Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Costco
The 20 closest warehouse club retail alternatives to Costco, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 16 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Costco? The closest matches are Sam's Club, Walmart and Wayfair. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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01 · Entity
About Costco
Costco costco.com
Welcome to Costco Wholesale
Shop Costco.com for electronics, computers, furniture, outdoor living, appliances, jewelry and more. Enjoy low warehouse prices on name-brands products delivered to your door
Wikidata: American multinational chain of membership-only stores
Summary by Claude
Online store of Costco, a membership-only warehouse club retailer selling groceries, household essentials, electronics, appliances, furniture and other name-brand goods at bulk and discount prices, with home delivery and in-warehouse services.
- Who it’s for
- Costco members, households and small businesses
- Business model
- Membership fees and retail sales
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Costco’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Costco
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Costco, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Sam's Club - Wholesale Prices on Top Brands
Shop Samsclub.com today for Every Day Low Prices. Join Sam's Club as a Plus Member and get free same-day or next-day delivery from your club & free shipping on eligible items totaling $50 or more.
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Walmart | Save Money. Live better.
Shop Walmart.com today for Every Day Low Prices. Join Walmart+ for unlimited free delivery from your store & free shipping with no order minimum. Start your free 30-day trial now!
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Wayfair.com - Online Home Store for Furniture, Decor, Outdoors & More
Shop Wayfair for A Zillion Things Home across all styles and budgets. 5,000 brands of furniture, lighting, cookware, and more. Free Shipping on most items.
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Target : Expect More. Pay Less.
Shop Target online and in-store for everything from groceries and essentials to clothing and electronics. Choose contactless pickup or delivery today.
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American online electronics retailer
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etsy.com
American e-commerce company
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American multinational technology company
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Wish | Shop and Save
Discover affordable items for your home and life needs. Enjoy our money back guarantee, frequent discounts, flat rate shipping (select markets), and more.
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WebstaurantStore: Commercial Restaurant Supplies
Shop 420k+ commercial products for businesses, food service, & restaurants. Get the best bulk & wholesale pricing on popular brands at WebstaurantStore!
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Client Challenge
American online music distributor
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Women's & Men's Clothing, Shop Online Fashion | SHEIN
From shoes to clothing, from sports equipment to accessories. All fashion inspiration & the latest trends can be found online at SHEIN
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Shop - Shopping designed around you
Shop from top brands, earn exclusive rewards, and track your packages all in one place. Now available on iOS, Android, and web.
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Error Page | eBay
American multinational internet corporation that manages eBay.com
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Shoes, Sneakers, Boots, & Clothing + FREE SHIPPING | Zappos.com
Fast, FREE shipping on just-landed sneakers, boots, heels & more from your favorite brands. Now that's a win.
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M&S | Marks & Spencer | Fashion, Home, Beauty, Food & Gifts
Shop on-trend womenswear, quality menswear, home and beauty essentials and mouth-watering food and drink. Order online with free delivery or collection at M&S
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Consoles, Collectibles, Video Games, and More – Buy, Sell or Trade | GameStop
Shop GameStop, the world's largest retail gaming and trade-in destination for Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo games, systems, consoles & accessories. Shop a wide selection of gamer-centric apparel, collectibles & more.
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Best Buy International: Select your Country - Best Buy
Shop online at Best Buy in your country and language of choice. Best Buy provides online shopping in a number of countries and languages.
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Shutterfly | Photo Books, Cards, Prints, Wall Art, Gifts, Wedding
Shop Shutterfly for custom photo books, prints, cards, invitations, gifts, wall art, calendars, and more. Personalize your favorite moments with high-quality, meaningful photo products.
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American book retailer
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South African e-commerce company
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to costco.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Costco uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Costco is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CMS
- Adobe Experience Manager page source: /content/dam/costco/
- JavaScript frameworks
- Fonts
- Google Fonts page source: fonts.gstatic.com
- Analytics
- Adobe Analytics page source: .omtrdc.net
- Advertising
- Criteo page source: dynamic.criteo.com
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
- Reviews
- Bazaarvoice page source: apps.bazaarvoice.com
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms45356090
- Proofpoint MX mx0b-001f9d01.pphosted.com
- DNS hosting
- Akamai Edge DNS NS a1-116.akam.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=ae9e3f0f-2848-4000-aed4-e1c7e8031815
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=mOyfCnOmDOAo2wCWxZ1feSqlR3yeXX6nP2KotAW…
- DocuSign TXT docusign=3e51deb4-b2f9-46ef-b120-18f6955ebce1
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=3Kx9tc2_v5CgX3NuVqNwWFZRYanPPJCP3__8KbRxn5Q
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=46if6nzbzbffbhikh3uq8sye7ez5bg
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Costco adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Apple Business · not on costco.com 13/20
- Microsoft 365 13/20
- Atlassian 12/20
- OpenAI · not on costco.com 10/20
- GlobalSign · not on costco.com 8/20
- Proofpoint 8/20
- Adobe 8/20
- Stripe · not on costco.com 8/20
- DocuSign 7/20
- Meta Business Suite 7/20
- Akamai · not on costco.com 6/20
- Akamai Edge DNS 6/20
- Google Workspace · not on costco.com 6/20
- OneTrust 6/20
- React 5/20