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From full global headquarters, this is Motley Fool Money.

It's the Motley Fool Money Radio Show. I'm Chris L. Joining me in studio this week,

seeing their analysts Andy Cross, Emily Flippin, and Ron Gross. Good to see you as always.

Hey Chris. We've got the latest headlines from Wall Street.

We will head to Las Vegas for a report on this year's CES.

And as always, we'll give you an inside look at the stocks on our radar.

But we begin with retail, a whole lot of retail, Ron.

But we'll start with Costco. Same store sales for December, up 9% that is 2%

percentage points higher than Wall Street was expecting.

I was telling you before we started, I don't think of Costco as a retailer

that needs to or necessarily actually crushes holiday quarters or months in this case.

But holy cow, they really nailed it.

Never underestimate, never underestimate the power of toys, candy, and alcohol.

Because that was getting the job done in December.

And it's a really strong period for them. But I agree, the company doesn't rely on it.

It's not a kind of a black Friday kind of situation where they have to wait for the holiday season to become profitable.

They're profitable consistently. Thanks largely to their subscription based model,

not the fact that they're a retailer and rely on the sale of goods to become profitable.

But this was really strong. Love to see their internet sales really be robust, up 43% in December.

That's important for a company like Costco, which has to compete in the world of Amazon.

Well, especially because they had a little e-commerce blip during the Thanksgiving period as we talked about before.

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