Costco Wholesale Corporation

Costco Wholesale Corp (COST.O) posted a higher quarterly profit as it sold more gasoline and got a boost from stronger foreign currencies. The largest U.S. warehouse club earned $324 million, or 73 cents a share, in its fiscal third quarter ended May 8,...

Shoppers appeared to be more cautious last month in spending for clothing and other items as rising gas and food prices took up a bigger chunk of their disposable income. Major retail chains reported a modest 4.9% gain in sales......

Wal-Mart Stores Inc will argue on Tuesday that the U.S. Supreme Court should halt the largest class-action sex-discrimination lawsuit in history by female employees who seek billions of dollars. The female employees will counter that their lawsuit should...

Borders Group Inc filed for bankruptcy protection and said it would close about one-third of its bookstores - including both in the New Orleans area - after years of shriveling sales that made it impossible to manage its crushing debt load. The long-...

Retail sales Retailers posted surprisingly solid August sales numbers thanks to heavy discounts during the back-to-school season, which drove healthy levels of traffic and sales. Tax-free holidays that were held in several states in August provided an...

Bravo Farms Dutch Style Gouda cheese, (Costco item 40654) offered for sale and in cheese sampling events at Costco Wholesale Corp. locations is preliminarily linked with an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections. Consumers who have any of this cheese...

Attention car owners: Looking for cheaper gas in Lincoln Park? Costco may become a new option. Reuters has the story: Costco Wholesale Corp will soon start selling gasoline at its Chicago warehouse store, a move that should drive more sales even if it...

The California Public Employees' Retirement System, a fund with a long history of corporate-governance activism, is claiming significant success with a nearly year-old initiative to pressure companies in which it invests to elect directors only with...

Costco Wholesale Corp. and federal health officials are warning consumers that a cheese sold recently at Costco stores in five states has been preliminarily linked to an E. coli outbreak that has sickened 25 people. The Bravo Farms Dutch Style Raw Milk...