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Costco Wholesale Corporation is an American multinational corporation that operates a chain of membership-only big-box warehouse club retail stores. As of 2025, Costco is the third-largest retailer in the world, and as of August 2024, the world's largest retailer of beef, poultry, organic produce, and wine, with just under a third of American consumers…
The analysis highlights History, Geography, Companies and Products as prominent areas in the source structure around Costco.
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TTTA extracted 587 structured relationships around Costco. Examples in this analysis include Costco → Area served → United States and Costco → Area served → Canada. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Costco | Area served | United States | 1.00 | infobox |
| Costco | Area served | Canada | 1.00 | infobox |
| Costco | Area served | Mexico | 1.00 | infobox |
| Costco | Area served | Australia | 1.00 | infobox |
| Costco | Area served | China | 1.00 | infobox |
| Costco | Area served | France | 1.00 | infobox |
| Costco | Area served | Iceland | 1.00 | infobox |
| Costco | Area served | Japan | 1.00 | infobox |
| Costco | Area served | New Zealand | 1.00 | infobox |
| Costco | Area served | South Korea | 1.00 | infobox |
| Costco | Area served | Spain | 1.00 | infobox |
| Costco | Area served | Sweden | 1.00 | infobox |
| Costco | Area served | Taiwan | 1.00 | infobox |
| Costco | Area served | United Kingdom | 1.00 | infobox |
| Costco | Brands | Kirkland Signature | 1.00 | infobox |
| Costco | Founded | September 15, 1983; 42 years ago (1983-09-15) in Seattle | 1.00 | infobox |
| Costco | Founders | James Sinegal | 1.00 | infobox |
| Costco | Founders | Jeffrey Brotman | 1.00 | infobox |
| Costco | Headquarters | Issaquah, Washington, United States | 1.00 | infobox |
| Costco | Industry | Retail | 1.00 | infobox |
| Costco | Key people | Hamilton E. James | 1.00 | infobox |
| Costco | Key people | (chairman) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Costco | Key people | Ron Vachris | 1.00 | infobox |
| Costco | Key people | (president and CEO) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Costco | Members | 145.2 million (2025) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Costco | Net income | US$8.1 billion (2025) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Costco | Number of employees | 341,000 (2025) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Costco | Number of locations | 924 (2026) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Costco | Operating income | US$10.4 billion (2025) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Costco | Revenue | US$275.2 billion (2025) | 1.00 | infobox |
The concept neighborhoods around Costco bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Warehouses, Warehouse and Store. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
For Costco, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Costco with Controversies. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
TTTA analyzes the structure around Costco to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Geography, Companies & Products, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
Source: Wikipedia — Costco · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout