Costco: number of warehouses 2021, by country

Costco, the warehouse shopping club, continued to grow in 2020 with 828 locations worldwide at year’s end. The U.S. is still home to the vast majority of the American retailer’s warehouses, but it has expanded into 11 other markets. With the expansion in store count comes an increase of members, and at the end of 2021 Costco could boast over 111 million cardholders. Costco is headquartered in Washington state in the United States and opened its first warehouse in Seattle in 1983. Today, the company is the second largest retailer in the world, behind only Walmart. In 2021, the company had net sales of over 192 billion U.S. dollars and a brand value of over 28 billion.