Costco Clearance Guides

Learn how to read Costco price tags and identify key information that reveals clearance deals and item status.

A one-page cheat sheet of every Costco price ending—.97, .99, .00, .88, and the asterisk—so you can read any tag at a glance.

Understand Costco's .97 clearance pricing. Learn why it's warehouse-specific, how much you can save, and how to spot the best deals before they're gone.

Use a repeatable, step-by-step method to find Costco clearance items. Learn where to look, how to spot .97 tags, and how to track local markdowns.

The 5 insider spots where markdowns hide—end caps, floor models, seasonal reset zones, and asterisk tags—so you find deals before other shoppers.

Learn when Costco clearance deals appear. Discover the best times of day, week, and year to find .97 markdowns before they sell out.

How Costco warehouse markdowns really work—why clearance is local, how items move from .97 to final liquidation, and what to do when you spot a deal.

Why Costco.com clearance and in-warehouse clearance are completely separate—different inventory, different prices, and different ways to track each.

Usually not—here's why. Understand what an asterisk really means, when clearance comes back, and how to decide whether to buy now or wait.

Compare price tracking tools and discover which methods actually work for warehouse-specific deals. Learn why national blogs fail and how crowdsourced alerts put cash back in your pocket.

A DIY how-to for tracking Costco prices: the manual receipt method, the automated approach, and why live inventory checkers don't work for the warehouse.

Discover how Costco's 30-day price adjustment policy works and how to get refunds when prices drop. Learn to track price changes automatically with CostLow.

How long does Costco price adjust? A complete breakdown of the 30-day window, what happens after it expires, and how to never miss a price drop refund again.

Costco does not price match competitors like Walmart or Amazon. Learn why, how warehouse vs online pricing works, and the price adjustment loophole that saves you money.