howe-7">[7]</a> Over the years, Costco has significantly expanded its range of products.<a href="#cite_note-133">[133]</a> While initially focusing on bulk, boxed items easily displayed in store by removing the stretch wrap from a pallet, Costco's offerings now[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers">when?</a>] include a diverse array of items of all shapes and sizes.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] These range from art, books, <a href="/wiki/Coffin" title="Coffin">caskets</a>,<a href="#cite_note-134">[134]</a><a href="#cite_note-135">[135]</a> and clothing, to <a href="/wiki/Software" title="Software">computer software</a>, fine wine, furniture, home appliances, electronics, <a href="/wiki/Hot_tub" title="Hot tub">hot tubs</a>, jewelry, and various perishable goods like dairy, baked items, flowers, produce, meat, and seafood. Other items such as solar panels, tires, and vacuum cleaners have also found their way into Costco's product lineup.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] Beyond products, many Costco warehouses feature additional services including <a href="/wiki/Filling_station" title="Filling station">gas stations</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pharmacy" title="Pharmacy">pharmacies</a>,<a href="#cite_note-136">[136]</a> <a href="/wiki/Hearing_aid" title="Hearing aid">hearing aid</a> centers, <a href="/wiki/Optometry" title="Optometry">optometry</a> and eyewear departments, and tire installation <a href="/wiki/Automobile_repair_shop" title="Automobile repair shop">garages</a>.<a href="#cite_note-137">[137]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Alcohol">Alcohol</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Alcohol">edit</a>]</div> Alcohol sales at Costco vary by location due to differing regulations. In some places, separate <a href="/wiki/Liquor_store" title="Liquor store">liquor stores</a> exist to adhere to <a href="/wiki/Liquor_license" title="Liquor license">licensing</a> laws, whereas in others, alcohol is available within the main warehouse alongside general merchandise. In certain states, like <a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a>, liquor sales must be conducted by a separate business entity with its own staff.<a href="#cite_note-138">[138]</a> Costco's desire to alter its alcohol sales structure in its home state faced a setback in 2006 when it lost its court battle against <a href="/wiki/Washington_(state)" title="Washington (state)">Washington State</a>'s requirement for retailers to buy wine through the <a href="/wiki/Alcoholic_beverage_control_state" title="Alcoholic beverage control state">state-controlled system</a>.<a href="#cite_note-139">[139]</a> The company then changed strategies. Costco spent over $22 million to support Initiative 1183, versus $11.75 million from opponents, "the most expensive initiative fight" in the history of Washington State.<a href="#cite_note-Allison1-140">[140]</a> In the November 8, 2011 election, Initiative 1183 passed with 60 percent of the vote and led to the demolition of the Washington state government's monopoly on the distribution of liquor and spirits for retail sale through state-owned and state-licensed liquor stores.<a href="#cite_note-Allison2-141">[141]</a> The Costco warehouses with the largest wine departments have a "<a href="/wiki/Sommelier" title="Sommelier">wine steward</a>" who roams around that department and advises Costco customers on what wines are best for their needs.<a href="#cite_note-Lander-142">[142]</a> As of October 2024, Costco employed about 30 wine stewards at its US warehouses.<a href="#cite_note-Lander-142">[142]</a> In the 21st century, Costco has made its store openings into special events by featuring special selections of whiskey, wine, and other alcoholic beverages which are extremely rare and not normally sold at its warehouses, or extremely cheap, or both.<a href="#cite_note-Huffman1-143">[143]</a><a href="#cite_note-Huffman2-144">[144]</a> For the October 2024 opening of Costco's first warehouse in <a href="/wiki/Napa,_California" title="Napa, California">Napa, California</a>, die-hard whiskey fans began camping out on the sidewalk six days in advance.<a href="#cite_note-Huffman1-143">[143]</a> International operations must navigate regional laws as well.<a href="#cite_note-145">[145]</a> For example, Costco's first store in <a href="/wiki/Victoria_(state)" title="Victoria (state)">Victoria, Australia</a>, operates under the country's relatively liberal alcohol licensing laws, allowing sales directly off the shelf as is common in most European countries.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] However, in <a href="/wiki/New_Zealand" title="New Zealand">New Zealand</a>, Costco's sole warehouse in <a href="/wiki/West_Auckland,_New_Zealand" title="West Auckland, New Zealand">West Auckland</a> is restricted from selling alcohol due to a <a href="/wiki/The_Trusts" title="The Trusts">local monopoly</a> on liquor retail.<a href="#cite_note-146">[146]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Books">Books</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Books">edit</a>]</div> For much of its history, Costco has been a major American bookseller in its own right, in an era in which e-commerce giant <a href="/wiki/Amazon_(company)" title="Amazon (company)">Amazon</a> and big-box bookstore chain <a href="/wiki/Barnes_%26_Noble" title="Barnes & Noble">Barnes & Noble</a> were wiping out traditional bookstores. Costco became one of the few American brick-and-mortar retail outlets where many shoppers who rarely visited bookstores could easily detour to the book section to browse hard copy books, discover books they might not have otherwise noticed, and buy them right away.<a href="#cite_note-Harris1-147">[147]</a><a href="#cite_note-Schulz-148">[148]</a> When Costco chose to buy any particular book, it usually acquired tens of thousands of copies, which was important to a publishing industry where a print run of 50,000 copies is a big deal.<a href="#cite_note-Harris2-149">[149]</a> In the 2020s, Costco management reportedly began to consider no longer carrying books as a year-round product category because they are extremely labor-intensive products.<a href="#cite_note-Harris1-147">[147]</a><a href="#cite_note-Schulz-148">[148]</a> New books must be unpacked and laid out by hand on tables when released each Tuesday, while books which failed to sell must be manually collected and returned to their publishers.<a href="#cite_note-Harris1-147">[147]</a><a href="#cite_note-Schulz-148">[148]</a> In 2022, Costco quietly closed the year-round book sections in its Alaska and Hawaii warehouses.<a href="#cite_note-Schulz-148">[148]</a> In June 2024, several publishing executives warned that in January 2025, Costco was planning to do the same across its 600 warehouses in the <a href="/wiki/Contiguous_United_States" title="Contiguous United States">contiguous United States</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Harris1-147">[147]</a><a href="#cite_note-Schulz-148">[148]</a> In other words, books would become just one more rotating inventory item for eight months each year, and would reappear as a full section only during the holiday shopping season in the last four months of each year.<a href="#cite_note-Harris1-147">[147]</a><a href="#cite_note-Schulz-148">[148]</a> This was deeply alarming to a publishing industry already facing stagnating book sales.<a href="#cite_note-Harris1-147">[147]</a> In November 2024, Costco agreed to keep year-round book sections for the time being in 100 of its 600 mainland US warehouses.<a href="#cite_note-Milliot-150">[150]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Gold_bars">Gold bars</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Gold bars">edit</a>]</div> Costco began selling one-ounce, 24-karat <a href="/wiki/Gold_bar" title="Gold bar">gold bars</a> in October 2023.<a href="#cite_note-nyt-151">[151]</a><a href="#cite_note-152">[152]</a> While typically selling for about 2% above the <a href="/wiki/Spot_price" class="mw-redirect" title="Spot price">spot price</a>, Costco offers 2% <a href="/wiki/Credit_card#Cashback_reward_programs" title="Credit card">cash back</a> for executive members and another 2% for users of certain credit cards. Thus it is seen as a low-profit venture for Costco<a href="#cite_note-cnbc-153">[153]</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Loss_leader" title="Loss leader">loss leader</a> for increasing store memberships.<a href="#cite_note-fgg-154">[154]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Kirkland_Signature">Kirkland Signature</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Kirkland Signature">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kirkland_Signature_logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Kirkland Signature logo" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Kirkland_Signature_logo.svg/220px-Kirkland_Signature_logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="68" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Kirkland_Signature_logo.svg/330px-Kirkland_Signature_logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Kirkland_Signature_logo.svg/440px-Kirkland_Signature_logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="178" data-file-height="55" /></a><figcaption>Kirkland Signature logo</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kirkland_Signature_Drinking_Water_1.5L_20050508.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Kirkland_Signature_Drinking_Water_1.5L_20050508.jpg/250px-Kirkland_Signature_Drinking_Water_1.5L_20050508.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Kirkland_Signature_Drinking_Water_1.5L_20050508.jpg/330px-Kirkland_Signature_Drinking_Water_1.5L_20050508.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Kirkland_Signature_Drinking_Water_1.5L_20050508.jpg/500px-Kirkland_Signature_Drinking_Water_1.5L_20050508.jpg 2x" data-file-width="960" data-file-height="1280" /></a><figcaption>Kirkland Signature branded bottled water, pictured in 2005</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kirkland_Mixed_Nuts.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Kirkland_Mixed_Nuts.jpg/170px-Kirkland_Mixed_Nuts.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="228" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Kirkland_Mixed_Nuts.jpg/255px-Kirkland_Mixed_Nuts.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Kirkland_Mixed_Nuts.jpg/340px-Kirkland_Mixed_Nuts.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3128" data-file-height="4200" /></a><figcaption>Kirkland Signature "Extra Fancy Mixed Nuts", pictured in 2022</figcaption></figure> Kirkland Signature is Costco's <a href="/wiki/Private_label" title="Private label">private label</a> brand, featured on a wide array of products sold across Costco's warehouses and its website. Launched in 1995, the brand takes its name from the original location of Costco's corporate headquarters in <a href="/wiki/Kirkland,_Washington" title="Kirkland, Washington">Kirkland, Washington</a>.<a href="#cite_note-155">[155]</a><a href="#cite_note-156">[156]</a> It accounts for nearly one-third of the company's sales and outpaces the growth of Costco's overall sales.<a href="#cite_note-157">[157]</a> The aim of the Kirkland Signature brand was to offer products with brand name quality at discounted prices.<a href="#cite_note-158">[158]</a> Recognizing the typical consumer skepticism common with private labels, Costco has adopted a strategy of <a href="/wiki/Co-branding" title="Co-branding">co-branding</a> certain items with well-known manufacturers to bolster consumer trust.<a href="#cite_note-159">[159]</a> Notable co-branded products include those from <a href="/wiki/Chinet" title="Chinet">Chinet</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jelly_Belly" title="Jelly Belly">Jelly Belly</a>, <a href="/wiki/Keurig_Green_Mountain" class="mw-redirect" title="Keurig Green Mountain">Keurig Green Mountain</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ocean_Spray_(cooperative)" title="Ocean Spray (cooperative)">Ocean Spray</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stearns_%26_Foster" class="mw-redirect" title="Stearns & Foster">Stearns & Foster</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Starbucks" title="Starbucks">Starbucks</a>.<a href="#cite_note-MoneyWise-2022-160">[160]</a> Additionally, while some Kirkland Signature products maintain a <a href="/wiki/White-label_product" title="White-label product">generic label</a>, they are produced in partnership with recognized companies such as <a href="/wiki/Duracell" title="Duracell">Duracell</a> and <a href="/wiki/Niagara_Bottling" title="Niagara Bottling">Niagara Bottling</a>.<a href="#cite_note-MoneyWise-2022-160">[160]</a> The brand often uses simple, minimalist packaging, reflecting its focus on offering high-quality products at affordable prices.<a href="#cite_note-161">[161]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Publications">Publications</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Publications">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Costco_Connection">Costco Connection</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Costco Connection">edit</a>]</div> Costco Connection is a magazine sent free to the Costco executive members; it can also be accessed online by anyone, free of charge.<a href="#cite_note-162">[162]</a> As of 2024<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit">[update]</a>, the magazine is distributed to 15.4 million households and has 300,000 copies at warehouses. It has the third-highest magazine circulation in the United States, behind two <a href="/wiki/AARP" title="AARP">AARP</a> magazines.<a href="#cite_note-163">[163]</a> The magazine was established in 1987 as a newsprint publication and converted to a magazine in 1997.<a href="#cite_note-cnnbusiness-164">[164]</a> It features articles which regularly tie into the corporation along with business, celebrity features, cooking, entertaining, health, home improvement, and social articles, as well as coupons and ads. MediaPost reports: "While about 90% of the magazine's advertising is co-op, increasingly national advertisers such as <a href="/wiki/Procter_%26_Gamble" title="Procter & Gamble">Procter & Gamble</a> are buying space, notes Roeglin -- presumably because of the pub's gargantuan reach and the data it has on its subscribers (whose average household income is $156,000 a year). 'We see about 56% of our subscribers a month buy something at one of our stores based on something they've read in the magazine,' says Roeglin."<a href="#cite_note-Robins,_J._Max-165">[165]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Services">Services</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Services">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Concierge_service">Concierge service</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Concierge service">edit</a>]</div> Costco offers a free "concierge" service to members who purchase electronics, to help answer questions regarding setup and use and avoid potential returns due to not understanding how to use the products.<a href="#cite_note-costco.com-166">[166]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Costco_Auto_and_Home_Insurance">Costco Auto and Home Insurance</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Costco Auto and Home Insurance">edit</a>]</div> Costco has an agreement with <a href="/wiki/Connect_(insurance_company)" title="Connect (insurance company)">CONNECT, powered by American Family Insurance</a>, for <a href="/wiki/Vehicle_insurance" title="Vehicle insurance">auto insurance</a>, <a href="/wiki/Home_insurance" title="Home insurance">home insurance</a> and <a href="/wiki/Umbrella_insurance" title="Umbrella insurance">umbrella</a> insurance.<a href="#cite_note-167">[167]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Costco_Optical">Costco Optical</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Costco Optical">edit</a>]</div> Costco Optical ranks as the fifth-largest optical company in the US, as of 2015<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit">[update]</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:0-168">[168]</a> <a href="/wiki/Optometry" title="Optometry">Optometrists</a> working at Costco locations will see patients without Costco memberships,<a href="#cite_note-169">[169]</a> although a membership is required to fill a prescription at the optical department.<a href="#cite_note-170">[170]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Costco_Travel">Costco Travel</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Costco Travel">edit</a>]</div> Costco Travel is a wholly owned subsidiary of Costco Wholesale and offers leisure travel to Costco members of the United States and Canada.<a href="#cite_note-171">[171]</a> The program offers vacation packages to the Caribbean, Europe, Florida, Hawaii, Las Vegas, Mexico, and the South Pacific.<a href="#cite_note-172">[172]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Food_service">Food service</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Food service">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Costco_hot_dog" title="Costco hot dog">Costco hot dog</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Costco-foodcourt.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Costco-foodcourt.jpg/220px-Costco-foodcourt.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="157" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Costco-foodcourt.jpg/330px-Costco-foodcourt.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Costco-foodcourt.jpg/440px-Costco-foodcourt.jpg 2x" data-file-width="700" data-file-height="500" /></a><figcaption>Food concession stand at the Costco warehouse in Overland Park, Kansas, United States</figcaption></figure><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224211176">.mw-parser-output .quotebox{background-color:#F9F9F9;border:1px solid #aaa;box-sizing:border-box;padding:10px;font-size:88%;max-width:100%}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft{margin:.5em 1.4em .8em 0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright{margin:.5em 0 .8em 1.4em}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.centered{overflow:hidden;position:relative;margin:.5em auto .8em auto}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft span,.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright span{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox>blockquote{margin:0;padding:0;border-left:0;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-title{text-align:center;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote>:first-child{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote:last-child>:last-child{margin-bottom:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:before{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" “ ";vertical-align:-45%;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:after{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" ” ";line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .left-aligned{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .right-aligned{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .center-aligned{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quote-title,.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quotebox-quote{display:block}.mw-parser-output .quotebox cite{display:block;font-style:normal}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .quotebox{width:100%!important;margin:0 0 .8em!important;float:none!important}}</style><div class="quotebox pullquote floatright" style="width:25%; ;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> If you raise the [price of the] effing hot dog, I will kill you. Figure it out. </blockquote> <div style="padding-bottom: 0; padding-top: 0.5em"><cite class="left-aligned" style="">Founder <a href="/wiki/James_Sinegal" title="James Sinegal">Jim Sinegal</a> to then-CEO <a href="/wiki/W._Craig_Jelinek" title="W. Craig Jelinek">W. Craig Jelinek</a>, when Jelinek suggested increasing the price of the hot dog.<a href="#cite_note-425B_-_Jelinek-173">[173]</a></cite></div> </div> In 1985, Costco started to sell freshly prepared food through a <a href="/wiki/Hot_dog_cart" title="Hot dog cart">hot dog cart</a> at its original Seattle warehouse.<a href="#cite_note-Conroy-25">[25]</a> Most Costco locations now have a <a href="/wiki/Food_court" title="Food court">food court</a>.<a href="#cite_note-174">[174]</a> They can be indoors or outdoors,<a href="#cite_note-175">[175]</a> but the menu is essentially the same: hot dog with drink (one of the most popular items), pizza, frozen yogurt/ice cream, Pepsico beverages, baked items, and sandwiches.<a href="#cite_note-176">[176]</a> Costco offers <a href="/wiki/Costco_hot_dog" title="Costco hot dog">its signature quarter-pound 100% beef hot dog</a> and 20 US fluid ounces (590 ml) drink (with refills) for US$1.50, the same price since 1985. Some US locations also offer <a href="/wiki/Kielbasa" title="Kielbasa">Polish sausage</a> or <a href="/wiki/Bratwurst" title="Bratwurst">bratwurst</a> in addition to hot dogs, at the same $1.50 price.<a href="#cite_note-177">[177]</a><a href="#cite_note-178">[178]</a><a href="#cite_note-No_Polish_Dog-179">[179]</a> The hot dog sausages were <a href="/wiki/Kosher" class="mw-redirect" title="Kosher">kosher</a> and supplied by <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_National" title="Hebrew National">Hebrew National</a> and Sinai Kosher until 2009, when supply issues<a href="#cite_note-180">[180]</a> and low profit margins<a href="#cite_note-425B_-_Jelinek-173">[173]</a> led Costco to start producing them in-house under the Kirkland Signature label to maintain the $1.50 price.<a href="#cite_note-No_Polish_Dog-179">[179]</a> In Australia and New Zealand, the hot dog is made of pork and is sold with a large soda for $1.99 (<a href="/wiki/Australian_dollar" title="Australian dollar">AUD</a>/<a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_dollar" title="New Zealand dollar">NZD</a>). In Canada, the price for a hot dog and soda with refills is <a href="/wiki/Canadian_dollar" title="Canadian dollar">C$</a>1.50.<a href="#cite_note-Food_court-181">[181]</a> In Mexico, the hot dog is made of 100% beef and includes a drink (with refills) for <a href="/wiki/Mexican_peso" title="Mexican peso">MXN$</a>35. In the UK, the hot dog is also made from beef and customers also get a drink (with refills) for <a href="/wiki/Pound_sterling" title="Pound sterling">£</a>1.50. Costco sold more than 137 million quarter-pound (113 g) hot dogs in its food courts in 2017.<a href="#cite_note-No_Polish_Dog-179">[179]</a> In Taiwan and Japan, the hot dog is made of pork as well. Japan's price for their 120-gram (4½ oz.) hot dog and refillable 600-ml (20 fl. oz.) drink is <a href="/wiki/Japanese_yen" title="Japanese yen">¥</a>180.<a href="#cite_note-182">[182]</a> In a July 2024 interview, CEO Ron Vachris reiterated Costco's commitment to the US$1.50 price point for the hot dog combo and promised that the price would not rise on his watch.<a href="#cite_note-Stearns-122">[122]</a> As of April 2024, cheese or pepperoni pizza (along with pre-ordering of full pizzas to take home), chicken bakes, ice cream (vanilla, chocolate, or twist), ice cream sundae, fruit <a href="/wiki/Smoothie" title="Smoothie">smoothies</a>, <a href="/wiki/Latte" title="Latte">latte</a> freeze (without chocolate), mocha freeze (with chocolate), and chocolate chunk <a href="/wiki/Cookie" title="Cookie">cookies</a> (replacement of twisted <a href="/wiki/Churro" title="Churro">churros</a>) are offered at all United States locations.<a href="#cite_note-183">[183]</a> Some food court items are only available in certain countries.<a href="#cite_note-184">[184]</a> For example, the <a href="/wiki/Bulgogi" title="Bulgogi">bulgogi</a> bake and mango boba tea are only available in Australia, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan;<a href="#cite_note-185">[185]</a> <a href="/wiki/Poutine" title="Poutine">poutine</a> is available in Canada and France. There are, however, temporary menu items available exclusively in several countries, like the <a href="/wiki/Al_pastor" title="Al pastor">pastor taco</a>-topped <a href="/wiki/Pizza" title="Pizza">pizzas</a> in Mexico.<a href="#cite_note-186">[186]</a><a href="#cite_note-187">[187]</a> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>United States menu changes in March 2020 </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Original Item </th> <th>Replacement Item </th></tr> <tr> <td>Veggie/Combo Pizza </td> <td>No longer offered (this includes the discontinuation of the "Italian Sausage" pizza topping as well) </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Frozen_yogurt" title="Frozen yogurt">Frozen Yogurt</a> </td> <td>Vanilla <a href="/wiki/Ice_cream" title="Ice cream">ice cream</a> (with addition of chocolate sauce <a href="/wiki/Sundae" title="Sundae">sundae</a>) </td></tr> <tr> <td>Turkey Provolone </td> <td>No longer offered </td></tr> <tr> <td>Twisted Churro </td> <td>Replaced with dual-flavor churro in late 2020/early 2021, name remained same but was discontinued and was replaced by chocolate chunk <a href="/wiki/Cookie" title="Cookie">cookies</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Chicken Caesar Salad </td> <td>Has resumed at locations </td></tr> <tr> <td>Chicken Bake </td> <td>Replaced with factory-made item of same name, no longer hand-made in store (at most locations) </td></tr> <tr> <td>Sauerkraut (topping) </td> <td rowspan="2">No longer offered </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Mustard_(condiment)" title="Mustard (condiment)">Deli Mustard</a> (condiment) </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Relish" title="Relish">Relish</a> (condiment) </td> <td>Offered in select locations, expected to resume at all locations (no time period for return) </td></tr></tbody></table> Due to slow sales, in 2009, the <a href="/wiki/Pretzel" title="Pretzel">pretzel</a> was replaced by the churro.<a href="#cite_note-188">[188]</a> In April 2013, <a href="/wiki/Pepsi" title="Pepsi">Pepsi</a> replaced all <a href="/wiki/Coca-Cola" title="Coca-Cola">Coca-Cola</a> fountain drinks at US locations because Coke had raised its prices; this helped keep the hot dog combo with soda at its original US$1.50 price;<a href="#cite_note-189">[189]</a> however, in late 2024, it was reported that Costco would be reverting to Coca-Cola products in early 2025.<a href="#cite_note-Steinberg_2024-190">[190]</a> Costco started selling a <a href="/wiki/Cheeseburger" title="Cheeseburger">cheeseburger</a> with a <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1154941027">.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}</style>1⁄3-pound (150 g) patty at select stores across Western Washington and Southern California in mid-2017 as a test item, with comparisons drawn to those of <a href="/wiki/Shake_Shack" title="Shake Shack">Shake Shack</a>.<a href="#cite_note-191">[191]</a><a href="#cite_note-192">[192]</a> The cheeseburger was not successful; its availability only spread to around a dozen locations before it was discontinued in 2020.<a href="#cite_note-193">[193]</a> Diced onion was discontinued in March 2020 but returned as a topping in May 2023.<a href="#cite_note-194">[194]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Costco_credit_card">Costco credit card</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Costco credit card">edit</a>]</div> On April 1, 2016, in the US, <a href="/wiki/Citigroup" title="Citigroup">Citigroup</a> became the exclusive issuer of Costco's branded credit cards. Prior to that, Costco credit cards had been issued by <a href="/wiki/American_Express" title="American Express">American Express</a> since 2001, and Costco accepted only American Express cards for credit transactions. After the switch of its co-branded cards to Citi, Costco ceased accepting AmEx and began exclusively accepting Visa. AmEx cited the reason for the split that Costco was asking for lower transaction fees than AmEx was willing to grant.<a href="#cite_note-195">[195]</a><a href="#cite_note-196">[196]</a><a href="#cite_note-197">[197]</a> In Canada, Costco ended its AmEx relationship in 2014, and starting in 2015,<a href="#cite_note-198">[198]</a> it partnered with <a href="/wiki/Capital_One" title="Capital One">Capital One</a> Mastercard for branded credit cards.<a href="#cite_note-199">[199]</a> In 2020, Capital One announced it would be ending the partnership in late 2021.<a href="#cite_note-200">[200]</a> It was announced that beginning in March 2022, Costco will begin a partnership with CIBC Mastercard.<a href="#cite_note-201">[201]</a> Costco branded credit cards from both issuers also serve as alternate Costco membership cards, with a customized reverse side containing membership info.<a href="#cite_note-202">[202]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Costco_Audiobook_App">Costco Audiobook App</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Costco Audiobook App">edit</a>]</div> In March 2021, Costco started selling audiobooks and launched a corresponding iOS and Android app to listen to purchases.<a href="#cite_note-203">[203]</a> The app is free; however, the books are exclusive to Costco members. The retailer sells audiobooks in bundles grouped by genre or author, with prices ranging from $5 to $50. Audiobooks are currently only available at US locations.<a href="#cite_note-204">[204]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Labor_relations">Labor relations</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Labor relations">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Employee_rights">Employee rights</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Employee rights">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Update plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Update" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Ambox_current_red.svg/42px-Ambox_current_red.svg.png" decoding="async" width="42" height="34" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Ambox_current_red.svg/63px-Ambox_current_red.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Ambox_current_red.svg/84px-Ambox_current_red.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="360" data-file-height="290" /></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (June 2020)</div></td></tr></tbody></table> While some former Price Club locations in California and the northeastern United States are staffed by <a href="/wiki/Teamsters" class="mw-redirect" title="Teamsters">Teamsters</a>,<a href="#cite_note-205">[205]</a> the majority of Costco locations are not unionized, although there was a drive in 2012 to unionize some locations in Canada.<a href="#cite_note-206">[206]</a> The Teamsters report that over 15,000 Costco employees are union members.<a href="#cite_note-207">[207]</a> The non-union locations have revisions to their Costco Employee Agreement every three years concurrent with union contract ratifications in locations with collective bargaining agreements. The Employee Agreement sets forth such things as benefits, wages, disciplinary procedures, paid holidays, bonuses, and seniority. The Employee Agreement is subject to change by Costco at any time and offers no absolute protection to the workers. As of June 2022, non-supervisory hourly wages ranged from $17.50 to $28.45 in the US, $16.00 to $28.70 in Canada, and £9.75 to £13.90 in the United Kingdom. In the US as of 2005<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit">[update]</a>, eighty-five percent of Costco's workers had <a href="/wiki/Health_insurance" title="Health insurance">health insurance</a>, compared with less than fifty percent at Walmart and Target.<a href="#cite_note-208">[208]</a> Health benefits include coverage through <a href="/wiki/Aetna" title="Aetna">Aetna</a>,<a href="#cite_note-Martin-209">[209]</a> remote primary care through <a href="/wiki/Teladoc" class="mw-redirect" title="Teladoc">Teladoc</a>, second opinions and clinical navigation by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Grand_Rounds,_Inc.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Grand Rounds, Inc. (page does not exist)">Grand Rounds</a>, varieties of health insurance agencies with Custom Benefit Consultants Inc. (CBC),<a href="#cite_note-Martin-209">[209]</a> and wellness coaching by Omada.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] In February 2021, Costco announced that it would be raising the starting rate for its hourly store workers in the United States to $16 an hour. Costco has been actively raising their minimum wage starting with $14 during 2018, and into $15 during 2019. They further add that 20% of their hourly employees will be subject to the minimum wage change.<a href="#cite_note-210">[210]</a> A location in <a href="/wiki/Norfolk,_Virginia" title="Norfolk, Virginia">Norfolk, Virginia</a>, unionized with the Teamsters in 2023.<a href="#cite_note-Delesline_2023-211">[211]</a> The vote in Norfolk was the first successful Costco union drive in over twenty years.<a href="#cite_note-Haden_2024-212">[212]</a> In January 2025, the Teamsters union representing over 18,000 Costco employees voted to strike, demanding "fair wages and benefits."<a href="#cite_note-o196-213">[213]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Contractors">Contractors</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Contractors">edit</a>]</div> Costco contracts exclusively with two independent companies to provide employees for <a href="/wiki/Product_demonstration" title="Product demonstration">product demonstrations</a> (e.g., <a href="/wiki/Product_sample" title="Product sample">food samples</a>) at Costco stores: Club Demonstration Services (CDS)<a href="#cite_note-214">[214]</a> and Warehouse Demo Services (WDS).<a href="#cite_note-215">[215]</a><a href="#cite_note-216">[216]</a> Demonstration employees receive a pay and benefit package that is less than that of Costco employees. As of August 1, 2017<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit">[update]</a>, demonstrations/samples are provided by CDS in Canada.<a href="#cite_note-We_Are_Family-217">[217]</a> Product demonstrations at Costco stores in the United States were halted in March 2020 amid the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a>, with some Costco CDS employees shifted to cleaning tasks before all were laid off when CDS temporarily ceased operations the following month;<a href="#cite_note-218">[218]</a><a href="#cite_note-219">[219]</a> they were rehired as Costco started resuming demonstrations at select stores in June 2020, with all US stores resuming demonstrations by June 2021.<a href="#cite_note-220">[220]</a><a href="#cite_note-221">[221]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Discontinued_concepts">Discontinued concepts</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Discontinued concepts">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Costco_Home">Costco Home</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Costco Home">edit</a>]</div> The first Costco Home warehouse opened in December 2002, in <a href="/wiki/Kirkland,_Washington" title="Kirkland, Washington">Kirkland, Washington</a>.<a href="#cite_note-222">[222]</a><a href="#cite_note-Costco_Home-223">[223]</a> The warehouse's concept was to combine the value, setting and members-only elements of Costco's warehouse clubs with the product array one would find at an upscale home store, such as <a href="/wiki/Fortunoff" title="Fortunoff">Fortunoff</a> or <a href="/wiki/Crate_%26_Barrel" title="Crate & Barrel">Crate & Barrel</a>. The Costco Home warehouses sold furniture, housewares, kitchen products and accessories from higher-end brands such as Lexington, <a href="/wiki/Polo_Ralph_Lauren" class="mw-redirect" title="Polo Ralph Lauren">Ralph Lauren</a> and <a href="/wiki/Waterford_Crystal" title="Waterford Crystal">Waterford</a><a href="#cite_note-224">[224]</a> in a warehouse-club setting. A second warehouse opened in 2004 in <a href="/wiki/Tempe,_Arizona" title="Tempe, Arizona">Tempe, Arizona</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Costco_Home-223">[223]</a> On April 2, 2009, the company announced that it would be abandoning its Costco Home concept, closing the two existing stores in Kirkland, Washington and Tempe, Arizona on July 3, 2009, and abandoning plans for a third warehouse in <a href="/wiki/Portland,_Oregon" title="Portland, Oregon">Portland, Oregon</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Costco_Home-223">[223]</a><a href="#cite_note-225">[225]</a> An appliance and furniture warehouse opened in <a href="/wiki/Anchorage,_Alaska" title="Anchorage, Alaska">Anchorage, Alaska</a>, in 2024.<a href="#cite_note-226">[226]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Costco_Fresh">Costco Fresh</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Costco Fresh">edit</a>]</div> A grocery-centered format, named Costco Fresh, was announced in September 1999 for a 75,000-square-foot (7,000 m2) two-story space in Manhattan, New York City.<a href="#cite_note-227">[227]</a> The company pulled out of an agreement to build the Manhattan store later that year after cost increases and local protests.<a href="#cite_note-228">[228]</a> The concept was revived in late 2002 for a store in <a href="/wiki/Bellevue,_Washington" title="Bellevue, Washington">Bellevue, Washington</a>, near its Issaquah headquarters, at a former <a href="/wiki/Kmart" title="Kmart">Kmart</a>. The new store would primarily sell fresh produce, meats, seafood, and baked goods instead of bulk items, but would also have several features from normal Costco warehouses; it would also have a modified logo, with a fruit stem growing from the first "o" in the Costco name.<a href="#cite_note-229">[229]</a> The concept was dropped the following year, but the company retained interest in building a normal Costco store at the Bellevue site until 2008, when they abandoned the plans due to zoning regulations that would have required <a href="/wiki/Daylighting_(streams)" title="Daylighting (streams)">daylighting</a> an underground creek.<a href="#cite_note-230">[230]</a><a href="#cite_note-231">[231]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Controversies">Controversies</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: Controversies">edit</a>]</div> In 2010, <a href="/wiki/Mercy_for_Animals" title="Mercy for Animals">Mercy for Animals</a> conducted an undercover investigation at Buckeye Veal Farm, a <a href="/wiki/Veal" title="Veal">veal</a> supplier to Costco.<a href="#cite_note-232">[232]</a> Immediately following the investigative release, Costco adopted a policy against purchasing veal from producers that use the crate-and-chain production method.<a href="#cite_note-233">[233]</a> The case prompted Ohio lawmakers to vote in favor of a veal crate phase-out in the state.<a href="#cite_note-234">[234]</a> In 2012, Mercy for Animals conducted another undercover investigation of a pork supplier to major retailers such as Costco, <a href="/wiki/Walmart" title="Walmart">Walmart</a>, <a href="/wiki/Safeway_Inc." class="mw-redirect" title="Safeway Inc.">Safeway</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kroger" title="Kroger">Kroger</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Kmart_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kmart (United States)">Kmart</a>.<a href="#cite_note-235">[235]</a> Before the public release of the investigation, Costco announced they would begin requiring their pork suppliers to phase out <a href="/wiki/Gestation_crates" class="mw-redirect" title="Gestation crates">gestation crates</a>.<a href="#cite_note-236">[236]</a><a href="#cite_note-237">[237]</a> In 2014, <a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a> reported that Costco is a client of <a href="/wiki/Charoen_Pokphand_Foods" title="Charoen Pokphand Foods">Charoen Pokphand Foods</a>. Over six months, The Guardian traced down a supply chain from slave ships in Asian waters to leading producers and retailers. Costco has published a statement saying it has had a supplier code of conduct since 1999 which does not allow this practice, and that independent auditors check for violations regularly.<a href="#cite_note-238">[238]</a><a href="#cite_note-239">[239]</a><a href="#cite_note-240">[240]</a><a href="#cite_note-241">[241]</a> In 2014, the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Department_of_Justice" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Department of Justice">US Department of Justice</a> and the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Environmental_Protection_Agency" title="United States Environmental Protection Agency">United States Environmental Protection Agency</a> said that Costco had failed to promptly repair leaks from its refrigeration equipment of the refrigerant <a href="/wiki/Chlorodifluoromethane" title="Chlorodifluoromethane">chlorodifluoromethane</a> at its stores. Costco paid a fine of $US335,000 and agreed to spend $US2 million over three years to fix refrigerant leaks and make improvements at 274 stores.<a href="#cite_note-242">[242]</a> In 2015, the <a href="/wiki/Humane_Society_of_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Humane Society of the United States">Humane Society of the United States</a> conducted an undercover investigation at an egg supplier to Costco.<a href="#cite_note-243">[243]</a> An undercover worker at <a href="/wiki/Hillandale_Farms" title="Hillandale Farms">Hillandale Farms</a>, a major egg supplier to Costco, filmed conditions in which egg-laying hens lived in <a href="/wiki/Battery_cage" title="Battery cage">tiny wire cages.</a><a href="#cite_note-244">[244]</a> Following the investigations, several celebrities including <a href="/wiki/Brad_Pitt" title="Brad Pitt">Brad Pitt</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ryan_Gosling" title="Ryan Gosling">Ryan Gosling</a> publicly wrote to Costco to address this issue.<a href="#cite_note-245">[245]</a> Following efforts by animal protection nonprofits including <a href="/wiki/The_Humane_League" title="The Humane League">The Humane League</a>,<a href="#cite_note-246">[246]</a> Costco released an updated commitment to source exclusively cage-free eggs in its operations.<a href="#cite_note-247">[247]</a> In July 2015, the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Consumer_Product_Safety_Commission" title="U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission">US Consumer Product Safety Commission</a> recalled the EKO Sensible Eco Living Trash Can that Costco was selling due to a black plastic protective collar in the opening on the back of the trash can that could be dislodged and expose a sharp edge. Costco was fined US$3.85 million for receiving 92 complaints about the trash can, including 60 complaints from those that sustained injuries, but did not notify the commission about the defect.<a href="#cite_note-248">[248]</a> In 2016, a follow-up to Costco's shift to cage-free eggs by animal rights group <a href="/wiki/Direct_Action_Everywhere" title="Direct Action Everywhere">Direct Action Everywhere</a> (DxE) reported cannibalism and high mortality at a cage-free Costco egg supplier.<a href="#cite_note-NYT_cage-free-249">[249]</a><a href="#cite_note-250">[250]</a> Costco denied the allegations, but the video sparked a discussion about animal welfare problems continuing to exist at cage-free egg farms.<a href="#cite_note-NYT_cage-free-249">[249]</a> Writing in <a href="/wiki/The_Huffington_Post" class="mw-redirect" title="The Huffington Post">The Huffington Post</a>, DxE co-founder <a href="/wiki/Wayne_Hsiung" title="Wayne Hsiung">Wayne Hsiung</a> argued that the new investigation, rather than suggesting that Costco should keep birds in cages, indicated that hens should have the right not to be raised for food or kept on farms at all.<a href="#cite_note-251">[251]</a> In September 2016, Costco self-disclosed conduct to the <a href="/wiki/Office_of_Inspector_General,_U.S._Department_of_Health_and_Human_Services" title="Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services">Office of Inspector General</a> after its pharmacy in <a href="/wiki/Waltham,_Massachusetts" title="Waltham, Massachusetts">Waltham, Massachusetts</a> improperly altered prescription drug claims to <a href="/wiki/Medicare_Part_D" title="Medicare Part D">Medicare Part D</a> and the Massachusetts Medicaid program that resulted in higher reimbursement than was appropriate. They paid a fine of US$340,157.25.<a href="#cite_note-252">[252]</a> In January 2017, Costco was brought to court in the US for lax pharmacy controls in violation of the <a href="/wiki/Controlled_Substances_Act" title="Controlled Substances Act">Controlled Substances Act</a>. Allegations such as Costco "filling prescriptions that were incomplete", or were for substances "beyond various doctors' scope of practice". The case was settled after Costco paid US$11.75 million.<a href="#cite_note-253">[253]</a> In 2017, Costco and Acushnet Holdings sued each other over their golf balls.<a href="#cite_note-254">[254]</a><a href="#cite_note-255">[255]</a> In August 2017, a federal judge ordered a "deceptive" Costco to pay <a href="/wiki/Tiffany_%26_Co." title="Tiffany & Co.">Tiffany & Co.</a> US$19.4 million for misleading consumers into thinking they could buy legitimate Tiffany merchandise at warehouse club prices.<a href="#cite_note-256">[256]</a><a href="#cite_note-257">[257]</a> Costco was criticized in 2019 by the <a href="/wiki/Natural_Resources_Defense_Council" title="Natural Resources Defense Council">Natural Resources Defense Council</a> (NRDC) and <a href="/wiki/SumOfUs" title="SumOfUs">SumOfUs</a> for using virgin Canadian <a href="/wiki/Boreal_forest_of_Canada" title="Boreal forest of Canada">boreal forest</a> to make its toilet paper. NRDC says that over the previous twenty years, 28 million acres of Canadian boreal forest had been cut down to make toilet paper.<a href="#cite_note-258">[258]</a><a href="#cite_note-259">[259]</a> In 2019, the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Health_(Ontario)" title="Ministry of Health (Ontario)">Ontario Ministry of Health</a> fined Costco $CA7.2 million after it found that Costco pharmacies were accepting advertising services from a generic drug manufacturer in Ontario, where it is illegal for a pharmacy to accept rebates, or kickbacks, from a generic drug manufacturer in exchange for promising to stock its brand of drugs. Two Costco pharmacy directors were referred to the <a href="/wiki/Ontario_College_of_Pharmacy" class="mw-redirect" title="Ontario College of Pharmacy">Ontario College of Pharmacists</a> and were fined for the misconduct.<a href="#cite_note-260">[260]</a> In September 2020, <a href="/wiki/CBS_News" title="CBS News">CBS News</a> reported that Costco has stopped selling <a href="/wiki/Palmetto_Cheese" title="Palmetto Cheese">Palmetto Cheese</a> after the owner of the <a href="/wiki/Pimento_cheese" title="Pimento cheese">pimento cheese</a> brand called <a href="/wiki/Black_Lives_Matter" title="Black Lives Matter">Black Lives Matter</a> a "terror organization." Costco posted a note to the item in their Myrtle Beach location indicating that the item will not be reordered, and over 120 Costco's throughout the US will no longer be carrying the item.<a href="#cite_note-261">[261]</a> In October 2020, Costco dropped Chaokoh coconut milk over the allegations of forced monkey labor. <a href="/wiki/PETA" class="mw-redirect" title="PETA">PETA</a> accused the manufacturer, Theppadungporn Coconut Co., of using forced monkey labor, finding cruelty to monkeys at their farms and facilities. Ken Kimble, Costco's Vice President of Corporate Food and Sundries, stated Costco has launched an investigation regarding the issue and have ceased purchasing from the supplier/owner of the brand Chaokoh condemning the use of monkey labor. Kimble also stated that Costco will continue to monitor the implementation of the harvest policies and once satisfied will resume purchasing.<a href="#cite_note-262">[262]</a> In December 2020, Costco announced plans to end the use of eggs from caged chickens throughout its operations worldwide.<a href="#cite_note-263">[263]</a> It became the first US retailer to issue a global policy on the confinement of animals in its supply chain.<a href="#cite_note-264">[264]</a> Josh Dahmen, Costco financial planning and investor relations director also said: "We are in the process of making that transition to cage-free eggs. We will continue to increase the percentage over time, with a goal of eventually getting to 100%."<a href="#cite_note-265">[265]</a> In 2023, the <a href="/wiki/Kaohsiung" title="Kaohsiung">Kaohsiung</a> Department of Health fined Costco numerous times for selling bags of mixed berries imported into Taiwan, that tested positive for <a href="/wiki/Hepatitis_A" title="Hepatitis A">Hepatitis A</a>. Costco was fined a total of NT12.5 million and was temporarily barred from selling mixed berries in the country.<a href="#cite_note-266">[266]</a><a href="#cite_note-267">[267]</a> In June 2023, an employee named Kim Dong Ho in Hanam, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea who was assigned to organize shopping carts, died of heatstroke while at work. South Korean government guidelines state that outdoor workers be given a 10 to 15-minute break every hour during heatwave advisories; however, these guidelines were not strictly followed or enforced at the Costco store where Kim worked and he was given 15-minute breaks every 3 hours without a regular supply of drinking water.<a href="#cite_note-268">[268]</a><a href="#cite_note-269">[269]</a> The company was later fined 30 million won by the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Employment_and_Labor" title="Ministry of Employment and Labor">Ministry of Employment and Labor</a>.<a href="#cite_note-270">[270]</a> In July 2023, Costco Australia paid $33,000 in penalties for mislabelling the origin of lobster products after importing lobsters from Canada, but labeling them as "Kirkland Signature PREVIOUSLY FROZEN WHOLE COOKED WA LOBSTER" and "Australian Lobster".<a href="#cite_note-271">[271]</a> In August 2023, the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_for_the_Environment_and_Natural_Resources_(Iceland)" title="Ministry for the Environment and Natural Resources (Iceland)">Environment Agency of Iceland</a> fined Costco ISK 20 million for a diesel spill originating from a gas station in <a href="/wiki/Gar%C3%B0ab%C3%A6r" title="Garðabær">Garðabær</a>, which contaminated the <a href="/wiki/Hafnarfj%C3%B6r%C3%B0ur" title="Hafnarfjörður">Hafnarfjörður</a> sewage system.<a href="#cite_note-272">[272]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Costco&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1266661725">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-entry{display:table-row;font-size:85%;line-height:110%;height:1.9em;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-image{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-link{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em 0.2em 0.2em 0.3em;vertical-align:middle}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .portalleft{margin:0.5em 1em 0.5em 0}.mw-parser-output .portalright{clear:right;float:right;margin:0.5em 0 0.5em 1em}}</style><ul role="navigation" aria-label="Portals" class="noprint portalbox portalborder portalright"> <li class="portalbox-entry"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Industry5.svg/28px-Industry5.svg.png" decoding="async" width="28" height="28" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Industry5.svg/42px-Industry5.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Industry5.svg/56px-Industry5.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" /><a href="/wiki/Portal:Companies" title="Portal:Companies">Companies portal</a></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bulk_foods" title="Bulk foods">Bulk foods</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Costco_bear" title="Costco bear">Costco bear</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Costco_Guys" class="mw-redirect" title="Costco Guys">Costco Guys</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Costco_Wholesale_Corp._v._Omega,_S._A." title="Costco Wholesale Corp. v. 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href="/wiki/REWE_Group" title="REWE Group">REWE Group</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Groupe_Casino" title="Groupe Casino">Groupe Casino</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alibaba_Group" title="Alibaba Group">Alibaba Group</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/E.Leclerc" title="E.Leclerc">E.Leclerc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Intermarch%C3%A9" title="Intermarché">Intermarché</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Best_Buy" title="Best Buy">Best Buy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Woolworths_Group_(Australia)" title="Woolworths Group (Australia)">Woolworths Group (Australia)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metro_AG" title="Metro AG">Metro AG</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/TJX_Companies" title="TJX Companies">TJX Companies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Publix" title="Publix">Publix</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sainsbury%27s" title="Sainsbury's">Sainsbury's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/FamilyMart" title="FamilyMart">FamilyMart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mercadona" title="Mercadona">Mercadona</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Loblaw_Companies" title="Loblaw Companies">Loblaw Companies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coles_Group" title="Coles Group">Coles Group</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H%26M" title="H&M">H&M</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suning.com" title="Suning.com">Suning.com</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/China_Resources_Enterprise" class="mw-redirect" title="China Resources Enterprise">China Resources Enterprise</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/X5_Group" title="X5 Group">X5 Group</a> (incl. <a href="/wiki/Pyaterochka" title="Pyaterochka">Pyaterochka</a> and <a href="/wiki/Perekrestok_(supermarket_chain)" title="Perekrestok (supermarket chain)">Perekrestok</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/H-E-B" title="H-E-B">H-E-B</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dollar_General" title="Dollar General">Dollar General</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ceconomy" title="Ceconomy">Ceconomy</a> (incl. <a href="/wiki/MediaMarkt" title="MediaMarkt">MediaMarkt</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Macy%27s,_Inc." title="Macy's, 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href="/wiki/Baker%27s_Supermarkets" title="Baker's Supermarkets">Baker's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dillons" title="Dillons">Gerbes</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Food_4_Less" title="Food 4 Less">Food 4 Less</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fred_Meyer" title="Fred Meyer">Fred Meyer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fry%27s_Food_and_Drug" title="Fry's Food and Drug">Fry's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harris_Teeter" title="Harris Teeter">Harris Teeter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King_Soopers" title="King Soopers">King Soopers</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/City_Market_(US_grocery_store_chain)" title="City Market (US grocery store chain)">City Market</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kroger" title="Kroger">Kroger</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/JayC_Food_Stores" title="JayC Food Stores">Jay C</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pay_Less_Super_Markets" title="Pay Less Super Markets">Pay Less</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/QFC" title="QFC">QFC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ralphs" title="Ralphs">Ralphs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roundy%27s" title="Roundy's">Roundy's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ruler_Foods" class="mw-redirect" title="Ruler Foods">Ruler Foods</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smith%27s_Food_and_Drug" title="Smith's Food and Drug">Smith's</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Albertsons" title="Albertsons">Albertsons</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Acme_Markets" title="Acme Markets">Acme</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andronico%27s" class="mw-redirect" title="Andronico's">Andronico's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albertsons" title="Albertsons">Albertsons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balducci%27s" title="Balducci's">Balducci's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carrs-Safeway" title="Carrs-Safeway">Carrs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haggen_(supermarket)" title="Haggen (supermarket)">Haggen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jewel-Osco" title="Jewel-Osco">Jewel-Osco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kings_Food_Markets" title="Kings Food Markets">Kings Super Markets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lucky_Stores" title="Lucky Stores">Lucky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pavilions_(supermarket)" title="Pavilions (supermarket)">Pavilions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Randalls" title="Randalls">Randalls</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Safeway_Inc." class="mw-redirect" title="Safeway Inc.">Safeway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shaw%27s_and_Star_Market" title="Shaw's and Star Market">Shaw's and Star Market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Saver_Foods" title="Super Saver Foods">Super Saver</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Thumb_(grocery_store)" title="Tom Thumb (grocery store)">Tom Thumb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Supermarkets" title="United Supermarkets">United Supermarkets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vons" title="Vons">Vons</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/United_Natural_Foods" title="United Natural Foods">United Natural Foods</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/County_Market" title="County Market">County Market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cub_Foods" class="mw-redirect" title="Cub Foods">Cub</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shoppers_Food_%26_Pharmacy" title="Shoppers Food & Pharmacy">Shoppers</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Ahold_Delhaize" title="Ahold Delhaize">Ahold Delhaize</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Food_Lion" title="Food Lion">Food Lion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giant_Food_(Landover)" title="Giant Food (Landover)">Giant Food</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Giant_Company" title="The Giant Company">Giant Food Stores</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hannaford_Brothers_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="Hannaford Brothers Company">Hannaford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stop_%26_Shop" title="Stop & Shop">Stop & Shop</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/The_Save_Mart_Companies" class="mw-redirect" title="The Save Mart Companies">Save Mart</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Save_Mart_Supermarkets" title="Save Mart Supermarkets">Save Mart Supermarkets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lucky_Stores" title="Lucky Stores">Lucky Stores</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lucky_Stores" title="Lucky Stores">Lucky California</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Food_Maxx" class="mw-redirect" title="Food Maxx">Food Maxx</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Save_Mart_Companies" class="mw-redirect" title="The Save Mart Companies">MaxxValue Foods</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Amazon_(company)" title="Amazon (company)">Amazon</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amazon_Fresh" title="Amazon Fresh">Amazon Fresh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amazon_Go" title="Amazon Go">Amazon Go</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whole_Foods_Market" title="Whole Foods Market">Whole Foods</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/SpartanNash" title="SpartanNash">SpartanNash</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/D%26W_Fresh_Market" title="D&W Fresh Market">D&W Fresh Market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Family_Fare" title="Family Fare">Family Fare</a></li> <li><a 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class="mw-redirect" title="Save-A-Lot">Save-A-Lot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sprouts_Farmers_Market" title="Sprouts Farmers Market">Sprouts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Target_Corporation" title="Target Corporation">Target</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walmart" title="Walmart">Walmart</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sam%27s_Club" title="Sam's Club">Sam's Club</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Regional</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Asian128" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Asian_supermarket" title="Asian supermarket">Asian</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/99_Ranch_Market" title="99 Ranch Market">99 Ranch Market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Wall_Supermarket" title="Great Wall Supermarket">Great Wall Supermarket</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H_Mart" title="H Mart">H Mart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong_Supermarket" title="Hong Kong Supermarket">Hong Kong Supermarket</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Island_Pacific_Supermarket" title="Island Pacific Supermarket">Island Pacific Supermarket</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kam_Man_Food" title="Kam Man Food">Kam Man Food</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marukai_Corporation_U.S.A." title="Marukai Corporation U.S.A.">Marukai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mitsuwa_Marketplace" title="Mitsuwa Marketplace">Mitsuwa Marketplace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nijiya_Market" title="Nijiya Market">Nijiya Market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patel_Brothers" title="Patel Brothers">Patel Brothers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seafood_City" title="Seafood City">Seafood City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shun_Fat_Supermarket" title="Shun Fat Supermarket">SF Supermarket</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uwajimaya" title="Uwajimaya">Uwajimaya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zion_Market" title="Zion Market">Zion Market</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Latin_American_cuisine" title="Latin American cuisine">Hispanic</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bravo_(supermarket)" title="Bravo (supermarket)">Bravo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/El_Ahorro_Supermarket" title="El Ahorro Supermarket">El Ahorro Supermarket</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fiesta_Mart" title="Fiesta Mart">Fiesta Mart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/La_Perla_Tapat%C3%ADa_Supermarkets" title="La Perla Tapatía Supermarkets">La Perla Tapatía Supermarkets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sedano%27s" title="Sedano's">Sedano's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supermercados_Teloloapan" title="Supermercados Teloloapan">Supermercados Teloloapan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vallarta_Supermarkets" title="Vallarta Supermarkets">Vallarta Supermarkets</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Organic_food" title="Organic food">Organic</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Earth_Fare" title="Earth Fare">Earth Fare</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fresh_Thyme" title="Fresh Thyme">Fresh Thyme</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vitamin_Cottage_Natural_Grocers" title="Vitamin Cottage Natural Grocers">Natural Grocers</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Wholesaling" title="Wholesaling">Wholesale</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/BJ%27s_Wholesale_Club" title="BJ's Wholesale Club">BJ's Wholesale Club</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chef%27Store" class="mw-redirect" title="Chef'Store">Chef'Store</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other regional</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Acme_Fresh_Market" title="Acme Fresh Market">Acme Fresh Market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amigo_Supermarkets" title="Amigo Supermarkets">Amigo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Big_Y" title="Big Y">Big Y</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boyer%27s_Food_Markets,_Inc." title="Boyer's Food Markets, Inc.">Boyer's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bristol_Farms" title="Bristol Farms">Bristol Farms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brookshire_Brothers" title="Brookshire Brothers">Brookshire Brothers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brookshire%27s_Food_%26_Pharmacy" title="Brookshire's Food & Pharmacy">Brookshire's Food & Pharmacy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buehler_Food_Markets_Inc." class="mw-redirect" title="Buehler Food Markets Inc.">Buehler's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C-Town_Supermarkets" class="mw-redirect" title="C-Town Supermarkets">C-Town</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Market_(Texas)" title="Central Market (Texas)">Central Market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D%27Agostino_Supermarkets" title="D'Agostino Supermarkets">D'Agostino</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dave%27s_Markets" title="Dave's Markets">Dave's Markets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dean_%26_DeLuca" title="Dean & DeLuca">Dean & DeLuca</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Market_Basket_(New_England)" title="Market Basket (New England)">DeMoulas Market Basket</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dierbergs_Markets" title="Dierbergs Markets">Dierbergs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don_Quijote_(store)" title="Don Quijote (store)">Don Quijote</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Times_Supermarkets" title="Times Supermarkets">Times Supermarkets</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dorothy_Lane_Market" title="Dorothy Lane Market">Dorothy Lane Market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fairway_Market" title="Fairway Market">Fairway Market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fareway" title="Fareway">Fareway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Farm_Fresh_Food_%26_Pharmacy" title="Farm Fresh Food & Pharmacy">Farm Fresh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Festival_Foods" title="Festival Foods">Festival Foods</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Festival_Foods_(Minnesota)" title="Festival Foods (Minnesota)">Festival Foods (Minnesota)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Houchens_Industries" title="Houchens Industries">Food Giant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Food_City_(K-VA-T)" title="Food City (K-VA-T)">Food City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foodarama" title="Foodarama">Foodarama</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/FoodLand" title="FoodLand">FoodLand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foodtown_(United_States)" title="Foodtown (United States)">Foodtown</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pathmark" title="Pathmark">Pathmark</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gelson%27s_Markets" title="Gelson's Markets">Gelson's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerland_Corporation" title="Gerland Corporation">Gerland Corporation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerrity%27s_Supermarkets" title="Gerrity's Supermarkets">Gerrity's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giant_Eagle" title="Giant Eagle">Giant Eagle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grand_Union_(supermarket)" title="Grand Union (supermarket)">Grand Union</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gristedes" title="Gristedes">Gristedes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grocery_Outlet" title="Grocery Outlet">Grocery Outlet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harmons" title="Harmons">Harmons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harps_Food_Stores" title="Harps Food Stores">Harps Food Stores</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H-E-B" title="H-E-B">H-E-B</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heinen%27s" title="Heinen's">Heinen's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Highland_Park_Market" title="Highland Park Market">Highland Park Market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homeland_(supermarket)" title="Homeland (supermarket)">Homeland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hornbacher%27s" title="Hornbacher's">Hornbacher's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Houchens_Industries" title="Houchens Industries">Houchens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugo%27s" title="Hugo's">Hugo's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hy-Vee" title="Hy-Vee">Hy-Vee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ingles" title="Ingles">Ingles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerry%27s_Foods" title="Jerry's Foods">Jerry's Foods</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jungle_Jim%27s_International_Market" title="Jungle Jim's International Market">Jungle Jim's International Market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karns_Quality_Foods" title="Karns Quality Foods">Karns Quality Foods</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Key_Food" title="Key Food">Key Food</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Super_Fresh" class="mw-redirect" title="Super Fresh">Super Fresh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Food_Emporium" title="The Food Emporium">The Food Emporium</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KJ%27s_Market" title="KJ's Market">KJ's Market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King_Kullen" title="King Kullen">King Kullen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kowalski%27s_Markets" title="Kowalski's Markets">Kowalski's Markets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kuhn%27s_Quality_Foods" title="Kuhn's Quality Foods">Kuhn's Quality Foods</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lewis_Food_Town" title="Lewis Food Town">Lewis Food Town</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lidl" title="Lidl">Lidl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lowe%27s_Market" title="Lowe's Market">Lowe's Market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lowes_Foods" title="Lowes Foods">Lowes Foods</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lucky%27s_Market" title="Lucky's Market">Lucky's Market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lunds_%26_Byerlys" title="Lunds & Byerlys">Lunds & Byerlys</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magruder%27s" title="Magruder's">Magruder's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marc%27s" title="Marc's">Marc's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Market_Basket_(Louisiana_and_Texas)" title="Market Basket (Louisiana and Texas)">Market Basket (Louisiana and Texas)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Market_of_Choice" title="Market of Choice">Market of Choice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_Owl_(retail_chain)#Masons_Red_Owl" title="Red Owl (retail chain)">Masons Red Owl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meijer" title="Meijer">Meijer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Met_Foods" title="Met Foods">Met Foods</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mollie_Stone%27s_Markets" title="Mollie Stone's Markets">Mollie Stone's Markets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morton_Williams" title="Morton Williams">Morton Williams</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mother%27s_Market_%26_Kitchen" title="Mother's Market & Kitchen">Mother's Market & Kitchen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Grand_Mart" title="New Grand Mart">New Grand Mart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Seasons_Market" title="New Seasons Market">New Seasons Market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Niemann_Foods" title="Niemann Foods">Niemann Foods</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northeast_Grocery" title="Northeast Grocery">Northeast Grocery</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tops_Friendly_Markets" title="Tops Friendly Markets">Tops Friendly Markets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Price_Chopper_Supermarkets" class="mw-redirect" title="Price Chopper Supermarkets">Price Chopper Supermarkets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Market_32" class="mw-redirect" title="Market 32">Market 32</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nugget_Markets" title="Nugget Markets">Nugget Markets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/PCC_Community_Markets" title="PCC Community Markets">PCC Community Markets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petrini%27s" title="Petrini's">Petrini's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Piggly_Wiggly" title="Piggly Wiggly">Piggly Wiggly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pink_Dot" title="Pink Dot">Pink Dot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Price_Chopper_(supermarket)" class="mw-redirect" title="Price Chopper (supermarket)">Price Chopper / Price Mart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Publix" title="Publix">Publix</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pueblo_Supermarkets" title="Pueblo Supermarkets">Pueblo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raley%27s_Supermarkets" title="Raley's Supermarkets">Raley's Supermarkets</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/AJ%27s_Fine_Foods" title="AJ's Fine Foods">AJ's Fine Foods</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bashas%27" title="Bashas'">Bashas'</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reasor%27s" title="Reasor's">Reasor's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Redner%27s_Markets" title="Redner's Markets">Redner's Markets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Remke_Markets" title="Remke Markets">Remke Markets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rice_Epicurean_Markets" title="Rice Epicurean Markets">Rice Epicurean Markets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ridley%27s_Family_Markets" title="Ridley's Family Markets">Ridley's Family Markets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roche_Bros." title="Roche Bros.">Roche Bros.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rosauers_Supermarkets" title="Rosauers Supermarkets">Rosauers Supermarkets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rouses" title="Rouses">Rouses</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russ%27s_Market" title="Russ's Market">Russ's Market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Schnucks" title="Schnucks">Schnucks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scolari%27s_Food_and_Drug" title="Scolari's Food and Drug">Scolari's Food and Drug</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seabra_Foods" title="Seabra Foods">Seabra Foods</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sellers_Bros." title="Sellers Bros.">Sellers Bros.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sendik%27s_Food_Market" title="Sendik's Food Market">Sendik's Food Market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sentry_Foods" title="Sentry Foods">Sentry Foods</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seven_Mile_Market" title="Seven Mile Market">Seven Mile Market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shop_%27n_Save_(Pittsburgh)" title="Shop 'n Save (Pittsburgh)">Shop 'n Save</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smart_%26_Final" title="Smart & Final">Smart & Final</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southeastern_Grocers" title="Southeastern Grocers">Southeastern Grocers</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Harveys_Supermarkets" title="Harveys Supermarkets">Harveys Supermarkets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winn-Dixie" title="Winn-Dixie">Winn-Dixie</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stater_Bros." title="Stater Bros.">Stater Bros.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stew_Leonard%27s" title="Stew Leonard's">Stew Leonard's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strack_%26_Van_Til" title="Strack & Van Til">Strack & Van Til</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Straub%27s_Markets" title="Straub's Markets">Straub's Markets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sullivan_Family_of_Companies" class="mw-redirect" title="Sullivan Family of Companies">Sullivan Family of Companies</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Foodland_Hawaii" title="Foodland Hawaii">Foodland Hawaii</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supermercados_Econo" title="Supermercados Econo">Supermercados Econo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supermercados_Selectos" title="Supermercados Selectos">Supermercados Selectos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Food_City_(K-VA-T)#Super_Dollar_Discount_Foods" title="Food City (K-VA-T)">Super Dollar Discount Foods</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_King_Markets" title="Super King Markets">Super King Markets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_One_Foods" title="Super One Foods">Super One Foods</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Saver_Foods_(B%26R_Stores)" title="Super Saver Foods (B&R Stores)">Super Saver Foods (B&R Stores)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Grocery_Outlet" title="United Grocery Outlet">United Grocery Outlet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/URM_Stores" title="URM Stores">URM Stores</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wakefern_Food_Corporation" title="Wakefern Food Corporation">Wakefern</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Fresh_Grocer" title="The Fresh Grocer">The Fresh Grocer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Price_Rite" title="Price Rite">Price Rite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ShopRite" title="ShopRite">ShopRite</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weaver_Street_Market" title="Weaver Street Market">Weaver Street Market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wegmans" title="Wegmans">Wegmans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weis_Markets" title="Weis Markets">Weis Markets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Westborn_Market" title="Westborn Market">Westborn Market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Beef" title="Western Beef">Western Beef</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WinCo_Foods" title="WinCo Foods">WinCo Foods</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Woodman%27s_Markets" title="Woodman's Markets">Woodman's Markets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoke%27s_Fresh_Market" title="Yoke's Fresh Market">Yoke's Fresh Market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zabar%27s" title="Zabar's">Zabar's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zupan%27s_Markets" title="Zupan's Markets">Zupan's Markets</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Defunct</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/365_by_Whole_Foods_Market" title="365 by Whole Foods Market">365 by Whole Foods Market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A-Mart_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="A-Mart (United States)">A-Mart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Great_Atlantic_%26_Pacific_Tea_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company">A&P</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Food_Basics_(American_supermarket)" title="Food Basics (American supermarket)">Food Basics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pathmark" title="Pathmark">Pathmark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waldbaum%27s" title="Waldbaum's">Waldbaum's</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ABCO_Foods" title="ABCO Foods">ABCO Foods</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alpha_Beta" title="Alpha Beta">Alpha Beta</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AppleTree_Markets" title="AppleTree Markets">AppleTree Markets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belle_Foods" title="Belle Foods">Belle Foods</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Best_Market" title="Best Market">Best Market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Big_Bear_Stores" title="Big Bear Stores">Big Bear Stores</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Big_Star_Markets" title="Big Star Markets">Big Star Markets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bloom_(store)" title="Bloom (store)">Bloom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bottom_Dollar_Food" title="Bottom Dollar Food">Bottom Dollar Food</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bruno%27s" title="Bruno's">Bruno's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buttrey_Food_%26_Drug" title="Buttrey Food & Drug">Buttrey Food & Drug</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Byrd%27s" title="Byrd's">Byrd's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carter%27s_Foods" title="Carter's Foods">Carter's Foods</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chatham_(grocer)" title="Chatham (grocer)">Chatham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clemens_Markets" title="Clemens Markets">Clemens Markets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colonial_Stores" title="Colonial Stores">Colonial Stores</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dahl%27s_Foods" title="Dahl's Foods">Dahl's Foods</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Reeves_Stores" title="Daniel Reeves Stores">Daniel Reeves Stores</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David%27s_Supermarkets" title="David's Supermarkets">David's Supermarkets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Davis_Food_City" title="Davis Food City">Davis Food City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Delchamps" title="Delchamps">Delchamps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dick%27s_Supermarket" title="Dick's Supermarket">Dick's Supermarket</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dominick%27s" title="Dominick's">Dominick's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eagle_Food_Centers" title="Eagle Food Centers">Eagle Food Centers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Easy-Way_Store" title="Easy-Way Store">Easy-Way Store</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eberhard%27s" title="Eberhard's">Eberhard's</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Econofoods&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Econofoods (page does not exist)">Econofoods</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eisner_Food_Stores" title="Eisner Food Stores">Eisner Food Stores</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Farmer_Jack" title="Farmer Jack">Farmer Jack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fazio%27s_Shopping_Bag" title="Fazio's Shopping Bag">Fazio's Shopping Bag</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Felpausch" title="Felpausch">Felpausch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Finast" title="Finast">Finast</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fisher_Foods" title="Fisher Foods">Fisher Foods</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Food_Fair" title="Food Fair">Food Fair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bruno%27s" title="Bruno's">Food World</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Food-a-rama" title="Food-a-rama">Food-a-rama</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fresh_%26_Easy" title="Fresh & Easy">Fresh & Easy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roy_Furr#Furr's_Grocery_Stores_and_Furr's_Supermarkets" title="Roy Furr">Furr's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Genuardi%27s" title="Genuardi's">Genuardi's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giant_Open_Air" title="Giant Open Air">Giant Open Air</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glen%27s_Markets" title="Glen's Markets">Glen's Markets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamady" title="Hamady">Hamady</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry%27s_Farmers_Market" title="Henry's Farmers Market">Henry's Farmers Market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hills_Supermarkets" title="Hills Supermarkets">Hills Supermarkets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hinky_Dinky" title="Hinky Dinky">Hinky Dinky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jewel_T" class="mw-redirect" title="Jewel T">Jewel T</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jitney_Jungle" title="Jitney Jungle">Jitney Jungle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnnie%27s_Foodmaster" title="Johnnie's Foodmaster">Johnnie's Foodmaster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kohl%27s_Food_Stores" title="Kohl's Food Stores">Kohl's Food Stores</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kessel_Food_Markets" title="Kessel Food Markets">Kessel Food Markets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laneco" title="Laneco">Laneco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Market_Basket_(California)" title="Market Basket (California)">Market Basket (California)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marketside" title="Marketside">Marketside</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mars_(supermarket)" title="Mars (supermarket)">Mars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marsh_Supermarkets" title="Marsh Supermarkets">Marsh Supermarkets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M%C3%A1s_Club" title="Más Club">Más Club</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mi_Pueblo_Food_Center" title="Mi Pueblo Food Center">Mi Pueblo Food Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minyard_Food_Stores" title="Minyard Food Stores">Minyard Food Stores</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Supermarkets" title="National Supermarkets">National Supermarkets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Tea" title="National Tea">National Tea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Omni_Superstore" title="Omni Superstore">Omni Superstore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Owen%27s_Market" title="Owen's Market">Owen's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_Fruit" title="Penn Fruit">Penn Fruit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penn_Traffic" title="Penn Traffic">Penn Traffic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pick-N-Pay_Supermarkets" title="Pick-N-Pay Supermarkets">Pick-N-Pay Supermarkets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Piggly_Wiggly_Carolina_Co." title="Piggly Wiggly Carolina Co.">Piggly Wiggly Carolina Co.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plus_(German_supermarket)" title="Plus (German supermarket)">Plus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Purity_Supreme" title="Purity Supreme">Purity Supreme</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quality_Markets" title="Quality Markets">Quality Markets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/QFI_(supermarket)" title="QFI (supermarket)">QFI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rainbow_Foods" title="Rainbow Foods">Rainbow Foods</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_Food" title="Red Food">Red Food</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reid%27s" title="Reid's">Reid's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SaveRite" title="SaveRite">SaveRite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sage%27s" class="mw-redirect" title="Sage's">Sage's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Schaffer_Stores_Company" title="Schaffer Stores Company">Schaffer Stores Company</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scott%27s_Food_%26_Pharmacy" title="Scott's Food & Pharmacy">Scott's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seaway_Food_Town" title="Seaway Food Town">Seaway Food Town</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seessel%27s" title="Seessel's">Seessel's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shop_%27n_Save" title="Shop 'n Save">Shop 'n Save</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simon_David" title="Simon David">Simon David</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skaggs_Companies" title="Skaggs Companies">Skaggs Companies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_Family_Markets" title="Southern Family Markets">Southern Family Markets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stanley_Stores" title="Stanley Stores">Stanley Stores</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunflower_Farmers_Market" title="Sunflower Farmers Market">Sunflower Farmers Market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunflower_Market" title="Sunflower Market">Sunflower Market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Duper" title="Super Duper">Super Duper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sweetbay_Supermarket" title="Sweetbay Supermarket">Sweetbay Supermarket</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tidyman%27s" title="Tidyman's">Tidyman's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Twin_Valu" title="Twin Valu">Twin Valu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukrop%27s_Food_Group" title="Ukrop's Food Group">Ukrop's Super Markets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valu_King" class="mw-redirect" title="Valu King">Valu King</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victory_Supermarkets" title="Victory Supermarkets">Victory Supermarkets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weingarten%27s" title="Weingarten's">Weingarten's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wild_Oats_Markets" title="Wild Oats Markets">Wild Oats Markets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xpect_Discounts" title="Xpect Discounts">Xpect Discounts</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div> <ul><li><a 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style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dominion_Stores" title="Dominion Stores">Dominion</a> (<abbr title="Newfoundland and Labrador">NL</abbr>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fortinos" title="Fortinos">Fortinos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freshmart" title="Freshmart">Freshmart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Loblaws" title="Loblaws">Loblaws</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maxi_(Canadian_supermarket)" title="Maxi (Canadian supermarket)">Maxi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/No_Frills_(grocery_store)" title="No Frills (grocery store)">No Frills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Provigo" title="Provigo">Provigo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Real_Atlantic_Superstore" title="Real Atlantic Superstore">Real Atlantic Superstore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Real_Canadian_Superstore" title="Real Canadian Superstore">Real Canadian Superstore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SuperValu_(Canada)" title="SuperValu (Canada)">SuperValu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T_%26_T_Supermarket" class="mw-redirect" title="T & T 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class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Pattison_Food_Group" title="Pattison Food Group">Pattison Food Group</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Choices_Market" class="mw-redirect" title="Choices Market">Choices Market</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/PriceSmart_Foods" title="PriceSmart Foods">PriceSmart Foods</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Save-On-Foods" title="Save-On-Foods">Save-On-Foods</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urban_Fare" title="Urban Fare">Urban Fare</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Sobeys" title="Sobeys">Sobeys</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Farm_Boy" title="Farm Boy">Farm Boy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foodland_(Canada)" class="mw-redirect" title="Foodland (Canada)">Foodland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/FreshCo" title="FreshCo">FreshCo</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chalo_FreshCo" class="mw-redirect" title="Chalo FreshCo">Chalo FreshCo</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/IGA_(Canada)" title="IGA (Canada)">IGA</a> (except in <abbr title="British Columbia">BC</abbr>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Longo%27s" title="Longo's">Longo's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Safeway_(Canada)" title="Safeway (Canada)">Safeway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sobeys" title="Sobeys">Sobeys</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thrifty_Foods" title="Thrifty Foods">Thrifty Foods</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other national chains</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Costco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walmart_Canada" title="Walmart Canada">Walmart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_North_West_Company" title="The North West Company">Northern/Northmart</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Regional chains</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Federated_Co-operatives_members_(Western_Canada)52" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7.4em;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Federated_Co-operatives" title="Federated Co-operatives">Federated Co-operatives</a> members (Western Canada)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lake_Country_Co-op&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lake Country Co-op (page does not exist)">Lake Country Co-op</a> (<abbr title="Saskatchewan">SK</abbr>: Prince Albert/North Central area)</li> <li><a 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area)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galati_Market_Fresh" title="Galati Market Fresh">Galati Market Fresh</a> (<abbr title="Ontario">ON</abbr>: Toronto)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grande_Cheese" title="Grande Cheese">Grande Cheese</a> (<abbr title="Ontario">ON</abbr>: Greater Toronto Area)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/H_Mart" title="H Mart">H Mart</a> (<abbr title="British Columbia">BC</abbr>, <abbr title="Alberta">AB</abbr>, & <abbr title="Ontario">ON</abbr>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Highland_Farms" title="Highland Farms">Highland Farms</a> (<abbr title="Ontario">ON</abbr>: Greater Toronto Area)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/IGA_(Canada)" title="IGA (Canada)">IGA</a> (<abbr title="British Columbia">BC</abbr>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kin%27s_Farm_Market" title="Kin's Farm Market">Kin's Farm Market</a> (<abbr title="British Columbia">BC</abbr>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freshlocal_Solutions" title="Freshlocal Solutions">Spud</a> (<abbr title="British Columbia">BC</abbr> & <abbr title="Alberta">AB</abbr>)</li> 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Markets</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Extra_Foods" title="Extra Foods">Extra Foods</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Food_City_(Canada)" title="Food City (Canada)">Food City</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Galati_Brothers" class="mw-redirect" title="Galati Brothers">Galati Brothers</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/H%C3%A9ritage_(Canadian_store)" title="Héritage (Canadian store)">Héritage</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Knob_Hill_Farms" title="Knob Hill Farms">Knob Hill Farms</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Market_Fresh" title="Market Fresh">Marché Frais</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Overwaitea_Foods" title="Overwaitea Foods">Overwaitea Foods</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Cooper%27s_Foods" class="mw-redirect" title="Cooper's Foods">Cooper's Foods</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/SaveEasy" title="SaveEasy">SaveEasy</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Steinberg%27s_(supermarket)" title="Steinberg's (supermarket)">Steinberg's</a> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Miracle_Food_Mart" title="Miracle Food Mart">Miracle Food Mart</a></dd></dl></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Super_Centre" class="mw-redirect" title="Super Centre">Super Centre</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Target_Canada" title="Target Canada">Target</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Village_Food_Stores" title="Village Food Stores">Village Food Stores</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Zellers" title="Zellers">Zellers</a></dd></dl> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_supermarket_chains_in_Canada" title="List of supermarket chains in Canada">List of supermarket chains in Canada</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235" /></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Supermarkets_in_the_United_Kingdom399" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse 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