Costco Foot-Traffic & Location Data Coverage

Costco warehouse visitation and trade-area signals from GSDSI's US mobility panel.

How GSDSI covers Costco

Costco operates a membership-warehouse format with an average US location serving a wide trade area : typical home-origin distributions extend 15-25 miles. GSDSI's daily-refresh mobility panel captures dwell-confirmed visits at the warehouse-polygon level, surfacing the long-dwell, low-frequency visitation shape that distinguishes warehouse clubs from conventional grocery and mass-merchandise competitors.

US locations covered: ~600
Panel refresh cadence: Daily
Signal type: Dwell-confirmed visits
Category: Warehouse Club

Typical use cases

Sell-side analysts tracking COST visitation ahead of quarterly comparable-sales reports
Competitive visitation benchmarking vs. Sam's Club, BJ's Wholesale
Trade-area analysis for new-warehouse site selection
Long-dwell / large-basket visit shape inference for membership-economics models

Related chains in Warehouse Club

Sam's Club: ~600 US locations
Walmart: ~4,600 US locations

Production data access

The summary signals above reflect GSDSI's public preview tier. Production-grade Costco visitation data is available under commercial license via SFTP, Snowflake secure share, or AWS Data Exchange. Contact sales for a coverage sample, pilot scope, or full-catalog access.

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