{"id":456,"date":"2014-07-21T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hanseckman.com\/guides\/?p=456"},"modified":"2014-07-21T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T01:00:00","slug":"costco-wholesale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hanseckman.com\/guides\/costco-wholesale\/","title":{"rendered":"Costco Wholesale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Costco Wholesale\" href=\"http:\/\/www.costco.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.costco.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Talk to anyone who has been a Costco customer for a while, and you will hear how passionate their fans are. \u00a0Don&#8217;t confuse Costco with similar big box warehouse clubs with 48 stick butter packs and a 20 gallon tub of cheese doodles. \u00a0Costco focuses small businesses (not just retailers) on middle to high income households.<\/p>\n<p>A few reasons why customers love Costco:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Higher end, quality products at a fixed markup. \u00a0No games, just the best stuff at great prices.<\/li>\n<li>Store brands &#8211; Kirkland store brands outperform most name brands at a fraction of the cost. \u00a0Costco is launching a whole new line of organic and responsible products.<\/li>\n<li>Services &#8211; Most people may not take advantage of the services, but travel, insurance (even health), finance, HVAC, and car buying provide collective buying power to individuals and small companies.<\/li>\n<li>Fresh foods &#8211; You get a lot more for your money when buying fresh fruits, vegetables and meats.<\/li>\n<li>Seasonal items &#8211; No, not christmas trees in July. \u00a0Costco rotates out their special items such as furniture, outdoors and holidays several times a year. \u00a0You also have vendor specials with indoor deals where you get either a reduced price or with more accessories. \u00a0(Check out the SLR camera packages, event gift cards and vendor specials like the Little Giant ladder system.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.costco.com Talk to anyone who has been a Costco customer for a while, and you will hear how passionate their fans are. \u00a0Don&#8217;t confuse Costco with similar big box warehouse clubs with 48 stick butter packs and a 20 gallon tub of cheese doodles. \u00a0Costco focuses small businesses (not just retailers) on middle to high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[76,77],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies","tag-retail","tag-small-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p45zXQ-7m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanseckman.com\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanseckman.com\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanseckman.com\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanseckman.com\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanseckman.com\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hanseckman.com\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanseckman.com\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanseckman.com\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanseckman.com\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}