Nordstrom vs Costco
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Premium US department store with $15B revenue taken private by Nordstrom family in 2025; full-line and Rack off-price stores with exceptional service competing in premium fashion.
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Nordstrom is a leading US fashion retailer offering premium apparel, footwear, beauty, and accessories through approximately 350 Nordstrom and Nordstrom Rack (off-price) locations and a strong e-commerce business. Founded in 1901 in Seattle, Washington by John W. Nordstrom as a shoe store and listed on NYSE until being taken private by the Nordstrom family in 2025 (a long-discussed go-private transaction), Nordstrom generates approximately $15 billion in annual revenue.
NASDAQ: COST warehouse club at $249.6B FY2024 revenue with 73.4M cardholders and $50B+ Kirkland Signature; 90%+ renewal rate with $65/$130 membership fee competing with Sam's Club for warehouse retail.
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Costco Wholesale Corporation is an Issaquah, Washington-based membership warehouse club — listed on NASDAQ (NASDAQ: COST) — operating 897 warehouse locations globally (as of mid-2025) across the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Japan, Korea, Australia, Spain, France, China, and Iceland, providing paid members (73.4 million cardholders representing 136.8 million authorized users as of fiscal year end 2024) with bulk merchandise, groceries, electronics, appliances, tires, optical services, pharmacy, and the Kirkland Signature private label brand at prices consistently below traditional retail channels. Costco generated $249.6 billion in total revenue in fiscal year 2024 (ended September 2024, +5% year-over-year), with membership fee revenue of $4.83 billion providing the financial foundation that enables Costco's famously low product margins.
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