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Costco and Walmart offer terrific private label products that appeal to consumer starved for value after products were hiked during Covid. True, private label brands aren't growing much, but they keep all prices--including consumer brands--down. The brands are one reason why Costco and Walmart keep hitting new highs.
By and large, commercial real estate landlords do consider this name to be in the grocery space. It's doing a better and better job of that. But not a pure-play grocery. He thinks of defensive, grocery-anchored shopping centres as neighbourhood, urban, smaller centres -- where you can get a haircut and do other errands that can't be done online.
Is the world's largest company by revenue with an amazing chart, up since January. They overhauled and improved their e-commerce and integrated high-margin revenue streams such as ads and membership services. They launched their AI logistics tool to improve delivery efficiency, so this translates into more revenues. Take some profits now after this strong run, though the street sees 5% more upside.