Costco CFO Richard Galanti confirmed the price will stay the same during an earnings call.
Thursday, Costco Chief Financial Officer Richard Galanti said the big-box warehouse giant would not raise the price on the food deal, which still sells for $1.50 at the store’s food courts nationwide.
Scot Ciccarelli, an analyst from Truist Securities, asked Galanti if Costco was adjusting prices in other parts of its business to maintain sales margins for its hot dog-and-soda deal and other value offerings like rotisserie chicken, which still retails for $4.99. “Lightning just struck me,” Galanti joked. “No. We don’t -- we really don’t look at it that way. I think, the thing I mentioned earlier about there are some businesses that are doing well with margin like gas business on a smaller way -- in the travel business, those things help us be more aggressive in other areas, or as you mentioned, hold the price on the hot dog and the soda a little longer, forever.
“And -- but at the end of the day, no, I don’t think we necessarily look to find places where we can harvest margin. But we are -- there are different areas.”in July that the price would not rise.Other items in the food court have risen due to inflation, however. Over the summer, Costco raised the price of 20-ounce sodas to 50 cents, a dime increase,Latest trending news:
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