Costco limits shoppers after first-day fiasco

SHANGHAI: Costco Wholesale Corp said it will limit the number of shoppers at its new China store after overcrowding forced the US big box retailer to shut it early on the opening day.

No more than 2,000 shoppers at any given time will be allowed into the store in a Shanghai suburb, Costco’s first in China, and local police will help to improve the flow of traffic near the store, it said yesterday.