Come Wednesday, longtime Costco shopper Carrie Ryland won’t be making her usual grocery run to the retailer’s St. James location.

“I’m happy about it,” the west Winnipeg resident said, standing outside the retail giant’s front entrance Monday at 1315 St James St. She said the move to the city’s newest Costco, at 4077 Portage Ave., in Headingley near Assiniboia Downs, will make her trips far easier.

“It will be about a five-minute drive now as opposed to a 20-minute one,” she said. “It will be bigger, and there will be a gas station, which there isn’t here.”

The new 166,894-square-foot warehouse, situated on 15.4 acres including a parking lot and gas bar, is set to open Wednesday and will be the city’s largest Costco. Initial renders showed the parking lot would have more than 900 stalls

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