Costco really focuses on the upscale shopper, more so than the others.
Costco is out there looking. The logical place to go is the Jacobs mall.
Costco has the most affluent membership of all the membership stores.
It's the way Costco built their business model, and now it's ingrained in their culture.
I buy everything from CostCo. It's great; they've got everything I need.
Last week, chain-store sales came in pretty strong. But if you stripped out gasoline sales from Wal-Mart and Costco it really showed us that consumer spending had started to weaken on a fundamental level.
I go to Costco every weekend. It's my favorite part of the week.
Our partnership with Costco is a giant step forward in our strategy to increase retail coverage and charge volume and to expand the number of customers we serve.
I had a conversation with Terry this morning and I told him that I don't support a decision to make a huge investment in another department store when many more consumers are shopping at off-mall retailers such as Wal-Mart, Target, Costco and Kohl's,
It doesn't do Costco any good if nobody can afford to buy anything.