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Non-Tech : Costco, slow but sure? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zhivago who wrote (916)	8/18/1999 5:29:00 PM
From: Mel Fox	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1147

All: This is just an excerpt from the link on the previous post. Wal-mart, the largest name in U.S. supermarkets, currently operates around 100 gasoline units in the Southeast and plans to open 45 more in the near term. Idaho-based Albertson's, which owns over 1,000 U.S. supermarkets, aims to build 600 gasoline stations in the next five years. And California-based Costco (Nasdaq:COST - news) plans 100 gasoline outlets by 2001, just to name a few. I would have thought Costco, with their large land size locations would be a natural to have gas stations almost at every store! I wonder if self-service states will bear the brunt or fruit of the "Hypermarket" stations as opposed to the state I reside in ... Oregon, which is anti-self service for the time being. Mel