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Originally Posted by MonctonRad
That's a lot of Costco's! I had heard that Costco looks for a base population of about 250,000 before establishing a new store, which makes sense because NB has three Costco stores for 780,000 people.
Given Edmonton's population, I could see five, possibly six Costco stores but eight?? Edmontonians must be big into shopping for the apocalypse........  |
I wouldn’t take that as a solid rule at all. Orillia has one in Ontario with only 50,000 people. I think that one works though as it’s the closest Costco to cottage country which has an absolutely massive summer population.
Hamilton has 2 meanwhile with nearly 600,000 people, and one of them only opened a couple years ago. There is another one in Burlington as well which is actually closer than the two in Hamilton for a lot of locations in the city though. So I guess 3 Costco’s for a metro area of 800,000.