Costco has same-store success.(Business Today)
Home Textiles Today, May, 2004 by Hogsett, Don
ISSAQUAH, WASH. -- Helped by surging same-store sales, which climbed at a double-digit pace, Costco Warehouse Corp. drove third-quarter profits up almost a third, 29.2 percent, to $198.7 million from $153.8 million last year. Sales at the multi-national operator of membership warehouse clubs rose 14.2 percent, to $10.7 billion from $9.3 billion.
More importantly to the bottom line, same-store sales rocketed up 11 percent. Overall sales would have climbed modestly higher, 16 percent in the third quarter and 15 percent for the nine months, but for a change in the way the retailer accounts for vendor allowances. The new accounting change reduces net sales and merchandise costs by an equal amount, but has no impact on margins or the bottom line. ...
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