Inside Costco

ABC News did a little feature on Costco.

Nuggets from the piece:

• Costco never charges more than 14 percent above cost for any item
• It's the...ninth largest retailer in the world
• It only carries about 4,000 unique products for sale at any one time. Compare that to a typical supermarket, which carries about 40,000 products, or a Wal-Mart store with about 125,000 products
• Craziness. Costco snaps up 50 percent of the world's supply of the most popular cashew, selling $300,000 worth of them every week. The only product that sells more is that eternal necessity: toilet paper

I just thought all that was interesting.