12-02-2015, 12:26 PM
My opinion is that Costco is not going to come here in the foreseeable future. Die hard Costco shoppers will make the drive to Kona. Costco knows that.
Sam's Club could happen. Or maybe if Sam's Club showed serious interest Costco would change their mind.
When the bowling alley was closed and mothballed I looked at all that juicy real estate that was the bowling alley, Cost-U-Less and those big parking lots and thought, if they bulldozed them both that could be a Costco. A Costco smack dab in the very center of the island's population center. Half the stuff that Cost-U-less sells is trucked over from Costco and marked up. Get rid of the middle man...
Sam's Club could happen. Or maybe if Sam's Club showed serious interest Costco would change their mind.
When the bowling alley was closed and mothballed I looked at all that juicy real estate that was the bowling alley, Cost-U-Less and those big parking lots and thought, if they bulldozed them both that could be a Costco. A Costco smack dab in the very center of the island's population center. Half the stuff that Cost-U-less sells is trucked over from Costco and marked up. Get rid of the middle man...