Costco Wholesale Corp.
Data: Worldwide/North America
- Headquarters:Issaquah, Wash.
- Top Executive: Jim Sinegal, president, CEO
- Corporate Stores (global): 518
- Sales in $ Billions (USD): 63.088
- Date FY Ended: 9/2/07
- Countries of Operations: Canada, Japan, Mexico, Puerto Rico, South Korea, Taiwan, UK, USA
- Website: www.costco.com
Overview
Groceries, encompassing food, sundries and fresh products, plus pharmacy and gasoline, accounted for 63% of Costco’s total sales, or $39.8 billion. Of the company’s total volume, 80% came from 385 warehouses in the U.S. and Puerto Rico, 13.5% from 71 warehouses in Canada and 6.5% from 64 warehouses in Mexico, the United Kingdom, Japan, South Korean and Taiwan.
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Gaining Ground | The overly aggressive pricing of the past year appears to be abating, which could help industry profits
The laws of supermarket economics bent under the pressures of 2009. The formulas that had reliably driven profits for years were tested by the extraordinary environment of deep recession, high unemployment and product-price deflation. Traditional supermarket operators had to rethink their pricing strategies in an effort to hang onto as much market share as they could while still delivering something
Gaining Ground | The overly aggressive pricing of the past year appears to be abating, which could help industry profits
The laws of supermarket economics bent under the pressures of 2009. The formulas that had reliably driven profits for years were tested by the extraordinary environment of deep recession, high unemployment and product-price deflation. Traditional supermarket operators had to rethink their pricing strategies in an effort to hang onto as much market share as they could while still delivering something
Gaining Ground | The overly aggressive pricing of the past year appears to be abating, which could help industry profits
The laws of supermarket economics bent under the pressures of 2009. The formulas that had reliably driven profits for years were tested by the extraordinary environment of deep recession, high unemployment and product-price deflation. Traditional supermarket operators had to rethink their pricing strategies in an effort to hang onto as much market share as they could while still delivering something
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