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		<title>Costco&#8217;s membership fees are rising on June 1</title>
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<p>Rising for the first time since 2011, Costco will be raising annual membership fees between $5 to $10 starting on June 1, 2017. Specifically, the Gold Star membership and Business membership will increase from $55 to $60 and the Executive membership will rise from $110 to $120. In addition to extra benefits with Costco Travel and Costco [&#8230;]</p>
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<p>Rising for the first time since 2011, Costco will be raising annual membership fees between $5 to $10 starting on June 1, 2017. Specifically, the Gold Star membership and Business membership will increase from <strong>$55 to $60</strong> and the Executive membership will rise from <strong>$110 to $120</strong>.</p>
<p>In addition to extra benefits with Costco Travel and Costco Services, the Executive membership provides a 2 percent cashback reward on qualified purchases. Basically, if you spend $3,000 in qualified purchases over the course of a year, you will regain the additional $60 spend on upgrading from Gold Star to Executive. The maximum annual reward earning in a single calendar year is capped at $1,000.</p>
<p>During 2017, Costco expects the fee increase will impact 35 million members. Comparatively, Sam&#8217;s Club (owned by Walmart) charges $100 for Sam&#8217;s Plus annual membership and $45 for the basic Sam&#8217;s Savings or Business membership. Sam&#8217;s Club has 660 locations in the United States compared to Costco&#8217;s 508 locations in the United States.</p>
<p>Neither warehouse chain has to contend with Jet.com anymore, an online retailer that attempted to bring the warehouse subscription model to the Web. Jet.com pivoted to a subscription free model before being acquired by Walmart last year.</p>
<p>However, warehouse chains still have to compete with Amazon. Amazon has continued to push into the warehouse chain model by offering Subscribe-and-Save bulk items for repeat orders as well as Prime Pantry, a bulk-order system for purchasing common household items such as food or cleaning supplies.</p>
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