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Grab Your Groceries

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

The Motley Fool

Business, Investing

4.33.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

More of us are going to Walmart, but Aldi just made a big move that has put it on the radar of Big Grocery. Bill Barker and Deidre Woollard discuss: - Whether Walmart is learning from grocers or grocers are learning from Walmart. - If an Aldi acquisition spells the end of the beloved Winn-Dixie brand. - Why Amazon has struggled with getting grocery right. Companies discussed: WMT, TGT, KR, ACI, AMZN Host: Deidre Woollard Guest: Bill Barker Producer: Ricky Mulvey Engineer: Dan Boyd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The grocery wars are on. Motley full money starts now.

0:21.0

Welcome to Motley full money. I'm Dee Drobuller here with Bill Barker. Bill, how are you today?

0:25.3

I'm well, thanks for asking. I do hear it. We're sort of wrapping up retail week here with Walmart.

0:32.1

For me, it's the it's the biggest bell weather. On the show yesterday, we had Jason Moser, Dylan Lewis.

0:37.3

They talked Target. The news was not so great for Target, but Walmart delivered today.

0:43.0

So literally in this case, not only were comparable sales up 6.4%, but E-commerce was up 24%.

0:49.9

Feels like it's been a bit of a long journey for Walmart and E-commerce, but I don't know. I think

0:54.8

they may have figured it out. What do you think? Yeah, they, I mean, up 24% is an awfully good number

1:01.5

and supportive of the continued growth here, the opportunities that they have somewhat later

1:10.8

to the game than they might have been, but that just gives them more room to grow from here.

1:15.6

I mean, I feel like the jet.com thing when that happened, there was a lot of,

1:20.5

like, oh, that's a lot of money to pay, but eventually it all worked out.

1:25.4

Yeah, yeah, I think it's the future. It's the present. They were about one step in the past,

1:33.6

for a while there behind the game on E-commerce, but I don't think that going forward,

1:40.3

there going to be anything other than a major player. Yeah, and I'm excited to see how much

1:45.5

membership has sort of grown as well. So, I mean, they're not prime yet, but can't count them out

1:52.2

either. They're not prime. They're doing just about everything right now. It's reflective in the

2:01.0

stock, which was hitting all time highs last week, sold off a little bit today, despite the

2:07.7

good earnings report and upgraded guidance. A lot of good news, but when you're at an all-time

2:15.4

high, then maybe you are just happy to stay close to it after you've reported earnings.

2:22.2

Yeah, this season has been interesting with good results, and then the market is maybe not

2:26.7

such a big fan. But I think one of the differences between Walmart and Target is groceries. So,

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