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DoorDash announced it will now deliver from every Costco warehouse in the US starting Thursday, requiring customers to link an existing Costco membership in the app. The move follows Uber Eats' announcement a day earlier that it's expanding Costco delivery from 17 states to all 47 it serves.
Uber and Costco have widened their delivery partnership from 17 states to 47, meaning almost 600 Costco warehouses now offer Uber Eats delivery to members. Shoppers must verify Costco membership before ordering, and the app will let some members buy Costco memberships or get discounts on Uber One, its paid subscription.
A consumer describes using Anthropic's Claude, including its Chrome extension, to file complaints, draft phone scripts, and pursue refunds across ten separate disputes ranging from a missing cheese packet to IRS penalties and a car warranty claim. The person reports winning every case attempted, some still pending, with total recoveries exceeding $12,000, including $6,813 in waived IRS penalties and a roughly $2,000 warranty repair.
Ahead of Labor Day 2026, most major chains including Costco, Target and Walmart plan to remain open, though some locations may run shorter hours. Banks and stock markets, by contrast, will close for the federal holiday, following their usual practice.
The Department of Justice has widened its investigation into surging beef prices to include eight large grocery and retail chains, among them Walmart, Costco, Aldi and Publix. Investigators are examining how pricing decisions across these retailers may have contributed to the sharp rise in beef costs for consumers.
Costco Next, a platform that gave Costco members access to discounted products from vetted third-party suppliers, has stopped working for many customers over the past several days. Users report being unable to access the marketplace, and Costco has not issued a public explanation for the disruption or shutdown.
Costco has launched an early round of Labor Day 2026 promotions covering televisions, smartwatches, Apple devices and other electronics. The deals are being aggregated and vetted by outlets like ZDNET, which test and compare pricing across retailers before recommending items to shoppers.
A developer built a tool that scrapes Costco's undisclosed gas-price data from an internal API called AjaxGetGasPricesService, pulling prices from roughly 600 warehouses nationwide. The project began as a personal effort to compare two nearby Costco locations in Tampa during a spring fuel price spike tied to Strait of Hormuz tensions, then expanded into a broader dataset showing how Costco's gas pricing moved relative to competitors.
Tom's Hardware reviewed TP-Link's Deco 7 Pro BE13000, a tri-band Wi-Fi 7 mesh system sold exclusively at Costco as a three-pack for $399, covering up to 8,100 square feet. The satellites share the familiar white cylindrical Deco design but include only three 2.5 GbE LAN/WAN ports each, fewer than the lower-tier Deco BE63, with mismatched port speeds on the back.