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$130 for a hoodie, $68 for a tee, $65 for a hat… the game is cooked

if only marvel had a team of four astronauts that all wore blue and also had a movie come out recently

Your childhood in 1 picture

Your Costco membership costs $65. Fill up once a week, save about 25 cents a gallon on a 15-gallon tank, and you pocket $195 a year in gas savings. The membership pays for itself by April. Costco barely breaks even on every gallon it pumps. The $65 fee is the actual product they're selling you. Gas stations sit at 747 of Costco's 914 warehouses. Last year, fuel accounted for about $27 billion, or around 10% of the company's total sales of $270 billion. But a Wall Street analyst at Mizuho put it bluntly: Costco earns "penny profits" per gallon. They move 8 billion gallons a year, enough to fill about 12,000 Olympic swimming pools, and the fuel itself barely moves the needle on their bottom line. The money comes from membership fees. Fees make up just 2% of what Costco collects, but they generate 73% of the company's gross profit (the cash left over after paying for everything they sell). 90% of US members renew each year. 147 million people worldwide carry the card. Cheap gas makes the membership feel worth it, and the membership fee funds almost the entire business. That math explains why Costco is now opening a gas station with no warehouse attached. The location is in Mission Viejo, California, on the lot where a Bed Bath and Beyond used to sit. Forty pumps, 17,000 square feet, members only, opening late June. Costco's chief financial officer said on the company's most recent quarterly earnings report that about half of all members who gas up at Costco also walk into the warehouse and buy something. A standalone station kills that shopping trip entirely. Walking away from billions in in-store spending looks crazy at first glance. But gas prices are running $3.98 a gallon nationally right now, up 27% from last year because of the Iran war. The gap between Costco and the Chevron down the street can hit 20 to 30 cents per gallon at those prices. A standalone Costco pump in a busy suburb is the cheapest billboard the company has ever built. Every driver who sees those lower prices has a reason to get a membership. Every member who fills up has a reason to keep renewing at $65 next year. The station doesn't need to sell groceries. It needs to protect the fee that funds 73% of Costco's profit. A second standalone is already under construction in Honolulu, set to open in 2027. If both work, Costco can start pushing into crowded cities where a full-sized warehouse (about three football fields of floor space) would never fit, but a gas canopy on a dead retail lot will. Costco figured out how to charge you $65 for the privilege of buying cheaper gas, then use that $65 to fund three-quarters of their profit. The standalone station is the same play, just without the warehouse in between.

This is probably the worst opinion I’ve ever seen on the internet

I’m really starting to understand why the elites view us as cattle the way you mfers act.

They killed A LOT of ppl to achieve this.

i’m so confused how long are yall going to the gym for

They brought back Terry Silver in Cobra Kai!

MASTERS PRICING 🥪 2016 vs. 2026

Margiela Replicas are the perfect office shoes.

There’s an epidemic of draft people who don’t watch college football

It’s genuinely nasty.

Astronaut Charles Duke left a photo of his family on the Moon during the Apollo 16 mission in 1972.

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Oh man, she was never acting was she?🤯 😅🤣

Can you welcome some grocery stores east of the Potomac ms kinky twists

@nabb_melo 5 days

So What's the perfect vacation length? A. 2-3 days B. 5 days C. 7 days or longer

She’s dead