{"id":354200,"date":"2025-12-17T14:16:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T14:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/354200\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T14:16:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T14:16:19","slug":"costco-boasts-record-breaking-sales-in-q1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/354200\/","title":{"rendered":"Costco boasts record-breaking sales in Q1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.retailcustomerexperience.com\/topics\/omnichannel-retail\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Omnichannel<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cover_image__PlQOzxUK__AdobeStock_510381429_Editorial_U.jpeg.960x540_q85_crop_upscale.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Cris C. &#8211; stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n<p class=\"mute fs-sr mt-3\">December 17, 2025<\/p>\n<p>The first quarter of 2026 reveals Costco hit record-breaking sales in what industry watchers state was a stronger than expected earning period.<\/p>\n<p>Costco reported revenue of $67.31 billion, and earnings came in at $4.50 per share, topping estimates of $4.27.<\/p>\n<p>In its earnings call Costco CFO Gary Millerchip noted several &#8220;fun facts,&#8221; about the holiday season, according to a Fox Business <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/retail\/costco-shatters-records-massive-pizza-pie-sales-holiday-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pizza popularity: 358,000 were served at U.S. food courts, a 31% jump over 2024.Thanksgiving: 4.5 million pies sold in the three days before Thanksgiving.Black Friday: More than $250 million in non-food online orders \u2014 a record for Costco&#8217;s U.S. e-commerce business.Costco is also suing the federal government to block President Donald Trump&#8217;s emergency tariffs and recover the funds the retailer says it was improperly required to pay for imported goods.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes on the heels of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retailcustomerexperience.com\/news\/costco-sues-trump-over-tariffs-citing-overreach\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Costco suing the Trump administration<\/a> claiming President Donald Trump exceeded executive authoring in enacting tariffs and misused the International Emergency Economic Power Act.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Omnichannel Photo: Cris C. &#8211; stock.adobe.com December 17, 2025 The first quarter of 2026 reveals Costco hit record-breaking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-354200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}