Signs of Costco Building Going Up at Site on Richmond Highway

The first signs of the warehouse building for the soon-to-be brand new Costco are peeking up behind the draped fencing surrounding the large construction site off of Richmond Highway.

An employee at the Pentagon Costco told Patch recently the store will open on Aug. 8 and the Costco Web site is advertising for job openings for the Costco Richmond Highway store.

While you're waiting for Costco to open, here are some details about the popular warehouse membership club store:

Popular items with Costco buyers

Items that fly off the shelves, according to this article by CBS News Moneywatch:

Wine: Fancy wines at low prices are uber-popular at Costco and you can keep up with all things vino at the Costco wine blog: http://costcowineblog.com/

Other "must-have" deals at Costco: Chocolate truffles, eyeglasses, laptops and extra virgin olive oil.

More Costco fun facts:

The store buys half the world's supply of "the most popular kind" of cashews and each year sells 100 million of its popular hot dog-and-soda combo for $1.50. (Costco lore says the price hasn't changed since the store opened its first store in 1983.)