The Buck Fifty Project
Every Costco in America.
A buck fifty at a time.
8 of 648 so far.10 more opening soon.
We’re a family of four. We have a map, a lot of receipts, and no idea how long this is going to take.
Stripe handles the payment. Refundable for up to a year, no questions asked.
The latest stop
Warehouse 1372, East Lyme, Connecticut
Order 846 at 12:33pm: chicken strips, three hot dogs (two with water, one with a Coke) and a 20oz Coke on its own, $12.28 plus $0.90 Connecticut tax. An hour and a quarter each way for a hot dog with onions on it, and the third Costco in three days.
Read the stop →The Project
We’re a Costco family, and we kept asking a ridiculous question: has anyone been to every Costco in America? We looked. Nobody has. So we’re doing it. All 648 of them, with the receipt, the menu board, and whatever we found that day.
Nobody writes this down. What the board charged on a given day, what quietly stopped being stocked, what an ordinary Tuesday in one warehouse looked like. Costco doesn’t publish any of it and nobody else is keeping it, so we are, at every stop, with the date on it.
We also track what Costco is quietly discontinuing. 17 items so far.
Want us at your Costco sooner? Name a warehouse when you chip in and it turns red on the map, growing as more people put money behind it. The leaderboard shows which cities are pooling money and where we may go next.
so far
and $0.00 so far
the goal
Costco sells a million combos in about a day and a half. The goal is a million people, each buying us something off the board, so the middle figure runs ahead of the first, because some people buy more than one. A $0.25 water and a $9.95 pizza both count as an item. Where the money goes.
A million, in context
82.9M households
148.5M cardholders
245.1M combos in FY2025
Membership and cardholder counts are from Costco’s Form 10-Q and earnings release for the quarter ended May 10, 2026. The hot dog figure is the one Costco gave at its January 2026 annual meeting, widely reported at the time. It is not in a filing: Costco does not break the food court out in its 10-K.
The first hundred
Nobody yet. Someone has to be first.
After every stop
The Signature
One email per Costco. The receipt, what was on the menu board, what it cost, and the strangest thing we found in the aisles. Free, and it stops the moment you say so.