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#1 Fri, 07/02/2014 - 12:20

Costco continues to expand!

Heard the news last night that Costco is planning to build yet another store/warehouse in Melbourne. Great news for me as it's not going to be too far from us, but surprised me a little in that it would now make it the third in Melb and I know they aren't even in all the states yet - just NSW & ACT. Setting aside the 'Is Costco a good thing' discussion, do you think this is a good move, or would it have been better for them to open stores in the other states? Personally I would think that they would do a booming business in the likes of Perth where there isn't even Aldi.



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Fri, 07/02/2014 - 16:17

costco thrive on central warehousing and clustering their stores in one area (6 of them between Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra), its easier and cheaper for them to move things. May be they will add 1 or 2 in Brisbane next but for Perth they wont get operational efficiencies for perth being far away from rest of their network. I think aldi has used the exact same reasoning in excluding WA from their network.



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Sat, 08/02/2014 - 11:07

I'm sure it could still work in WA - maybe one in Perth and one in Freo? Ah well. Sometime I guess!



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Sat, 08/02/2014 - 12:02

ninhursag wrote:
I'm sure it could still work in WA - maybe one in Perth and one in Freo? Ah well. Sometime I guess!

Dont think freo would work , to touristy ...

Just need 1 north and 1 south ( of the river )

maybe wangara/malaga and one cockburn ( yes that is a real suburb ) :)



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Sat, 08/02/2014 - 13:28

Heh. Had a friend at school with the last name of Cockburn, pronounced "Koh - burn". For some strange reason, a lot of kids mis-pronounced it.



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