Well, that didn't take long.

[randomness]

It's less than three weeks from the day Costco announced they were ending their exclusive arrangement with AmEx to today's announcement that they will begin accepting Visa.

From the Wall Street Journal:

"Starting April 1, 2016, Visa will be the only brand accepted at Costco. In addition, Costco will partner with Citi to issue a new co-branded card to replace an existing AmEx-Costco card."

Comments

[merlinofchaos]

I have both AmEx and Citi cards, so I guess nothing really changes. But as time has passed, I've actually moved more and more toward the AmEx as my primary, in part because it's the only one I can use at Costco and I do a LOT of shopping at Costco.

I guess this means my poor AmEx will get pushed a bit to the side, though it had the better cashback options than my Citi card.

Also I'd been not using my Citi card because they pissed me off a few years ago, sufficiently that I went looking for a replacement. I don't remember what they did, though. I think it was the automatic fraud shutdown that left me without a working CC in Europe because I didn't tell them in advance I was traveling.