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MD -- Costco @ Frederick:

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1. COST_200304_01.JPG: 3:50pm Note the sign above says "Only 5 sell units per membership". Bay 2. Each full level on the lift holds 8 cases of 40 bottles. So this bay represents 63 cases of water.
2. COST_200304_05.JPG: 3:50pm Bay 1. It has 13 cases of water.
3. COST_200304_08.JPG: Toilet paper is doing fine!
4. COST_200304_10.JPG: 3:52pm The third bay has the tinier 8oz bottles.
5. COST_200304_15.JPG: 3:53pm Costco staff refill the bays. Bay 1 has 48 cases now and he's about to add some more. Bay 2 has 61 cases.
6. COST_200304_17.JPG: The sanitizing wipes also have a sign saying "Only 5 sell units per membership". The staff said they had been out of stock of those until today.
7. COST_200304_23.JPG: 4:27pm Bay 1 now has 16 cases, down from 48 in just over a half hour.
8. COST_200304_25.JPG: 4:27pm Bay 2 now has 26 cases, down from 63.
9. COST_200304_27.JPG: 4:27pm Bay 3
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Wikipedia Description: Costco
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Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ: COST) is the largest membership warehouse club chain in the world based on sales volume, headquartered in Issaquah, Washington, United States, with its flagship warehouse in nearby Seattle. Costco's Canadian operations are based near Ottawa, Ontario, and Vancouver, British Columbia.

History:

Founded by James Sinegal and Jeffrey Brotman, Costco opened its first warehouse in Seattle, Washington on September 15, 1983. Sinegal had started in retailing by working for Sol Price at both FedMart and Price Club. Brotman, an attorney from an old Seattle retailing family, had also been involved in retailing from an early age.

In 1993, Costco merged with Price Club. Costco’s business model and size were similar to those of Price Club, which was founded by Sol and Robert Price in 1976 in San Diego, California. Thus, the combined company, PriceCostco, was effectively double the size of each of its parents. Just after the merger, PriceCostco had 206 locations generating $16 billion in annual sales. PriceCostco was initially led by executives from both companies, but then Sol and his son Robert Price founded Price Enterprises and left in 1994.

In 1997, the company changed its name to Costco Wholesale.

Costco today:

The main competitor in the membership warehouse space is Sam's Club. Although Sam's Club has more warehouses than Costco, Costco has higher total sales volume. Costco employs about 132,000 full- and part-time employees, including seasonal workers, and for fiscal year 2006, ended on September 3, 2006, the company's store sales totaled $60.2 billion of which $1.1 billion was net profit. Costco is #32 on the Fortune 500.

As of June 7, 2007, Costco has 511 locations: ...

Sales model:

Costco focuses on selling products at low prices, often at very high volume. These goods are usually bulk-packaged and marketed primarily to large families and businesses. Furthermo ...More...
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2020 photos: Well, that was a year, wasn't it? The COVID-19 pandemic cut off most events here in DC after March 11. Trump's handling of the pandemic was a series of disastrous missteps and lies, encouraging his minions to not wear masks and dramatically increasing infections and deaths here. As the chant goes -- Hey, hey, POTUS-A; how many folks did you kill today? The BLM protests started in June, made all the worse by the child president's inability to have any empathy for anyone other than himself. Then of course he tried to steal the election in November. What a year! The farthest distance I traveled after that was about 40 miles. I only visited sites in four states -- Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and DC. That was the least amount of travel I had done since 1995. Number of photos taken this year: about 246,000, the fewest number of photos I had taken in any year since 2007.
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