{"id":40610,"date":"2025-12-12T02:21:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T02:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/costco-is-firing-on-all-cylinders-and-shoppers-are-loving-it\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T02:21:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T02:21:15","slug":"costco-is-firing-on-all-cylinders-and-shoppers-are-loving-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/costco-is-firing-on-all-cylinders-and-shoppers-are-loving-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Costco is firing on all cylinders &mdash; and shoppers are loving it"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/693b3cbb832e0ef1ead61931?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Customers walk in the parking lot outside a Costco store on December 02, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois.\"\/><figcaption>This holiday season has been a record-setting one for Costco.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Olson\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Costco reported first-quarter net sales of nearly $66 billion, up 8.2% from last year.<\/li>\n<li>In the US, comparable sales grew 5.9% with increases in both traffic and ticket size.<\/li>\n<li>CEO Ron Vachris said the company&#039;s expansion is both faster and more productive than just two years ago.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Costco just keeps cruising.<\/p>\n<p>The wholesale club delivered net sales of $65.98 billion for the quarter, up 8.2% from $60.99 billion for the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>US stores saw strong comparable sales growth of 5.9%, propelled by a 2.6% increase in traffic and a 3.2% increase in transaction size.<\/p>\n<p>CFO Gary Millerchip also said the holiday season has been a record-setting one for its US warehouses.<\/p>\n<p>The food court sold 358,000 whole pizzas for Halloween, and more than 4.5 million pies in the three days leading up to Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;That&#039;s over 7,000 pies per warehouse over a three-day period,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Memberships also grew by more than 5%, ending the quarter with nearly 146 million cardholders. The company now operates 923 warehouses worldwide, including 633 in the US.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The success of our new warehouse expansion has allowed us to consistently drive top-line revenue well in excess of our comparable sales and gain significant market share,&quot; CEO Ron Vachris said.<\/p>\n<p>The last fiscal year&#039;s openings are generating annualized sales of more than $190 million per warehouse, compared with $150 million just two years ago, Vachris said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the month, Costco filed a lawsuit against the US government seeking a refund for all tariffs paid under President Donald Trump&#039;s executive order.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This holiday season has been a record-setting one for Costco. Scott Olson\/Getty Images Costco reported first-quarter net sales of nearly $66 billion, up 8.2% from last year. In the US, comparable sales grew 5.9% with increases in both traffic and ticket size. CEO Ron Vachris said the company&#039;s expansion is both faster and more productive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-40610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}