Costco’s website outages on Thanksgiving continue into Black Friday
Costco wasn’t the only site frustrating Thanksgiving Day shoppers. H & M’s site also had a few relatively short outages on Thursday and Friday morning....
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Even people who should know better are falling for this Costco coupon scam on Facebook
On Tuesday, the Issaquah-based company was telling its 2.1 followers on its Facebook page, “While we love our fans and our members, this offer is...
Costco’s profit falls just short of investors’ high expectations
Costco Wholesale, the Issaquah-based retailer, reported quarterly profit that fell short of estimates, and U.S. sales, while still brisk, also slightly missed. Same-store U.S. sales...
The Kona coffee you buy from Costco and Walmart? It might be fake
The case, plodding along in U.S. District Court in Seattle, claims that while 2.7 million pounds of authentic Kona coffee beans are grown in Hawaii...
Fighting at Costco’s opening day in China reflects trade war
The United States and China may be involved in a trade war, but the Chinese shoppers at an American wholesaler were at war with one...
Costco opens first China store; customers face hours-long lines and fighting
Issaquah-based Costco had to suspend operations in its Shanghai store in the afternoon citing "heavy traffic and customer flows," according to a text message sent...
T-Mobile CEO sprints to top of best-paid bosses at NW companies; check your pay against the top 90
John Legere's pay package is simply a grander version of the compensation formulas that most of the biggest publicly traded companies use to reward their...
Costco posts strong results but faces margin scrutiny
The warehouse club retailer remains a sales juggernaut, with $34.3 billion in fiscal 2019 first-quarter revenue, up 10.3 percent.
Costco tightens standards for antibiotics use by meat producers
The warehouse retailer took steps to control use of medically important antibiotics, the overuse of which in animal agriculture presents a risk to human health...
Costco gets the go-ahead for expanded corporate headquarters in Issaquah
The retailer plans to add a nine-story, 620,000-square-foot office building and adjacent parking garage with about 1,650 stalls at its Issaquah campus.
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