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)

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The Costco Connection, Free Latest Digital Issue

FEATURES
19 Financial freeze frame
For Warren Buffet’s biography, The Snowball, writer Alice Schroeder was allowed unprecedented access to the billionaire’s very private life.
BY CHRIS PENTTILA

25 Bearly human
Teddy Ruxpin, the robotic bear and arguably the most popular toy in the universe, makes a triumphant return.
BY J. RENTILLY

27 Night shines
Director M. Night Shyamalan talks about the arc that has brought him from The Sixth Sense to his latest film, The Happening.
BY WILL FIFIELD

29 Book Pick: The Brass Verdict
With 20 bestselling books, Michael Connelly continues to please his fans with inventive, characterdriven crime fiction.
BY STEVE FISHER

41 The lady sails
A transatlantic voyage on Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 is like taking a trip through a more refined era.
BY ERIC TAUB

43 One for all and all-in-one
All-inclusive vacations are one way (and a fun way) to keep travel costs down.
BY T. FOSTER JONES

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Cover Story: Corporate Comic Classic
FOR TWO DECADES, Dilbert, the bespectacled engineer with the upturned tie and no mouth, and his entourage of office misfits have kept us laughing and cringing about life on the corporate cubicle farm. How has Scott Adams kept his creation current, and where will Dilbert go from here? BY TIM TALEVICH

THE BEST COMEDY is often painfully funny. That’s the case with Dilbert, the phenomenally popular comic strip that examines life in the workplace through a cast of amusing characters. In 2009, Dilbert turns 20, and creator Scott Adams is releasing a book, Dilbert 2.0: 20 Years of Dilbert (see “How Dilbert came to be”).

In appropriate Dilbert fashion, The Connection conducted an exclusive interview via e-mail with Adams, a Costco member, while the boss wasn’t looking. ...

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