Costco September Sales Up 9%

September was a busy month for Costco as the warehouse club reported company-wide sales growth of 9% to $22.59 billion. This covers a five-week period that ended October 6.

In the year’s ninth month, company-wide comparable store sales (excluding gasoline and foreign exchange) were up 8.9%. Same-store sales at Costco stores in the U.S. were up 9.3%, up 6.3% in Canada, and up 9.6% Internationally. E-commerce comparable store sales were up 22.9%.

Company officials said the month’s total and comparable sales for the retail month of September benefitted by approximately 2% in the U.S. and 1.5% worldwide as a result of the increased sales in the final week of the month due to abnormal consumer activity associated with Hurricane Helene and port strikes.

Costco currently operates 891 warehouses, including 614 in the United States and Puerto Rico, 108 in Canada, 40 in Mexico, 35 in Japan, 29 in the United Kingdom, 19 in Korea, 15 in Australia, 14 in Taiwan, seven in China, five in Spain, two in France, and one each in Iceland, New Zealand and Sweden. Costco also operates e-commerce sites in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Mexico, Korea, Taiwan, Japan and Australia.