Costco Wholesale Corporation reported net sales of $29.86 billion for the retail month of December (the five weeks ended January 4), an increase of 8.5 percent from $27.52 billion last year. Net sales for the first eighteen weeks were $101.83 billion, an increase of 8.3 percent from $94.04 billion last year.
Comparable sales were as follows:
Comparable sales excluding the impacts from changes in gasoline prices and foreign exchange were as follows:
Costco operates 923 warehouses, including 633 in the United States and Puerto Rico, 114 in Canada, 42 in Mexico, 37 in Japan, 29 in the U.K., 20 in Korea, 15 in Australia, 14 in Taiwan, seven in China, five in Spain, three in France, two in Sweden, and one each in Iceland, and New Zealand.
Costco also operates e-commerce sites in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Mexico, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and Australia.
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