CostCo (NASD COST) reported net sales of $5.11 billion for the month of January, the four weeks ended February 3, 2008, an increase of 11 percent from $4.62 billion in the same four-week period last year.

In the US same-store sale rose 5% and overseas they moved up 19% for a weighted global average of 7%.

Douglas A. McIntyre