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6. Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ:COST)

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Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ:COST) is a discount retailer that is one of the few in its industry that Cramer is optimistic about. The past year, which has seen consumers struggle with inflation, has allowed the firm to leverage its scale to attract price-weary customers to its stores. Cramer’s previous comments about Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ:COST) have shared that the firm can also use its scale to keep prices low if inflation continues to rise in today’s tariff era. He has also praised Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ:COST)’s management and touted the stock’s potential as a buy. Here are his latest comments:

“All those companies have been downbeat. At one point another they’re talking about smaller sizes. Talking about [the] other word that was used on the Costco quarter which I found disturbing frankly was ‘choiceful.’ I mean cause choiceful means, you know what, I’m gonna take a look and if, uh, Scott Paper Towels are thirty cents more than Kirkland Signature, I’m gonna buy the Kirkland Signature. You know I think that one of the things you’re never gonna hear anyone say is, you know what, consumers have become very profligate. Consumers are really looking at prices.”

“[On how at one point the sentiment was that consumers would pay anything for a cruise] Well there was and the travel was at any price. But I will say we gotta get a little back to the idea that when you question someone you can make that question done in a way that makes you feel that things have gotten tougher.”