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by awillen 1879 days ago
Costco buys products from third party sellers. That is a relationship with third party sellers.
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No, those are Costco’s suppliers which are completely invisible to the customer and completely different.

Costco purchases the items from the suppliers, generally. They then resell them to you for a markup.

With few exceptions, every single item in Costco is sold by the first party seller: Costco. So my point stands: third party sellers are generally not a part of the Costco experience.