Early in 2025, Costco will add new store locations: View the warehouse list.

 

Three of them will be relocations, while 26 will be new constructions. Earlier this month, Vachris announced that ten of the new sites will be outside of the United States.

According to him, Costco built seven new buildings during the first quarter of its 2025 fiscal year, which concluded on November 24. Four of these structures were located.

Outside of the United States, and one of them was a move from an old store location. The cost of a Costco membership increased from $60 to $65 for Gold Star memberships.

In the United States and Canada and from $120 to $130 for executive memberships after the retailer raised membership prices in September for the first time since 2017.

The executive membership’s maximum annual 2% reward also increased from $1,000 to $1,250. In the first quarter of its fiscal year 2025, which concluded on November 24,

 

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