12-03-2015, 12:29 AM
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Originally posted by terracore
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...
As I recall, Walmart tried to build a supercenter and a Sams Club in the lot where Target built. This was probably in 2007-08. The county council passed an ordinance limiting big box stores to a size and number of items that only Walmart exceeded. The lot was in homelands property so the ordinance did not apply. Walmart decided not to build anyway because of the opposition and the financial crisis.