Costco expanding SC store hours for certain customers. Here’s how to get early shopping access

Do you love shopping as early in the day as possible?

Costco Wholesale has a surprise for you — if you’re willing to become a special member.

The retailer will offer exclusive time inside its warehouse stores across South Carolina to customers with executive status starting Monday, June 30. Costco announced in an Instagram post. Executive status customers will also have access to Costco’s food court and pharmacy during the revised hours.

Here are the details:

How are SC Costco store hours changing?

Opening hours can vary by location for Costco stores, but many tend to open at 10 a.m., depending on the day.

However, starting Monday, U.S. customers with Costco Executive memberships will have extra time to shop all week. Those shoppers will have the stores to themselves from 9 to 10 a.m. Monday through Friday, 9 to 9:30 a.m. on Saturday and 9 to 10 a.m. on Sunday.

Costco stores will open to all other shoppers after those periods, the retailer said.

“All members will be welcome to shop starting at 10 a.m. Monday through Friday and Sunday, and at 9:30 a.m. Saturday,” Costco said in a response to a comment on its Instagram post.

Costco membership costs

Costco has two kinds of memberships. Both come with two membership cards that let you shop in person at warehouse locations and online at costco.com.

The Costco Executive membership costs $130 a year and includes discounts on Costco services and an annual 2% reward on most purchases.

The regular Costco Gold Star membership costs $65 a year.

To sign up for or renew a Costco membership card, click here.

SC Costco locations

Costco operates more than 900 locations around the world, six of which are in South Carolina. Look below to find the nearest store near you.

Charleston

• 3050 ASHLEY TOWN CENTER DR
  
  
• CHARLESTON, SC 29414-5664
  
  
• (843) 460-2003
  
  

Columbia

• 507 PINEY GROVE RD
  
  
• COLUMBIA, SC 29210-3405
  
  
• (803) 875-7130
  
  

Greenville

• 1021 WOODRUFF RD
  
  
• GREENVILLE, SC 29607-4108
  
  
• (864) 297-2560
  
  

Mt Pleasant

• 3525 PARK AVENUE BLVD
  
  
• MOUNT PLEASANT, SC 29466-7242
  
  
• (843) 375-7021
  
  

Myrtle Beach

• 1021 OAK FOREST LN
  
  
• MYRTLE BEACH, SC 29577-9795
  
  
• (843) 839-6604
  
  

Spartanburg

• 211 W BLACKSTOCK RD
  
  
• SPARTANBURG, SC 29301-1382
  
  
• (864) 515-4942
  
  

Patrick McCreless

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Patrick McCreless is the Southeast service journalism editor for McClatchy, who leads and edits a team of six reporters in South Carolina, Georgia and Mississippi. The team writes about trending news of the day and topics that help readers in their daily lives and better informs them about their communities. He attended Jacksonville State University in Alabama and grew up in Tuscaloosa, AL.