Costco Wholesale
Raghav Anand is an accomplished engineering and product leader with extensive experience in platform development, mobile enablement, and engineering management across various industries. Currently serving as Engineering Manager at Costco Wholesale, Raghav oversees the engineering efforts for mobile capabilities and leads a cross-functional team of software and QA engineers. Previous roles include Product Lead at Dave, where Raghav significantly enhanced payment infrastructure, and Product Manager at Flexport, focusing on modular backend services. Raghav has also held key positions at WeWork, Oracle, Nordstrom, and Walgreens, driving substantial improvements in technology delivery, compliance solutions, and product lifecycle management. Raghav holds multiple certifications in project management and Agile methodologies, complemented by a Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the University of Madras and a certificate in Big Data Technologies from the University of Washington.
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Costco Wholesale
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Originally named "Price Club" in 1976, Costco started out by serving small businesses while additionally targeting a selected audience of non-business members. Because of their specific strategy, they quickly became successful. Today, they are one of the largest retailers in the world and retailer of choice for speciality items. Costco is a membership warehouse club that strives to bring the best possible prices on quality brand-name merchandise. Costco has more than 800 locations worldwide. They are a multi-billion dollar global retailer operating in 8 countries. Costco provides a wide selection of merchandise such as appliances, baby products, beauty products, clothing, luggage, handbags, computers, electronics, and any other household item you can think of. Within their core merchandise categories or core business, they offer food and sundries, non-foods, and fresh foods. Within their Warehouse Ancillary business, they offer gasoline, pharmacy, optical, food court, hearing aids, and tire installation. Other businesses include e-commerce, business centers, and travel. Most notably is there Kirkland Signature brand, Costco's trademark private-label brand. They only use this brand on merchandise sold through their website or warehouses. This brand came at a time where they recognized the need for quality goods at budget-friendly prices. However, most of these brands are manufactured by national brands such as Starbucks, Ocean Spray, Niagara, and Humboldt Creamery. They operate membership warehouses and e-commerce websites with a limited selection of nationally-branded and private-label products in a wide range of categories. By keeping these products at a low price, they are able to produce high sales volumes and rapid inventory turnover.