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The third-largest US warehouse chain is Costco (NASDAQ: COST) (and the ninth-largest in the world).
Despite being much behind Walmart, they only slightly outperform Kroger, who is in second position, in terms of turnover. Watford is home to their UK headquarters.
The company was founded by Jim Sinegal and Jeffrey Brotman who opened the first warehouse in Seattle, Washington in 1983.
In 2020, the company turned over $71.4bn upon which they made a profit of $1.8bn (2.5%). Costco employs 187,000 people in its 572 warehouses spread across the USA, Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico, UK, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Australia. Costco had just released sales figures for January 2021 which showed an increase of 12% from January 2020.
Costco operates the low-price, high sales volume business model with the majority of its goods being sold bulk-packaged. Many of these products are their own ‘Kirkland’ line, so-called after the original head office location of Kirkland, Washington. Costco also has a reputation for refusing to stock proprietary lines which either compete with their own brand or that they deem to be over-priced.
Costco Career Application Form Portal
The company website for the UK branch of Costco can be found here.
There is a link to ‘Career Opportunities’ at the very bottom on the left hand side. Clicking this goes to ‘Costco Job Opportunities’.
Once you are on the page then you start searching for the vacancies. You can use postcode, category and distance in the search.
The lack of reassurance that the jobs are still available and the need to sign in are two black marks on an otherwise very informative and clear site. The third is that no salaries were given. How many people are discouraged by this?
Costco Work Ethics
- Obey the law
- Take care of our members
- Take care of our employees
- Respect our suppliers
- Reward our Shareholders
The following job types are available at Costco:
- Automotive
- Business
- Butcher
- Cleaning and Facilities
- Customer Services
- Hospitality & Leisure
- Industrial
- Logistics & Transportation
- Manufacturing & Production
- Retail
- Services
- Tyre Fitter
- Warehouse
- Warehouse Assistant
The careers page states that Costco requires the following attributes in their employees so this is what they will be looking for you to demonstrate in your application:
- Ambition
- Commitment
- Energy
- Enjoy challenges and opportunities
- Integrity
- Service-oriented mentality
The company has a policy of recruiting from its own ranks so there is definite logic in getting a toe-hold with them and then looking around for a more lucrative/responsible position within the organization. This applies to all levels and not just on the shop floor.
In their own words:
Today, we have accountants, lawyers, buyers, and human resources personnel who began their careers as stockers or cashiers in our locations. We believe that Costco’s future officers are currently working in our warehouses, depots, and business centres, as well as in our Home and Regional Offices.
Costco offers its employees the following benefits package:
- Life Insurance:
- Salaried Employees
- Optical Benefit
- Dental Benefit
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Short-term medical disability for hourly employees
- Medical insurance for salaried employees
- Long-term disability plan for salaried employees
- Critical illness for salaried employees
- These are more details concerning Costco’s benefits.
Costco includes a timely warning about a fraud that has been occurring in their name. Apparently, phishers have been sending out bogus Costco job offers in order to either persuade victims to part with a ‘training’ or ‘registration’ fee or to obtain personal or bank details. Costco states very clearly that they never ‘head-hunt’ by email so, if you get such an offer and haven’t applied to them, just delete the email. If you are in doubt, get the relevant Costco phone number from their website and ring them. Don’t use any contact details on the email, of course!
The Costco website is very informative and has a good, no-nonsense navigation system. I also liked the ‘no-frills’ attitude as reflected in the absence of pointless Flash presentations and irrelevant shop advertising.
On the negative side, salaries are not mentioned, there are no specific vacancies described and the side navigation bar does not change for the jobs section such that ‘FAQs’ do not relate to jobs with Costco but are entire to do with collections, deliveries, payments and such like.