Costco's Potential Membership Fee Increases

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Costco has numerous variations from your regular grocery shop, but membership costs are one of the biggest. Costco requires membership

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cards to visit warehouses and browse its bulk products aisles, unlike Walmart and Whole Foods, which allow anybody to shop.

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There are other ways to purchase at Costco without an annual membership, such as using Instacart to deliver groceries or buying a gift

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card to spend a specified amount. If you want to shop at Costco without restrictions, you must pay.

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Costco's Gold Star membership costs $60 and its Executive membership $120. Analysts and Costco expect things to change in the future

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Here's all we know about Costco's planned membership cost increases, even though no details have been announced.

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Costco may boost membership costs in 2023 despite not having done so yet. Costco has hinted at another membership fee hike since 2022.

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Last December, Costco CFO Richard Galanti told investors that fee increases are "a question of when, not if," adding, "I'll be purposefully

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coy on when that might be." The following month, Costco CEO Craig Jelinek announced at the annual shareholder meeting that membership

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Our opinion is that now is not the time. Though we may in the future, we have no plans to pay the fee "stated.

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