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15 unusual facts about Costco


Ali Asad Chandia

Chandia quit his job at Costco between September and November 2001, giving a handwritten explanation to his boss that said, "I have to leave now due to some family emergency."

Avcon

With no current production EVs available using the AVCON standard, EV charging station hosts (the companies giving the free electric power: Costco, shopping malls, etc.) withdrew their support for the cost of repairs of their public AVCON EV charging stations.

Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas

Daffy is the Scrooge-like owner of the Lucky Duck Superstore (a Costco-esque megastore), and he treats his employees (played by other Looney Tunes) like they're garbage.

Clovelly Trails

Since being developed in the late 1990s, the area has undergone tremendous growth with such businesses as Boston Pizza, Costco, Dominion Supermarket, Future Shop, Wal-Mart, Old Navy and McDonalds moving into the area.

Famous Amos

The design of the 2000s Famous Amos package does not have the biography on the back of the Not for Resale editions, or packages that come in large boxes or packs, usually found at Sam's Club and Costco.

Goose Village, Montreal

Today this area is mostly uninhabited, containing light industry, a Costco, a train station parking lot, and undeveloped land.

King of California

Armed with a metal detector and a stack of treasure-hunting books, Charlie soon finds reason to believe that the gold resides underneath the local Costco, and encourages Miranda to get a job there so that they can plan a way to excavate after hours.

La Crescenta-Montrose, California

In the spring of 2012, a large black bear managed to wander regularly from the Angeles National Forest into the La Crescenta-Montrose-Glendale residential area, rummaging through trash cans and showing a preference for Costco meatballs and tuna.

Matt Harrington

Harrington is currently working for the local Costco store, in the tire department, making $11.50 per hour.

Mettawa, Illinois

Major businesses located near the busy intersection of Interstate 94 and Illinois Route 60 in Mettawa include CDW, Residence Inn, Hilton Garden Inn, and Costco.

Saskatchewan blizzard of 2007

Some people resorted to taking refuge overnight in businesses such as Costco.

Shop 'til You Drop

In the fourth season of the PAX version that began airing in 2003, gameplay centered around a 14-department warehouse store (similar to stores like Costco, Sam's Club, and BJ's) instead of a shopping mall.

The Apparition

With no escape, Kelly wanders around, and enters an empty Costco.

Warner Center, Los Angeles

In 2012 the City Council approved the Village at Westfield Topanga - a new Costco, retail and entertainment development that will combine with existing Westfield Warner Center malls to make one of Southern California's largest shopping complexes: "Westfield's Big 3".

Westhill, Aberdeenshire

Many supermarkets have opened in Westhill, including Tesco, Costco, Aldi, The Cooperative and Marks and Spencer.


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Aloha Petroleum

The company also has federal, state, city and county contracts and supplies gasoline to other convenience stores and gas stations not branded as Aloha Gas or Island Mini Mart, including Costco, Freedom, NEX and AAFES.

Aurora Organic Dairy

The company supplies and packages private-label, store-brand, organic dairy products for many of the country's largest grocery chains, including Wal-Mart, Safeway, Target and Costco.

Children's Miracle Network Hospitals

Convenience Valet, Love's Travel Stops, Walmart, Costco, CDW, Food Lion, Rite Aid, Dairy Queen, IHOP, Sigma Chi, Delta Zeta, Domino Sugar, Phi Mu, Church's Chicken, Phi Delta Epsilon, Phi Kappa Theta, Zeta Beta Tau, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, McGraw-Hill Federal Credit Union, and Marriott Hotels are some of the corporate partners that support Children's Miracle Network Hospitals.

Columbus Salame

Their products are sold at supermarkets locally and nationwide, including Costco, Safeway, Cost Plus and Trader Joe's.

Federal Employees' Distributing Company

Fedco predated the giant chains Walmart, Target, Kmart, Ames, and fellow membership chain Costco, but remained a regional chain and eventually was unable to compete with the national chains.

Firoozeh Dumas

She takes pride in her Iranian heritage, but at the same time, mocks her dad's fascination with "freebies" at Costco and television shows like Bowling for Dollars.

Izze Beverage Company

IZZE Beverage Company is the name of the company that produces the Izze line of fruit-derived carbonated soft drinks commonly sold at Starbucks and other coffee shops, Chipotle, Whole Foods, Target, CostCo, other health food stores, and grocery stores.

Jon Arnett

He runs a distribution service and supplies frozen foods to Costco, Sam's Club, and Wal-Mart.

North Lakes, Queensland

A cinema complex is due for completion by end 2014, as is the states first and second Costco and IKEA respectively.

Prescription drug

Also, pharmacies operated by membership clubs, such as Costco and Sam's Club, by law must allow non-members to use their pharmacy services and must charge the same prices as to members.

Serra Mesa, San Diego

Escala, along with Fenton Parkway (Costco) are part of Mission Valley (92108), but feed into the Taft Middle School service area.

Smokey Point, Washington

In late 2006, the commercial area called "Lakewood Crossing" opened, just west of the Interstate 5 exit to Smokey Point (exit 206), with Costco and Target, and Red Robin as the first tenants to open.

St. Rollox railway works

During this period the site was reduced in size and the surplus land was sold off and is now the site of a large Tesco, Costco and Lidl.

Sweet Leaf Tea Company

Sweet Leaf Tea is available for purchase in convenience stores, restaurants, supermarkets and specialty grocers like Market of Choice, Whole Foods Market, Albertsons, Publix, Piggly Wiggly, Costco, Target, Kroger, The Fresh Market, Wal-Mart and Straub's Markets throughout the United States and online at the bottlers website.