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I've lived in Kirkland, Washington, off and on since 1994. It's amazing how many people all over the world know of Kirkland from Costco branding. For a log time the reddit tag line[0] was "We're more than Costco!"

[0]: https://old.reddit.com/r/Kirkland/

Same actually! Grew up in Juanita from ‘89-‘03 then went to UW and have stayed in Seattle proper mostly since.

I always thought it was funny, as a young kid, that my city’s name was on all sorts of products, not making the connection.

Nice. My youngest was born in Juanita at our apartment! I like the area well enough, obviously, to start a reddit about it.

> but I am a Costco fan boy, and they do the same thing

Are you sure? My understand was the Kirkland is mostly just a re-badge for already existing manufacturers.. Kirkland usually buys up their "B" stock/bin of items and just rebrands them.

> they do the same thing

So I can sell my small company's products through Costco's web platform without Costco ever directly purchasing my product?

So costco pays a small companies to sell their product and extract sales data.

Should amazon start paying small companies at the same margin that costco does?