Costco Wholesale News

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Costco Wholesale wants its North Shore members to be able to fill up their gas tanks after filling up their shopping carts.

Costco Wholesale has called and is sending letters to almost 300,000 customers in the Northwest and Midwest who might have bought meat that is part of a recall by JBS Swift Beef in Colorado.

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Costco Wholesale Corp.'s fiscal third-quarter profit fell 29 percent to $209.6million because of softer sales and a litigation charge for the warehouse-club operator.

Walgreen had a slight drop in profits in its recent earnings report, putting a small dent in its otherwise slow-but-steady growth through this recession .

In March, the retailer said it would expand its Great Value store brand to offer more cheaply priced groceries and consumer staples to its customers.

Although Costco Wholesale lost most aspects of a years-long legal battle to change Washington's beer and wine distribution rules, a judge said this week that the defendants must pay most of its legal costs.

Almost 25 years after he was hired as a sales clerk in a small regional electronics store, Brian Dunn is set to become the next CEO of Best Buy Co.

Kroger , a supermarket chain that competes with Wal-Mart , Costco , and Supervalu , issued its Q1 earnings report today.

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Consistent that's simply the best word to describe the performance of Costco Wholesale .

Public Knowledge today said the U.S. Supreme Court should overturn a lower court ruling that, if upheld, would rewrite copyright law so that consumer choices in the goods they buy, and what they do with those items after purchase, would be severely restricted.

Net income decreased 14.5%. to $153 million, or $0.36 per share. The retailer's first-quarter profit included $0.06 per share in charges related to operating-model changes in the U.S. and corporate restructuring in its European operations.

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Construction has picked up at the Costco site at Paradise Valley Mall and, for the third time, the company has announced a new opening date.

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