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Costco Grows During a Pandemic

April 5, 2021April 5, 2021 daniel Costco, Costco (COST), Costco Grows During a Pandemic, Costco Wholesale Corp (COST), Costco’s quarterly revenues grew from $39.072 billion on 29 February 2020 to $44.769 billion on 28 February 2021. Costco (COST) is growing and making more money during a pandemic., Does Mr. Market Overvalue Costco?, How Much Cash does Costco generate?', Overall, The Costco Ecosystem Grows, The Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ: COST)

Overall, Costco’s quarterly revenues grew from $39.072 billion on 29 February 2020 to $44.769 billion on 28 February 2021. Costco (COST) is growing and making more money during a pandemic.

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Will Costco make More Money?

July 9, 2018 daniel Can Instacart Save Costco from Amazon?, Costco, Costco Dividend, Costco is Huge, Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ: COST), free Instacart, free Instacart delivery, Instacart, Is Costco Making Money?, Is Costco’s Business Sustainable?, The Wonderful Costco Dividend, Will Costco make More Money?

Despite the success of Amazon, Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ: COST) is still one of the most followed retailers around. Costco can

Kroger’s Threat to Walmart, Target, Costco and Amazon Revealed

August 17, 2016 daniel Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Chipotle (NYSE: CMC), Costco, Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ: COST), Costco’s liquor business, Dollar General (NYSE: DG), Domino’s (NYSE: DPZ), How Kroger’s Marketplace Threatens Amazon, Kroger (NYSE: KR), Kroger Marketplace, Kroger’s gigantic Marketplace stores, Macy’s (NYSE: M), major threat to Whole Foods, Target (NYSE: TGT), Target and Walmart, Uber, Walmart (NYSE: WMT), Whole Foods Market (NASDAQ: WFM)

The Marketplace is also a potential threat to Amazon because it could be used as a combination store and fulfillment center; something that Kroger’s King Soopers subsidiary is already experimenting with in Denver. I’ve actually been shopping there and seen employees pulling online orders from the shelves.

Retail Consolidation is Killing Traditional Consumer Brands

July 1, 2016 daniel Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), AMZN, Campbell Soup (NYSE: CPB), Changing Consumer Behavior is Dooming Traditional Brands, Colgate-Palmolive (NYSE: CL), Costco, Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ: COST), Data Shows Traditional Brands are Doomed, General Mills (NYSE: GM), Kroger (NYSE: KR), Proctor & Gamble (NYSE: PG), Retail Consolidation is Killing Traditional Consumer Brands, Retail Consolidation is Killing Traditional Retail Brands, Traditional Brands are Doomed, Walmart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT)

The future for traditional consumer brands looks pretty dismal. Expect to see major consolidation in the consumer products industry in the near future, as companies like Kellogg have a difficult time maintaining market share.

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United Health Group – The Value in Health Insurance

November 12, 2015January 27, 2016 daniel A Potential Threat to UnitedHealth’s Future, Benjamin Graham, Berkshire Hathaway, Charley Munger, classic Buffett stock attribute, Costco, Disruptive Technology, government-financed, Single Payer Health Insurance, Uncle Warren, United Health Group – The Value in Health Insurance, UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH)., Value Investing, Warren Buffett, Why UHG Is a Better Stock Than Amazon, Why UnitedHealth Group Is Underpriced, Why UnitedHealth Qualifies as a Value Investment

Beyond the existential reasons, UnitedHealth is just a good basic stock. It gave investors a dividend yield of 1.51% and a return on equity of 18.71% on September 30. In contrast, Amazon paid no dividend and offered investors a return on equity of 2.92% on a stock that was trading at $657.02 a share on November 10, 2015.

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Some Modern-Day Widows and Orphans Stocks

November 5, 2015March 15, 2016 daniel A lot of cash, Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL), Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), Benjamin Graham, Berkshire Hathaway, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.B), Charley Munger, Costco, Disruptive Technology, GOOG, GOOGL, Google, Modern-Day Widows and Orphans Stocks, Mr. Market, Mr. Money Mustache, Some Modern-Day Widows and Orphans Stocks, Tech is where the money is these days, The best way to describe this company is as a money machine, The company formerly known as Google, Value Investing, Warren Buffett, What a Modern-Day Widows and Orphans Stock Would Look Like

The bottom line is that widows and orphans stocks still exist. You just have to know where to look for them.

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Target and Best Buy Could Get Desperate with Free Shipping Deals

October 28, 2015February 17, 2016 daniel Amazon, Amazon vs. Best Buy, Amazon vs. Target, Amazon vs. Walmart, AMZN, BBY, Berkshire Hathaway, brick-and-mortar retailers are even more desperate than we thought, COST, Costco, Free Shipping Deals, Free Shipping Wars, How Free Shipping Could Hurt Best Buy and Target, Retail Apocalypse, Retail Apocalypse Gets Worse, Target and Best Buy Could Get Desperate, Target and Best Buy Could Get Desperate with Free Shipping Deals, TGT, Value Investing, Why Target and Best Buy Cannot Compete with Amazon, Why Walmart Could Be Able to Compete with Amazon, WMT

The 2016 holidays and the free shipping offers may prove whether Target and Best Buy are going to be major players in the world of online retail or not. One just hopes that management teams are not betting the company on such offers. If they are, the death spiral could be closer than we think, especially for Target.

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Is American Express Really a Dying Brand?

October 26, 2015March 5, 2016 daniel AAPL, American Express could be a nice bargain stock, American Express Having Trouble Keeping Up, American Express is a very good company with a questionable future., American Express is still a great value investment., American Express is still a money machine, American Express is still a really good stock, American Express still has a lot of cash., Amex is still a really good long-term investment, AMZN, Apple Pay, Apple Stock, AXP, COST, Costco, How Apple Pay Could Save American Express, Is American Express Really a Dying Brand?, Uncle Warren is still right about American Express, Value Investing, Venmo, Warren Buffett, Why American Express could be a Great Value Investment

That means American Express could be a nice bargain stock at some point next year. It also means that Amex is still a really good long-term investment, even if it is no longer America’s favorite credit card.

Cisco Systems a Company with a Lot of Cash

October 8, 2015March 6, 2016 daniel (NASDAQ: CISCO), a Company with a Lot of Cash, AAPL, Berkshire Hathaway, CISCO, Cisco a fairly safe investment, Cisco is a great way to cash in on the new dotcom bubble, Cisco Systems, Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CISCO), Cisco Systems a Company with a Lot of Cash, Cisco Systems Is a Value Investment, Cisco Systems is also very much a value investment., Costco, Disruptive Technology, Value Investing, Warren Buffett, Why Cisco Systems Is a Value Investment

Cisco Systems is a value investment for a very simple reason. It is an infrastructure company: one of those great businesses that you do not see but is all around you, much like the pipeline and supply chain companies that Warren Buffett owns.

Housing Bubble in Canada

September 30, 2015November 12, 2016 daniel Berkshire Hathaway, Charley Munger, COST, Costco, Disruptive Technology, GOOG, Housing Bubble, Housing Bubble in Canada, Is Canada’s Housing Crisis our Future?, Mr. Money Mustache

One reason why housing is not on the U.S. national agenda is that for most Americans, there is no housing shortage. A quick look at Zillow indicates that prices are actually falling in many markets, including regions in Colorado that are a little over a hundred miles from the red-hot Denver market.

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