The Costco Connection: a Lifestyle Magazine for Costco Members.

Costco Connection is a magazine sent free to members of the warehouse club Costco and includes articles which regularly tie into the corporation along with business, political, health, and social articles. (Wikipedia.org)

The monthly Online Edition combines a replica of the print version with bonus content. Cover stories and popular features such as Buying Smart are extended with supplemental material. This electronic version makes the magazine easy to find, print and share articles with family and friends.

Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ: COST) is the largest membership warehouse club chain in the world based on sales volume, headquartered in Issaquah, Washington, United States, with its flagship warehouse in nearby Seattle. Costco's Canadian operations are based near Ottawa, Ontario, and Vancouver, British Columbia.

Costco Wholesale Corporation (Costco) operates membership warehouses based on the concept that offering its members very low prices on a limited selection of nationally branded and selected private-label products in a range of merchandise categories will produce high sales volumes and rapid inventory turnover. It buys the majority of its merchandise directly from manufacturers and route it to a cross-docking consolidation point (depot) or directly to its warehouses.

The Company’s depots receive container-based shipments from manufacturers and reallocate these goods for shipment to its individual warehouses, generally in less than twenty-four hours. The Company’s warehouse format averages approximately 140,000 square feet; newer units tend to be larger. Its warehouses operate on a seven-day, 69-hour week. It carries an average of approximately 4,000 active stockkeeping units (SKUs) per warehouse in its core warehouse business. (Google Finance)

Cover Story: Franchise Enterprise
While by no means risk free, franchising can offer a shortcut to business success
By Will Fifield

After a decade-long career in the film and video industry, a frustrated Geraldine Smythe, a Costco member in Austin, Texas, finally threw in the towel.

The final straw came in 2004, when, after a year of exceeding quotas in a sales position, she was “rewarded” with a cap on her commissions, significantly cutting her salary. “At that point, I thought I’d better go to work for myself before I blew a gasket,” Smythe says. ...

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25 Dare to live
Too many people let fear get in the way of living, says Dr. Ben Carson. He hopes to help change that.
BY HOPE KATZ GIBBS

27 Book Beat:
Martin Luther King Jr. lives on Capturing the civil rights movement in words and music.
BY GLORIA BLAKELY

29 Book Beat: Writing Mamas
Dawn Yun finds time to nurture her child and other mothers.
BY STEPHANIE E. PONDER

30 Book Pick: Reading historic minds
Novelist Adam Braver conjures the thoughts of Abe Lincoln and others around the president.
BY CHRIS PENTTILA

35 Talkin’ ‘bout my generator
A home generator has to be treated with respect and an eye to safety.
BY WILL FIFIELD

35 Get floored
Tips on buying new home flooring.

41 It was a very good year
The 2005 Bordeaux are being touted as among the best in decades.
BY ANNETTE ALVAREZ-PETERS

43 Tripping the world fantastic
Travel can broaden minds and help bring people closer together.
BY RICK STEVES

44 Dream a little SeaDream
Imagine being one of just 100 lucky passengers on a Costco-membersonly privately chartered yacht.
BY RALPH GRIZZLE

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