Costco "Home" Experiment Flops

So much for the idea of having separate Costco stores for home furnishings: the company just announced they'll be closing their two home stores in Kirkland and Tempe, Arizona this summer. The whole point of Costco, in our experience, is that all the great wholesale deals are under one roof. We can buy exorbitantly large bags of frozen potstickers, twelve-pound sacks of Jolly Ranchers, the latest Harry Potter book, a new shelving system, a couch, and a diamond tennis bracelet for our beloved, all in the same fluorescent-lit warehouse for cheaper than just about anywhere else, and then we can go home and cry over our debit card balance. Lesson learned, right, Costco?

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By Katelyn in News on April 2, 2009 1:00 PM

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smastrong

Sorry, BGF, but I beg to differ. The vast majority of Costco Home's furnishings were so cheesily ornate and fugly--so nouveau rich and faux Tuscan and so pre-recessiontasticly fit for the McMansions of the nineties and the oughts.

Well, to be fair, they did have a "contemporary" & "clean" line that wasn't so bad and the big & hypocritcal truth is that our rec room couch came from there. It is super comfy and it was cheap! It is so not fabulous; but inexpensive and comfy fit the bill.

The crazy thing about the furniture was that it was made for giants. It never looked very big in the warehouse environment and then you put it in a normal sized house and it took up the whole room.

The designers clearly ate from the wrong side of the mushroom!

BigGreenFrank

Loved Costco Home.

I got my awesome leather couch there for way less than it would have cost somewhere else.

I'm gonna chalk this up to recession stuff.