


There was also one in Sequim, Washington. Green said the Juneau Costco, built in 1993, was a prototype, one of only a few that small. “Are there other ones that are close that leave you some doubt?” I asked. There was some wiggle room in his initial answer, so I pressed him. He said that’s out of 770 Costco locations on four continents. He oversees the warehouse club chain’s northwest regional operations. “As far as I can tell, that is true, yes,” said Costco Wholesale Assistant Vice President Kevin Green. … It’s one of the smallest, from what I’ve heard.”īut is it the smallest Costco in the world? “She’s comparing it to the Seattle and Anchorage ones. “Just now on the phone, actually, a woman was saying, ‘Yeah, that’s the smallest damn Costco I’ve ever seen,’” he said. He said a salty version of something you may have heard before. The other day, Phil Fleming was loading up a car in the parking lot of the Costco in Juneau. The city assessor’s records put its total square footage at 76,696.

Even in the middle of the workday on Tuesday, there’s steady traffic at Costco in Juneau.
