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Originally Posted by goodgrowth
There are lots of cities well below 250,000 that have a Costco. (ie Medicine Hat, Courtenay, Fredericton, Kamloops...etc)
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I know, but Costco stores tend to draw from a large regional base, and they tend to look at regional population statistics. Based on purely urban populations, NB shouldn't have any Costco stores,
but regionally it makes sense. The Moncton store serves northern & eastern NB, Cumberland County NS and PEI. The Saint John store services southern NB from Sussex to the US border. The Fredericton store services the capital region and western NB.
PEI is deemed too small because the provincial population is less than 160,000 (although I think Costco would do well there). Cape Breton is similar. Since both PEI and CB are islands however, they are deemed to have no hinterlands, therefore Costco does no factor regional populations into their equations.