{"id":18673,"date":"2017-03-03T23:55:13","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T04:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/?p=18673"},"modified":"2026-01-02T14:27:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T19:27:42","slug":"costco-is-raising-membership-fees-starting-june-1st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/?p=18673","title":{"rendered":"Costco is Raising Membership Fees Starting June 1st"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Costco is boosting the price of its standard Gold Star membership by $5 to $60 a year. The Executive membership, which offers additional discounts and an annual reward on purchases, will go up $10 to $120 a year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The company made the announcement on Thursday as it released its latest earnings, which disappointed Wall Street. Sales and profits were lower than expected. Shares of Costco (<span class=\"inlink_chart\"><a class=\"inlink\" href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=COST&amp;source=story_quote_link\">COST<\/a><\/span>) fell 4% in early trading Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Costco is facing tough competition from Sam&#8217;s Club, the warehouse company owned by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walmart.com\/browse\/0\/0?cat_id=0&amp;facet=special_offers:Clearance%7C%7Cspecial_offers:Rollback%7C%7Cspecial_offers:Special%20Buy&amp;u1=&amp;oid=223073.1&amp;wmlspartner=pUdDfDhzSPw&amp;sourceid=07319870860257188405&amp;affillinktype=10&amp;veh=aff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\">Walmart<\/span><\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.target.com\/c\/weekly-deals\/-\/N-4xw74?clkid=68a29438N8659d1e22ab2aacd9f9666a9&amp;lnm=115439&amp;afid=FlexOffers.com%2C%20LLC&amp;ref=tgt_adv_xasd0002\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\">Target<\/span><\/a>. Both have lowered prices to woo more customers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Read More at <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2017\/03\/03\/investing\/costco-membership-fee-hike-earnings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #0000ff;\">CNN Money<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Costco is boosting the price of its standard Gold Star membership by $5 to $60 a year. The Executive membership, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/?p=18673\" title=\"Costco is Raising Membership Fees Starting June 1st\">&#8230;.. Get This Deal<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tjb-blog"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18673"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171491,"href":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18673\/revisions\/171491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tjbdeals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}