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Elsewhere. Costco no longer allowing membership card sharing and

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Costco employees now have to verify that their name on

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their membership cards match the name of the person at

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the. Check out those changes come as the company

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moves to stop card sharing in what's being called a

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Netflix style crackdown on unauthorized users. In a statement

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to insider, Costco says that we don't feel it's

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right that members received the same benefits and pricing as

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our members back in 2022 76% of Costco's$5.8 billion

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net profit came from those memberships. Hannah. Absolutely

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amazing. I think Costco is one of those brick

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and mortar stores that actually didn't see a huge decline

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during the pandemic and haven't seen too many lay offs

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. So we'll continue to watch that.