Costco to open first NZ store at Westgate in Auckland

Costco to open first NZ store at Westgate in Auckland
Jenny Ruth
By Jenny Ruth June 11 (BusinessDesk) - American multi-national discount store operator Costco Wholesale is planning to open its first New Zealand store at the Westgate shopping centre in Auckland’s north-west. The store will be about 14,000 square-metres, have more than 800 carparks and will cost about $90 million. But the company can’t say when it will open. “They still have a process to go through. It’s in the hands of the process and obtaining all the necessary consents,” a spokesman says. The size of the new Costco store compare...

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