Costco Visalia Gas Price (2024)

FAQs

What are the gas prices at Costco in Visalia? ›

Costco Shop Cards may only be purchased or recharged by members, but with assistance from an attendant to first authorize the pump, anyone can use a Costco Shop Card to pay for fuel. Q: How does the pump know the customer is a member?

Generally speaking, buying gas at Costco is significantly cheaper than doing so at a traditional gas station. The typical driver can save more than $100 per year. Buying gas at Costco can justify a membership all by itself.

Price check

Quality gas is important, yes, but so is price. Costco Gas Stations offer consistently low, member-exclusive prices. With the Costco app, you can check Costco gas prices on your phone. On the app, find your local warehouse to see hours of operation, gas prices and more warehouse details.

The new additions also add convenience for residents who enjoy shopping closer to home.

The Costco membership card is non-transferable, but there are several ways to share the experience with family and friends. Anyone with a card can bring up to two guests to the Warehouse during each visit.

Your Costco membership could be revoked

Sharing your membership card is specifically against the rules of said membership.

Costco.com accepts: Visa, Mastercard, Debit/ATM and Costco Shop Cards. Costco Gas Stations and Car Washes accept: Visa, debit/ATM and Costco Shop Cards. Photo identification and approval by a supervisor or manager may be required.

As gasoline prices fall, Costco does not lower prices at the same pace it raises them when prices are climbing. This allows the company to recoup some of the profits lost by doing the reverse when prices were rising.

How to get a Costco card for free? ›

While Costco doesn't offer free or discounted memberships, we do provide an exclusive college student offer to join Costco as a new member and receive a Costco Shop Card!

Costco has closely studied fuel additives and engine deposits, and conducted extensive engine tests at nationally-recognized laboratories. Accordingly, we decided to increase the detergent additives in our fuel to provide a better value to our members.

Where does Costco gasoline come from? The gasoline from you local Cosco comes from the same terminal as the rest of your local gas stations. The only difference is that is doesn't get the proprietary additive package added to it that you pay extra for from Shell or Chevron or whatever your local options are.

Why is gas so cheap at Costco? The answer is simple: they just have very loyal customers. To purchase their gas, you have to be a member, and membership sales make up about 75 percent of the chain's profit.

The cards are non-transferable, according to Costco, and are scanned at all registers at checkout. However, the company said that it has seen a huge uptick in people shopping using cards that don't belong to them since it introduced self-checkout registers.

How many people can be on my Costco membership? A total of two people can be on a Gold Star Membership (either regular or Executive): one Primary Member and one free household member who is over 16 and lives at the same address.

Reward is capped at and will not exceed $1,000 for any 12-month period. Only purchases made by the Primary and active Primary Household Cardholder on the account will apply toward the Reward.

Each person on the SAME account MUST use their own card. For example, the husband and wife on the account, the husband can't use his wife's card and vice versa, unless the cardholder is present, such as BOTH husband and wife at the check out while it's their turn at the register.