{
  "id": 5610173,
  "title": "Costco quietly killed its third-party online marketplace without warning members",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/04/costco-quietly-killed-its-third-party-online-marketplace-without",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-09-04T17:50:22.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Quartz",
    "slug": "quartz",
    "url": "https://qz.com/costco-next-marketplace-shut-down-090426"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The warehouse retailer's Costco Next platform, which connected members with select vendors since 2017, went offline over the weekend with no announcement",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}