aggregated from: Brier Dudley's blog

People who order photo prints from stores like Costco, Wal-Mart and Walgreens will have more options for customizing and packaging their images, now that two Seattle-area photo services companies are merging. Read more......

topics: costco, redmond

aggregated from: Slog

From today's Rants & Raves in the Seattle Times:RAVE To everyone at Costco who helped me when I was having difficulty walking. An employee rushed over to help me to a seat. Others came to my aid, including a woman with her arm in a cast. She insisted...

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Issaquah's Costco Wholesale opened its first warehouse store in Australia this week.The opening was major event in Melbourne's Docklands.Here's a report from Australia that describes the rush on the opening day:US retail giant Costco opens Docklands ...

topics: budget, costco, investment

aggregated from: Biz Buzz

Issaquah's Costco Wholesale Corp., the nation's largest warehouse club retailer, is reporting sales for the five weeks ending July 5 were down six percent.Subtracting the effects of lower gas prices this year compared with last and the impact of fore...

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Bearish traders are buying Costco put options in unusual volumes this week, betting that the Issaquah-based membership retailer's stock will fall further this year.Put options increase in value if the selling price of the stock declines.According t...

aggregated from: crosscut.com : Mossback

Two of the region's civic heavyweights squared off at the Seattle Public Library on June 18 to settle the issue about which of Cascadia's two biggest cities has the best built environment, Seattle or Vancouver, BC. It was a rematch of a debate conduc...

topics: amazon, architecture, bellevue, costco, environment

aggregated from: Biz Buzz

Regular gasoline prices in the Tacoma area are on an up elevator these days with average prices rising more than 3 cents a gallon just since Thursday.While that trend is troubling, average regular unleaded prices here remain nearly 20 cents below the...

topics: costco, economy, tacoma

aggregated from: Biz Buzz

Costco Wholesale's seven percent same store sales decline in May isn't as alarming as it first appears when you peer behind the raw numbers.That sales drop raised some alarm among Wall Street analysts who had expected a better performance this week f...

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Average Tacoma gasoline prices continued their steady ascent this week rising 6.4 cents since last week, but prices still look reasonable compared with this week last year.Prices then were $4.054 for a gallon of unleaded regular gas and rising rapidl...

topics: costco, puyallup, tacoma

aggregated from: Biz Buzz

Issaquah's Costco Wholesale Corp. got an upgrade from a Credit Suisse analyst today, and the stock responded with a 3.33 percent price increase.Analyst Michael Exstein said in his note to investors that Costco's in-store traffic is at historically h...

topics: costco, economy, tacoma