Price Club in San Diego 1976 

Wow, thank you. I worked there about 10 years after this news report. Interesting to see the early days.

I love watching these old videos. So cool.

Buyer for the nursing home buying cartons of cigarettes. It was a different time. Love that CBS is doing these throwbacks!!

My grandmother still has a Price Club card in her wallet, behind the new Costco card haha. We’ve been shopping at this location since I was a fetus in 1976

My dad worked there in the late 70’s. He always reminds me when we go to that Costco on Moreno blvdlol

Jim Gordon was an excellent reporter!

Thank goodness there is a place you can shop where you don't feel ripped off. Very thankful for the existence of Costco! And I love their new chocolate chip cookie they are now selling in the Costco food court.

It was a great company and cheap to shop at.

Looking at the hills I think this is the now Costco on morena Blvd.

Wow!.,good old days!👍

I remember Price Club and Costco were competitors then they merged/aquisition together and was called Price Costco.

I wonder when it opened to the general public? I went there in late 78 or early 79. We traveled all the way from Escondido. Couldn’t believe what I was seeing.

I still have my red white and blue Price Club card. The sign said cigarettes were $3.55 for a carton? This is the Price Club/Costco on Morena Blvd, I used to go there from Rancho Bernardo to shop. I only wish I would have bought stock back then.

Sol Price was a genius, first Fed Mart then Price Club.

My mom had a chance to be an early investor in Price Club, but declined. Had she decided to do it, that small investment would be worth a staggering amount today. Hindsight is 20/20.

The birth of the membership warehouse club store business, with Price Club established in 1976 by Robert Price in San Diego CA. By 1983, came the Costco Wholesale chain, with its first warehouse opening in Seattle WA in 1983. Price Club served the southwestern, mid-Atlantic, and New York area states in the 1980's. The chain later expanded internationally in Canada in 1986, and Mexico in 1992. By 1993, Price Club and Costco merged, forming the PriceCostco name, yet operating its warehouses under the Price Club or Costco Wholesale names in USA, Canada, Mexico, UK, and South Korea. By 1997, all Price Club warehouses worldwide were rebranded as Costco Wholesale. In 1996, Robert and his son Sol formed the PriceSmart warehouse club chain, operating warehouses in the Caribbean Islands and South and Central American countries.

I was there … on day 1

We actually got to know Mr Price, it was an interesting period of San Diego history.

WHERE IS THE HOTDOG?!?!?!?

Wow.

Later .. they open another Price Club at Santee. CA.

Robert Wilkinson, the administrator at the convalescent hospital, must have been trying to make room for new patients, with all those boxes of cigarettes he's buying.

would be a bit more interesting if they mentioned prices of things back then.

I miss the good ole days when half the population smoked cigarettes.

THE FIRST COSTCO