{"id":950012,"date":"2026-04-08T16:20:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/costco-wholesale-corporation-reports-march-sales-results-2\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T16:20:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:20:20","slug":"costco-wholesale-corporation-reports-march-sales-results-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/costco-wholesale-corporation-reports-march-sales-results-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Costco Wholesale Corporation Reports March Sales Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mw_release\">\n<p align=\"justify\">ISSAQUAH, Wash., April  08, 2026  (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) &#8212; Costco Wholesale Corporation (\u201cCostco\u201d or the \u201cCompany\u201d) (Nasdaq: COST) today reported net sales of $28.41 billion for the retail month of March, the five weeks ended April 5, 2026, an increase of 11.3 percent from $25.51 billion last year.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Net sales for the first 31 weeks were $173.26 billion, an increase of 9.1 percent from $158.87 billion last year.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Comparable sales for the periods ended April 5, 2026, were as follows:<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width:80%;border-collapse:collapse\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"max-width:49%;width:49%;min-width:49%;text-align: justify;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"max-width:25%;width:25%;min-width:25%;border-bottom: solid black 1pt;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">5 Weeks<\/td>\n<td style=\"max-width:1%;width:1%;min-width:1%;text-align: justify;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"max-width:25%;width:25%;min-width:25%;border-bottom: solid black 1pt;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">31 Weeks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">U.S.<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding-right: 0;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">8.7%<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding-right: 0;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">6.3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">Canada<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding-right: 0;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">10.7%<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding-right: 0;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">8.8%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">Other International<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding-right: 0;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">11.9%<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding-right: 0;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">10.9%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">Total Company<\/td>\n<td style=\"border-bottom: double black 3pt;padding-right: 0;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">9.4%<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"border-bottom: double black 3pt;padding-right: 0;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">7.2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">\n            <br \/>Digitally-Enabled<\/td>\n<td style=\"border-top: double black 3pt;border-bottom: double black 3pt;padding-right: 0;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">23.3%<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"border-top: double black 3pt;border-bottom: double black 3pt;padding-right: 0;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">22.0%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p align=\"start\">Comparable sales excluding the impacts from changes in gasoline prices and foreign exchange were as follows:<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width:80%;border-collapse:collapse\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"max-width:49%;width:49%;min-width:49%;text-align: justify;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"max-width:25%;width:25%;min-width:25%;border-bottom: solid black 1pt;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">5 Weeks<\/td>\n<td style=\"max-width:1%;width:1%;min-width:1%;text-align: justify;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"max-width:25%;width:25%;min-width:25%;border-bottom: solid black 1pt;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">31 Weeks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">U.S.<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding-right: 0;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">6.2%<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding-right: 0;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">6.1%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">Canada<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding-right: 0;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">5.4%<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding-right: 0;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">7.8%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">Other International<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding-right: 0;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">6.6%<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding-right: 0;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">6.6%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">Total Company<\/td>\n<td style=\"border-bottom: double black 3pt;padding-right: 0;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">6.2%<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"border-bottom: double black 3pt;padding-right: 0;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">6.4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">\n            <br \/>Digitally-Enabled<\/td>\n<td style=\"border-top: double black 3pt;border-bottom: double black 3pt;padding-right: 0;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">22.5%<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: justify;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"border-top: double black 3pt;border-bottom: double black 3pt;padding-right: 0;text-align: center;vertical-align: middle;vertical-align: bottom\">21.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: bottom\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: bottom\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: bottom\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: bottom\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p align=\"justify\">March had one less shopping day versus last year, due to the calendar shift of Easter. This negatively impacted both total and comparable sales by approximately one and one-half percent.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Additional discussion of these results is available in a pre-recorded message. It can be accessed by visiting investor.costco.com (click on \u201cEvents &amp; Presentations\u201d). This message will be available through 4:00 p.m. (PT) on Wednesday, April 15, 2026. <br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <br \/>Costco currently operates 928 warehouses, including 637 in the United States and Puerto Rico, 115 in Canada, 42 in Mexico, 37 in Japan, 29 in the United Kingdom, 20 in Korea, 15 in Australia, 14 in Taiwan, seven in China, five in Spain, three in France, two in Sweden, and one each in Iceland, and New Zealand. Costco also operates e-commerce sites in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Mexico, Korea, Taiwan, Japan and Australia.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Certain statements contained in this document and the pre-recorded message constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. For these purposes, forward-looking statements are statements that address activities, events, conditions or developments that the Company expects or anticipates may occur in the future. In some cases forward-looking statements can be identified because they contain words such as \u201canticipate,\u201d \u201cbelieve,\u201d \u201ccontinue,\u201d \u201ccould,\u201d \u201cestimate,\u201d \u201cexpect,\u201d \u201cintend,\u201d \u201clikely,\u201d \u201cmay,\u201d \u201cmight,\u201d \u201cplan,\u201d \u201cpotential,\u201d \u201cpredict,\u201d \u201cproject,\u201d \u201cseek,\u201d \u201cshould,\u201d \u201ctarget,\u201d \u201cwill,\u201d \u201cwould,\u201d or similar expressions and the negatives of those terms. Such forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual events, results or performance to differ materially from those indicated by such statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, domestic and international economic conditions, including exchange rates, inflation or deflation, the effects of competition and regulation, uncertainties in the financial markets, consumer and small business spending patterns and debt levels, breaches of security or privacy of member or business information, conditions affecting the acquisition, development, ownership or use of real estate, capital spending, actions of vendors, rising costs associated with employees (generally including health-care costs and wages), workforce interruptions, energy and certain commodities, geopolitical conditions (including tariffs and global conflicts), the ability to maintain effective internal control over financial reporting, regulatory and other impacts related to environmental and social matters, public-health related factors, and other risks identified from time to time in the Company\u2019s public statements and reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made, and the Company does not undertake to update these statements, except as required by law. Comparable sales and comparable sales excluding impacts from changes in gasoline prices and foreign exchange are intended as supplemental information and are not a substitute for net sales presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width:99%;border-collapse:collapse\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"max-width:11%;width:11%;min-width:11%\">CONTACTS:<\/td>\n<td style=\"max-width:89%;width:89%;min-width:89%\">Costco Wholesale Corporation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>Josh Dahmen, 425\/313-8254<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00a0<\/td>\n<td>Andrew Yoon, 425\/313-6305<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p align=\"justify\">COST-Sales<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"__GNW8366DE3E__IMG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/newsroom\/ti?nf=OTY4NjI2NiM3NTI1NTUyIzIwMDg1OTA=\" \/><br \/>\n      <br \/>\n      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ml.globenewswire.com\/media\/YTY4Y2UwZGEtZjZiZS00OGQ4LWJkZGMtN2UzZjg0OWVmNjhhLTEwMjAxNjMtMjAyNi0wNC0wOC1lbg==\/tiny\/Costco-Wholesale-Corporation.png\" \/>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"mw_contactinfo\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISSAQUAH, Wash., April 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) &#8212; Costco Wholesale Corporation (\u201cCostco\u201d or the \u201cCompany\u201d) (Nasdaq: COST) today reported net sales of $28.41 billion for the retail month of March, the five weeks ended April 5, 2026, an increase of 11.3 percent from $25.51 billion last year. Net sales for the first 31 weeks were $173.26 billion, an increase of 9.1 percent from $158.87 billion last year. Comparable sales for the periods ended April 5, 2026, were as follows: \u00a0 5 Weeks \u00a0 31 Weeks U.S. 8.7% \u00a0 6.3% Canada 10.7% \u00a0 8.8% Other International 11.9% \u00a0 10.9% \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Total Company 9.4% \u00a0 7.2% Digitally-Enabled 23.3% \u00a0 22.0% \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Comparable sales excluding the impacts &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/costco-wholesale-corporation-reports-march-sales-results-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Costco Wholesale Corporation Reports March Sales Results&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-950012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Costco Wholesale Corporation Reports March Sales Results - Market Newsdesk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/costco-wholesale-corporation-reports-march-sales-results-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Costco Wholesale Corporation Reports March Sales Results - Market Newsdesk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ISSAQUAH, Wash., April 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) &#8212; Costco Wholesale Corporation (\u201cCostco\u201d or the \u201cCompany\u201d) (Nasdaq: COST) today reported net sales of $28.41 billion for the retail month of March, the five weeks ended April 5, 2026, an increase of 11.3 percent from $25.51 billion last year. 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