Costco Business Center

I worked hard at this Costco for 11 years. Although this Costco is bias on your personal views. I continually shopped here for the business that I worked for in purchasing the supplies. You will find that the ladies are some of the best in the industry when it comes to ordering product and even those who manage the departments.

Typical Costco, so everything there is very useful and priced pretty well. Gets 5 stars because they opened up a location close to me, but every Costco should be a 4 star

We wandered about this new Costco and there have been some improvements in their store model so that the checkouts are less cluttered, and entrance is streamlined with easier access to the carts. Very clean, lots of food samples, and not crowded … yet.

I pumped my gas here yesterday I put my gas on holder where it automatically remove itself. I just sitting in my car waiting for the gas to finish and the lady who works there just peeking me in the window so I opened my door and she said my license tab expired. I know she just given me reminder but she would’ve mind her business about the license tabs. She tell me where to get and I already got the tabs taken care off. I hear a click because my gas was done filling up I thought she was removing the pump but she didn’t so my gas was actually 38 $ but she add 1 $ more I just felt kinda annoyed.

Never crowded, great selection, staff is fantastic. This is one of my very favorite Costco’s!

I love Costco but this one even more. Mainly for the reason that there’s supplies here where you can buy individual quantities vs bulk size. There’s quite a bit here that you can’t find and the regular Costco. I with there were more of these around. This one also has a gas station area

The store is just typical Costco, although mainly oriented towards restaurant supply. You see the restaurant owners loading up huge carts full of food that they cook in their shops. So it is fine for that although don’t mistake it for wholesale. We call it Costco Retail. Wholesale is something else entirely and you won’t find it here.
The place that is uneven at best is the Print Shop. I have had good experiences ordering business related printed items, and I have had bad experiences where I left in disgust. I think they have trouble getting quality help because some of the counter staff can’t answer the most simple questions, without going to ask someone else. This is not how you run a good business, and I rather avoid dealing with them.
Overall, I usually get a higher level of service from the warehouse stores, rather than the business stores.

This place isn’t your typical Costco, it is focused on selling office, convienent store and restaurant supplies. You don’t need to have a special memebership though to shop inside which is nice. I come here because they sell things that I wouldn’t find in a normal Costco such as bar supplies and an emense amount of junk food. All the junk food is sold in bulk and packaged individually. I find goods here that I wouldn’t find at other stores which is cool. The frozen food section has a lot of items I wouldn’t find at a normal store as well. It’s def a place to check out.

I have never set foot in this Costco, and probably never will, but our business orders are delivered from this warehouse twice a month. To be fair, the drivers are all extremely friendly and try to make the transactions go smoothly; we’re just ordering a ridiculous number of snacks for 2 different floors of our office, which entails breaking down the pallets in the lobby and hauling everything up the elevator.
However, there is often some chaos and/​or missing items which seemingly stems from the warehouse. More than once our orders were mixed in with other business’ stuff, spread out over multiple pallets. This means the driver has to break them all down then go through our 2 invoices, pulling items one-​by-​one, then managing to get all these loose items into the building. It doesn’t effect me much (other than being embarrassed by us blocking the entire lobby, usually right during the lunch rush, while people in other offices try to use the elevator), but it does take a while.
A couple times the driver showed up around 7:15 or 7:30am, even though a.) their website says delivery times are 8am-​5pm, and b.) I’ve called twice to tell them our building doors are locked until 8:00am. The driver response was, «Well, I have a lot of stuff to deliver and yours is first in line.» Oftentimes an item — or 3 of the same item — will be checked off the list, but nowhere to be found. Not the end of the world, but if you don’t put it on the pallet, don’t check it off! I’ve spoken with customer service a couple times about different issues and they’ve heard me out, but the problems persist.
At the end of the day we usually end up with most or all of our order, but it’s frustrating when you spend that much with a company that’s been around for a few decades and they still can’t get their ducks in a row. If there were a similar competitor in town that delivered to us, I would give them a try. For now I shall continue ordering from this business delivery center, and hope they can improve their delivery logistics.

Not a regular Costco but great selection of restaurant cooking supplies. Not sure how the prices compare to the Restaurant Store as I was just browsing. They also carry a lot of office supplies and industrial size cooking ingredients. Was able to find what I wanted and check out quickly.

Good selection, shorter lines, and good parking

I have a small restaurant business and Costco Business has been my to-​go place every week. They have a large selection of items that are relevant to any business, both small and large. The convenient location on hwy 99 is a plus– as well as the gas station that offers the lowest gas prices in the area, guaranteed. The employees are very friendly and helpful. Thank you Costco Business for making my job easier!

Though they don’t have many of the things that a regular Costco has, they do have lots of restaurant supplies and food. Tons of snacks designed for convenience store resale too. Don’t miss the bargain multi-​pack of microfiber cloths near the northwest corner of the store.

This place is awesome! I am a baker and they have some great supplies for really great prices. I had to do an errand here for the business and thought I would wander around. I feel like the prices here are a lot better than just the regular costco’s. Definitely remembering this place.

OK Seriously, this store is SUPER FUN! No, they don’t have a food court, they don’t have clothes and shoes and dvds and books, but if you are out on your own or just starting out newly wed and don’t have a lot of money but want nice kitchen tools, GO HERE! Seriously. High grade utensils are crazy cheap. You can also get meat, some veggies — think of this as restaurant supply or convenience store supply. The parking lot is busy and small, but it’s never super packed, and they have gas at this location too… Which you could potentially also have at any standard location after visiting the foodcourt.

When you need industrial size quantities of restaurant equipment and foods, this is the place.
Not sure if I will ever purchase a 5 gallon bucket of Yogurt but it is kind of comforting to know I could — and that I would get a great deal on it!
I like the kitchen supplies one can buy here at prices far lower than in restaurant supply stores. Plus, the quality can be quite high while also remaining affordable. I attribute this to Costo’s low margin and large quantity business model and the demographics of their target market. But since I am now a business owner I have to take care not to purchase inappropriately large size and massive quantitiy products here.
Still this place offers great deals on some darn good products for the local foodies and restaurant professionals and, I guess, if you had ten children, then it would be ideal.

Well, I didn’t think my experience with Costco could get any worse, really… but here we are. Unfortunately no other business center will deliver to us in this geographical area, so we’re stuck with Lynnwood. To be fair, every 4 out of 5 deliveries generally goes without a hitch. However, I probably end up placing 2 orders a month for work, so suddenly the number of errors jumps up considerably.
Today the delivery driver evidently decided that he just wouldn’t contact any of the FOUR contacts (two orders and two backup recipients) listed on his sheet today, and he loaded everything back into the truck after only trying one avenue to reach someone. A call to the center (wasn’t transferred for once!) revealed this, and I was promised the delivery would come in tomorrow because «that particular driver has to pick up his kids after work so he can’t go back today». Kids? I’m all for work-​life balance, but how is that relevant to me as the customer at all?
I don’t know if the other business centers are this bad, but man. this is getting rather epic.

This costco has hours that make it difficult for me to go very often, closed on Sundays, close at 6 weekdays, 4 on saturdays. However I love that they carry many products that the normal costco doesn’t. I had previously been confused by the name of this location and was under the impression they only had business supplies, but they have food just like the rest of them. In fact they have a much better selection of snack type foods. But they also carry fresh vegetables, frozen food, etc. It also has a smaller parking lot than regular costcos, but tends to be less crowded at the cash registers. They also have gas, which thankfully has different hours than the inside of the store.

This is the one of the better Costco centers to go to. The parking lot is accessible from 3 directions, unlike the Issaquah location and this makes a difference because you don’t spend as much time waiting to park. Everything is well organized and clean at this place. The lines seem to go quick because their checkers are efficient.
I also happen to order office supplies for my company and the online orders are fulfilled by this warehouse. They are quick to get an order to us within a day or two and we’re all the way down by Seattle Center!

As a business owner, I rely on purchasing from distributors who have good value, good selection, and good return policy. Costco Business Center meets most of these criteria. They have some of the best prices on restaurant supplies.
Purchasers — know that they keep prices low by selling some lesser brands, for example: Made in China containers vs Cambros. Quality of the products have held up so far. While they also offer many brand name items as well. The rare times where products needed to be returned/​exchanged, there were no hassles. A Costco standard.
They also have cheap gasoline.
Areas of improvement
1) please have closer branches other than way north or way south for us Seattle-​ites.
2) A Business Center that operates within limited hours; and not open on Sundays… counter intuitive. Business owners are usually running their own business during your open hours.
3) sometimes your staff can be a bit in-​your-​face about legislation advocacy that would benefit Costco, most recently, alcohol privatization.