Costco 101
Named after a signature brand from the company's Washington state roots, this private label line appears on everything from olive oil to bath tissue.
What is Kirkland Signature?
While corporate IT employees populate the high-rise office tower, there is another nearby type of Costco location on Park Lane, which serves commercial clients and lacks a food court or gas station.
What is a Costco Business Center?
When booking a car rental through Costco Travel in the U.S. or Canada, the company automatically waives the standard fee for this bonus individual, a massive perk for road trips.
What is an additional driver?
Known for its green text on a black screen, this text-based, 1980s legacy retail inventory software system is famously still used by cashiers and inventory managers at Costco today.
What is AS/400?
Because the wholesale giant refuses to pay standard credit card processing fees, this major bank is the exclusive issuer of the official Costco Anywhere Visa card.
What is Citibank?
If your deployment fails and you desperately need a sudden hit of pure energy to survive the afternoon, you don't use a vending machine—you just walk over to this machine instead, who has been known to "listen" to your complex orders.
Who is Franke?
Taking care of your trip from the moment you land, almost all of Costco Travel's international resort packages automatically include this ground service to get you from the airport to your hotel lobby.
What is a shuttle?
Showing that the retail giant is heavily invested in modern tech, Costco moved its massive global financial and ERP operations onto this specific cloud enterprise software platform, utilizing Microsoft Azure.
What is SAP S/4HANA?
Shocking grocery snobs everywhere, the sheer scale of Costco’s grocery sales allows it to sell more total annual volume of these premium "organic" foods than this specific Amazon-owned grocery chain.
What is Whole Foods Market?
This specific kitchen appliance remains the location's greatest unsolved mystery, often sporting an "Out of Order" sign while serving up nothing but warm air and corporate disappointment.
What is the water & ice machine?
While Costco offers flights from a massive array of global carriers, American budget-conscious flyers will be disappointed to learn that this major, open-seating airline completely refuses to partner with Costco Travel.
What is Southwest Airlines?
While logging into the warehouse's guest Wi-Fi network, members are greeted by this specific, four-letter networking acronym, which dynamically assigns an IP address to their smartphones.
What is DHCP?
While U.S. food courts are famous for hot dogs, Costco locations in Canada swap the standard fries for this iconic French-fry, cheese-curd, and gravy dish.
What is poutine?
Forget the standard badge photo—if you flipped through the pages of the latest issue of Costco Today, you would have spotted the featured badge to badge section highlighting this specific Dallas IT team member.
Who is Somu Bollineni?
Costco’s popular rental car tool, which automatically compares real-time rates across its four partner brands (Alamo, Avis, Budget, and Enterprise), goes by this trademarked name.
What is the Low Price Finder?
To power its rapidly expanding retail media and personalized digital advertising platform, Costco announced a major partnership to integrate this advanced, Agentic-AI-powered compound marketing engine into its data cloud.
What is GrowthLoop?
Proving that bulk buying is a universal love language, the busiest Costco warehouse in the entire world is actually located in this Asian capital city's Neihu district.
What is Taipei, Taiwan?
Proving that the retail giant values brick-and-mortar proximity, the Dallas office tower Costco purchased for $14.25 million was originally built in 1982 and officially known by this "plaza" property name.
What is North Central Plaza I?
If you have a few hundred thousand dollars burning a hole in your pocket, you can buy high-end vacation packages through Costco Travel, which includes a private yacht charter to this legendary, isolated Chilean territory in the South Pacific.
What is Easter Island?
To manage data privacy and ensure "over-compliant" member consent tracking within its advertising network, Costco integrates its tech stack with this security and data governance platform.
What is Transcend?