{"schema_version":1,"domain":"costco.com","display_name":"Costco","url":"https://cobroker.ai/market/costco.com","location_count":3168,"location_unit":"US index records","as_of":{"iso":"2026-07-09","label":"Q3 2026"},"since":{"iso":"2024-11-19","label":"Q4 2024"},"window_quarters":8,"net_new":null,"growth_pct":null,"verified_openings":null,"latest_quarter":null,"segment":"Discount & Value","segment_id":"value","category_full":"Retail > Warehouse or Wholesale Store","entity_class":"chain","caveats":["The index files Costco's departments and facilities as separate records — pharmacy, fuel, optical, service and charging points each count as a location — so the record count is not a store count. Net new stores, growth and the quarterly pace are withheld rather than published in a unit they were not measured in."],"source_note":"Counts are quarterly observations of Cobroker's US location index (8 quarterly observations, Q4 2024 to Q3 2026). Openings are counted from individually verified store openings rather than from the quarter-over-quarter difference in the index's record count, and every count reflects what the index observed on that date, so a figure can lag a chain's own reporting."}