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Costco Connection is a magazine sent free to the Costco executive members; it can also be accessed online by anyone, free of charge. [161] As of 2024, the magazine is distributed to 15.4 million households and has 300,000 copies at warehouses. It has the third-highest magazine circulation in the United States, behind two AARP magazines. [162]
Sol Price (January 23, 1916 – December 14, 2009) was an American retailer and the founder of FedMart, Price Club (which ultimately merged into Costco) and PriceSmart. [1] He was considered the "father" of the " warehouse store " retail model.
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Price Club was an American warehouse club chain. Founded in 1976, it merged with its competitor, Costco Wholesale , in 1993. The original Price Club warehouse in San Diego, California , is now Costco location number 401.
PriceSmart, Inc. is an American operator of membership warehouse clubs in Central America, the Caribbean, and South America. PriceSmart was founded by Sol and Robert Price, founders of The Price Club; Robert Price is chairman of the board.
James D. Sinegal (born January 1, 1936) is an American billionaire businessman, co-founder and former CEO of the Costco Wholesale Corporation, [1] an international retail chain. He served as Costco's president and CEO from 1983 until 2011.
In 1990, the American chain Walmart purchased the Woolco chain in Canada and converted the stores into Walmarts. Dollarama was founded in Quebec in 1992. In 1998, Zellers bought out Kmart Canada, taking over its stores. In 2011, Marshalls, owned by the American TJX Companies, entered Canada, and Zellers sold most of its stores to Target.
“The most important item we sell is the membership card,” says Ron Vachris, Costco’s new CEO as of Jan. 1. “Everything we do supports that transaction.”