Costco (NASDAQ:COST) has not raised membership fees in the United States and Canada since November 2011, and CFO RIchard Galanti hinted during its Q1 earnings call in December 2016 that an increase was coming this year.Those hints will become reality on June 1.
The warehouse club said in its Q2 2017 earnings release that it will increase annual membership fees by $5 in the United States and Canada for all its basic “Gold Star” individual and business memberships. That raises the cost of those plans to $60.
In addition, the company will increase the cost for its Executive....More>>>