Costco has some sort of "executive membership" plan. It requires a merchant to buy a certain amount of merchandise from the store. In exchange, the?merchant gets to advertise with a banner, and in some cases, actually?bring merchandise into the store to sell.?So?I would presume that?your?local Yamaha dealer probably has?that agreement with Costco to sell the pianos in the store. ? A piano dealer here in Hawaii had an arrangement with one of the Costco stores.?All Costco did was take the money. The dealer was responsible for everything else. I tried to get them to put up a banner about my tuning service, but the store claimed they were not going to promote local dealers any more. I guess it was their way of telling me I wasn't a big enough merchant. Wim -----Original Message----- From: Mike Kurta <mkurta1 at comcast.net> To: Pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Sat, Jun 13, 2009 3:16 pm Subject: [pianotech] Costco/Yamaha ??? Wandering through our local Cosco's "aisles of beauty" this morning I was attracted to live piano music coming from the middle of the store.? It was eminating from a new Yamaha baby grand (couldn't see the model) with a Disklavier doing the playing.? Price was $16,999.? What was surprising was the assortment of 6 other various Yamahas.? Another baby grand w/o player and several studios and consoles were displayed.? They attracted a lot of attention, but I don't know how many actually were sold.? No sales person was in evidence.? Looks like warehouse clubs are into the piano business big time, at least ours is...... ??? Mike Kurta, RPT ??? Chicago chapter -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090613/ce01a88a/attachment.htm>
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