Costco Nation: 71% of Icelanders are members of members only warehouse supermarket.
Reykjavík Costco Icelanders lined up when the US retailer opened its doors last year.
Icelanders appear to have welcomed the opening up of Costco with open arms: A poll by the polling firm MMR shows that 71% of Icelanders have joined the members-only warehouse supermarket.
While 77% of people in the capital region have bought membership in Costco 60% outside Reykjavík.
When the membership is broken down based on income it emerges that people with above-average incomes are more likely to be members of Costco.
The voters of the rural Progress Party and the environmentalist Left Greens are least likely to be Costco members.
59% of Progress Party supporters are members and 60% of the voters of the Left Greens. »