Big-box retailer Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ: COST) has dazzled Wall Street with a breathtaking 250% total return over the past five years, easily trouncing the S&P 500. The company's famously low prices,

Costco will stop selling books in 500 to 600 of its more than 800 locations in January 2025, according to Yahoo! Finance. The wholesaler has been phasing out physical book sales all year. Costco stores will only offer books for holiday shoppers during the last few months of the year, the reports indicated.

Costco has announced it will stop selling books at most of its locations across the U.S. starting next year. The company said books will only return during holiday seasons, and intermittently outside of that. Costco said the change is being made because stocking books on tables is labor-intensive and must be done by hand.