Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ:COST) operates membership warehouses in the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Japan, Korea, Australia, Spain, France, Iceland, China, and Taiwan. You may have seen its stores mentioned in news stories, where long-lines of shoppers are waiting to get in the store. You may have also seen Costco material on empty shelves that used to have toilet paper before. Q1 2022 hedge fund letters, conferences and more Costco Increases DividendsCostco has paid special dividends on three separate occasions over the past decade. The company pai…