Customers wait in lines to enter a Costco warehouse store in Minhang District, east China’s Shanghai. (Xinhua/Liu Ying via Getty Images)

SHANGHAI, Sept. 19, 2019 — Customers wait in lines to enter a Costco warehouse store in Minhang District, east China’s Shanghai, Sept. 19, 2019.
U.S. retail giant Costco Wholesale openend its first brick-and-mortar store on the Chinese mainland in late August. The store has been running for three weeks and customer passions remain unabated, with short-time queuing still required to enter the store. (Photo by Liu Ying/Xinhua via Getty) (Xinhua/Liu Ying via Getty Images)