On the Record · Costco
Costco competitors, on the record
The companies Costco names as competitors in its annual reports, 2023 to 2026, and the companies that name Costco, each with the sentence and the filing.
Who Costco names
| Company | Named in |
|---|---|
| Amazon | 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 |
| BJ’s Wholesale Club | 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 |
| Kroger | 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 |
| Sam’s Club | 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 |
| Target | 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 |
| Walmart | 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 |
In its own words
Amazon, Kroger, Target, Walmart
Word for word“Walmart, Target, Kroger, and Amazon are among our significant general merchandise retail competitors in the U.S.” 10-K for 2026
BJ’s Wholesale Club, Sam’s Club
Word for word“We also compete with other warehouse clubs, including Walmart’s Sam’s Club and BJ’s Wholesale Club in the U.S.” 10-K for 2026
Who names Costco
Companies whose own annual reports name Costco as a competitor.
Word for word“Sam's Club competes with other membership-only warehouse clubs, the largest of which is Costco, as well as with discount retailers, retail and wholesale grocers, general merchandise wholesalers and distributors, gasoline stations as well as omni-channel and eCommerce retailers and catalog businesses.” 10-K for 2024
Word for word“In particular, dollar stores (such as Family Dollar and Dollar General) and pharmacies (such as CVS and Walgreens) now sell snacks, beer and wine and other products that have traditionally been sold by convenience stores, while grocery and large warehouse stores (such as Costco and Wal-Mart) sell fuel adjacent to their stores.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“The Company competes with mass merchandisers, such as Costco, Target and Wal-Mart.” 10-K for 2019
Word for word“Currently, we compete against a diverse group of retailers, including national mass merchants such as Wal-Mart, Target, Sam’s Club, and Costco, specialized national retailers such as Best Buy, Ashley Furniture and Mattress Firm, home improvement stores such as Lowe’s and Home Depot, and locally-owned regional or independent retail specialty stores that sell furniture and mattresses, home appliances, and consumer electronics similar, and often identical, to those items we sell.” 10-K for 2024
Word for word“We see discount retailers of consumable products, which include Costco, WinCo, Target, Trader Joe's, Aldi and Lidl, as competitors given their broad product offerings at low prices relative to conventional grocery stores.” 10-K for 2026
Word for word“We also face competition from mass-market retail competitors, such as Walmart and Costco, who devote shelf space to merchandise and products targeted to our consumers, as well as online mass-market retailers such as Amazon, who devote online categories to merchandise and products targeted to our consumers.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“Our principal market is in the United States, where we compete with retail stores and resellers, including superstores such as Best Buy, Costco and Walmart, hardware and software vendors that sell directly to end users, online retailers such as Amazon, and other marketers and resellers of IT/CE products.” 20-F for 2025
Word for word“Our markets are highly competitive and we compete locally, domestically and internationally with office supply resellers, including Staples, Internet-based companies such as Amazon, mass merchandisers such as Walmart and Target, wholesale clubs such as Costco, Sam’s Club and BJs, computer and electronics superstores such as Best Buy, food and drug stores, discount stores, and direct marketing companies.” 10-K for 2024
Word for word“Our Hawaii competitors include the Shell, Texaco, Costco, Safeway, and Sam’s Club national brands, regional brand Aloha, and other local retailers.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“Our properties compete with other forms of retailing such as pure online retail websites as well as other types of retail properties such as single user freestanding discounters (Costco, Walmart and Target).” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“Our principal competitors include conventional grocers such as Albertson's/Safeway and Kroger, warehouse clubs and discounters such as Costco and Aldi, mass merchandisers such as Walmart and Target, foodservice delivery companies such as Sysco and US Foods, online retailers such as Amazon, as well as other specialty stores.” 10-K for 2018
Word for word“We also compete with online retailers such as Amazon.com, mass merchants such as Walmart and Target, warehouse clubs such as Costco, computer and electronics retail stores such as Best Buy, specialty technology stores such as Apple, print and marketing businesses such as FedEx Office, and a wide range of other retailers, including grocery stores, drug stores, discount retailers, and traditional office supply retail stores.” 10-K for 2017
Word for word“Some of the Company's principal competitors include Acme, Aldi, Amazon/Whole Foods, BJs, Costco, Foodtown, Giant, Kings, Lidl, Safeway, Stop & Shop, Target, Trader Joe's, Walmart, Wegmans and Weis.” 10-K for 2026
Read from Costco’s annual reports (10-K for 2026, 10-K for 2025, 10-K for 2024, 10-K for 2023) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2026-10-07. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.