{"id":221866,"date":"2026-04-24T00:48:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=221866"},"modified":"2026-04-24T00:48:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:48:46","slug":"costco-turns-a-controversial-bet-into-a-surprising-sales-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=221866","title":{"rendered":"Costco turns a controversial bet into a surprising sales win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Costco has never been afraid to lean into trends. Whether that means adding Dubai chocolate or whatever the latest culinary trend might be, the warehouse club tries to offer the items its members want. Over the past couple of years that has included gold bars, which some consider an investment and &#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestreet.com\/retail\/costco-turns-a-controversial-bet-into-a-surprising-sales-win\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Costco has never been afraid to lean into trends. Whether that means adding Dubai chocolate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uae"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221866-costco-turns-a-controversial-bet-into-a-surprising-sales-win.jpg",1536,864,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221866-costco-turns-a-controversial-bet-into-a-surprising-sales-win-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221866-costco-turns-a-controversial-bet-into-a-surprising-sales-win-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221866-costco-turns-a-controversial-bet-into-a-surprising-sales-win-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221866-costco-turns-a-controversial-bet-into-a-surprising-sales-win-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221866-costco-turns-a-controversial-bet-into-a-surprising-sales-win.jpg",1536,864,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221866-costco-turns-a-controversial-bet-into-a-surprising-sales-win.jpg",1536,864,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221866-costco-turns-a-controversial-bet-into-a-surprising-sales-win-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221866-costco-turns-a-controversial-bet-into-a-surprising-sales-win-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/221866-costco-turns-a-controversial-bet-into-a-surprising-sales-win-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=32\" rel=\"category\">United Arab Emirates<\/a>","tag_info":"United Arab Emirates","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/221867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}