It's Thursday January 9th.

Welcome to Market Foolry.

I'm Chris Hill with me in studio.

The one and only, Abby Mallon.

Thanks for being here.

Thanks for having me.

We've got some retail news.

We're going to dip into the full mailbag. Let's start with Costco.

Same store sales for Costco in December up 9%. That is 2 percentage points higher than Wall Street was expecting and no surprise shares of Costco up a little bit today.

I mean, that's a nice start to the fiscal quarter.

Definitely, so the net sales for December were actually 17 billion dollars and that's actually up 10.5% over last year's results. So really fantastic quarter for them.

And I don't, you know, we talk all the time about when it comes to retail, the holiday season

is so important.

I don't think of Costco, I think of Costco is just like a year-round retailer. I don't think of Christmas gifts.

Yeah, I don't think even though I know they have that, but I don't think in terms of boy

they better nail it in December but they did.

Yeah I mean I think the standout here was really the e-commerce segment so that was up

about 43% in the past five weeks.

Notably 20 percentage points of that was attributable to Black Friday and Cyber

Monday. So that's your big technology purchases, so your computers, your TVs, things like that,

which I think those come at opportunistic moments for people or those

purchases do, and so when you see big sales you can expect that Costco is going to be taking

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