Contact Costco
 

For those of you who are interested in letting Costco know that we Villagers are looking forward to having a store located here, I have an email address for you.

A neighbor on the "NextDoor" forum has been in contact with Costco and has been persistent enough to find out who to communicate with.

Email Robin at this email address, "w01026mkt04@costco dot com". She has has responded and thus far over 50 Villagers have emailed her regarding our desire to have a store here. (I put the quotes and the 'dot com' in so that this does not get xxxxx'ed out by the powers that be.)

Robin is passing the emails on to the head of the real estate dept. to be sure that they get in the right hands. She recently replied that she was surprised to get so many letters of interest and to keep sending them in.

So there you go! Email Robin and let Costco know that this will be a great market for them!

Just sent an email. Hope it helps.

I tried sending using this email and the address was rejected?

Same here

Sent. Hope it helps!

I sent them a detailed e-mail outlining stats, etc...hope it helps!

I've tried 4 times now. Can one of you that was successful share how you did it? WWW.-------------------.com. Please fill in

I just sent an e-mail and it went. You must that out the "" and the dot.com must be .com I hope it helps. We have been members of Costco since 1987. There are a lot more Costco's in Ca. and not many Sam's. I sure hope a new Costco in The Villages is possible.

You don't go to a website to contact Robin. You email her. The email address is as posted in my first post. It ends in .com I have seen the moderators block out email addresses when posted. so I spelled out the .com.

Hope that makes sense.

It would be wonderful if a Costco opened in TV. Living here in the Kirkland, WA area it seems like we have a Costco on every corner. I’m at a Costco almost daily. I do have an acquaintance that works in the upper offices of Costco and a few years ago we were talking about the lack of a Costco in N. FL. As I recall he said it really isn’t rocket science. They look at population and median income. The reason he gave for no Costco in Destin/Pensacola area - seasonal population. I don’t know the reasons for no Costco in TV but I suspect seasonal population may be a factor.

Since I live in Costco country I can’t say I’ve ever seen or shopped at a Sam’s Club, but isn’t it the same thing?

Costco is over priced and since they are raising employees wages you can be sure the burden will be transferred to customers

I shop both SAMs and costco weekly. I find that both have something higher priced than the other. Both carry different items that I can only get at one or the other. Costco wages have paid for many part time employees to keep their daughters and sons in dance. For those who are not in that loop a competitive dancers lessons for one year starts at $17,000. If Costco is giving them a raise good for them. I have not had a raise for 5 years in a hospital.

Costco and Sam's are NOT the same!

Issue #1.
I bought 2 pair of prescription glasses at Sam's recently. Luckily they have a 30 day return policy. I bought a pair of sunglasses and a regular pair of glasses. With my vision insurance from Medicare it was just over $800.00 total. I was surprised at how high they were, but I bought progressive lens and they aren't cheap. The frames were about $90.00 each.

While in Costco in Orlando I went by the optical dept just to check out their selection of frames and prices. I ended up buying repeating my purchases at Costco. The price difference was unbelievable! Both sunglasses and regular glasses, both with progressive lens, high index, anti-glare, scratch resistant etc was under $400.00 !!!

Both stores had a "buy 2 pair get $30 off" deal so that was a non issue.

I was shocked that the price was more than double at Sam's!! The day I received my Costco glasses I returned the glasses to Sam's. I am so glad that I thought to check the price at Costco. That $400+ savings goes a long way.......

Issue #2.
Every time we are in Sam's, customer service is an issue. The registers at the self service lines are down, not enough registers are open and lines are incredibly slow. They have frequent computer issues, glitches, freezing etc.

They also do not have enough help and the attitudes from employees are not the customer service oriented attitude that Costco has. Costco has an environment of excellent customer service.

In Utah we had 4 Costco warehouses within a 10 mile radius. We took them for granted. Always convenient and available. Man, I sure do miss them here!!

Hopefully we will have one here soon. When you move you will quickly realize that Sam's is a very disappointing imitation of Costco. We find ourselves in Orlando at Costco much more than we would like.

After moving from Utah where we had 4 Costco warehouses within a 10 mile radius, we really miss our Costcos. Hopefully they will realize the potential of a store here.

Please send an email!

If you like Sam's shop at Sam's. Bottom line is that Costco quality is far superior to Sam's. Basically Sam's is just another WalMart.

Just sent an email as well. Encourage others to do the same

tnlakepanda: Wow what's up here people are taking this too personal.
No matter what grocery store, you will always find some prices lower and some higher when comparing stores. its a given and its why my professional shopping wife spends hours and hours studying prices. she's impressive and many a clerk and even manager compliment her on her shopping acumen.

Secondly I am not against increasing wages that is not what I said. what I said is that those higher wages will be transfer to the customer....name just one business that does not transfer some of their operating expenses to their consumer.

Finally I am not one inclined on defending or holding brand loyalty for the most part but I am inclined to compare in order to gain utility for my dollar
And yes I am aware that there are people who understand everything about price and nothing about value but again that is not what I am say beside which it often is highly subjective because its one's perception only.

I am sorry if I hurt someone's feelings that is never my intention.

Personal Best Regards:

I just emailed them. Sure hope it helps!

Dottie,

My wife and I each bought two pair of progressive eyeglasses from Sams, and paid about double what we used to pay at Costco back home. Even worse, we each needed lenses replaced within the return period. We never needed the Costco lenses replaced. While we can't justify the trip to Altamonte Springs for regular shopping, in the future we will go there for eyeglasses and major electronics.

BTW - I just sent an email to Robin.

Sent e mail to robin. I truly hope we get a Costco here or closer to the villages. I recently heard a rumor that a Costco is being built near Russell Stover, is this just a rumor or is there some truth to it? Thanks. Kathy

Take out the word dot and replace it with a .

We currently belong to both Sam's and B.J.'s. There are one or two items we like at each, and we find ourselves in Clermont somewhat regularly, so stopping at either one is not a hardship.

We gave up our Costco membership simply because I could not justify having memberships at all three. A friend of ours recently needed the use of our large Town and Country to pick up some items at Costco, so I went with them.

Each one has their strengths and weaknesses. I was disappointed at not finding a few things at Costco when I was there that I thought they would surely have. It would be ideal to have all three close, as it would promote competition, etc.

I think we will surely downsize our memberships and stick with one, as I cannot justify having all three or even two memberships. One has to buy a lot of stuff to offset the membership

The crazy thing is that when I got my Costco membership it was to buy a special order Pergola kit. I could have bought the kit directly from the manufacturer, but they themselves told me their Costco price was hundreds cheaper for the exact same thing. It was drop shipped right to my home, so I did not even need to go to Costco to buy it...just had to have the membership. Even with the membership cost I saved hundreds on the Pergola.

Choices are almost always a good thing. Frank

Personally, I would rather have a BJs close by. We've been members for several years and have saved quite a bit over that time. We did belong to Sam's, but dropped it after one year - not worth the hassle of the crowds and thought their selections weren't all that great.

Like Frank, we are near Clermont at least once a month so we stop at the BJs there. We also have a college student son over in Melbourne and stop by that location when we are over there. Our experience has been that BJs carries what we buy and their stores, both here and up north, seem considerably cleaner to us.

Just cancelled my membership after costco cancelled a option to build closer to me. Will stick with bjs.

For those of you that love Costco and still have a membership you can buy almost anything from their store at Google Express and have your entire order shipped for $4.99. Right to your doorstep. They also have online ordering right from Costco.com. Not sure about their shipping costs...

The Raleigh NC area is just getting its second Costco and the county (Wake) has just under a million people. I don't know what kind of population density they require before building.

Make sure you use the email address w01026mkt04@costco.com

We too would really like it if Costco came to the villages. I emailed Robin and I suggested that Costco begin adapting to the changing population of the US. It's time for a Costco Silver store. We don't need baby diapers or family sized cereal boxes but we still buy meats, electronics, and lots of pharmaceutical products and wine. We'd be a great place for the first Costco Silver store which would be a model for others near large retirement communities. If some of you have ideas that might make such a store profitable and convenient pass them along. At some point the higher ups at Costco might think that they just thought of a great idea....Costco Silver.:a040:

Robin is an old friend of mine that I reconnected with at a home show in Tallahassee Florida several weeks ago. With my calls to headquarters and finding that our calls and emails were not going to the people that make decisions at Costco, robin said she would coordinate our email requests and get them to where they need to go at the Costco headquarters. So I'm hopeful with Robin that our voice as one will not go unnoticed. She has asked that we keep on sending her emails so she can bundle them and send them on to corporate. Robin has relatives in the villages and loves this place so she is an advocate as well. If you are In contact with residents in the surround areas such as mount Dora and leesberg please have them put email requests in as well. Together, we have a chance to make this happen. Thank you everyone!

Let's form a Costco Club.

REALLY? We had memberships to both Sam's and Costco back in Cincinnati and eventually dropped ours to Costco. To me....there isn't a nickle's worth of difference in what they sell overall. One will offer an item you want that the other doesn't have occasionally but they both have a big pencil, i.e. enormous buying power, and that causes their item's to be bargains most of the time.


I think that the amount that the workers are paid is the issue with a lot of people. When I shop, I look for price and quality and am just glad the workers have a job.

I find the distribution of Costco stores in FL to be interesting. There are 3 in the Orlando area, 5 down the west coast from Clearwater to Fort Meyers, 1 in Jacksonville (actually in an affluent area of St. John's county) and 1 in Tallahassee. There are none along the southeast coast. They open a limited number of new stores each year and I wonder if we have the demographics to compete with other areas around the country. While I would like to see Costco come to the south side of The Villages, I am not holding my breath. BTW, Sam's Club has 4x the number of locations in FL.

We would love to have a Costco near by. Oxford, Wildwood or Belleview would be great for us villages.
Thank you,
William Madison

Best Warehouse Store: BJ

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Having shopped at both for many years, I would take Costco, hands down over Sam's.

I tried using this email and it comes back as an error. If you send corrected email, I will send my request,
Thanks!!

I have been a member of Costco for over 35 years
 

Been going to Costco for in Calif and AZ for over 35 years and love the store. We need one here in the Villages. Talked to over 40 friends and they would desire one also.:bigbow:

Need Costco here NOW!!! Sam's Club doesn't fit the bill.

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