Costco offers cash cards to members who join at new Teterboro store

At the Costco Wholesale in Hackensack, a large banner shows what the bigger Teterboro store is expected to look like when it opens Oct. 14. The Hackensack warehouse store closes on Oct. 13.

Today, employees in Hackensack handed out pamphlets offering $10 or $20 cash cards to new members who sign up in person in Teterboro.

By VICTOR E. SASSON
EDITOR

Costco Wholesale in Hackensack is offering a $10 or $20 cash card to new members who sign up in person at the bigger warehouse store 3 miles away in Teterboro.

The store, in the Teterboro Landing Shopping Center off of Route 46, is scheduled to open on Oct. 14 at 8 a.m.

A Costco membership is $55 a year ($10 cash card) and an Executive Membership is $110 a year ($20 cash card).

Most members get the annual fee and more back in cash rebates on credit-card purchases at Costco as well as at gas stations, restaurants and other stores.

Executive Members get a higher 2% reward (up to $750).

A corner of the parking lot at the Hackensack Costco has been fenced off for construction of a large pump for the city's water system.

Costco Wholesale's new store in Teterboro to open ahead of schedule

At the Costco Wholesale in Hackensack today, this member took advantage of the liberal return policy by seeking a refund for a dozen items, including a large wedge of cheese, a bag of lettuce, a carton of creamer and other food piled on the counter in front of her.

The line for returns formed quickly right after the store opened at 10 a.m.

By VICTOR E. SASSON
EDITOR

Costco Wholesale is scheduled to open its bigger store near Teterboro Airport on Oct. 14, an employee said today.

That's about a month earlier than expected.

The new store is 3 miles from the Hackensack warehouse store, which opened on July 21, 1994.

The new store will have a Costco gas station and a liquor department with wines from its private label, Kirkland Signature, neither of which are available in Hackensack.

In recent years, the Hackensack store has become so crowded on weekends many members avoid the place at all costs.

The Hackensack parking lot is regarded as a zoo on almost any day.

Costco owns the 14.8-acre Hackensack site.

The new Costco will open in the Teterboro Landing Shopping Center near Route 46.

Does the new Costco Wholesale in Teterboro look like it will be ready for members on Oct. 14?

The canopy over the Costco Wholesale gas station in Teterboro is complete.

Update

At Teterboro Landing, Costco Wholesale's new store and parking lot are surrounded by fences, looking very much like a work in progress.

The exterior of the building isn't complete and doesn't yet have the "Costco Wholesale" name on it.

Although the drive to the shopping center is only 3 miles longer than a trip to the Costco Wholesale in Hackensack, there is a lot more traffic and the main road, Route 46, is being repaired and resurfaced.