Join us for our virtual FL JCC Author Series with The Joy of Costco, Susan and David Schwartz.

Join David and Susan Schwartz, a mar­ried Jew­ish cou­ple, on a whirl­wind tour of Cost­co ware­hous­es around the globe. They are two of Costco’s biggest fans yet live in one of NYC’s small­est apart­ments.

Since 2016, they have been to over 250 of Costco’s 850+ ware­hous­es, plus got­ten behind-the-scenes looks at one of the world’s favorite retail­ers.

Top­ics are cov­ered in a whim­si­cal A to Z for­mat, using Q & A to delight the more than 128 mil­lion Cost­co mem­bers and over 300,000 ded­i­cat­ed Cost­co employ­ees.

Susan Schwartz received a BA from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia and an MBA from Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty, then worked in mar­ket­ing at Nabis­co and Gen­er­al Foods. After leav­ing cor­po­rate Amer­i­ca, she worked free­lance mak­ing TV com­mer­cials for thir­teen years before join­ing her hus­band in exec­u­tive search. She worked as a bak­er for two years after col­lege. She grew up in Philly.

David Schwartz is the author of sev­er­al books, includ­ing most recent­ly The Last Man Who Knew Every­thing: The Life and Times of Enri­co Fer­mi, Father of the Nuclear Age (Basic Books, 2017). He holds a BA from Stan­ford and a PhD from MIT. He has had a var­ied career, as a for­eign pol­i­cy spe­cial­ist, an invest­ment banker, and HR consultant.