Costco Wholesale Corporation. The Group's principal activity is to operate membership warehouses. These warehouses offer members very low prices on a limited selection of nationally branded and selected private label products in a wide range of merchandise categories and self service warehouse facilities. It buys the majority of its merchandise ... More

Costco Wholesale Corporation. The Group's principal activity is to operate membership warehouses. These warehouses offer members very low prices on a limited selection of nationally branded and selected private label products in a wide range of merchandise categories and self service warehouse facilities. It buys the majority of its merchandise directly from manufacturers and route it to a cross-docking consolidation point (depot) or directly to its warehouses. Its warehouse format averages approximately 143,000 square feet. The Group's depots receive container-based shipments from manufacturers and reallocate these goods for shipment to its individual warehouses. As of 30-Aug-2009 the Group operated 527 warehouses in the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, United Kingdom, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Australia, as well as 32 locations in Mexico, through a joint venture.