{"id":1261,"date":"2004-09-24T09:58:50","date_gmt":"2004-09-24T14:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richardyoo.com\/blog\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2004-09-24T09:58:50","modified_gmt":"2004-09-24T14:58:50","slug":"costco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/2004\/09\/24\/costco\/","title":{"rendered":"Costco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>With competitive prices on everyday goods, high-quality items and brand-name products, Costco attracts bigger spenders and bigger revenue per warehouse than Wal-Mart&#8217;s competing Sam&#8217;s Club, which it has battled for its 21 years. All the while, Costco has stayed true to a set of corporate mores that smack of times gone by.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/money\/industries\/retail\/2004-09-23-costco_x.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Costco wins loyalty with bulky bargains <\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With competitive prices on everyday goods, high-quality items and brand-name products, Costco attracts bigger spenders and bigger revenue per warehouse than Wal-Mart&#8217;s competing Sam&#8217;s Club, which it has battled for its 21 years. All the while, Costco has stayed true to a set of corporate mores that smack of times gone by. Costco wins loyalty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}