What is Costco ?
Costco is the largest membership based warehouse store in the world, based on its volume of sales. You have to pay an annual membership fee and show your card when purchasing products and services in order to shop at a Costco warehouse. In the United States it is the 5th largest retailer. Products are mostly sold in large quantities at Costco.
You can purchase most of the home appliances at Costco like TV, computer, furniture gadgets, foods, gifts, jewelry, health and beauty products and many more. You can see the items which are sold by them with prices and discount available on them recently on Costco.com homepage.
Get list of Costco locations
Screenshot of Costco locator page
Costco has 556 locations as per the survey carried out on August 17th 2009. The world’s largest Costco store is located in Hillsboro, Oregon, USA. Following are the numbers that shows how many stores Costco is having worldwide.
- 405 in the United States and Puerto Rico
- 1 in Australia.
- 6 in Taiwan
- 7 in South Korea
- 9 in Japan
- 77 in Canada
- 31 in Mexico (50-50 joint venture with Comercial Mexicana)
- 21 in the United Kingdom
To find the location of Costco warehouse, you have to go on its page and enter an address, zip code, and city name. You can also see the complete warehouse list on that page with the map. It includes the results with the following services:
- Gas Station
- Food Court
- Pharmacy
- Tire Service Center
- Hearing Aids
- Optical Department
Source: http://www.costco.com/Warehouse/locator.aspx
Understanding Costco tires store
Screenshot of Costco locator page
You can purchase any car tire at Costco tires store, but the condition is that a Costco Membership is required for all Tire purchases in their warehouses. The purchase of online tires will be shipped to the Costco warehouse that you select for installation on your vehicle
You have to do the following steps to purchase the tire:
Step 1 : Find Tires for your vehicle (Select year, make, model, options)
Step 2 : Choose Tires
Step 3 : Purchase Tires
Source: http://tires.costco.com/TSSapp/TireLanding.xhtml
The items shown on Costco’s website are not indicative of what is at the locations. There will be some of the same skus but for the most part it is a seperate division of Costco and they offer a different assortment than can be found in store.
One of my favorite items is bracelets jewelry which is easy to handle, looks good while wearing. Such items are easy to search and come in a variety of decent colors. Men are also interested in such beautiful items; men’s bracelets are also becoming very popular in new generation.