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| Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST) Q1 2026 Earnings Call December 11, 2025 5:00 PM EST Company Participants Gary Millerchip - Executive VP & CFO Ron Vachris - President, CEO & Director Conference Call Participants Michael Lasser - UBS Investment Bank, Research Division Christopher Horvers - JPMorgan Chase & Co, Research Division Simeon Gutman - Morgan Stanley, Research Division Oliver Chen - TD Cowen, Research Division Charles Grom - Gordon Haskett Research Advisors Katharine McShane - Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division Peter Benedict - Robert W. Baird & Co. | ์ฝ์คํธ์ฝ ํ์ธ์ผ ์ฝํผ๋ ์ด์
(COST) 2026 ํ๊ณ์ฐ๋ 1๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ค์ ๋ฐํ ์ปจํผ๋ฐ์ค ์ฝ 2025๋ 12์ 11์ผ ์คํ 5์ (๋ฏธ ๋๋ถ ํ์ค์) ํ์ฌ ์ฐธ์์ ๊ฒ๋ฆฌ ๋ฐ๋ฌ์นฉ - ์ ๋ฌด์ด์ฌ ๊ฒธ ์ต๊ณ ์ฌ๋ฌด์ฑ ์์ ๋ก ๋ฐํฌ๋ฆฌ์ค - ์ฌ์ฅ, ์ต๊ณ ๊ฒฝ์์ ๊ฒธ ์ด์ฌ ์ปจํผ๋ฐ์ค ์ฝ ์ฐธ์ฌ ์ ๋๋ฆฌ์คํธ ๋ง์ดํด ๋์ - UBS ์ธ๋ฒ ์คํธ๋จผํธ ๋ฑ ํฌ, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์คํ ํผ ํธ๋ฒ์ค - JP๋ชจ๊ฑด ์ฒด์ด์ค ์ค ์ปดํผ๋, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ ์๋ฉ์จ ๊ฑฐํธ๋จผ - ๋ชจ๊ฑด ์คํ ๋ฆฌ, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฒ ์ฒธ - TD ์ฝ์ฌ, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ ์ฐฐ์ค ๊ทธ๋กฌ - ๊ณ ๋ ํด์ค์ผ ๋ฆฌ์์น ์ด๋๋ฐ์ด์ ์ค ์บ์๋ฆฐ ๋งฅ์ ฐ์ธ - ๊ณจ๋๋ง ์ญ์ค ๊ทธ๋ฃน, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ ํผํฐ ๋ฒ ๋ค๋ํธ - ๋ก๋ฒํธ W. ๋ฒ ์ด๋ ์ค ์ปดํผ๋ |
| Incorporated, Research Division John Heinbockel - Guggenheim Securities, LLC, Research Division Rupesh Parikh - Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., Research Division Gregory Melich - Evercore ISI Institutional Equities, Research Division Edward Kelly - Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division Zhihan Ma - Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., LLC., Research Division Scot Ciccarelli - Truist Securities, Inc., Research Division David Bellinger - Mizuho Securities USA LLC, Research Division Kelly Bania - BMO Capital Markets Equity Research Spencer Hanus - Wolfe Research, LLC Presentation Operator Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. My name is Abby, and I will be your conference operator today. | ์ ์ฌ ์๋
์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ, ๋๊ธฐํด ์ฃผ์
์ ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. ์ ๋ Abby์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ค๋ ์ปจํผ๋ฐ์ค ์งํ์ ๋งก๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. [์ฐธ์์ ๋ช ๋จ] John Heinbockel - ๊ตฌ๊ฒํ์ ์ฆ๊ถ, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ Rupesh Parikh - ์คํํ์ด๋จธ ์ค ์ปดํผ๋, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ Gregory Melich - ์๋ฒ์ฝ์ด ISI ๊ธฐ๊ดํฌ์์ ์ฃผ์ ๋ถ๋ฌธ Edward Kelly - ์ฐ์คํ๊ณ ์ฆ๊ถ, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ Zhihan Ma - ์ํฌ๋ C. ๋ฒ์คํ์ธ ์ค ์ปดํผ๋, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ Scot Ciccarelli - ํธ๋ฃจ์ด์คํธ ์ฆ๊ถ, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ David Bellinger - ๋ฏธ์ฆํธ ์ฆ๊ถ USA, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ Kelly Bania - BMO ์บํผํธ ๋ง์ผ ์ฃผ์ ๋ฆฌ์์น Spencer Hanus - ์ธํ ๋ฆฌ์์น [๋ฐํ] ์ฌํ์ |
| At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to the Costco Wholesale Corporation First Quarter 2026 Earnings Call. [Operator Instructions] Thank you. And I would now like to turn the conference over to Gary Millerchip, Chief Financial Officer. You may begin. Gary Millerchip Executive VP & CFO Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining us for Costco's First Quarter 2026 Earnings Call. I'd like to start by reminding you that these discussions will include forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. | ์๋
ํ์ญ๋๊น, ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ. ์ฝ์คํธ์ฝ ํ์ธ์ผ ์ฝํผ๋ ์ด์
์ 2026 ํ๊ณ์ฐ๋ 1๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ค์ ๋ฐํ ์ปจํผ๋ฐ์ค ์ฝ์ ์ค์ ๊ฒ์ ํ์ํฉ๋๋ค. [์ด์์ ์๋ด์ฌํญ] ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. ์ด์ ๊ฒ๋ฆฌ ๋ฐ๋ฌ์นฉ ์ต๊ณ ์ฌ๋ฌด์ฑ ์์์๊ฒ ํ์๋ฅผ ๋๊ธฐ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์์ํ์๊ธฐ ๋ฐ๋๋๋ค. ๊ฒ๋ฆฌ ๋ฐ๋ฌ์นฉ ์ ๋ฌด์ด์ฌ ๊ฒธ ์ต๊ณ ์ฌ๋ฌด์ฑ ์์ ์๋ ํ์ญ๋๊น, ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ. ์ฝ์คํธ์ฝ์ 2026 ํ๊ณ์ฐ๋ 1๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ค์ ๋ฐํ ์ปจํผ๋ฐ์ค ์ฝ์ ์ฐธ์ํด ์ฃผ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. ๋จผ์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ถ์ ๊ฒ์, ์ค๋ ๋ ผ์ ๋ด์ฉ์๋ 1995๋ ์ฆ๊ถ๋ฏผ์ฌ์์ก๊ฐํ๋ฒ(Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995)์ ์๋ฏธ ๋ด์์ ๋ฏธ๋์์ธก์ง์ (forward-looking statements)์ด ํฌํจ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ผ๋ ์ ์ ๋๋ค. |
| These statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual events, results and/or performance to differ materially from those indicated by such statements. The risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those outlined in today's call, as well as other risks identified from time to time in the company's public statements and reports filed with the SEC. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made, and the company does not undertake to update these statements, except as required by law. | ์ด๋ฌํ ์ง์ ๋ค์ ์ค์ ์ฌ๊ฑด, ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ๋ฐ/๋๋ ์ฑ๊ณผ๊ฐ ํด๋น ์ง์ ์์ ๋ํ๋ ๊ฒ๊ณผ ์ค๋ํ๊ฒ ๋ค๋ฅผ ์ ์๋ ์ํ๊ณผ ๋ถํ์ค์ฑ์ ํฌํจํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฌํ ์ํ๊ณผ ๋ถํ์ค์ฑ์๋ ์ค๋ ์ปจํผ๋ฐ์ค ์ฝ์์ ์ธ๊ธ๋ ๋ด์ฉ๋ฟ๋ง ์๋๋ผ, ํ์ฌ๊ฐ ์์๋ก ๊ณต๊ฐ ์ฑ๋ช ์ ๋ฐ SEC์ ์ ์ถํ ๋ณด๊ณ ์์์ ์๋ณํ ๊ธฐํ ์ํ๋ค์ด ํฌํจ๋๋ ์ด์ ๊ตญํ๋์ง ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฏธ๋์์ธก์ง์ ์ ํด๋น ์ง์ ์ด ์ด๋ฃจ์ด์ง ๋ ์ง๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ์ค์ผ๋ก๋ง ์ ํจํ๋ฉฐ, ํ์ฌ๋ ๋ฒ๋ฅ ์์ ์๊ตฌํ๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ๋ฅผ ์ ์ธํ๊ณ ๋ ์ด๋ฌํ ์ง์ ์ ์ ๋ฐ์ดํธํ ์๋ฌด๋ฅผ ์ง์ง ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Comparable sales and comparable sales, excluding impacts from changes in gasoline prices and foreign exchange, are intended as supplemental information and are not a substitute for net sales presented in accordance with GAAP. Before we dive into our financial results, I'm delighted to say that Ron Vachris is once again joining me for today's call. I'll now hand over to Ron for some opening comments. Ron Vachris President, CEO & Director Thank you, Gary, and good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us today. I'll start with a few brief comments on some of our key growth initiatives before turning it back to Gary to discuss the results of the quarter. | ๋น๊ต ๋งค์ถ๊ณผ ํ๋ฐ์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ๋ฐ ํ์จ ๋ณ๋ ์ํฅ์ ์ ์ธํ ๋น๊ต ๋งค์ถ์ ๋ณด์ถฉ ์ ๋ณด๋ก ์ ๊ณต๋๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ฉฐ, GAAP์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ์ ์๋ ์๋งค์ถ์ ๋์ฒดํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์๋๋๋ค. ์ฌ๋ฌด ์ค์ ์ ์์ธํ ์ดํด๋ณด๊ธฐ ์ ์, Ron Vachris๊ฐ ์ค๋ ์ปจํผ๋ฐ์ค ์ฝ์ ๋ค์ ํจ๊ปํด ์ฃผ์
์ ๊ธฐ์๊ฒ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. ์ด์ Ron์๊ฒ ์คํ๋ ์ฝ๋ฉํธ๋ฅผ ๋ถํ๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. Ron Vachris ์ฌ์ฅ, CEO ๊ฒธ ์ด์ฌ Gary, ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ, ์๋ ํ์ญ๋๊น. ์ค๋ ์ฐธ์ํด ์ฃผ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. ๋จผ์ ์ฃผ์ ์ฑ์ฅ ์ ๋ต์ ๋ํด ๊ฐ๋จํ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฐ ํ, Gary์๊ฒ ๋ค์ ๋๊ฒจ ๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ค์ ์ ๋ํด ๋ ผ์ํ๋๋ก ํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
| In Q1, we opened 8 new warehouses, including a relocation in Canada, our third warehouse in France, 4 net new U.S. locations and 2 additional Canadian business centers. This brings our total warehouse count to 921 worldwide. We continue to see significant opportunities for future warehouse growth, both domestically and across the international markets and where we operate. While delays with a couple of our buildings in Spain resulted in us revising our planned net new openings for fiscal year '26 down to 28, we continue to plan for 30-plus net openings per year in future years. | 1๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์บ๋๋ค์ ์ด์ ๋งค์ฅ 1๊ฐ๋ฅผ ํฌํจํ์ฌ 8๊ฐ์ ์ ๊ท ์ฐฝ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ์คํํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฌ๊ธฐ์๋ ํ๋์ค์ ์ธ ๋ฒ์งธ ์ฐฝ๊ณ , ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ ์์ฆ 4๊ฐ ๋งค์ฅ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์บ๋๋ค์ ์ถ๊ฐ ๋น์ฆ๋์ค ์ผํฐ 2๊ฐ๊ฐ ํฌํจ๋ฉ๋๋ค. ์ด๋ก์จ ์ ์ธ๊ณ ์ด ์ฐฝ๊ณ ์๋ 921๊ฐ๊ฐ ๋์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ตญ๋ด์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ด์ํ๋ ํด์ธ ์์ฅ ๋ชจ๋์์ ํฅํ ์ฐฝ๊ณ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ์ํ ์๋นํ ๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ ๊ณ์ ๋ณด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์คํ์ธ์ ๋ช๋ช ๊ฑด๋ฌผ ์ง์ฐ์ผ๋ก ์ธํด 2026 ํ๊ณ์ฐ๋ ๊ณํ๋ ์์ฆ ์คํ ์๋ฅผ 28๊ฐ๋ก ํํฅ ์กฐ์ ํ์ง๋ง, ํฅํ ์ฐ๋์๋ ์ฐ๊ฐ 30๊ฐ ์ด์์ ์์ฆ ์คํ์ ๊ณ์ ๊ณํํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| We've increased the size of our real estate team to support this goal and without compromising on quality, we're being creative with real estate projects to further increase the potential for future growth. Recent examples of this include our new warehouse in Mulhouse, France, where we converted an old Hypermart into a Costco warehouse as well as 2 Canadian business centers that opened in the last month, both of which were refurbished home improvement warehouses. This approach broadens our options for market expansion and lowers the capital investment required. | ์ด๋ฌํ ๋ชฉํ๋ฅผ ์ง์ํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ๋ถ๋์ฐ ํ์ ๊ท๋ชจ๋ฅผ ํ๋ํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ํ์ง ์ ํ ์์ด ๋ถ๋์ฐ ํ๋ก์ ํธ์์ ์ฐฝ์์ ์ธ ์ ๊ทผ์ ํตํด ํฅํ ์ฑ์ฅ ์ ์ฌ๋ ฅ์ ๋์ฑ ๋์ด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ต๊ทผ ์ฌ๋ก๋ก๋ ํ๋์ค ๋ฎ๋ฃจ์ฆ์ ์ ๊ท ์ฐฝ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์๋๋ฐ, ์ด๊ณณ์ ๊ธฐ์กด ๋ํ๋งํธ๋ฅผ ์ฝ์คํธ์ฝ ์ฐฝ๊ณ ๋ก ์ ํํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ํ ์ง๋๋ฌ ์คํํ ์บ๋๋ค์ 2๊ฐ ๋น์ฆ๋์ค ์ผํฐ๋ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ธฐ์กด ์ฃผํ๊ฐ์ ์ฉํ ์ฐฝ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ๋ฆฌ๋ชจ๋ธ๋งํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฌํ ์ ๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์์ ์์ฅ ํ์ฅ์ ์ํ ์ ํ์ง๋ฅผ ๋ํ๊ณ ํ์ํ ์๋ณธ ํฌ์๋ฅผ ๋ฎ์ถฐ์ค๋๋ค. |
| In addition to opening net new buildings, we will continue to relocate select high-volume warehouses to larger locations with more parking and expanded gas stations. By doing this, we're able to provide a better experience for our members and significantly accelerate sales growth in those markets. In fiscal year '26, we have 5 relocations planned, including 3 in the U.S. and 1 each in Canada and Taiwan. The success of our new warehouse expansion has allowed us to consistently drive top line revenue well in excess of our comparable sales and gain significant market share. We continue to see improvements in the performance of our new buildings and a reduction in their time to maturity. | ์ ๊ท ๊ฑด๋ฌผ ์์ฆ ์ธ์๋, ์ผ๋ถ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ์ด ๋ง์ ์ฐฝ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ๋ ๋์ ์ฃผ์ฐจ ๊ณต๊ฐ๊ณผ ํ์ฅ๋ ์ฃผ์ ์๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ถ ๋ํ ๋งค์ฅ์ผ๋ก ์ด์ ํ ๊ณํ์ ๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฅผ ํตํด ํ์๋ค์๊ฒ ๋ ๋์ ๊ฒฝํ์ ์ ๊ณตํ๊ณ ํด๋น ์์ฅ์์ ๋งค์ถ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ํฌ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ํํ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. 2026 ํ๊ณ์ฐ๋์๋ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ 3๊ฐ, ์บ๋๋ค์ ๋๋ง ๊ฐ 1๊ฐ๋ฅผ ํฌํจํ์ฌ ์ด 5๊ฐ์ ์ด์ ์ด ๊ณํ๋์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ ๊ท ์ฐฝ๊ณ ํ์ฅ์ ์ฑ๊ณต์ผ๋ก ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ธฐ์กด์ ๋งค์ถ์ ํจ์ฌ ์ํํ๋ ๋งค์ถ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ฌ์ฑํ๊ณ ์๋นํ ์์ฅ ์ ์ ์จ์ ํ๋ณดํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ ๊ท ๋งค์ฅ์ ์ฑ๊ณผ๋ ๊ณ์ ๊ฐ์ ๋๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ฑ์ ๋จ๊ณ์ ๋๋ฌํ๋ ์๊ฐ๋ ๋จ์ถ๋๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| With fiscal year '25 openings generating an annualized $192 million per warehouse of sales in the year of opening, that is up from $150 million for new warehouses opened just 2 years earlier. Turning to digital. Our digital vision at Costco is to deliver a seamless experience that builds trust and loyalty with our members, both in warehouse and online. We aim to make the shopping at Costco easier, faster and more personal, no matter where or how our members choose to shop. | 25 ํ๊ณ์ฐ๋ ์ ๊ท ์คํ ๋งค์ฅ์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ, ๊ฐ์ ์ฒซ ํด ์ฐ๊ฐ ๋งค์ถ์ด ๋งค์ฅ๋น 1์ต 9,200๋ง ๋ฌ๋ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ ๋ถ๊ณผ 2๋ ์ ์ ๊ท ์คํ ๋งค์ฅ์ 1์ต 5,000๋ง ๋ฌ๋ฌ์์ ์ฆ๊ฐํ ์์น์ ๋๋ค. ๋์งํธ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์ผ๋ก ๋์ด๊ฐ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฝ์คํธ์ฝ์ ๋์งํธ ๋น์ ์ ๋งค์ฅ๊ณผ ์จ๋ผ์ธ ๋ชจ๋์์ ํ์๋ค๊ณผ์ ์ ๋ขฐ์ ์ถฉ์ฑ๋๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถํ๋ ์ํํ ๊ฒฝํ์ ์ ๊ณตํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ํ์๋ค์ด ์ด๋์, ์ด๋ค ๋ฐฉ์์ผ๋ก ์ผํํ๋ ์ฝ์คํธ์ฝ์์์ ์ผํ์ ๋ ์ฝ๊ณ , ๋ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ณ , ๋ ๊ฐ์ธํ๋๋๋ก ๋ง๋๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ชฉํ๋ก ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| This isn't about technology for technology's sake, it's about using technology to strengthen the fundamentals that makes Costco who we are, increasing member loyalty, driving top line sales and improving efficiency in our operations so that we can bring goods to market at the lowest possible price. Progress has already begun and is delivering tangible results. In the warehouse implementation of scanning memberships at entry, the Costco Digital Wallet and pre-scanning small- to medium-sized baskets is leading to better member experience and improved productivity. The warehouses that are first to adopt this pre-scan technology have shown checkout speed improvements of up to 20%. | ์ด๊ฒ์ ๊ธฐ์ ์ ์ํ ๊ธฐ์ ์ด ์๋๋ผ, ์ฝ์คํธ์ฝ๋ฅผ ์ฝ์คํธ์ฝ๋ต๊ฒ ๋ง๋๋ ๊ทผ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ์์๋ค์ ๊ฐํํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ๊ธฐ์ ์ ํ์ฉํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ํ์ ์ถฉ์ฑ๋๋ฅผ ๋์ด๊ณ , ๋งค์ถ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๊ฒฌ์ธํ๋ฉฐ, ์ด์ ํจ์จ์ฑ์ ๊ฐ์ ํ์ฌ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ ์ต์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ผ๋ก ์ํ์ ์์ฅ์ ๊ณต๊ธํ ์ ์๋๋ก ํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฏธ ์ง์ ์ด ์์๋์๊ณ ์ค์ง์ ์ธ ์ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐฝ๊ณ ๋ด์์ ์ ์ฅ ์ ํ์๊ถ ์ค์บ, ์ฝ์คํธ์ฝ ๋์งํธ ์๋ , ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ํ์์ ์คํ ์ฅ๋ฐ๊ตฌ๋์ ๋ํ ์ฌ์ ์ค์บ ๊ตฌํ์ ๋ ๋์ ํ์ ๊ฒฝํ๊ณผ ์์ฐ์ฑ ํฅ์์ผ๋ก ์ด์ด์ง๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด ์ฌ์ ์ค์บ ๊ธฐ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ๋จผ์ ๋์ ํ ์ฐฝ๊ณ ๋ค์ ์ต๋ 20%์ ๊ณ์ฐ๋ ์ฒ๋ฆฌ ์๋ ๊ฐ์ ์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| And across our U.S. warehouses overall, we achieved record levels of checkout productivity in the final weeks of the quarter. Online, we continue to make enhancements to improve the member experience on our site and app. As an example, this quarter, we launched new personalization capabilities that provide members with more relevant product recommendations based on their past search history. The sales lift from this enhancement has been very positive. AI is also being interwoven into our business where we believe it can strengthen our model. Again, we're approaching it in a very Costco way, practical, member-focused and grounded in tangible business value. | ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ ์ญ์ ์ฐฝ๊ณ ์ ๋ฐ์์ ๋ถ๊ธฐ ๋ง์ง๋ง ๋ช ์ฃผ ๋์ ์ฒดํฌ์์ ์์ฐ์ฑ์ด ๊ธฐ๋ก์ ์ธ ์์ค์ ๋ฌ์ฑํ์ต๋๋ค. ์จ๋ผ์ธ์์๋ ์ฌ์ดํธ์ ์ฑ์์ ํ์ ๊ฒฝํ์ ๊ฐ์ ํ๊ธฐ ์ํ ๊ฐ์ ์์ ์ ์ง์ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์๋ฅผ ๋ค์ด, ์ด๋ฒ ๋ถ๊ธฐ์๋ ํ์์ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ๊ฒ์ ๊ธฐ๋ก์ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ผ๋ก ๋ ๊ด๋ จ์ฑ ๋์ ์ ํ ์ถ์ฒ์ ์ ๊ณตํ๋ ์๋ก์ด ๊ฐ์ธํ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์ ์ถ์ํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฌํ ๊ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ธํ ๋งค์ถ ์ฆ๊ฐ๋ ๋งค์ฐ ๊ธ์ ์ ์ด์์ต๋๋ค. AI ์ญ์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ชจ๋ธ์ ๊ฐํํ ์ ์๋ค๊ณ ๋ฏฟ๋ ๋ถ๋ถ์์ ๋น์ฆ๋์ค์ ํตํฉ๋๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ค์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ์ง๋ง, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋งค์ฐ ์ฝ์คํธ์ฝ๋ค์ด ๋ฐฉ์์ผ๋ก ์ ๊ทผํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค - ์ค์ฉ์ ์ด๊ณ , ํ์ ์ค์ฌ์ ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ค์ง์ ์ธ ๋น์ฆ๋์ค ๊ฐ์น์ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ ๋๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| An early use case has involved integrating AI into our pharmacy inventory system. This system now compares prescription drug pricing across vendors and autonomously and predictively reorders inventory, improving our in-stocks to more than 98%. This change has played an important role in helping us achieve mid-teen growth in pharmacy scripts filled and has improved margins while lowering prices to our members. We're now in the process of deploying AI tools in our gas business, which we expect will improve inventory management and drive incremental sales by ensuring we are always delivering the best value to our members. | ์ด๊ธฐ ํ์ฉ ์ฌ๋ก๋ก๋ AI๋ฅผ ์ฝ๊ตญ ์ฌ๊ณ ์์คํ ์ ํตํฉํ ๊ฒ์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด ์์คํ ์ ์ด์ ๊ณต๊ธ์ ์ฒด ๊ฐ ์ฒ๋ฐฉ์ฝ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ ๋น๊ตํ๊ณ ์์จ์ ์ด๊ณ ์์ธก์ ์ผ๋ก ์ฌ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ์ฌ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ์ฌ ์ฌ๊ณ ๋ณด์ ์จ์ 98% ์ด์์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ์ ํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฌํ ๋ณํ๋ ์ฝ๊ตญ ์ฒ๋ฐฉ์ ์กฐ์ ๊ฑด์์์ 10%๋ ์ค๋ฐ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๋ฌ์ฑํ๋ ๋ฐ ์ค์ํ ์ญํ ์ ํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ํ์๋ค์๊ฒ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ ๋ฎ์ถ๋ฉด์๋ ๋ง์ง์ ๊ฐ์ ํ์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ฃผ์ ์ ์ฌ์ ์ AI ๋๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ์นํ๋ ๊ณผ์ ์ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฅผ ํตํด ์ฌ๊ณ ๊ด๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ ํ๊ณ ํ์๋ค์๊ฒ ํญ์ ์ต๊ณ ์ ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณตํจ์ผ๋ก์จ ์ถ๊ฐ ๋งค์ถ์ ์ฐฝ์ถํ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๊ธฐ๋ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| These are just a few of the use cases we're developing into our business as we speak. While digital and technology will play an important role in our future, our people are what makes Costco special. I'd like to recognize the outstanding work done by our more than 340,000 employees around the world. Their commitment to our company and the Costco experience for our members is what drives our success. I'd like to thank our entire team for their outstanding work this year and especially now during our busiest season. I also wanted to mention that our annual update to Costco's sustainability commitments was made available online earlier this month. | ์ด๊ฒ๋ค์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ํ์ฌ ์ฌ์ ์ ๊ฐ๋ฐํ๊ณ ์๋ ๋ช ๊ฐ์ง ํ์ฉ ์ฌ๋ก์ ๋ถ๊ณผํฉ๋๋ค. ๋์งํธ๊ณผ ๊ธฐ์ ์ด ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ๋ฏธ๋์ ์ค์ํ ์ญํ ์ ํ ๊ฒ์ด์ง๋ง, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ์ง์๋ค์ด์ผ๋ง๋ก ์ฝ์คํธ์ฝ๋ฅผ ํน๋ณํ๊ฒ ๋ง๋๋ ์กด์ฌ์ ๋๋ค. ์ ๋ ์ ์ธ๊ณ 34๋ง ๋ช ์ด์์ ์ง์๋ค์ด ํด๋ธ ๋ฐ์ด๋ ์ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ธ์ ํ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ํ์ฌ์ ํ์๋ค์ ์ํ ์ฝ์คํธ์ฝ ๊ฒฝํ์ ๋ํ ๊ทธ๋ค์ ํ์ ์ด ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์ฑ๊ณต์ ์ด๋๋ ์๋๋ ฅ์ ๋๋ค. ์ฌ ํ ํด ๋์, ํนํ ์ง๊ธ ๊ฐ์ฅ ๋ฐ์ ์์ฆ์ ํ์ํ ์ ๋ฌด๋ฅผ ์ํํด ์ค ์ ์ฒด ํ์๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ฌ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค. ๋ํ ์ฝ์คํธ์ฝ์ ์ง์๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ ์ฝ์์ ๋ํ ์ฐ๋ก ์ ๋ฐ์ดํธ๊ฐ ์ด๋ฌ ์ด ์จ๋ผ์ธ์ผ๋ก ๊ณต๊ฐ๋์๋ค๋ ์ ์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค. |
| This report provides a comprehensive review of the progress we are making towards our sustainability objectives, and I would encourage you to take a look. With that, I'll turn it back over to Gary to discuss the results for the quarter, and I'll jump back on during Q&A to field some questions. Gary Millerchip Executive VP & CFO Thanks, Ron. In today's press release, we reported operating results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2026 for 12 weeks ended November 23. As usual, we published a slide deck under Events and Presentations on our investor website with supplemental information to support today's press release. | ์ด ๋ณด๊ณ ์๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์ง์๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ ๋ชฉํ๋ฅผ ํฅํ ์ง์ ์ํฉ์ ๋ํ ํฌ๊ด์ ์ธ ๊ฒํ ๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณตํ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ผญ ํ๋ฒ ์ดํด๋ณด์๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ถ์ฅํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ผ ์ด์ Gary์๊ฒ ๋ค์ ๋ง์ดํฌ๋ฅผ ๋๊ฒจ ๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ค์ ์ ๋ํด ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๋๋ก ํ๊ฒ ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ ๋ Q&A ์๊ฐ์ ๋ค์ ์ฐธ์ฌํ์ฌ ๋ช ๊ฐ์ง ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋ต๋ณ๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. Gary Millerchip ์ต๊ณ ์ฌ๋ฌด์ฑ ์์(CFO) ๊ฒธ ์ ๋ฌด์ด์ฌ ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค, Ron. ์ค๋ ๋ณด๋์๋ฃ์์ 11์ 23์ผ ๋ง๊ฐ 12์ฃผ๊ฐ์ 2026 ํ๊ณ์ฐ๋ 1๋ถ๊ธฐ ์์ ์ค์ ์ ๋ฐํํ์ต๋๋ค. ํ์์ ๊ฐ์ด ์ค๋ ๋ณด๋์๋ฃ๋ฅผ ๋ท๋ฐ์นจํ๋ ๋ณด์ถฉ ์ ๋ณด๊ฐ ๋ด๊ธด ์ฌ๋ผ์ด๋ ์๋ฃ๋ฅผ ํฌ์์ ์น์ฌ์ดํธ์ ํ์ฌ ๋ฐ ๋ฐํ์๋ฃ(Events and Presentations) ์น์ ์ ๊ฒ์ํ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Net income for the first quarter came in at $2.001 billion or $4.50 per diluted share, up from $1.798 billion or $4.04 per diluted share in the first quarter last year. This year's results include a tax benefit of $72 million or $0.16 per diluted share relating to stock-based compensation and last year's results include a tax benefit of $100 million or $0.22 per diluted share, also related to stock-based compensation. Excluding these discrete tax items, net income and earnings per diluted share, both grew 13.6%. Net sales for the first quarter were $65.98 billion, an increase of 8.2% from $60.99 million in the first quarter last year. | 1๋ถ๊ธฐ ์์ด์ต์ 20์ต 1๋ฐฑ๋ง ๋ฌ๋ฌ, ํฌ์์ฃผ๋น์์ด์ต 4.50๋ฌ๋ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ ์ ๋ ๋๊ธฐ ์์ด์ต 17์ต 9์ฒ 8๋ฐฑ๋ง ๋ฌ๋ฌ, ํฌ์์ฃผ๋น์์ด์ต 4.04๋ฌ๋ฌ ๋๋น ์ฆ๊ฐํ ์์น์ ๋๋ค. ์ฌํด ์ค์ ์๋ ์ฃผ์๊ธฐ์ค๋ณด์๊ณผ ๊ด๋ จํ์ฌ 7์ฒ 2๋ฐฑ๋ง ๋ฌ๋ฌ, ํฌ์์ฃผ๋น 0.16๋ฌ๋ฌ์ ์ธ๊ธ ํํ์ด ํฌํจ๋์ด ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์๋ ์ค์ ์๋ ์ญ์ ์ฃผ์๊ธฐ์ค๋ณด์๊ณผ ๊ด๋ จํ์ฌ 1์ต ๋ฌ๋ฌ, ํฌ์์ฃผ๋น 0.22๋ฌ๋ฌ์ ์ธ๊ธ ํํ์ด ํฌํจ๋์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฌํ ์ผํ์ฑ ์ธ๊ธ ํญ๋ชฉ์ ์ ์ธํ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ, ์์ด์ต๊ณผ ํฌ์์ฃผ๋น์์ด์ต ๋ชจ๋ 13.6% ์ฑ์ฅํ์ต๋๋ค. 1๋ถ๊ธฐ ์๋งค์ถ์ 659์ต 8์ฒ๋ง ๋ฌ๋ฌ๋ก, ์ ๋ ๋๊ธฐ 609์ต 9์ฒ๋ง ๋ฌ๋ฌ ๋๋น 8.2% ์ฆ๊ฐํ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Comparable sales were 6.4%, both before and after adjusting for gas price deflation and FX. Excluding gas sales entirely and adjusting for the impact of foreign exchange, comparable sales were 7.1%. Digitally enabled comparable sales were 20.5%, both with and without adjusting for FX. Our segment breakout of comparable sales is disclosed in both our earnings release and the supplemental slide deck. In terms of Q1 comp sales metrics, FX positively impacted sales by approximately 0.1%, while gas price deflation negatively impacted sales by approximately 0.1%. | ๋์ผ์ ํฌ ๋งค์ถ์ ์ ๊ฐ ํ๋ฝ๊ณผ ํ์จ์ ์กฐ์ ํ๊ธฐ ์ ํ ๋ชจ๋ 6.4%์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฃผ์ ๋งค์ถ์ ์์ ํ ์ ์ธํ๊ณ ํ์จ ์ํฅ์ ์กฐ์ ํ๋ฉด ๋์ผ์ ํฌ ๋งค์ถ์ 7.1%์์ต๋๋ค. ๋์งํธ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ ๋์ผ์ ํฌ ๋งค์ถ์ ํ์จ ์กฐ์ ์ฌ๋ถ์ ๊ด๊ณ์์ด 20.5%๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ์ต๋๋ค. ๋์ผ์ ํฌ ๋งค์ถ์ ๋ถ๋ฌธ๋ณ ์ธ๋ถ๋ด์ญ์ ์ค์ ๋ฐํ์๋ฃ์ ๋ณด์ถฉ ์ฌ๋ผ์ด๋ ์๋ฃ ๋ชจ๋์ ๊ณต์๋์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. 1๋ถ๊ธฐ ๋์ผ์ ํฌ ๋งค์ถ ์งํ ์ธก๋ฉด์์ ํ์จ์ ๋งค์ถ์ ์ฝ 0.1% ๊ธ์ ์ ์ํฅ์ ๋ฏธ์ณค์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ ๊ฐ ํ๋ฝ์ ๋งค์ถ์ ์ฝ 0.1% ๋ถ์ ์ ์ํฅ์ ๋ฏธ์ณค์ต๋๋ค. |
| Traffic or shopping frequency increased 3.1% worldwide and our average transaction or ticket was up 3.2% worldwide, both with and without the impacts of gas price deflation and FX. Moving down the income statement and membership fee income. We reported membership fee income of $1.329 billion, an increase of $163 million or 14% year-over-year. Adjusting for FX, the increase was also 14%. Last September's U.S. and Canada membership fee increase accounted for a little less than half of membership income growth. Excluding the membership fee increase and FX, membership income grew 7.3% year-over-year. | ์ ์ธ๊ณ์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ ํ์ ๋๋ ์ผํ ๋น๋๋ 3.1% ์ฆ๊ฐํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ํ๊ท ๊ฑฐ๋์ก ๋๋ ๊ฐ๋จ๊ฐ๋ ์ ์ธ๊ณ์ ์ผ๋ก 3.2% ์์นํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ ์ ๊ฐ ๋ํ๋ ์ด์ ๊ณผ ํ์จ ์ํฅ์ ํฌํจํ๊ฑฐ๋ ์ ์ธํ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ ๋ชจ๋ ๋์ผํฉ๋๋ค. ์์ต๊ณ์ฐ์ ์๋๋ก ๋ด๋ ค๊ฐ์ ํ์๋น ์์ ์ ๋ณด๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ํ์๋น ์์ ์ 13์ต 2,900๋ง ๋ฌ๋ฌ๋ก ๋ณด๊ณ ๋์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ ์ ๋ ๋๋น 1์ต 6,300๋ง ๋ฌ๋ฌ ์ฆ๊ฐํ 14% ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๋๋ค. ํ์จ ์ํฅ์ ์กฐ์ ํ๋ฉด ์ฆ๊ฐ์จ๋ 14%์์ต๋๋ค. ์ง๋ 9์ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๊ณผ ์บ๋๋ค์ ํ์๋น ์ธ์์ด ํ์๋น ์์ ์ฆ๊ฐ๋ถ์ ์ ๋ฐ ๋ฏธ๋ง์ ์ฐจ์งํ์ต๋๋ค. ํ์๋น ์ธ์๊ณผ ํ์จ ์ํฅ์ ์ ์ธํ๋ฉด, ํ์๋น ์์ ์ ์ ๋ ๋๋น 7.3% ์ฑ์ฅํ์ต๋๋ค. |
| This was driven by continued growth in our membership base and increased upgrades from Gold Star to executive membership. At Q1 end, we had 39.7 million paid executive memberships, up 9.1% versus last year. We ended the quarter with 81.4 million total paid members, up 5.2% versus last year and 145.9 million cardholders, up 5.1% year-over-year. In terms of renewal rates, at Q1 end, our U.S. and Canada renewal rate was 92.2%, and the worldwide rate came in at 89.7%, both down 10 basis points from last quarter. | ์ด๋ ํ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ ์ง์์ ์ธ ์ฑ์ฅ๊ณผ ๊ณจ๋์คํ ํ์์์ ์ด๊ทธ์ ํํฐ๋ธ ํ์์ผ๋ก์ ์ ๊ทธ๋ ์ด๋ ์ฆ๊ฐ์ ๊ธฐ์ธํฉ๋๋ค. 1๋ถ๊ธฐ ๋ง ๊ธฐ์ค, ์ ๋ฃ ์ด๊ทธ์ ํํฐ๋ธ ํ์์ 3,970๋ง ๋ช ์ผ๋ก ์ ๋ ๋๋น 9.1% ์ฆ๊ฐํ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ถ๊ธฐ ๋ง ๊ธฐ์ค ์ด ์ ๋ฃ ํ์์ 8,140๋ง ๋ช ์ผ๋ก ์ ๋ ๋๋น 5.2% ์ฆ๊ฐํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์นด๋ ์์ง์๋ 1์ต 4,590๋ง ๋ช ์ผ๋ก ์ ๋ ๋๊ธฐ ๋๋น 5.1% ์ฆ๊ฐํ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ฐฑ์ ์จ ์ธก๋ฉด์์, 1๋ถ๊ธฐ ๋ง ๊ธฐ์ค ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋ฐ ์บ๋๋ค ๊ฐฑ์ ์จ์ 92.2%๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ ์ธ๊ณ ๊ฐฑ์ ์จ์ 89.7%๋ก ๋ํ๋ฌ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ ์งํ ๋ชจ๋ ์ ๋ถ๊ธฐ ๋๋น 10bp(๋ฒ ์ด์์คํฌ์ธํธ) ํ๋ฝํ์ต๋๋ค. |
| This slight decline was due to the factors we discussed last quarter and reflects new online members growing as a percentage of our total base and renewing at a slightly lower rate than warehouse sign-ups. The decline was less than anticipated due to some early success with targeted communications to expiring members. Our goal is to continue to improve renewal rates by improving engagement with members who signed up digitally. Although for the reasons previously shared, we may still see a slight decline in the overall renewal rate over the next few quarters. Turning to gross margin. | ์ด๋ฌํ ์ํญ ํ๋ฝ์ ์ง๋ ๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ๋ ผ์ํ๋ ์์ธ๋ค๋ก ์ธํ ๊ฒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ ์ฒด ํ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์์ ์จ๋ผ์ธ ์ ๊ท ํ์์ ๋น์ค์ด ์ฆ๊ฐํ๊ณ ์๊ณ ์ด๋ค์ ๊ฐฑ์ ์จ์ด ๋งค์ฅ ๊ฐ์ ํ์๋ณด๋ค ๋ค์ ๋ฎ์ ์ ์ ๋ฐ์ํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ํ๋ฝํญ์ด ์์๋ณด๋ค ์์๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ง๋ฃ ์์ ํ์๋ค์ ๋์์ผ๋ก ํ ํ๊ฒ ์ปค๋ฎค๋์ผ์ด์ ์ด ์กฐ๊ธฐ์ ์ผ๋ถ ์ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ๋ ๋๋ถ์ ๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ๋ชฉํ๋ ๋์งํธ๋ก ๊ฐ์ ํ ํ์๋ค๊ณผ์ ์ฐธ์ฌ๋๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ ํ์ฌ ๊ฐฑ์ ์จ์ ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ํฅ์์ํค๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ค๋ง ์์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฐ ์ด์ ๋ค๋ก ์ธํด, ํฅํ ๋ช ๋ถ๊ธฐ ๋์์ ์ ์ฒด ๊ฐฑ์ ์จ์์ ์ํญ์ ํ๋ฝ์ด ์ฌ์ ํ ๋ํ๋ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด์ ๋งค์ถ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ ๋ก ๋์ด๊ฐ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Our reported rate was higher year-over-year by 4 basis points, both with and without gas deflation, coming in at 11.32% compared to 11.28% last year. Core was flat. In terms of core margins on their own sales, our core on core margins were higher by 30 basis points. This increase was broad-based with nonfoods, foods and sundries and fresh all higher year-over-year. Supply chain improvements and an increase in KS penetration benefited margins as did additional marketing revenue. The improvement in core on core was offset by changes in mix and lapping higher income in our co-brand credit card program a year ago. | ๋ณด๊ณ ๋ ์์จ์ ๊ฐ์ค ๋ํ๋ ์ด์ ๋ฐ์ ์ฌ๋ถ์ ๊ด๊ณ์์ด ์ ๋ ๋๋น 4bp ์์นํ์ฌ ์๋ 11.28%์์ 11.32%๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฝ์ด๋ ๋ณดํฉ์ด์์ต๋๋ค. ์์ฒด ๋งค์ถ ๊ธฐ์ค ์ฝ์ด ๋ง์ง์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ, ์ฝ์ด ์จ ์ฝ์ด ๋ง์ง์ 30bp ์์นํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฌํ ์ฆ๊ฐ๋ ๋น์ํ, ์ํ ๋ฐ ์กํ, ์ ์ ์ํ ๋ชจ๋์์ ์ ๋ ๋๋น ์์นํ๋ ๋ฑ ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ํ๋ฌ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ณต๊ธ๋ง ๊ฐ์ ๊ณผ ์ปคํด๋๋ ์๊ทธ๋์ฒ ์นจํฌ์จ ์ฆ๊ฐ๊ฐ ๋ง์ง์ ๊ธ์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ์์ฉํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ง์ผํ ์์ต ์ฆ๊ฐ๋ ๊ธฐ์ฌํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฝ์ด ์จ ์ฝ์ด์ ๊ฐ์ ์ ์ ํ ๋ฏน์ค ๋ณํ์ ์ ๋ ๋ ์ฝ๋ธ๋๋ ์ ์ฉ์นด๋ ํ๋ก๊ทธ๋จ์ ๋์ ์์ต ๊ธฐ์ ํจ๊ณผ๋ก ์์๋์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Ancillary and other businesses gross margin was higher by 7 basis points, primarily driven by pharmacy and hearing aids. LIFO negatively impacted the gross margin rate by 3 basis points. We had a $1.9 million LIFO credit in Q1 this year compared to a $19 million credit in Q1 last year. Moving on to SG&A. Our reported SG&A rate was higher or worse year-over-year by 1 basis point, coming in at 9.6% compared to last year's 9.59%. The operations component of SG&A was higher or worse by 1 basis point. Our operators did a great job improving productivity and capturing efficiency benefits from the technology investments that Ron referenced earlier. | ๋ถ๊ฐ ์๋น์ค ๋ฐ ๊ธฐํ ์ฌ์ ์ ๋งค์ถ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ ์ 7bp ์์นํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ ์ฃผ๋ก ์ฝ๊ตญ๊ณผ ๋ณด์ฒญ๊ธฐ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์ ์ํด ๊ฒฌ์ธ๋์์ต๋๋ค. LIFO๋ ๋งค์ถ์ด์ด์ต๋ฅ ์ 3bp์ ๋ถ์ ์ ์ํฅ์ ๋ฏธ์ณค์ต๋๋ค. ์ฌํด 1๋ถ๊ธฐ์ 190๋ง ๋ฌ๋ฌ์ LIFO ํ์ ์ด ๋ฐ์ํ์ผ๋, ์๋ 1๋ถ๊ธฐ์๋ 1,900๋ง ๋ฌ๋ฌ์ ํ์ ์ด ์์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด์ ํ๋งค๊ด๋ฆฌ๋น๋ก ๋์ด๊ฐ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ณด๊ณ ๋ ํ๊ด๋น์จ์ ์ ๋ ๋๋น 1bp ๋์์ ธ ์ ํ๋์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์๋ ์ 9.59%์์ 9.6%๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ์ต๋๋ค. ํ๊ด๋น์ ์ด์ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์ 1bp ๋์์ ธ ์ ํ๋์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ์ด์์ง์ ์์ฐ์ฑ์ ๊ฐ์ ํ๊ณ Ron์ด ์์ ์ธ๊ธํ ๊ธฐ์ ํฌ์๋ก๋ถํฐ ํจ์จ์ฑ ๊ฐ์ ํจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ํ๋ณดํ๋ ๋ฐ ํ๋ฅญํ ์ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ๋์์ต๋๋ค. |
| These productivity improvements fully offset wage investments and the impact of extended operating hours and would have created positive leverage in the quarter had we not experienced higher health care costs. Central was lower or better by 3 basis points. This quarter's SG&A also included a charge relating to a tax assessment for prior years, which negatively impacted the rate by 4 basis points. Below the operating income line, interest expense was $35 million versus $37 million last year. Interest income was $122 million versus $96 million last year, driven by higher cash balances and FX and other was a $33 million benefit versus a $51 million benefit last year due to lower FX gains. | ์ด๋ฌํ ์์ฐ์ฑ ๊ฐ์ ์ ์๊ธ ์ธ์๊ณผ ์ฐ์ฅ๋ ์์ ์๊ฐ์ ์ํฅ์ ์์ ํ ์์ํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๋์ ์๋ฃ๋น์ฉ์ด ๋ฐ์ํ์ง ์์๋ค๋ฉด ์ด๋ฒ ๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ๊ธ์ ์ ์ธ ๋ ๋ฒ๋ฆฌ์ง๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์ถํ์ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ณธ์ฌ ๋น์ฉ์ 3bp ๊ฐ์(๋๋ ๊ฐ์ )ํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฒ ๋ถ๊ธฐ ํ๋งค๊ด๋ฆฌ๋น์๋ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ์ฐ๋์ ๋ํ ์ธ๋ฌด ํ๊ฐ์ ๊ด๋ จ๋ ๋น์ฉ์ด ํฌํจ๋์ด ์์ด ๋น์จ์ 4bp์ ๋ถ์ ์ ์ํฅ์ ๋ฏธ์ณค์ต๋๋ค. ์์ ์ด์ต ์๋ ํญ๋ชฉ์์, ์ด์๋น์ฉ์ ์ ๋ ๋ 3,700๋ง ๋ฌ๋ฌ ๋๋น 3,500๋ง ๋ฌ๋ฌ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด์์์ต์ ์ ๋ ๋ 9,600๋ง ๋ฌ๋ฌ ๋๋น 1์ต 2,200๋ง ๋ฌ๋ฌ๋ก, ๋์ ํ๊ธ ์์ก์ ๊ธฐ์ธํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ธํ ๋ฐ ๊ธฐํ ํญ๋ชฉ์ ์ ๋ ๋ 5,100๋ง ๋ฌ๋ฌ ์ด์ต ๋๋น 3,300๋ง ๋ฌ๋ฌ ์ด์ต์ผ๋ก, ์ธํ์ฐจ์ต ๊ฐ์๋ก ์ธํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. |
| In terms of income taxes, our tax rate in Q1 was 22.5% compared to 22% in Q1 last year. As mentioned earlier, this year's rate benefited $72 million and last year's rate benefited $100 million from annual RSU vesting. Turning now to some key items of note in the quarter. Capital expenditure in Q1 was approximately $1.53 billion. As shared last quarter, we are making additional investments to support a higher number of new warehouse openings increased warehouse remodels to drive continued growth in existing high-volume buildings, depot network expansion and digital. We estimate capital expenditure for the full year will be approximately $6.5 billion. | ๋ฒ์ธ์ธ์ ๊ด๋ จํ์ฌ, 1๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ธ์จ์ 22.5%๋ก ์ ๋ ๋๊ธฐ 22%์ ๋นํด ์์นํ์ต๋๋ค. ์์ ์ธ๊ธํ ๋ฐ์ ๊ฐ์ด, ์ฌํด ์ธ์จ์ ์ฐ๊ฐ RSU(์ ํ๋ถ ์ฃผ์) ๋ฒ ์คํ ์ผ๋ก ์ธํด 7,200๋ง ๋ฌ๋ฌ์ ํํ์ ๋ฐ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์๋ ์๋ 1์ต ๋ฌ๋ฌ์ ํํ์ ๋ฐ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด์ ๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ค ์ฃผ์ ํญ๋ชฉ๋ค์ ์ดํด๋ณด๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. 1๋ถ๊ธฐ ์๋ณธ์ ์ง์ถ์ ์ฝ 15์ต 3์ฒ๋ง ๋ฌ๋ฌ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ง๋ ๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฐ ๋ฐ์ ๊ฐ์ด, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ ๋ง์ ์ ๊ท ์ฐฝ๊ณ ์คํ์ ์ง์ํ๊ณ , ๊ธฐ์กด ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ ์ ์ด ๋ง์ ๋งค์ฅ์ ์ง์์ ์ธ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๊ฒฌ์ธํ๊ธฐ ์ํ ์ฐฝ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ๋ชจ๋ธ๋ง ํ๋, ๋ฌผ๋ฅ์ผํฐ ๋คํธ์ํฌ ํ์ฅ ๋ฐ ๋์งํธ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์ ์ถ๊ฐ ํฌ์๋ฅผ ์งํํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ๊ฐ ์๋ณธ์ ์ง์ถ์ ์ฝ 65์ต ๋ฌ๋ฌ๊ฐ ๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์์ํฉ๋๋ค. |
| Before we take a closer look at core merchandising results for Q1, here are a few fun facts about the holiday selling season so far. Our U.S. food court set a daily record on Halloween, selling 358,000 whole pizzas, an increase of 31% versus last year. Black Friday was a record-breaking day for our U.S. e-commerce business, generating over $250 million in nonfood orders. Our U.S. bakeries also set a record in the 3 days leading up to Thanksgiving selling 4.5 million pies. That's over 7,000 pies per warehouse over a 3-day period. Turning to Q1 merchandising highlights. Our relentless focus on quality, value and newness continued to deliver market share gains across virtually all departments. | 1๋ถ๊ธฐ ํต์ฌ ์ํ ํ๋งค ์ค์ ์ ์์ธํ ์ดํด๋ณด๊ธฐ ์ ์, ์ง๊ธ๊น์ง์ ์ฐ๋ง ํ๋งค ์์ฆ์ ๋ํ ๋ช ๊ฐ์ง ํฅ๋ฏธ๋ก์ด ์ฌ์ค๋ค์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ํธ๋์ฝํธ๋ ํ ๋ก์ ๋ฐ์ด์ ์ผ์ผ ์ต๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋ก์ ์ธ์ ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ํ ํผ์ 358,000ํ์ ํ๋งคํ์ฌ ์ ๋ ๋๋น 31% ์ฆ๊ฐํ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ธ๋ํ๋ผ์ด๋ฐ์ด๋ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ ์์๊ฑฐ๋ ์ฌ์ ์ ๊ธฐ๋ก์ ์ธ ๋ ์ด์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๋น์ํ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ์์ 2์ต 5์ฒ๋ง ๋ฌ๋ฌ ์ด์์ ๋งค์ถ์ ๋ฌ์ฑํ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋ฒ ์ด์ปค๋ฆฌ ๋ถ๋ฌธ๋ ์ถ์๊ฐ์ฌ์ ์ 3์ผ๊ฐ 450๋ง ๊ฐ์ ํ์ด๋ฅผ ํ๋งคํ๋ฉฐ ๊ธฐ๋ก์ ์ธ์ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ 3์ผ ๋์ ์ฐฝ๊ณ ๋น 7,000๊ฐ ์ด์์ ํ์ด๋ฅผ ํ๋งคํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. 1๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ํ ํ๋งค ํ์ด๋ผ์ดํธ๋ก ๋์ด๊ฐ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ง, ๊ฐ์น, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ ์ ํ์ ๋ํ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ๋์์๋ ์ง์ค์ ๊ฑฐ์ ๋ชจ๋ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์์ ์์ฅ ์ ์ ์จ ์์น์ ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ์ด๋์ด๋์ต๋๋ค. |
| Fresh sales were up mid- to high single digits, led by double-digit growth in meat. We saw strong growth in higher cost cuts of beef and even greater unit growth in lower-cost proteins like ground beef and poultry. Bakery experienced high single-digit growth driven by the introduction of some great new items such as our holiday dessert bars and our Creme Brulee Bar Cake. Nonfoods have comp sales in the mid-single digits. Our buyers continue to do an excellent job finding new and exciting items at great values while also adjusting our assortment to minimize the impact of tariffs. | ์ ์ ์ํ ๋งค์ถ์ ์ค์์ ํ ์๋ฆฟ์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๊ธฐ๋กํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ก๋ฅ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์ด ๋ ์๋ฆฟ์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ์ฃผ๋ํ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๋ถ์์ ์๊ณ ๊ธฐ์์ ๊ฐ๋ ฅํ ์ฑ์ฅ์ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์๊ณ , ๊ฐ์ ์๊ณ ๊ธฐ์ ๊ฐ๊ธ๋ฅ ๊ฐ์ ์ ๊ฐ ๋จ๋ฐฑ์ง ์ ํ์์๋ ๋์ฑ ๋์ ํ๋งค๋ ์ฆ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฒ ์ด์ปค๋ฆฌ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์ ํ๋ฆฌ๋ฐ์ด ๋์ ํธ ๋ฐ์ ํฌ๋ ๋ธ๋ฅ๋ ๋ฐ ์ผ์ดํฌ ๊ฐ์ ํ๋ฅญํ ์ ์ ํ ์ถ์์ ํ์ ์ด ๋์ ํ ์๋ฆฟ์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๋ฌ์ฑํ์ต๋๋ค. ๋น์ํ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์ ์ค๊ฐ ํ ์๋ฆฟ์๋์ ๊ธฐ์กด์ ๋งค์ถ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๋ณด์์ต๋๋ค. ๋น์ฌ์ ๋ฐ์ด์ด๋ค์ ๊ด์ธ ์ํฅ์ ์ต์ํํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ์ ํ ๊ตฌ์ฑ์ ์กฐ์ ํ๋ ๋์์, ํฉ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ ์๋กญ๊ณ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์ธ ์ํ๋ค์ ๋ฐ๊ตดํ๋ ๋ฐ ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ํ์ํ ์ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Gold and jewelry, special events, health and beauty were all up double digits and majors, tires and small appliances also continued to outperform with high single-digit comps. We added a number of new national brand partnerships across a range of nonfood categories in Q1, including GAAP and alter gift cards, Vera Bradley apparel and upper deck trading cards. Food and sundries comp also grew mid-single digits, with candy and food showing the strongest results. Newness has been driving growth in this category as well with on-trend items such as Dubai Chocolate performing very well. | ๊ธ๊ณผ ์ฃผ์ผ๋ฆฌ, ํน๋ณ ์ด๋ฒคํธ ์ํ, ๊ฑด๊ฐ ๋ฐ ๋ฏธ์ฉ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์ด ๋ชจ๋ ๋ ์๋ฆฟ์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๊ธฐ๋กํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ฃผ์ ๊ฐ์ , ํ์ด์ด, ์ํ ๊ฐ์ ์ ํ๋ ๋์ ํ ์๋ฆฟ์ ๋์ผ๋งค์ฅ๋งค์ถ ์ฑ์ฅ๋ฅ ๋ก ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ์ฐ์ํ ์ค์ ์ ๋ณด์์ต๋๋ค. 1๋ถ๊ธฐ์๋ GAAP์ alter ๊ธฐํํธ์นด๋, Vera Bradley ์๋ฅ, Upper Deck ํธ๋ ์ด๋ฉ ์นด๋๋ฅผ ํฌํจํ์ฌ ๋ค์ํ ๋น์ํ ์นดํ ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์์ ์ฌ๋ฌ ์ ๊ท ์ ๊ตญ ๋ธ๋๋ ํํธ๋์ญ์ ์ถ๊ฐํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ํ ๋ฐ ์กํ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์ ๋์ผ๋งค์ฅ๋งค์ถ๋ ์ค๊ฐ ํ ์๋ฆฟ์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๊ธฐ๋กํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ฌํ๊ณผ ์ํ์ด ๊ฐ์ฅ ๊ฐ๋ ฅํ ์ค์ ์ ๋ณด์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด ์นดํ ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์์๋ ์ ์ ํ์ด ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๊ฒฌ์ธํ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๋๋ฐ์ด ์ด์ฝ๋ฆฟ๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ ํธ๋ ๋ํ ์์ดํ ๋ค์ด ๋งค์ฐ ์ข์ ์ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ๋๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Kirkland Signature continues to grow at a faster pace than overall sales with KS items typically offering 15% to 20% value compared to the national brand alternative with equal or better quality. In Q1, we launched approximately 45 new KS items, including dry facial daily clean towels, caramelized blueberry croissants and various apparel items in addition to our latest food court offering, the caramel brownie sundae. As always, our goal is to be the first to lower prices where we see opportunities to do so. | ์ปคํด๋๋ ์๊ทธ๋์ฒ๋ ์ ์ฒด ๋งค์ถ๋ณด๋ค ๋น ๋ฅธ ์๋๋ก ์ฑ์ฅํ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ปคํด๋๋ ์๊ทธ๋์ฒ ์ ํ๋ค์ ์ผ๋ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋๋ฑํ๊ฑฐ๋ ๋ ๋์ ํ์ง๋ก ์ ๊ตญ ๋ธ๋๋ ๋๋น 15%์์ 20%์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ๊ฒฝ์๋ ฅ์ ์ ๊ณตํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. 1๋ถ๊ธฐ์๋ ๋๋ผ์ด ํ์ด์ ๋ฐ์ผ๋ฆฌ ํด๋ฆฐ ํ์, ์บ๋ฌ๋ฉ๋ผ์ด์ฆ๋ ๋ธ๋ฃจ๋ฒ ๋ฆฌ ํฌ๋ฃจ์์, ๋ค์ํ ์๋ฅ ์ ํ ๋ฑ ์ฝ 45๊ฐ์ ์ ๊ท ์ปคํด๋๋ ์๊ทธ๋์ฒ ์ ํ์ ์ถ์ํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ํธ๋์ฝํธ์ ์ต์ ๋ฉ๋ด์ธ ์บ๋ฌ๋ฉ ๋ธ๋ผ์ฐ๋ ์ ๋ฐ์ด๋ ์ ๋ณด์์ต๋๋ค. ํญ์ ๊ทธ๋์๋ฏ์ด, ์ ํฌ์ ๋ชฉํ๋ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ธํ ๊ธฐํ๊ฐ ๋ณด์ด๋ ๊ณณ์์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ๋จผ์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ ๋ฎ์ถ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. |
| A few examples of lower prices this quarter include KS Chicken Pot Pie from $4.29 to $3.99 per pound; KS Bacon from $18.99 to $16.99 per packet; KS Whipped cream 3-pack from $10.49 to $8.99 and KS Walnuts 3 pounds pack $14.49 to $12.99. In digital, site traffic in the quarter was up 24%, and app traffic was up 48%. Sales in non-foods were led by pharmacy, gold and jewelry, tires, small electrics, apparel and majors, all of which grew double digits year-over-year. Our same-day delivery service offered in partnership with Instacart in the U.S. and Uber Eats and DoorDash internationally, also performed extremely well, growing at a faster pace than our overall digital sales. | ์ด๋ฒ ๋ถ๊ธฐ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ธํ ์ฌ๋ก๋ฅผ ๋ช ๊ฐ์ง ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, KS ์นํจ ํ ํ์ด๋ ํ์ด๋๋น 4.29๋ฌ๋ฌ์์ 3.99๋ฌ๋ฌ๋ก, KS ๋ฒ ์ด์ปจ์ ํฉ๋น 18.99๋ฌ๋ฌ์์ 16.99๋ฌ๋ฌ๋ก, KS ํํํฌ๋ฆผ 3ํฉ์ 10.49๋ฌ๋ฌ์์ 8.99๋ฌ๋ฌ๋ก, KS ํธ๋ 3ํ์ด๋ ํฉ์ 14.49๋ฌ๋ฌ์์ 12.99๋ฌ๋ฌ๋ก ์ธํํ์ต๋๋ค. ๋์งํธ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์์๋ ๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ค ์ฌ์ดํธ ํธ๋ํฝ์ด 24% ์ฆ๊ฐํ๊ณ , ์ฑ ํธ๋ํฝ์ 48% ์ฆ๊ฐํ์ต๋๋ค. ๋น์ํ ๋ถ๋ฌธ ๋งค์ถ์ ์ฝ๊ตญ, ๊ธ ๋ฐ ์ฃผ์ผ๋ฆฌ, ํ์ด์ด, ์ํ ๊ฐ์ , ์๋ฅ, ๋ํ ๊ฐ์ ์ด ์ฃผ๋ํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ค ๋ชจ๋ ์ ๋ ๋๋น ๋ ์๋ฆฟ์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๊ธฐ๋กํ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์๋ Instacart์, ํด์ธ์์๋ Uber Eats ๋ฐ DoorDash์ ํํธ๋์ญ์ ํตํด ์ ๊ณตํ๋ ๋น์ผ ๋ฐฐ์ก ์๋น์ค ์ญ์ ๋งค์ฐ ์ฐ์ํ ์ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ ์ฒด ๋์งํธ ๋งค์ถ๋ณด๋ค ๋น ๋ฅธ ์๋๋ก ์ฑ์ฅํ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Strong traffic and sales growth in digital were aided by continued web and app improvements as well as the introduction of more personalized member communications. We continue to see many opportunities to enhance digital engagement with our members and look forward to sharing progress on future earnings calls. Within ancillary businesses, pharmacy, food court, hearing aids and optical departments all had strong quarters. Gas comps were low single digits. Gas prices remained slightly deflationary in the quarter, but this was offset by volume growth. Costco Travel is another way in which we deliver unique membership value, and these services continue to resonate well with our members. | ๋์งํธ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์ ๊ฐ๋ ฅํ ํธ๋ํฝ๊ณผ ๋งค์ถ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ์ง์์ ์ธ ์น๊ณผ ์ฑ ๊ฐ์ , ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ณด๋ค ๊ฐ์ธํ๋ ํ์ ์ปค๋ฎค๋์ผ์ด์ ๋์ ์ ํ์ ์ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ํ์๋ค๊ณผ์ ๋์งํธ ์ฐธ์ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฐํํ ์ ์๋ ๋ง์ ๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ ๊ณ์ํด์ ๋ฐ๊ฒฌํ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ํฅํ ์ค์ ๋ฐํ์์ ์ง์ ์ฌํญ์ ๊ณต์ ํ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ถ๋์ฌ์ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์์๋ ์ฝ๊ตญ, ํธ๋์ฝํธ, ๋ณด์ฒญ๊ธฐ, ์๊ฒฝ ๋ถ์ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฐ๋ ฅํ ๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ค์ ์ ๊ธฐ๋กํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฃผ์ ์ ๋์ผ๋งค์ฅ๋งค์ถ์ ๋ฎ์ ํ ์๋ฆฟ์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๋ณด์์ต๋๋ค. ์ ๊ฐ๋ ๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ค ์ํญ ๋ํ๋ ์ด์ ์ ์ ์งํ์ง๋ง, ์ด๋ ํ๋งค๋ ์ฆ๊ฐ๋ก ์์๋์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฝ์คํธ์ฝ ํธ๋๋ธ์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ ํนํ ํ์ ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณตํ๋ ๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฌํ ์๋น์ค๋ ํ์๋ค์๊ฒ ๊ณ์ํด์ ์ข์ ๋ฐ์์ ์ป๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Our member-only rates for vacation packages, hotels, cruises and rental cars often lead to hundreds or even thousands of dollars in savings in addition to the great service provided by our fantastic Costco travel agents. Costco Travel U.S. set an all-time daily sales record on Cyber Monday before beating that record a day later on December 2. In all, we achieved over $100 million in gross bookings in the U.S. through Costco Travel in the 5 days following Thanksgiving, up 12% from last year. Turning to inflation. Overall, inflation remained relatively consistent with recent quarters. | ํ์ ์ ์ฉ ํน๊ฐ๋ก ์ ๊ณต๋๋ ํด๊ฐ ํจํค์ง, ํธํ , ํฌ๋ฃจ์ฆ, ๋ ํฐ์นด๋ ์ ํฌ ํ๋ฅญํ ์ฝ์คํธ์ฝ ์ฌํ ์๋ด์ฌ๋ค์ด ์ ๊ณตํ๋ ๋ฐ์ด๋ ์๋น์ค์ ๋๋ถ์ด ์๋ฐฑ ๋ฌ๋ฌ์์ ์์ฒ ๋ฌ๋ฌ์ ์ด๋ฅด๋ ์ ๊ฐ ํจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณตํฉ๋๋ค. ์ฝ์คํธ์ฝ ํธ๋๋ธ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์ ์ฌ์ด๋ฒ ๋จผ๋ฐ์ด์ ์ญ๋ ์ต๊ณ ์ผ์ผ ๋งค์ถ ๊ธฐ๋ก์ ์ธ์ ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ ๋ค์๋ ์ธ 12์ 2์ผ ๋ค์ ๊ทธ ๊ธฐ๋ก์ ๊ฒฝ์ ํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ ์ฒด์ ์ผ๋ก ์ถ์๊ฐ์ฌ์ ์ดํ 5์ผ๊ฐ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ฝ์คํธ์ฝ ํธ๋๋ธ์ ํตํด ์ด ์์ฝ์ก 1์ต ๋ฌ๋ฌ ์ด์์ ๋ฌ์ฑํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ ์ ๋ ๋๋น 12% ์ฆ๊ฐํ ์์น์ ๋๋ค. ์ธํ๋ ์ด์ ์ผ๋ก ๋์ด๊ฐ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ธํ๋ ์ด์ ์ ์ต๊ทผ ๋ถ๊ธฐ๋ค๊ณผ ๋น๊ต์ ์ผ๊ด๋ ์์ค์ ์ ์งํ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Fresh and food and sundries saw higher inflation in commodities such as beef, seafood and coffee, but this was offset by lower inflation in eggs, cheese, butter and produce. In non-foods, we saw low single-digit inflation for the third consecutive quarter, primarily driven by gold and imported goods. Our buyers continue to do a great job reducing the impact of tariffs for our members. | ์ ์ ์ํ ๋ฐ ์๋ฃํ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์์๋ ์ ๊ณ ๊ธฐ, ํด์ฐ๋ฌผ, ์ปคํผ ๋ฑ์ ํ๋ชฉ์์ ๋์ ์ธํ๋ ์ด์ ์ด ๋ํ๋ฌ์ผ๋, ๊ณ๋, ์น์ฆ, ๋ฒํฐ, ๋์ฐ๋ฌผ์ ๋ฎ์ ์ธํ๋ ์ด์ ์ผ๋ก ์์๋์์ต๋๋ค. ๋น์ํ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์์๋ 3๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ฐ์ ๋ฎ์ ํ ์๋ฆฟ์ ์ธํ๋ ์ด์ ์ ๊ธฐ๋กํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ ์ฃผ๋ก ๊ธ๊ณผ ์์ ์ํ์ ์ํด ์ฃผ๋๋์์ต๋๋ค. ๋น์ฌ์ ๋ฐ์ด์ด๋ค์ ๊ด์ธ๊ฐ ํ์๋ค์๊ฒ ๋ฏธ์น๋ ์ํฅ์ ์ค์ด๋ ๋ฐ ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ํ๋ฅญํ ์ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| The strategy is being deployed to achieve this include changing the country of production for some items, sourcing more items produced in the U.S., consolidating buying efforts globally to lower the cost of goods across all our markets, and leaning into Kirkland Signature, where we have more control over the supply chain. Additionally, we are changing our item assortment where appropriate. As discussed last quarter, while we have a robust and exciting holiday merchandise selection in our U.S. warehouses, this represents a lower number of SKUs than in prior years. | ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ฌ์ฑํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ์ ๊ฐ๋๊ณ ์๋ ์ ๋ต์๋ ์ผ๋ถ ํ๋ชฉ์ ์์ฐ๊ตญ ๋ณ๊ฒฝ, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋ด ์์ฐ ์ ํ์ ์์ฑ ํ๋, ์ ์ธ๊ณ์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ตฌ๋งค ํ๋์ ํตํฉํ์ฌ ๋ชจ๋ ์์ฅ์์ ์ํ ์๊ฐ ์ ๊ฐ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ณต๊ธ๋ง์ ๋ํ ํต์ ๋ ฅ์ด ๋ ํฐ ์ปคํด๋๋ ์๊ทธ๋์ฒ ์ ํ ๊ฐํ๊ฐ ํฌํจ๋ฉ๋๋ค. ๋ํ ์ ์ ํ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ ํ๋ชฉ ๊ตฌ์ฑ์ ๋ณ๊ฒฝํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ง๋ ๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ๋ ผ์ํ ๋ฐ์ ๊ฐ์ด, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ฐฝ๊ณ ์ ๋ค์ํ๊ณ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์ธ ์ฐ๋ง ์ํ ๊ตฌ์์ ๊ฐ์ถ๊ณ ์์ง๋ง, ์ด๋ ์ ๋ ๋๋น ๋ ์ ์ ์์ SKU๋ฅผ ๋ํ๋ ๋๋ค. |
| In replacement of some tariff-impacted items, our buyers have sourced a number of alternative great value items, including seasonal food, health and beauty and live goods. In many cases, these items are produced in the U.S. and are largely unimpacted by tariffs. The supply chain has remained stable, and our merchants feel very good about our inventory position. By optimizing our inventory flow and reducing some of the higher inventory levels we built up a year ago in the face of greater supply chain uncertainty at that time, we've been able to improve working capital and lower the labor required to manage inventory without impacting in stocks or sales. | ์ผ๋ถ ๊ด์ธ ์ํฅ์ ๋ฐ๋ ํ๋ชฉ๋ค์ ๋์ฒดํ๊ธฐ ์ํด, ์ ํฌ ๋ฐ์ด์ด๋ค์ ๊ณ์ ์ํ, ๊ฑด๊ฐ ๋ฐ ๋ฏธ์ฉ ์ ํ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ํ์ฉํ์ ํฌํจํ ๋ค์์ ๋์ฒด ๊ฐ์น ์ํ๋ค์ ์์ฑํ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ง์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ, ์ด๋ฌํ ํ๋ชฉ๋ค์ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋ด์์ ์์ฐ๋์ด ๊ด์ธ์ ์ํฅ์ ๊ฑฐ์ ๋ฐ์ง ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ณต๊ธ๋ง์ ์์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ ์ง๋๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ ํฌ ๋จธ์ฒ๋ค์ด์ ๋ค์ ์ฌ๊ณ ํฌ์ง์ ์ ๋ํด ๋งค์ฐ ๊ธ์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ํ๊ฐํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋น์ ๋ ํฐ ๊ณต๊ธ๋ง ๋ถํ์ค์ฑ์ ์ง๋ฉดํ์ฌ 1๋ ์ ๊ตฌ์ถํ๋ ๋์ ์ฌ๊ณ ์์ค ์ค ์ผ๋ถ๋ฅผ ์ค์ด๊ณ ์ฌ๊ณ ํ๋ฆ์ ์ต์ ํํจ์ผ๋ก์จ, ์ฌ๊ณ ๋ถ์กฑ์ด๋ ๋งค์ถ์ ์ํฅ์ ์ฃผ์ง ์์ผ๋ฉด์๋ ์ด์ ์๋ณธ์ ๊ฐ์ ํ๊ณ ์ฌ๊ณ ๊ด๋ฆฌ์ ํ์ํ ์ธ๋ ฅ์ ์ ๊ฐํ ์ ์์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Finally, in terms of upcoming releases, we will announce our December sales results for the 5 weeks ending Sunday, January 4 and on Wednesday, January 7, after market close. That concludes our prepared remarks, and we'll now open the line up for questions. | ๋ง์ง๋ง์ผ๋ก, ํฅํ ๊ณต์ ์ผ์ ๊ณผ ๊ด๋ จํ์ฌ, 1์ 4์ผ ์ผ์์ผ๋ก ์ข ๋ฃ๋๋ 5์ฃผ๊ฐ์ 12์ ๋งค์ถ ์ค์ ์ 1์ 7์ผ ์์์ผ ์ฅ ๋ง๊ฐ ํ ๋ฐํํ ์์ ์ ๋๋ค. ์ค๋น๋ ๋ฐํ๋ ์ด์์ผ๋ก ๋ง์น๊ฒ ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด์ ์ง์์๋ต ์๊ฐ์ ๊ฐ๋๋ก ํ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
# Costco Q1 2026 ์ค์ ์์ฝ
## ์ฃผ์ ์ฌ๋ฌด ์ฑ๊ณผ
- **์์ด์ต**: 20์ต ๋ฌ๋ฌ ($4.50/์ฃผ), ์ ๋
๋๊ธฐ ๋๋น 13.6% ์ฆ๊ฐ (์ผํ์ฑ ์ธ๊ธ ํจ๊ณผ ์ ์ธ ์)
- **๋งค์ถ**: 659.8์ต ๋ฌ๋ฌ๋ก ์ ๋
๋๋น 8.2% ์ฆ๊ฐ, ๋์ผ์ ๋งค์ถ 6.4% ์ฑ์ฅ
- **ํ์ ์์๋ฃ ์์
**: 13.3์ต ๋ฌ๋ฌ๋ก 14% ์ฆ๊ฐ (์๋
9์ ํ์๋น ์ธ์์ด ์ฑ์ฅ์ ์ ๋ฐ ๊ธฐ์ฌ)
- **์ด๋ง์ง**: 11.32%๋ก ์ ๋
๋๋น 4bp ๊ฐ์ , ์ฝ์ด ๋ง์ง์ 30bp ์์น (๊ณต๊ธ๋ง ๊ฐ์ ๋ฐ ์์ฒด๋ธ๋๋ ์นจํฌ์จ ์ฆ๊ฐ)
## ์ฃผ์ ๊ฒฝ์ ์ด์
- **์ ํฌ ํ์ฅ**: Q1์ 8๊ฐ ์ ๊ท ์ ํฌ ๊ฐ์ค, ์ฐ๊ฐ ๋ชฉํ๋ฅผ 30๊ฐ ์ด์์์ 28๊ฐ๋ก ํํฅ ์กฐ์ (์คํ์ธ ๊ฑด์ค ์ง์ฐ)ํ์์ผ๋ ์ฅ๊ธฐ ์ฑ์ฅ ๋ชฉํ๋ ์ ์ง
- **๊ด์ธ ์ํฅ ๋์**: ์์ฐ๊ตญ ๋ณ๊ฒฝ, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ฐ ์ ํ ํ๋, ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ๊ตฌ๋งค ํตํฉ, ์์ฒด๋ธ๋๋ ๊ฐํ ๋ฑ์ผ๋ก ๊ด์ธ ์ํฅ ์ต์ํ ์ ๋ต ์ถ์ง
- **๋์งํธ ์ฑ์ฅ**: ์จ๋ผ์ธ ๋งค์ถ 20.5% ์ฆ๊ฐ, ๋ธ๋ํ๋ผ์ด๋ฐ์ด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ ์์๊ฑฐ๋ ๋งค์ถ 2.5์ต ๋ฌ๋ฌ ๊ธฐ๋ก, AI ํ์ฉํ ์ฌ๊ณ ๊ด๋ฆฌ๋ก ์ฝ๊ตญ ์ฌ๊ณ ์จ 98% ๋ฌ์ฑ
## ๊ฒฝ์์ง ํค
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| Operator: [Operator Instructions] And our first question comes from the line of Michael Lasser with UBS. | **Operator:** [์ด์์ ์๋ด] ์ฒซ ๋ฒ์งธ ์ง๋ฌธ์ UBS์ Michael Lasser ์ ๋๋ฆฌ์คํธ๋ก๋ถํฐ ๋ค์ด์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Michael Lasser: UBS Investment Bank, Research Division On one of the observations -- one of the observations that the market has is under your tenure, Costco's had a greater willingness to move with speed, embrace technology in a different modes of retail and changed a bit more than in the past. Is that a fair conclusion? And given the benefits of these actions that you're taking, which is greater productivity and efficiency, would you be willing to continue to let the financial benefits fall to the bottom line? Or do you see a greater need to reinvest back in the business in areas like price to continue to drive the talk, right? | **Michael Lasser:** ์์ฅ์์ ๊ด์ฐฐํ๊ณ ์๋ ์ ์ค ํ๋๋ ๊ทํ์ ์ฌ์ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋์ ์ฝ์คํธ์ฝ๊ฐ ๋ ๋น ๋ฅธ ์๋๋ก ์์ง์ด๊ณ , ๊ธฐ์ ์ ๋ฐ์๋ค์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋ค์ํ ์๋งค ๋ฐฉ์์ ๋์ ํ๊ณ , ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ๋ณด๋ค ๋ ๋ง์ ๋ณํ๋ฅผ ์ถ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ์๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ด๊ฒ์ด ํ๋นํ ๊ฒฐ๋ก ์ผ๊น์? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ํ์ฌ ์ทจํ๊ณ ์๋ ์กฐ์น๋ค, ์ฆ ์์ฐ์ฑ๊ณผ ํจ์จ์ฑ ํฅ์์ ํตํด ์ป๋ ์ด์ ๋ค์ ๊ณ ๋ คํ ๋, ์ด๋ฌํ ์ฌ๋ฌด์ ์ด์ต์ ๊ณ์ํด์ ์์ด์ต์ผ๋ก ๋ฐ์ํ์ค ์ํฅ์ด ์์ผ์ ๊ฐ์? ์๋๋ฉด ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ๊ฒฝ์๋ ฅ ๊ฐ์ ๋ถ์ผ์ ์ฌํฌ์ํ์ฌ ์ง์์ ์ธ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๊ฒฌ์ธํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ๋ ํ์ํ๋ค๊ณ ๋ณด์๋์? |
| Ron Vachris: President, CEO & Director You're welcome, Michael. You know, technology and bringing the company along has been a focus for several years. We've had the spend -- a couple of years ago, we really focused on our fundamental base systems and our core systems behind the scenes that will allow us to build for the future. And so we're now coming to a fruition where we're starting to see the benefits of that hard work of all the backroom systems that we had to build that are now coming to light and coming to the front phase for our members. We feel that technology is going to be part of the -- big part of our future. I think it's equally as important as all of our other initiatives that we have out there, but we will never succumb to not being the best price and driving prices down for our members. That's what Costco is known for, and that will always be our leading mantra. | **Ron Vachris:** ์ฒ๋ง์์, ๋ง์ดํด. ๊ธฐ์ ๊ณผ ํ์ฌ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ ์๋ ๊ฐ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ํต์ฌ ๊ณผ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ช ๋ ์ ๋ถํฐ ํฌ์๋ฅผ ์งํํด์๋๋ฐ์, ๋น์์๋ ๋ฏธ๋๋ฅผ ์ํ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ ๊ตฌ์ถํ ์ ์๋๋ก ๊ธฐ๋ณธ ์์คํ ๊ณผ ํต์ฌ ๋ฐฑ์๋ ์์คํ ์ ์ง์คํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด์ ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ์ค์ ๋ง์ดํ๊ณ ์๋ ์์ ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ตฌ์ถํด์ผ ํ๋ ๋ชจ๋ ๋ฐฑ์คํผ์ค ์์คํ ๋ค์ ๋ ธ๋ ฅ์ด ์ด์ ๊ฐ์ํ๋๊ณ ์๊ณ , ํ์๋ค์ด ์ง์ ์ฒด๊ฐํ ์ ์๋ ๋จ๊ณ๋ก ๋์๊ฐ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ธฐ์ ์ด ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ฏธ๋์ ํฐ ๋ถ๋ถ์ ์ฐจ์งํ ๊ฒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ํ์ ํฉ๋๋ค. ์ ํฌ๊ฐ ์ถ์งํ๊ณ ์๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ชจ๋ ์ด๋์ ํฐ๋ธ๋งํผ์ด๋ ์ค์ํ๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ์ฝ์คํธ์ฝ๋ ์ต๊ณ ์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ๊ฒฝ์๋ ฅ์ ์ ๊ณตํ๊ณ ํ์๋ค์ ์ํด ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ ๋ฎ์ถ๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ ๋ ํฌ๊ธฐํ์ง ์์ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ด ๋ฐ๋ก ์ฝ์คํธ์ฝ๊ฐ ์๋ ค์ง ์ด์ ์ด๊ณ , ์์ผ๋ก๋ ํญ์ ์ ํฌ์ ํต์ฌ ๊ฒฝ์ ์์น์ผ๋ก ๋จ์ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Operator: And our next question comes from the line of Christopher Horvers with JPMorgan. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ JP๋ชจ๊ฑด์ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์คํ ํผ ํธ๋ฒ์ค๋๊ป์ ์ฃผ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Christopher Horvers: JPMorgan Chase & Co, Research Division So quick follow-up on the latter and then the [ former ] question and then a second question. So as you think about results recently, they're strong in absolute standards. I think the market holds you to very high standards. Is there any concern that you see on the traffic side where there's more of an impetus to invest in price. And then secondly, it looks like executive members per week grew at an accelerated pace from 4Q to 1Q. How are you looking at that in terms of the overall benefit of extending the hours both in terms of the lift that you're seeing in sales? And is this also driving accelerated sign-up. | **Christopher Horvers:** ์ต๊ทผ ์ค์ ์ ์ ๋์ ๊ธฐ์ค์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๋ฉด ๊ฐ๋ ฅํฉ๋๋ค. ์์ฅ์ด ์ ํฌ์๊ฒ ๋งค์ฐ ๋์ ๊ธฐ์ค์ ์ ์ฉํ๊ณ ์๋ค๋ ์ ์ ์๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ํธ๋ํฝ ์ธก๋ฉด์์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ํฌ์์ ๋ํ ํ์์ฑ์ด ๋ ์ปค์ง๋ ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋ํด ์ฐ๋ คํ์๋ ์ ์ด ์์ผ์ ์ง ๊ถ๊ธํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ ๋ฒ์งธ๋ก, ์ฃผ๋น ์ด๊ทธ์ ํํฐ๋ธ ํ์ ์๊ฐ 4๋ถ๊ธฐ์์ 1๋ถ๊ธฐ๋ก ์ค๋ฉด์ ๊ฐ์ํ๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด์ ๋๋ค. ์ด์ ์๊ฐ ์ฐ์ฅ์ ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ธ ํจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ณด๊ณ ๊ณ์ ์ง์? ๋งค์ถ ์ฆ๋ ์ธก๋ฉด์์ ๋ณด์๋ ์์น ํจ๊ณผ๋ ์ด๋ ํ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๊ฒ์ด ํ์ ๊ฐ์ ๊ฐ์ํ๋ก๋ ์ด์ด์ง๊ณ ์๋์ง ๊ถ๊ธํฉ๋๋ค. |
| Gary Millerchip: Executive VP & CFO Yes. Thanks for the questions, Chris. First of all, I guess, on your point around sales and overall sort of membership growth in the business, I think from our perspective, we look at it very much over the last really 6 to 12 months. And when we look at the sort of trends and step back from what we're seeing with the member, there's a lot of consistency, actually. Overall, I think we've shared in the last couple of quarters. When we talk about what members are looking for, they're looking for value and for quality and for newness. And I think we've done a great job, our buyers and operators have done a great job of bringing that to our members. And when you look at month by month, there's definitely been some lumpiness in the individual monthly sales results that we posted. But a lot of that has been to do with whether it was uncertainty around tariffs 1 month to another or port strikes that we have to cycle. And if you sort of take a step back and look at the last 7 months that we've reported in the last 2 quarters, our average sales have been around that 6.5% growth. We had 6.4% comps adjusted for gas and FX in Q4. We had 6.4% Q1 this quarter. And actually, if you look at every individual month, there was only 2 months in that last 7 months that were outside of the range of 6% to 7%. So I think sometimes there's a bit of fixation on individual month or one particular point of data. But actually, when we look at what we're seeing with the overall sort of patterns of how members are shopping and how they're behaving, we've seen a very sort of consistent pattern and a consistency in the results. So our goal is to really continue to make sure we're delivering on that value, quality and newness and ensure that we continue to see that growth in membership accounts in their frequency of visiting and in the items that they're putting in the basket. And generally, when you look across whether it's nonfood, food and sundries and fresh we've seen consistency in performance and growing market share in those areas. So we'll continue to focus on making sure we're delivering on that value, but feel good about the overall sort of consistency in the results that we've been seeing. I think from a -- I think the second part of your question maybe was around executive membership. And yes, I think we've been very pleased with the membership response to the extended operating hours. And also, you may remember, we added $10 per month as an extra benefit for executive members who shop on Instacart. The extended opening hours that we did was certainly a major benefit for our executive members, having an extra hour in the morning on most days to shop the warehouse. But we also added an extra hour on a Saturday evening for all of our members. And if you think about the earlier hours, it often extends the total shopping members in the warehouse. So it spreads out the traffic, if you like, to make the experience better for all our members. So we felt very positive about the change that we've seen. It's certainly been well received by members. We've seen a really nice uptick in executive upgrades to your point. And it gets hard to track the spend uplift because of the further away from the change you go, it's more difficult to sort of parse the differences that are happening in the impact on sales. But we still think that sort of 1% lift was a reasonable kind of view of what we think the impact was. And of course, as I mentioned earlier, you see sort of different puts and takes that I would sort of -- if I look at our overall sort of sales trends, I think I look at it as it's probably offset some of that cycling of gift cards and gold that we were expecting at this time of year. And we've been able to maintain that overall sales growth even with those impacts. | **Gary Millerchip:** ๋ค, ์ง๋ฌธ ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค, Chris. ๋จผ์ ๋งค์ถ๊ณผ ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ธ ํ์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๋ํ ๋ง์ ๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ ํฌ ๊ด์ ์์๋ ์ง๋ 6๊ฐ์์์ 12๊ฐ์ ์ ๋์ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ์ ์ค์ฌ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ถ์ธ๋ฅผ ์ดํด๋ณด๊ณ ํ์๋ค์ ๋ชจ์ต์ ํ ๋ฐ์ง ๋ฌผ๋ฌ์์ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์ค์ ๋ก ์๋นํ ์ผ๊ด๋ ํจํด์ด ๋ณด์
๋๋ค. ์ง๋ ๋ช ๋ถ๊ธฐ ๋์ ๋ง์๋๋ ธ๋ฏ์ด, ํ์๋ค์ด ์ํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๊ฐ์น์ ํ์ง, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์๋ก์์
๋๋ค. ์ ํฌ ๋ฐ์ด์ด๋ค๊ณผ ์ด์ํ์ด ์ด๋ฐ ๋ถ๋ถ์ ํ์๋ค์๊ฒ ํ๋ฅญํ๊ฒ ์ ๊ณตํด์๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. ์๋ณ๋ก ์ดํด๋ณด๋ฉด ๊ฐ๋ณ ์๊ฐ ๋งค์ถ ์ค์ ์ ํ์คํ ๋ณ๋์ฑ์ด ์์์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ์ด๋ ๋๋ถ๋ถ ๊ด์ธ ๋ถํ์ค์ฑ์ด๋ ํญ๋ง ํ์
๊ฐ์ ์์ธ๋ค ๋๋ฌธ์ด์์ต๋๋ค. ํ ๋ฐ์ง ๋ฌผ๋ฌ์์ ์ง๋ 2๊ฐ ๋ถ๊ธฐ ๋์ ๋ณด๊ณ ํ 7๊ฐ์์ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ํ๊ท ๋งค์ถ ์ฑ์ฅ๋ฅ ์ ์ฝ 6.5% ์์ค์
๋๋ค. 4๋ถ๊ธฐ์๋ ์ ๋ฅ์ ํ์จ์ ์กฐ์ ํ ๊ธฐ์ค์ผ๋ก 6.4% ๋์ผ๋งค์ฅ ์ฑ์ฅ๋ฅ ์ ๊ธฐ๋กํ๊ณ , ์ด๋ฒ 1๋ถ๊ธฐ๋ 6.4%์์ต๋๋ค. ์ค์ ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ณ ์๋ณ๋ก ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์ง๋ 7๊ฐ์ ์ค 6~7% ๋ฒ์๋ฅผ ๋ฒ์ด๋ ๋ฌ์ ๋จ 2๊ฐ์๋ฟ์ด์์ต๋๋ค. ๋๋ก๋ ํน์ ์์ด๋ ๊ฐ๋ณ ๋ฐ์ดํฐ ํฌ์ธํธ์ ์ง๋์น๊ฒ ์ง์คํ๋ ๊ฒฝํฅ์ด ์๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. ์ค์ ๋ก ํ์๋ค์ ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ธ ์ผํ ํจํด๊ณผ ํ๋์ ์ดํด๋ณด๋ฉด, ๋งค์ฐ ์ผ๊ด๋ ํจํด๊ณผ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์ ์ผ๊ด์ฑ์ ํ์ธํ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ์ ํฌ์ ๋ชฉํ๋ ๊ฐ์น, ํ์ง, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ ์ ํ ์ ๊ณต์ ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ์ดํํ๊ณ , ํ์ ๊ณ์ ์์ ์ฆ๊ฐ, ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ ๋น๋ ์ฆ๊ฐ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ฅ๋ฐ๊ตฌ๋ ํ๋ชฉ ์ ์ฆ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๊ณ์ ํ์ธํ๋ ๊ฒ์
๋๋ค. ์ผ๋ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋น์ํ, ์ํ ๋ฐ ์กํ, ์ ์ ์ํ ๋ฑ ์ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์ ๊ฑธ์ณ ์ผ๊ด๋ ์ฑ๊ณผ์ ์์ฅ ์ ์ ์จ ์ฆ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์์ผ๋ก๋ ๊ฐ์น ์ ๊ณต์ ์ง์คํ ๊ฒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ง๊ธ๊น์ง ๋ณด์ฌ์จ ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์ ์ผ๊ด์ฑ์ ๋ํด ๊ธ์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ํ๊ฐํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋ ๋ฒ์งธ ๋ถ๋ถ์ ์ด๊ทธ์ ํํฐ๋ธ ๋ฉค๋ฒ์ญ์ ๊ดํ ๊ฒ์ด์๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ค, ์ฐ์ฅ ์ด์์๊ฐ์ ๋ํ ํ์๋ค์ ๋ฐ์์ด ๋งค์ฐ ๊ธ์ ์ ์ด์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ํ ๊ธฐ์ตํ์๊ฒ ์ง๋ง, ์ธ์คํ์นดํธ๋ฅผ ์ด์ฉํ๋ ์ด๊ทธ์ ํํฐ๋ธ ํ์๋ค์๊ฒ ์ 10๋ฌ๋ฌ์ ์ถ๊ฐ ํํ๋ ์ ๊ณตํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐ์ฅ ์ด์์๊ฐ์ ์ด๊ทธ์ ํํฐ๋ธ ํ์๋ค์๊ฒ ํนํ ํฐ ํํ์ด ๋์์ต๋๋ค. ๋๋ถ๋ถ์ ์์ผ์ ๋งค์ฅ์์ ์ผํํ ์ ์๋ ์๊ฐ์ด ์์นจ์ ํ ์๊ฐ ๋ ๋์ด๋ฌ์ผ๋๊น์. ํ์ง๋ง ํ ์์ผ ์ ๋ ์๋ ์ ์ฒด ํ์์ ๋์์ผ๋ก ํ ์๊ฐ์ ์ถ๊ฐ๋ก ์ฐ์ฅํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฅธ ์๊ฐ๋ ์ด์์ ์๊ฐํด๋ณด๋ฉด, ๋งค์ฅ์์ ์ผํํ๋ ์ ์ฒด ํ์ ์๊ฐ ๋์ด๋๋ ํจ๊ณผ๊ฐ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ํธ๋ํฝ์ด ๋ถ์ฐ๋๋ฉด์ ๋ชจ๋ ํ์๋ค์ ์ผํ ๊ฒฝํ์ด ๋ ๋์์ง๋ ๊ฒ์ด์ฃ . ๋ณํ์ ๋ํด ๋งค์ฐ ๊ธ์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ํ์๋ค์ ๋ฐ์๋ ํ์คํ ์ข์๊ณ ์. ๋ง์ํ์ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ ์ด๊ทธ์ ํํฐ๋ธ ๋ฑ๊ธ์ผ๋ก์ ์ ๊ทธ๋ ์ด๋๋ ์๋นํ ์ฆ๊ฐํ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ค๋ง ์ง์ถ ์ฆ๊ฐ ํจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ถ์ ํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ์๊ฐ์ด ์ง๋ ์๋ก ์ด๋ ค์์ง๋๋ฐ, ๋ณํ ์์ ์์ ๋ฉ์ด์ง์๋ก ์ค์ ๋งค์ถ์ ๋ฏธ์น๋ ์ํฅ์ ๊ตฌ๋ถํด๋ด๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋ ํ๋ค์ด์ง๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋๋ ์ฌ์ ํ ์ฝ 1% ์ ๋์ ์์น ํจ๊ณผ๊ฐ ์์๋ค๊ณ ๋ณด๋ ๊ฒ์ด ํฉ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ๊ด์ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฐ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ, ์ฌ๋ฌ ์๋ฐ๋ ์์ธ๋ค์ด ์๋๋ฐ์, ์ ์ฒด์ ์ธ ๋งค์ถ ์ถ์ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉด ์ด๋ฒ ์๊ธฐ์ ์์ํ๋ ๊ธฐํํธ์นด๋์ ๊ธ ๊ด๋ จ ๊ธฐ์ ํจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ด๋ ์ ๋ ์์ํด์ค ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ํ๋จ๋ฉ๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฌํ ์ํฅ์๋ ๋ถ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ์ ์ฒด ๋งค์ถ ์ฑ์ฅ์ธ๋ฅผ ์ ์งํ ์ ์์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Operator: And our next question comes from the line of Simeon Gutman with Morgan Stanley. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋ชจ๊ฑด์คํ ๋ฆฌ์ ์๋ฉ์จ ๊ตฌํธ๋ง ์ ๋๋ฆฌ์คํธ๊ป์ ์ฃผ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Simeon Gutman: Morgan Stanley, Research Division My question is on warehouse openings in the U.S., I think we're going to get to the highest number, something like 20 years next year. So do you do anything different from a membership perspective? I know we're lapping some of the short-term promotions that you did on membership. Is there anything you do different as you approach next year? | **Simeon Gutman:** ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋ด ์ฐฝ๊ณ ํ ๋งค์ฅ ์คํ ๊ด๋ จ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ด๋ ์๋ ์ฝ 20๋ ๋ง์ ์ต๊ณ ์์ค์ ๋งค์ฅ ์คํ์ด ์์๋๋๋ฐ์. ํ์ ๊ด์ ์์ ํน๋ณํ ๋ค๋ฅด๊ฒ ์งํํ์ค ๊ณํ์ด ์์ผ์ ๊ฐ์? ๋จ๊ธฐ ํ์ ํ๋ก๋ชจ์ ๋ค์ด ์ข ๋ฃ๋๋ ์์ ์ด๊ธฐ๋ ํ๋ฐ, ๋ด๋ ์ ์ค๋นํ๋ฉด์ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ ๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์์ ๊ณ ๋ คํ๊ณ ๊ณ์ ์ง ๊ถ๊ธํฉ๋๋ค. |
| Ron Vachris: President, CEO & Director No, I don't think so. Next year's openings will be a good mix of some infills in established markets, and we still have some opportunities in some new markets. And so several of the infill locations don't result in a whole lot of sign-ups, but really drive a lot of top line sales because it really addresses the frequency aspect of things. And then the new markets that we've done several of those this year, and we have a few more slated for next year of markets that we may have been a little reluctant to go into, we've got much greater confidence at this point and we'll garner a much better new sign-up approach in those markets as well. So a lot of -- continuing on what we've done before, but some different type of scenarios as we move forward in the U.S. | **Ron Vachris:** ์๋์, ๊ทธ๋ ์ง ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ด๋
์คํ ๋งค์ฅ๋ค์ ๊ธฐ์กด ์์ฅ ๋ด ์ธํ(infill) ์
์ ๊ณผ ์ ๊ท ์์ฅ ์ง์ถ์ด ์ ์ ํ ์กฐํฉ๋ ๊ฒ์
๋๋ค. ์ธํ ์
์ ์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ ์ ๊ท ํ์ ๊ฐ์
์ด ํฌ๊ฒ ๋์ง๋ ์์ง๋ง, ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ค์ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ ๋น๋๋ฅผ ๋์ฌ ๋งค์ถ ์์น์ ํฌ๊ฒ ๊ธฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. ์ ๊ท ์์ฅ์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ, ์ฌํด ์ด๋ฏธ ์ฌ๋ฌ ๊ณณ์ ์ง์ถํ๊ณ ๋ด๋ ์๋ ๋ช ๊ณณ ๋ ๊ณํํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์๋ ๋ค์ ์ฃผ์ ํ๋ ์์ฅ๋ค์ด์ง๋ง, ์ด์ ๋ ํจ์ฌ ๋ ํ์ ์ ๊ฐ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ ํด๋น ์์ฅ์์๋ ์ ๊ท ํ์ ํ๋ณด์ ์์ด ํจ์ฌ ๋์ ์ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ด ๋๋ค. ๊ธฐ์กด์ ํด์๋ ๋ฐฉ์์ ๊ณ์ ์ด์ด๊ฐ๋, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์์ฅ์์ ์์ผ๋ก ๋์๊ฐ๋ฉด์ ๋ช ๊ฐ์ง ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ ํ์ ์๋๋ฆฌ์ค๋ค๋ ์งํํ ์์ ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Operator: And our next question comes from the line of Oliver Chen with TD Cowen. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ TD Cowen์ Oliver Chen ๋๊ป์ ์ฃผ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Oliver Chen: TD Cowen, Research Division On the technology side, it's been really exciting. As we think about retail media, there are plenty of companies that really want to work with you deeply on digital advertising. Would love your thoughts there. And also as you approach the marketplace in a customer-centric way, love to have your thoughts on that development. And finally, AI and gas. AI has so many applications across the customer experience as well as employees and inventory management. What's on your road map for how that will innovate your business going forward? | **Oliver Chen:** ๊ธฐ์ ์ธก๋ฉด์์ ์ ๋ง ํฅ๋ฏธ๋ก์ด ๋ฐ์ ๋ค์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฆฌํ ์ผ ๋ฏธ๋์ด(retail media)๋ฅผ ์๊ฐํด๋ณด๋ฉด, ๋์งํธ ๊ด๊ณ ๋ถ์ผ์์ ์ ํฌ์ ๊ธด๋ฐํ๊ฒ ํ๋ ฅํ๊ณ ์ถ์ดํ๋ ๊ธฐ์ ๋ค์ด ์ ๋ง ๋ง์ต๋๋ค. ์ด ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋ํ ์๊ฒฌ์ ๋ฃ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ํ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ค์ฌ์ ์ ๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์์ผ๋ก ๋ง์ผํ๋ ์ด์ค๋ฅผ ์ด์ํ๊ณ ๊ณ์ ๋ฐ, ์ด๋ฌํ ๋ฐ์ ๋ฐฉํฅ์ ๋ํด์๋ ๋ง์ ๋ถํ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค. ๋ง์ง๋ง์ผ๋ก AI ๊ด๋ จํด์์. AI๋ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ฒฝํ์ ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ง์ ๊ด๋ฆฌ, ์ฌ๊ณ ๊ด๋ฆฌ ๋ฑ ๋ค์ํ ์์ญ์ ์ ์ฉ๋ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์์ผ๋ก AI๊ฐ ๊ท์ฌ์ ์ฌ์ ์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ํ์ ํ ๊ฒ์ธ์ง, ๋ก๋๋งต์ ๋ํด ๋ง์ํด ์ฃผ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๊น? |
| Gary Millerchip: Executive VP & CFO Thanks for the question, Oliver. Yes, I'll take the retail media question first. Yes, we talked about retail media a few times now on the calls, and I definitely believe that it's a meaningful opportunity for us. I always like to start the conversation on retail media though to remind everybody that we have a pretty large alternative profit business that many other retailers would define that way today. And I called out a couple of them on the call today outside of financial services. We have a large travel business. We have a traditional sort of media revenue business that we generate meaningful dollars today. And both of those were actually travel and the sort of marketing and media revenue were tailwinds to our business in the quarter. So there's a number of strengths that we have today in that space that are part of our model that I think showed through in the ability to keep investing in the member and still expanding our operating margins during the quarter. That being said, we think of retail media as a slightly different opportunity from those because it really is about tapping into that marketing spend that many of our suppliers are investing in other places to drive their marketing awareness and drive return on ad spend. We are in the early innings. I would still say of retail media. We've been building out, as Ron alluded to earlier, the sort of data and tech platform that allows us to execute personalization at scale. And I think for us, the first priority with personalization is to deliver a better member experience is to deliver more targeted relevant messaging so we drive more items in the basket, more visits to the warehouse, more visits online. And as you do those things, it just creates an even more compelling value proposition for our media partners. While we're building and executing on that capability, we've been introducing some media activity on third-party sites. So I think of that as being -- you may have seen, you have the Costco Auto program that will run on digital TV, and we've done some targeted MVM amplification campaigns with some of our partners that have been very successful as well. We also recently launched advertising on our gas pumps as a new channel for us as well around new media opportunities. So I think the headlines would be, we're seeing some early success, but it's still very much an opportunity in the future on the road map for us. And a bit like Ron mentioned earlier, all of our focus is on how do we drive more value for the member. So as you might expect, the vast majority of the value we create here will reinvest in the member to drive down prices and value and increase sales. And we actually think that's a real advantage with the national brand partners that we work with on media because they know that we're committed to really driving the flywheel and driving growth in their overall business. | **Gary Millerchip:** ์ง๋ฌธ ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค, Oliver. ๋จผ์ ๋ฆฌํ ์ผ ๋ฏธ๋์ด ์ง๋ฌธ๋ถํฐ ๋ต๋ณ๋๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ค, ์ง๊ธ๊น์ง ์ปจํผ๋ฐ์ค ์ฝ์์ ๋ฆฌํ ์ผ ๋ฏธ๋์ด์ ๋ํด ์ฌ๋ฌ ์ฐจ๋ก ๋ง์๋๋ ธ๋๋ฐ, ์ ๋ ์ด๊ฒ์ด ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์๊ฒ ์๋ฏธ ์๋ ๊ธฐํ๋ผ๊ณ ํ์คํ ๋ฏฟ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ค๋ง ๋ฆฌํ ์ผ ๋ฏธ๋์ด์ ๋ํ ๋ ผ์๋ฅผ ์์ํ ๋ ํญ์ ๊ฐ์กฐํ๊ณ ์ถ์ ์ ์, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ด๋ฏธ ์๋นํ ๊ท๋ชจ์ ๋์ฒด ์์ต(alternative profit) ์ฌ์ ์ ๋ณด์ ํ๊ณ ์๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ด๋ ์ค๋๋ ๋ง์ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ฆฌํ ์ผ๋ฌ๋ค๋ ๊ฐ์ ๋ฐฉ์์ผ๋ก ์ ์ํ๋ ์ฌ์ ์ ๋๋ค. ์ค๋ ์ปจํผ๋ฐ์ค ์ฝ์์ ๊ธ์ต ์๋น์ค ์ธ์ ๋ช ๊ฐ์ง๋ฅผ ์ธ๊ธํ๋๋ฐ, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋๊ท๋ชจ ์ฌํ ์ฌ์ ์ ์ด์ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ํ ์ ํต์ ์ธ ๋ฏธ๋์ด ์์ต ์ฌ์ ๋ ์์ด์ ํ์ฌ ์๋ฏธ ์๋ ์์ต์ ์ฐฝ์ถํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ค์ ๋ก ์ด ๋ ๊ฐ์ง, ์ฆ ์ฌํ ์ฌ์ ๊ณผ ๋ง์ผํ ๋ฐ ๋ฏธ๋์ด ์์ต ๋ชจ๋ ์ด๋ฒ ๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ค์ ์ ๊ธ์ ์ ์ธ ์ํฅ์ ๋ฏธ์ณค์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ด ๋ถ์ผ์์ ๋ณด์ ํ ์ฌ๋ฌ ๊ฐ์ ๋ค์ด ์๊ณ , ์ด๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ชจ๋ธ์ ์ผ๋ถ์ ๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฒ ๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ํ์์ ๋ํ ํฌ์๋ฅผ ์ง์ํ๋ฉด์๋ ์์ ์ด์ต๋ฅ (operating margin)์ ํ๋ํ ์ ์์๋ ๋ฅ๋ ฅ์์ ์ด๋ฌํ ๊ฐ์ ์ด ์ ๋๋ฌ๋ฌ๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ ๊ธด ํ์ง๋ง, ๋ฆฌํ ์ผ ๋ฏธ๋์ด(retail media)๋ ๊ธฐ์กด ์ฌ์ ๋ค๊ณผ๋ ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๊ธฐํ๋ผ๊ณ ๋ณด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์๋ํ๋ฉด ์ด๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ณต๊ธ์ ์ฒด๋ค์ด ๋ง์ผํ ์ธ์ง๋๋ฅผ ๋์ด๊ณ ๊ด๊ณ ํฌ์ ์์ต๋ฅ (ROAS, return on ad spend)์ ์ฐฝ์ถํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ๋ค๋ฅธ ๊ณณ์ ํฌ์ํ๊ณ ์๋ ๋ง์ผํ ๋น์ฉ์ ํ์ฉํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ฆฌํ ์ผ ๋ฏธ๋์ด๋ ์์ง ์ด๊ธฐ ๋จ๊ณ์ ์๋ค๊ณ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค. Ron์ด ์์ ์ธ๊ธํ๋ฏ์ด, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋๊ท๋ชจ ๊ฐ์ธํ(personalization)๋ฅผ ์คํํ ์ ์๋ ๋ฐ์ดํฐ ๋ฐ ๊ธฐ์ ํ๋ซํผ์ ๊ตฌ์ถํด ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ ํฌ์๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ธํ์ ์ต์ฐ์ ๊ณผ์ ๋ ๋ ๋์ ํ์ ๊ฒฝํ์ ์ ๊ณตํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ณด๋ค ํ๊ฒํ ๋๊ณ ๊ด๋ จ์ฑ ๋์ ๋ฉ์์ง๋ฅผ ์ ๋ฌํด์ ์ฅ๋ฐ๊ตฌ๋ ํ๋ชฉ ์๋ฅผ ๋๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ๋งค์ฅ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ์จ๋ผ์ธ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ๋ ๋๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฒ์ด์ฃ . ์ด๋ฐ ๊ฒ๋ค์ ์คํํ๋ค ๋ณด๋ฉด ๋ฏธ๋์ด ํํธ๋๋ค์๊ฒ ํจ์ฌ ๋ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์ธ ๊ฐ์น ์ ์์ด ๋ง๋ค์ด์ง๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฌํ ์ญ๋์ ๊ตฌ์ถํ๊ณ ์คํํ๋ ๋์, ์ ํฌ๋ ์ 3์ ์ฌ์ดํธ์์๋ ์ผ๋ถ ๋ฏธ๋์ด ํ๋์ ๋์ ํด์์ต๋๋ค. ์๋ฅผ ๋ค์ด ์ฝ์คํธ์ฝ ์คํ ํ๋ก๊ทธ๋จ์ด ๋์งํธ TV์์ ์ด์๋๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ณด์ จ์ ์๋ ์๊ณ , ์ผ๋ถ ํํธ๋์ฌ๋ค๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ํ๊ฒํ ๋ MVM ์ฆํญ ์บ ํ์ธ์ ์งํํ๋๋ฐ ์ด๊ฒ๋ ๋งค์ฐ ์ฑ๊ณต์ ์ด์์ต๋๋ค. ์ต๊ทผ์๋ ์ฃผ์ ๊ธฐ์ ๊ด๊ณ ๋ฅผ ๊ฒ์ฌํ๋ ์๋ก์ด ๋ฏธ๋์ด ์ฑ๋๋ ์์ํ์ต๋๋ค. ์์ฝํ์๋ฉด, ์ด๊ธฐ ์ฑ๊ณผ๋ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ ์์ง๋ง ์์ง์ ํฅํ ๋ก๋๋งต ์์ ๊ธฐํ ๋จ๊ณ์ ์๋ค๊ณ ๋ง์๋๋ฆด ์ ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ก ์ด ์์ ์ธ๊ธํ๋ฏ์ด, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ๋ชจ๋ ์ด์ ์ ํ์๋ค์๊ฒ ๋ ๋ง์ ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณตํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์์ํ์๊ฒ ์ง๋ง, ์ฌ๊ธฐ์ ์ฐฝ์ถํ๋ ๊ฐ์น์ ๋๋ถ๋ถ์ ํ์๋ค์๊ฒ ์ฌํฌ์๋์ด ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ ๋ฎ์ถ๊ณ ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ๋์ด๋ฉฐ ๋งค์ถ์ ์ฆ๋์ํค๋ ๋ฐ ์ฌ์ฉ๋ฉ๋๋ค. ์ค์ ๋ก ์ด๊ฒ์ด ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ํ๋ ฅํ๋ ์ ๊ตญ ๋ธ๋๋ ํํธ๋๋ค์๊ฒ๋ ํฐ ์ฅ์ ์ด ๋๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ ์ํ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฐํํ๊ณ ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์ ์ฒด ๋น์ฆ๋์ค ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๊ฒฌ์ธํ๋ ๋ฐ ์ ๋ ํ๊ณ ์๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ๊ทธ๋ค๋ ์๊ณ ์๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Ron Vachris: President, CEO & Director And on the AI front, we're extremely excited about what the future holds for us. I mean we see many opportunities that are really business-driven and tangible -- have great tangible business value for us and you look at things like our procurement system as we are a global retailer and we buy from around the world as well as supply chain, what it can do there. And just the tools that we've seen that this has improved our employees' work abilities and their skill sets as well as they do their day-to-day work. So we see a lot of value. We're very excited about the journey. We look at it in a 2-phase approach that concurrently, we're going to be focusing on member-facing, how do we improve the experience for the member through AI and then business in basics, how do we continue to focus on the business basics. Our mantra is to bring goods to market at the lowest possible price. And we think AI has a great asset to that, and it really can help us become a much better merchant out there. | **Ron Vachris:** AI ๋ถ์ผ์์๋ ์์ผ๋ก์ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ ๋ํด ์ ๋ง ๊ธฐ๋๊ฐ ํฝ๋๋ค. ์ค์ ๋ก ๋น์ฆ๋์ค ์ค์ฌ์ ์ด๊ณ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ๋ง์ ๊ธฐํ๋ค์ด ๋ณด์ด๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์๊ฒ ์ค์ง์ ์ธ ๋น์ฆ๋์ค ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณตํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์๋ฅผ ๋ค์ด ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ๋ฆฌํ ์ผ๋ฌ๋ก์ ์ ์ธ๊ณ์์ ์ ํ์ ๊ตฌ๋งคํ๋ ์กฐ๋ฌ ์์คํ ์ด๋ ๊ณต๊ธ๋ง ๋ถ๋ฌธ์์ AI๊ฐ ํ ์ ์๋ ์ผ๋ค์ ๋ณด๋ฉด ์ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ด๋ฌํ ๋๊ตฌ๋ค์ด ์ง์๋ค์ ์ผ์ ์ ๋ฌด ์ํ ๋ฅ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ์ญ๋์ ํฅ์์ํค๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ง์ ํ์ธํ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๋ง์ ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ณ ์๊ณ , ์ด ์ฌ์ ์ ๋ํด ๋งค์ฐ ๊ธฐ๋ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ ํฌ๋ 2๋จ๊ณ ์ ๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๋์์ ์งํํ ์์ ์ ๋๋ค. ๋จผ์ ํ์ ์ค์ฌ์ผ๋ก AI๋ฅผ ํตํด ํ์ ๊ฒฝํ์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ ํ ๊ฒ์ธ๊ฐ์ ์ง์คํ๊ณ , ๋์์ ๋น์ฆ๋์ค ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์ถฉ์คํ๋ฉด์ ํต์ฌ ์ฌ์ ์ ๊ณ์ ์ง์คํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ ํฌ์ ๊ฒฝ์ ์ฒ ํ์ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ ์ต์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ผ๋ก ์ํ์ ์์ฅ์ ๊ณต๊ธํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. AI๊ฐ ์ด๋ฌํ ๋ชฉํ ๋ฌ์ฑ์ ํฐ ์์ฐ์ด ๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ค์ ๋ก ์ ํฌ๊ฐ ํจ์ฌ ๋ ๋์ ์ ํต์ ์ฒด๊ฐ ๋๋ ๋ฐ ๋์์ด ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. |
| Operator: And our next question comes from the line of Chuck Grom with Gordon Haskett. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๊ณ ๋ ํด์ค์ผ์ ์ฒ ๊ทธ๋กฌ ๋๊ป์ ์ฃผ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Charles Grom: Gordon Haskett Research Advisors In your annual report, your sales waterfall chart is impressive. The class of '25, $192 million in sales versus $150 million in 2023. Can you help us think about the opportunity to continue to expand on this front and the steps you're taking to continue to improve productivity within the store? | **Charles Grom:** ์ฐ๋ก ๋ณด๊ณ ์์ ๋์จ ๋งค์ถ ์ํฐํด ์ฐจํธ๊ฐ ์ธ์์ ์ด์์ต๋๋ค. 2025๋ ํด๋์ค๊ฐ 2023๋ 1์ต 5์ฒ๋ง ๋ฌ๋ฌ ๋๋น 1์ต 9,200๋ง ๋ฌ๋ฌ์ ๋งค์ถ์ ๊ธฐ๋กํ๋๋ฐ์. ์ด ๋ถ๋ถ์์ ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ํ๋ํ ์ ์๋ ๊ธฐํ์, ๋งค์ฅ ๋ด ์์ฐ์ฑ์ ๊ณ์ ๊ฐ์ ํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ์ทจํ๊ณ ์๋ ์กฐ์น๋ค์ ๋ํด ์ค๋ช ํด ์ฃผ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๊น? |
| Ron Vachris: President, CEO & Director We see a good horizon on expansion. We continue to -- the creativity, I mentioned just a couple of examples of things that we're doing differently. We've got a project in Los Angeles, where we're working with some developers that there's some affordable housing going above Costco, just north of LAX. That project will open up in 2027. And that would be a market that we could -- it's Baldwin Hills where it's called. That would be a market we would never be able to go to and find 25 acres to build a Costco. It just wouldn't happen. So we're finding creative ways to get closer to our members and to relieve some pressure from some of our highest volume locations. And again, like I said, we continue to see some opportunities in markets that we would have questioned in the past due to maybe some competition is there, but we feel much stronger going in and attacking these markets. So like I said in the early opening remarks, good runway for 30-plus locations as we look forward for the next few years, for sure, and a good combination of both type of openings. And international still presents some very good strengths for us. In our recent Sweden opening our second location in Sweden, our third in France, and we've got quite a few in Asia that are upcoming as well. So we feel really strong about our future expansion. | **Ron Vachris:** ํ์ฅ์ ๋ํ ์ ๋ง์ ๊ธ์ ์ ์ ๋๋ค. ์ฐฝ์์ฑ์ ๊ณ์ ๋ฐํํ๊ณ ์๋๋ฐ, ๋ฐฉ๊ธ ๋ช ๊ฐ์ง ์ฐจ๋ณํ๋ ์ฌ๋ก๋ฅผ ๋ง์๋๋ ธ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ก์ค์ค์ ค๋ ์ค์์ ์งํ ์ค์ธ ํ๋ก์ ํธ๊ฐ ์๋๋ฐ, ์ผ๋ถ ๊ฐ๋ฐ์ ์ฒด๋ค๊ณผ ํ๋ ฅํ์ฌ LAX ๋ถ์ชฝ ์ฝ์คํธ์ฝ ์์ ์ ์๋์ธต ์ฃผํ์ ๊ฑด์คํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด ํ๋ก์ ํธ๋ 2027๋ ์ ์คํํ ์์ ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ณผ๋์ ํ์ค(Baldwin Hills)๋ผ๊ณ ๋ถ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ด ์ง์ญ์ 25์์ด์ปค ๋ถ์ง๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์์ ์ฝ์คํธ์ฝ๋ฅผ ์ง๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์ฌ์ค์ ๋ถ๊ฐ๋ฅํ ์์ฅ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฐ ์ผ์ ์ผ์ด๋์ง ์์ฃ . ๊ทธ๋์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ํ์๋ค์๊ฒ ๋ ๊ฐ๊น์ด ๋ค๊ฐ๊ฐ๊ณ ์ต๊ณ ๋งค์ถ ์ ํฌ๋ค์ ๋ถ๋ด์ ๋์ด์ฃผ๊ธฐ ์ํ ์ฐฝ์์ ์ธ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ๋ค์ ์ฐพ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ค์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ์ง๋ง, ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์๋ ๊ฒฝ์ ์ํฉ ๋๋ฌธ์ ์๋ฌธ์ ๊ฐ์ก๋ ์์ฅ๋ค์์๋ ์ง๊ธ์ ๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด์ ๋ ์ด๋ฌํ ์์ฅ๋ค์ ๊ณต๋ตํ๋ ๋ฐ ํจ์ฌ ๋ ์์ ๊ฐ์ ๊ฐ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์๋์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฐ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ, ํฅํ ๋ช ๋ ๊ฐ 30๊ฐ ์ด์์ ๋งค์ฅ ์ถ์ ์ ์ํ ์ข์ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ด ๋ง๋ จ๋์ด ์๊ณ , ๋ ๊ฐ์ง ์ ํ์ ์ถ์ ์ด ์ ์ ํ ์กฐํฉ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ํด์ธ ์์ฅ๋ ์ฌ์ ํ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์๊ฒ ๋งค์ฐ ์ข์ ๊ฐ์ ์ ์ ๊ณตํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ต๊ทผ ์ค์จ๋ด์ ๋ ๋ฒ์งธ ๋งค์ฅ์ ์ด์๊ณ , ํ๋์ค์๋ ์ธ ๋ฒ์งธ ๋งค์ฅ์ ๋์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์์์์๋ ๊ณง ์ฌ๋ฌ ๋งค์ฅ์ด ์คํํ ์์ ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ํฅํ ํ์ฅ์ ๋ํด ์ ๋ง ๊ฐํ ํ์ ์ ๊ฐ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Gary Millerchip: Executive VP & CFO And Chuck, I think on the point on the growth per warehouse, I think Ron's final point there is a really important one around the balance that we're able to get. So we find with many of the U.S. and Canada warehouses where we're filling in, we can accelerate the sales very quickly because Costco is known, we're sort of filling capacity where maybe there's some very busy warehouses around. So it really helps the economic model, we're getting returns from the quick acceleration in sales growth. And then in the international markets or places where we have less penetration of warehouses, it really drives a significant increase in new member count. So it's nice to have a balance between those 2. The returns look a little bit different in how you get there, but they both generate strong return on investment in different ways, and they create a nice balance in the business overall as we grow. | **Gary Millerchip:** ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๊ณผ ์บ๋๋ค ์ฐฝ๊ณ ์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ ๊ธฐ์กด ์ง์ญ์ ๋ณด์ํ๋ ํํ๋ก ์ถ์ ํ๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๋งค์ถ์ ๋งค์ฐ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ํํ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฝ์คํธ์ฝ๊ฐ ์ด๋ฏธ ์ ์๋ ค์ ธ ์๊ณ , ์ฃผ๋ณ์ ํผ์กํ ์ฐฝ๊ณ ๋ค์ด ์๋ ์ง์ญ์ ์์๋ฅผ ์ฑ์์ฃผ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์
๋๋ค. ์ด๋ ๊ฒฝ์ ์ฑ ๋ชจ๋ธ์ ํฐ ๋์์ด ๋๋ฉฐ, ๋น ๋ฅธ ๋งค์ถ ์ฑ์ฅ ๊ฐ์ํ๋ฅผ ํตํด ์์ต์ ์ป๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ฉด ํด์ธ ์์ฅ์ด๋ ์ฐฝ๊ณ ์นจํฌ์จ์ด ๋ฎ์ ์ง์ญ์์๋ ์ ๊ท ํ์ ์๊ฐ ํฌ๊ฒ ์ฆ๊ฐํ๋ ํจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด ๋ ๊ฐ์ง ์ธก๋ฉด์์ ๊ท ํ์ ์ด๋ฃฐ ์ ์๋ค๋ ์ ์ด ๋งค์ฐ ๊ธ์ ์ ์ ๋๋ค. ์์ต๋ฅ ์์ฒด๋ ๋๋ฌํ๋ ๋ฐฉ์์ด ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ค๋ฅด์ง๋ง, ๋ ๊ฐ์ง ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฐ๊ธฐ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋ฐฉ์์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ฅํ ํฌ์์์ต๋ฅ (ROI)์ ์ฐฝ์ถํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ฑ์ฅํ๋ฉด์ ์ ์ฒด ์ฌ์ ์์ ์ข์ ๊ท ํ์ ๋ง๋ค์ด๋ ๋๋ค. |
| Operator: And our next question comes from the line of Kate McShane with Goldman Sachs. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๊ณจ๋๋ง์ญ์ค์ ์ผ์ดํธ ๋งฅ์ ฐ์ธ ์ ๋๋ฆฌ์คํธ๋ก๋ถํฐ ๋ฐ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Katharine McShane: Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division The renewal -- the renewal rate softness sounded better than what you expected. Could you maybe talk to some of the things you did to try and offset the softness from the more digital members? | **Katharine McShane:** ๊ฐฑ์ ์จ ์ฝ์ธ๊ฐ ์์๋ณด๋ค ๋์ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ค๋ ธ์ต๋๋ค. ๋์งํธ ํ์๋ค์ ์ฝ์ธ๋ฅผ ์์ํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ์๋ํ๋ ์กฐ์น๋ค์ ๋ํด ๋ง์ํด ์ฃผ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๊น? |
| Gary Millerchip: Executive VP & CFO Sure. Yes, you're exactly right. When we talked about the membership renewal rate last quarter, we shared that as a result of this change in mix around us adding more new digitally engaged members or signing up digitally to become a Costco member. What we've always seen with that group is that they're generally a bit younger. And generally speaking, they renew at a slightly lower rate. That's always been true, but there's a bigger number of them now coming into the base. So as they flow into the math model, it was -- it's impacting the overall renewal rate. And so I think you may have heard us talk last quarter, we said we think of while that's sort of a mathematical fact, we think there are opportunities for us to be able to change that outcome by delivering more targeted and relevant communication to those members that have signed up digitally and are reaching that point in maturity where they're considering whether to renew or not to renew their membership with us. And so our membership team is really focused on delivering targeted relevant messaging to engage those members to ensure they continue to see the value of the membership and really helping them see why there's significant value for them to continue to be members. And what you saw in this quarter was really some of the early work the team has done to engage those members and improve the renewal rate. And obviously, it's early days. So we want to make sure that we can continue to build that momentum. But it's been encouraging to see the impact of those changes. And we were expecting, based on purely flowing through the sort of the renewal rate that we've seen before to see a slightly higher decline in the quarter, and we were able to offset a part of that with the changes that we made in communicating with members. | **Gary Millerchip:** ๋ค, ์ ํํ ๋ง์ต๋๋ค. ์ง๋ ๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ํ์ ๊ฐฑ์ ์จ์ ๋ํด ๋ง์๋๋ ธ์ ๋, ๋์งํธ๋ก ๊ฐ์ ํ๋ ์ ๊ท ํ์๋ค์ด ์ฆ๊ฐํ๋ฉด์ ํ์ ๊ตฌ์ฑ์ ๋ณํ๊ฐ ์๊ธด ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ผ๊ณ ๊ณต์ ํด๋๋ ธ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด ๊ทธ๋ฃน์ ํน์ง์ ๋ณด๋ฉด ์ผ๋ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ฐ๋ น๋๊ฐ ์ข ๋ ๋ฎ๊ณ , ๊ฐฑ์ ์จ๋ ์ฝ๊ฐ ๋ฎ์ ํธ์ ๋๋ค. ์ด๊ฑด ํญ์ ๊ทธ๋์๋ ํ์์ธ๋ฐ, ์ง๊ธ์ ์ด๋ฐ ํ์๋ค์ ์ซ์๊ฐ ํจ์ฌ ๋ง์์ก์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ด๋ค์ด ์ ์ฒด ํ์ ๋ฒ ์ด์ค๋ก ์ ์ ๋๋ฉด์ ์์น ๋ชจ๋ธ์ ๋ฐ์๋๋ค ๋ณด๋ ์ ์ฒด ๊ฐฑ์ ์จ์ ์ํฅ์ ๋ฏธ์น๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ง๋ ๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ๋ง์๋๋ ธ๋ ๋ด์ฉ์ ๋ค์ผ์ จ์ ํ ๋ฐ์, ์ํ์ ์ผ๋ก๋ ์ฌ์ค์ด์ง๋ง, ๋์งํธ๋ก ๊ฐ์ ํ ํ์๋ค์ด ๊ฐฑ์ ์ฌ๋ถ๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๋ คํ๋ ์ฑ์ ๋จ๊ณ์ ๋๋ฌํ์ ๋ ๋ณด๋ค ํ๊ฒํ๋๊ณ ๊ด๋ จ์ฑ ๋์ ์ปค๋ฎค๋์ผ์ด์ ์ ์ ๊ณตํจ์ผ๋ก์จ ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๊ฟ ์ ์๋ ๊ธฐํ๊ฐ ์๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ฉค๋ฒ์ญ ํ์ ํด๋น ํ์๋ค์๊ฒ ํ๊ฒํ๋ ๊ด๋ จ์ฑ ๋์ ๋ฉ์์ง๋ฅผ ์ ๋ฌํ๋ ๋ฐ ์ง์คํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฅผ ํตํด ํ์๋ค์ด ๋ฉค๋ฒ์ญ์ ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ์ธ์ํ๋๋ก ํ๊ณ , ํ์ ์๊ฒฉ์ ์ ์งํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์ ์๋นํ ๊ฐ์น๊ฐ ์๋์ง ์ดํดํ ์ ์๋๋ก ๋๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฒ ๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ๋ณด์ ๊ฒ์ ํ์ด ํ์๋ค๊ณผ ์ํตํ๊ณ ๊ฐฑ์ ์จ(renewal rate)์ ๊ฐ์ ํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ์ด๊ธฐ์ ์ํํ ์์ ์ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก ์์ง ์ด๊ธฐ ๋จ๊ณ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ์ด๋ฌํ ๋ชจ๋ฉํ ์ ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ตฌ์ถํ ์ ์๋๋ก ํด์ผ ํฉ๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ์ด๋ฌํ ๋ณํ์ ์ํฅ์ ํ์ธํ๊ฒ ๋์ด ๊ณ ๋ฌด์ ์ ๋๋ค. ์ด์ ์ ๋ณด์๋ ๊ฐฑ์ ์จ์ ๋จ์ํ ์ ์ฉํ๋ค๋ฉด ์ด๋ฒ ๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ์ฝ๊ฐ ๋ ๋์ ๊ฐ์๋ฅผ ์์ํ์ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฐ๋ฐ ํ์๋ค๊ณผ์ ์ปค๋ฎค๋์ผ์ด์ ๋ฐฉ์์ ๋ณ๊ฒฝํจ์ผ๋ก์จ ๊ทธ ๊ฐ์๋ถ์ ์ผ๋ถ๋ฅผ ์์ํ ์ ์์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Operator: And our next question comes from the line of Peter Benedict with Baird. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ Baird์ Peter Benedict๋๊ป์ ์ฃผ์ญ๋๋ค. |
| Peter Benedict: Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated, Research Division I want to ask about digital. Maybe if there's any metrics you guys can share with the success you're having, maybe the -- how many -- what percentage of the membership that's engaging with you digitally now versus before? I don't think I may have missed it, but any stats around Costco Logistics. How you're doing with delivery there. | **Peter Benedict:** ๋์งํธ ๊ด๋ จํด์ ์ง๋ฌธ๋๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฑ๊ณผ์ ๊ด๋ จํด์ ๊ณต์ ํด์ฃผ์ค ์ ์๋ ์งํ๊ฐ ์์ผ์ ์ง์. ์๋ฅผ ๋ค์ด ํ์ฌ ๋์งํธ๋ก ์ ํฌ์ ์ํตํ๋ ํ์ ๋น์จ์ด ์ด์ ๋๋น ์ด๋ ์ ๋์ธ์ง์? ์ ๊ฐ ๋์ณค์ ์๋ ์๋๋ฐ, Costco Logistics ๊ด๋ จ ํต๊ณ๋ ์ด๋ค์ง์. ๋ฐฐ์ก ๋ถ๋ฌธ์์ ์ด๋ค ์ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ๋๊ณ ๊ณ์ ์ง ๊ถ๊ธํฉ๋๋ค. |
| Gary Millerchip: Executive VP & CFO Sure. Thanks for the question, Peter. Yes, we haven't typically talked about the percentage of members that we are engaging with digitally. It does continue to grow, as you might imagine, as we're continuing to make enhancements to the website to the app and really as we're delivering more relevancy to members through those channels. And so we are continuing to see growth. We did share in the prepared remarks that traffic was up 24% during the quarter on the website, and it was up even higher than that in the 40% plus range on the app during the quarter. So we continue to be pleased with the momentum that we're seeing in digital engagement with our members. And our expectation would be that digital sales, as we define it, would continue to grow at a faster pace over the longer term than our average sales overall as more members engage digitally, and we're able to use some of those targeted personalized communication tools to really help members see the relevancy of all the offers that we have online, but also to use those channels to help drive higher engagement into the warehouse as well and really creating a seamless experience across the channels. | **Gary Millerchip:** ๋ค, ์ง๋ฌธ ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ง์ํ์ ๋๋ก ๋์งํธ ์ฑ๋์ ํตํด ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ค๊ณผ ์ํตํ๋ ๋น์จ์ ๋ํด์๋ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ณต๊ฐํ์ง ์์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ค๋ง ์น์ฌ์ดํธ์ ์ฑ์ ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ์ ํ๊ณ ์๊ณ , ์ด๋ฌํ ์ฑ๋์ ํตํด ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ค์๊ฒ ๋์ฑ ๊ด๋ จ์ฑ ๋์ ์๋น์ค๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณตํ๋ฉด์ ๊ทธ ๋น์จ์ ๊ณ์ ์ฆ๊ฐํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ค์ ๋ก ์ฑ์ฅ์ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ ์๊ณ ์, ์ฌ์ ๋ฐํ์์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฐ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ ์ด๋ฒ ๋ถ๊ธฐ ์น์ฌ์ดํธ ํธ๋ํฝ์ด 24% ์ฆ๊ฐํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฑ์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ๋ ๊ทธ๋ณด๋ค ํจ์ฌ ๋์ 40% ์ด์์ ์ฆ๊ฐ์จ์ ๊ธฐ๋กํ๊ณ ์. ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ค์ ๋์งํธ ์ฐธ์ฌ๋๊ฐ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๋ ์ด๋ฐ ๋ชจ๋ฉํ ์ ๋ํด ๋งค์ฐ ๋ง์กฑ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ์๊ฐํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ ํฌ๊ฐ ์ ์ํ๋ ๋์งํธ ๋งค์ถ์ ์ฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ ์ฒด ํ๊ท ๋งค์ถ๋ณด๋ค ๋ ๋น ๋ฅธ ์๋๋ก ์ฑ์ฅํ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์์ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ ๋ง์ ํ์๋ค์ด ๋์งํธ ์ฑ๋์ ์ด์ฉํ๊ฒ ๋๊ณ , ํ๊ฒํ ๋ ๊ฐ์ธํ ์ปค๋ฎค๋์ผ์ด์ ๋๊ตฌ๋ค์ ํ์ฉํ์ฌ ํ์๋ค์ด ์จ๋ผ์ธ์์ ์ ๊ณตํ๋ ๋ชจ๋ ํํ์ ๊ด๋ จ์ฑ์ ์ค์ ๋ก ์ฒด๊ฐํ ์ ์๋๋ก ๋๊ณ ์๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ํ ์ด๋ฌํ ์ฑ๋๋ค์ ํ์ฉํด ๋งค์ฅ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ๋ ๋์ฑ ํ์ฑํํ๊ณ , ์ฑ๋ ์ ๋ฐ์ ๊ฑธ์ณ ์ง์ ํ ์๋ฏธ์ seamlessํ ๊ฒฝํ์ ๋ง๋ค์ด๊ฐ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Ron Vachris: President, CEO & Director Very excited about what we have coming in the app. I mean more engagement, more locking in the brick-and-mortar business with the virtual digital business as well. And as we continue to roll out enhancements we've got pay ahead for the pharmacy coming. We've got ordering cakes and deli trays online coming. So many of the things that we've heard from our members that could be a little bit clunky are now moving to a digital state, and we're seeing great adoption right out of the chute. So we continue to -- we see some upside to the continued growth and the digital value of having the app and using the digital membership card, the Costco Wallet. Those things have all got a very nice road map in the next 12 months and we see that number is going to hopefully continue to outpace the growth of the warehouse. | **Ron Vachris:** ์ฑ์์ ์ ๋ณด์ผ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ๋ค์ ๋ํด ๋งค์ฐ ๊ธฐ๋ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ ๋ง์ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ฐธ์ฌ๋ฅผ ์ด๋์ด๋ด๊ณ , ์คํ๋ผ์ธ ๋งค์ฅ ์ฌ์ ๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ ๋์งํธ ์ฌ์ ์ ๋์ฑ ๊ธด๋ฐํ๊ฒ ์ฐ๊ฒฐํ ์ ์์ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ์ ์ฌํญ๋ค์ ์ถ์ํ๊ณ ์๋๋ฐ, ์ฝ๊ตญ ์ฌ์ ๊ฒฐ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์ด ๊ณง ๋์ฌ ์์ ์ด๊ณ , ์ผ์ดํฌ์ ๋ธ๋ฆฌ ํธ๋ ์ด ์จ๋ผ์ธ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ๋ ์ค๋น ์ค์ ๋๋ค. ํ์๋ค๊ป์ ๋ค์ ๋ถํธํ๋ค๊ณ ๋ง์ํ์ จ๋ ๋ง์ ๋ถ๋ถ๋ค์ด ์ด์ ๋์งํธ๋ก ์ ํ๋๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ถ์ ์งํ๋ถํฐ ํ๋ฅญํ ์์ฉ๋๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์์ผ๋ก๋ ์ง์์ ์ธ ์ฑ์ฅ๊ณผ ์ฑ ์ฌ์ฉ, ๋์งํธ ํ์ ์นด๋์ธ ์ฝ์คํธ์ฝ ์๋ (Costco Wallet) ํ์ฉ์ ํตํ ๋์งํธ ๊ฐ์น ์ธก๋ฉด์์ ์์น ์ฌ๋ ฅ์ด ์๋ค๊ณ ๋ณด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฌํ ๋ชจ๋ ๋ถ๋ถ๋ค์ด ํฅํ 12๊ฐ์ ๋์ ๋งค์ฐ ์ข์ ๋ก๋๋งต์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด ์์น๊ฐ ์ฐฝ๊ณ ์ฑ์ฅ๋ฅ ์ ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ์ํํ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๊ธฐ๋ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Operator: And our next question comes from the line of John Heinbockel with Guggenheim. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๊ตฌ๊ฒํ์์ ์กด ํ์ธ๋ณด์ผ ๋๊ป์ ์ฃผ์ จ์ต๋๋ค. |
| John Heinbockel: Guggenheim Securities, LLC, Research Division Two real estate questions. A lot of opportunity internationally. What does the pipeline look like, both in some of your European countries and Asia? I know it takes a while. And then secondly, you mentioned remodels, which I don't think you haven't talked about too much. What is the remodel philosophy in the U.S.? How many do you do? What's the extent of that. What's the lift. I don't know how impactful that is. | **John Heinbockel:** ํด์ธ์์ ๋ง์ ๊ธฐํ๊ฐ ์๋๋ฐ์. ์ ๋ฝ ๊ตญ๊ฐ๋ค๊ณผ ์์์ ์ง์ญ์์ ํ์ดํ๋ผ์ธ์ด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋๋์ง ๊ถ๊ธํฉ๋๋ค. ์๊ฐ์ด ์ข ๊ฑธ๋ฆฐ๋ค๋ ๊ฑด ์๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ ๋ฒ์งธ๋ก, ๋ฆฌ๋ชจ๋ธ๋ง์ ๋ํด ์ธ๊ธํ์ จ๋๋ฐ ์ด์ ์๋ ๋ง์ด ๋ค๋ฃจ์ง ์์ผ์ จ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์ ๋ฆฌ๋ชจ๋ธ๋ง ์ฒ ํ์ด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋๋์? ๋ช ๊ฐ ์ ๋ ์งํํ์๋์? ๊ทธ ๊ท๋ชจ๋ ์ด๋ ์ ๋์ธ๊ฐ์? ๋งค์ถ ์ฆ๋ ํจ๊ณผ๋ ์ด๋ค๊ฐ์? ์ผ๋ง๋ ์ํฅ๋ ฅ์ด ์๋์ง ์ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Ron Vachris: President, CEO & Director Do you want to -- I can start. Good runway internationally. We see some good growth in Europe, especially in Spain and the U.K. We have got a lot of good things going on there, and we see that those 2 countries will be ramping up. We continue to see very, very good strength in Asia and so that market, we see the next 5 years, and we think that those projects do -- like you mentioned, do take a little bit longer, but they're going to start coming to fruition. So we'll see a good balance. We've been about 50-50, half of the expansion in the U.S. and half outside of the U.S. And now we're seeing even more opportunities in Canada and North America and Mexico. So a good balance, about half of the 30 should be outside the U.S. we see in the next 5 years. Expansions and relocations, we normally do about 5 to 6 relocations a year. The uplift is dramatic. When we do these, we normally are moving a building that is underserving the market and goes into a larger facility, better parking. If we have a gas station, expanded gas or we add gas to it and a wide variety of uptake to extreme 50%, 60% increases when you add a gas station and really add a lot of parking to a 20% uplift to a building that had everything just got into a better facility. So we strategically look at that. And then we are continuously investing in our current warehouses too, to make sure that we're updating the fresh foods areas. We're bringing the new ancillary businesses in there. So it's a process we go through every year of planning ahead, and we look out several years and a good combination of all 3 new locations, relocations and taking care of the existing buildings that we're doing business in as well. | **Ron Vachris:** ๊ตญ์ ์์ฅ์์ ์ข์ ์ฑ์ฅ ์ฌ๋ ฅ์ ๋ณด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ํนํ ์ ๋ฝ์์ ์คํ์ธ๊ณผ ์๊ตญ์ ์ค์ฌ์ผ๋ก ๋ง์ ๊ธ์ ์ ์ธ ์์ง์์ด ์๊ณ , ์ด ๋ ๊ตญ๊ฐ์์ ์ฌ์
์ด ๋ณธ๊ฒฉํ๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์์์์์๋ ๋งค์ฐ ๊ฐ๋ ฅํ ์ฑ์ฅ์ธ๊ฐ ์ง์๋๊ณ ์์ด์, ํฅํ 5๋
๊ฐ ์ด ์์ฅ์์ ์ข์ ๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ง์ํ์ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ ํ๋ก์ ํธ๋ค์ด ๋ค์ ์๊ฐ์ด ๊ฑธ๋ฆฌ๊ธด ํ์ง๋ง, ์ด์ ์ฑ๊ณผ๊ฐ ๊ฐ์ํ๋๊ธฐ ์์ํ ๊ฒ์
๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ท ํ์กํ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๋ณด๊ฒ ๋ ๊ฒ์
๋๋ค. ์ง๊ธ๊น์ง๋ ํ์ฅ์ ์ ๋ฐ์ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋ด์์, ๋๋จธ์ง ์ ๋ฐ์ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ธ ์ง์ญ์์ ์ด๋ฃจ์ด์ก์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฐ๋ฐ ์ด์ ๋ ์บ๋๋ค์ ๋ถ๋ฏธ, ๋ฉ์์ฝ์์๋ ๋ ๋ง์ ๊ธฐํ๋ค์ด ๋ณด์ด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ํฅํ 5๋ ๊ฐ 30๊ฐ ๋งค์ฅ ์ค ์ฝ ์ ๋ฐ ์ ๋๊ฐ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ธ ์ง์ญ์์ ์ด๋ฆด ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์์ํ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ข์ ๊ท ํ์ ์ ์งํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ํ์ฅ ๋ฐ ์ด์ ์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ, ๋ณดํต ์ฐ๊ฐ 5~6๊ฑด์ ์ด์ ์ ์งํํฉ๋๋ค. ๋งค์ถ ์ฆ๊ฐ ํจ๊ณผ๋ ์๋นํ ํฝ๋๋ค. ์ด์ ์ ์งํํ ๋๋ ์ผ๋ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ํด๋น ์์ฅ์์ ์ถฉ๋ถํ ์๋น์ค๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณตํ์ง ๋ชปํ๋ ๋งค์ฅ์ ๋ ํฐ ์์ค๋ก ์ฎ๊ธฐ๊ณ , ์ฃผ์ฐจ ๊ณต๊ฐ๋ ๊ฐ์ ํฉ๋๋ค. ์ฃผ์ ์๊ฐ ์๋ค๋ฉด ํ์ฅํ๊ฑฐ๋, ์๋ค๋ฉด ์๋ก ์ถ๊ฐํ๋ ๋ฐฉ์์ ๋๋ค. ๋งค์ถ ์ฆ๊ฐ ํญ์ ๋ค์ํ๋ฐ, ์ฃผ์ ์๋ฅผ ์ถ๊ฐํ๊ณ ์ฃผ์ฐจ ๊ณต๊ฐ์ ๋ํญ ๋๋ฆฌ๋ฉด 50~60%๊น์ง ๊ทน์ ์ผ๋ก ์ฆ๊ฐํ๊ธฐ๋ ํ๊ณ , ๋ชจ๋ ์์ค์ ๊ฐ์ถ ๋งค์ฅ์ด ๋จ์ํ ๋ ๋์ ์์ค๋ก ์ด์ ํ๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ์๋ 20% ์ ๋ ์์นํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ ๋ต์ ์ผ๋ก ์ด๋ฐ ๋ถ๋ถ๋ค์ ๊ฒํ ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋์์ ๊ธฐ์กด ์ฐฝ๊ณ ํ ๋งค์ฅ์๋ ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ํฌ์ํ์ฌ ์ ์ ์ํ ์ฝ๋๋ฅผ ์ ๋ฐ์ดํธํ๊ณ , ์๋ก์ด ๋ถ๋ ์ฌ์ ๋ค์ ๋์ ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋งค๋ ์งํํ๋ ์ฌ์ ๊ณํ ํ๋ก์ธ์ค์ ์ผํ์ด๋ฉฐ, ํฅํ ๋ช ๋ ์ ๋ด๋ค๋ณด๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ท ์ ์ , ์ด์ , ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ํ์ฌ ์์ ์ค์ธ ๊ธฐ์กด ๊ฑด๋ฌผ ๊ด๋ฆฌ, ์ด ์ธ ๊ฐ์ง๋ฅผ ์ ์ ํ ์กฐํฉํ์ฌ ์งํํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Operator: And our next question comes from the line of Rupesh Parikh with Oppenheimer. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ์คํํ์ด๋จธ์ ๋ฃจํ์ ํ๋ฆฌํฌ ๋๊ป์ ์ฃผ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Rupesh Parikh: Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., Research Division I just want to go back to the comments on SG&A leverage. So it sounds like this quarter, higher health care costs prevented your team from leveraging costs. So just curious about the dynamics there. And then as you think about productivity, just how do you think about the runway there? It sounds like it could continue for a few more quarters. | **Rupesh Parikh:** ์ด๋ฒ ๋ถ๊ธฐ์๋ ๋์ ์๋ฃ๋น์ฉ์ผ๋ก ์ธํด ๋น์ฉ ๋ ๋ฒ๋ฆฌ์ง๋ฅผ ๋ฌ์ฑํ์ง ๋ชปํ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ค๋ฆฝ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ์ํฉ์ด ๊ถ๊ธํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์ฐ์ฑ ์ธก๋ฉด์์ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ํฅํ ๋ช ๋ถ๊ธฐ ๋ ๊ฐ์ ์ด ์ง์๋ ์ ์์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์๋ฐ ์ด์ ๋ํ ์ ๋ง์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ณด์๋์ง์? |
| Gary Millerchip: Executive VP & CFO Yes. Thanks for the question, Rupesh. Yes, you've summarized it pretty well, actually, from how we looked at the quarter. If I just take a step back, there were kind of 4 main sort of headwinds or investments, if you like, that we had during the quarter when you think about the impact on the warehouses. The first, of course, is the investments that we make through our employee agreement each year. So that was the [ March '25 ] agreement. And that on an incremental basis, we're sort of mid-single digits headwind that the team had to kind of overcome in improving productivity. The second was, of course, the extended operating hours that we implemented in June. And then you mentioned it that we had higher health care costs in the quarter. We've generally seen, of course, health care cost increasing. This was perhaps the first quarter where we've seen health care costs grow at a faster pace than our sales. So we saw a little bit of a headwind overall from health care costs in the quarter. And then we also had the 4 basis point impact from the tax charge that relates back to multiple years ago that we took during the quarter as well. So overall, we were 1 basis point negative on productivity. If we have not had the sort of sales and use tax charge that we had during the quarter. And without the health care cost, we'd have been sort of mid-single digit also positive leverage during the quarter without those sort of factors. Now I would say, as you look forward, we're still going to have, of course, the continued investment that we've already implemented around wages. So we have to continue to support those costs. We've implemented the extended opening hours. We think the operators have done a great job of absorbing that, as you've seen in the last couple of quarters. The health care costs, that's something we're taking action to make sure that we're comfortable with the trends that we're seeing. But of course, there's possibilities those costs could continue to be higher in the future. We wouldn't expect to have the sort of the 4 basis point impact that we had from tax. So when -- I think when you take all those things and look at it going forward, we've historically said that we need to get to about mid-single-digit sales to be able to leverage SG&A. And I think with the work the team has done to offset extended operating hours, the work the team has done to offset the employee agreement. I think we're in that kind of ballpark. And actually in the first quarter, have we not have had the adjustment for sales tax, I think, we'd have actually seen some leverage during the quarter. So I think that's the way to sort of think about it overall. | **Gary Millerchip:** ๋ค, ์ง๋ฌธ ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. ์ค์ ๋ก ์ด๋ฒ ๋ถ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ณด๋ ์ ํฌ ๊ด์ ์ ์ ์์ฝํด ์ฃผ์
จ์ต๋๋ค. ํ ๋ฐ์ง ๋ฌผ๋ฌ์์ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ๋ฌผ๋ฅ์ผํฐ์ ๋ฏธ์น ์ํฅ์ ์๊ฐํ ๋ ์ด๋ฒ ๋ถ๊ธฐ์ 4๊ฐ์ง ์ฃผ์ ์ญํ ๋๋ ํฌ์ ์์ธ์ด ์์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฒซ ๋ฒ์งธ๋ ๋ฌผ๋ก ๋งค๋ ์ง์ ํ์ฝ์ ํตํด ์งํํ๋ ํฌ์์ ๋๋ค. 25๋ 3์ ํ์ฝ์ด ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ด์์ฃ . ์ฆ๋ถ ๊ธฐ์ค์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๋ฉด ์ค๊ฐ ํ ์๋ฆฟ์ ์ ๋์ ์ญํ์ด์๊ณ , ํ์์๋ ์์ฐ์ฑ ๊ฐ์ ์ ํตํด ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ทน๋ณตํด์ผ ํ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ ๋ฒ์งธ๋ 6์์ ์ํํ ์ด์์๊ฐ ์ฐ์ฅ์ด์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ง์ํ์ ๋๋ก ์ด๋ฒ ๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ์๋ฃ๋น ์ง์ถ์ด ์ฆ๊ฐํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ผ๋ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ์๋ฃ๋น์ฉ์ด ์ฆ๊ฐํ๋ ์ถ์ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ฌ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฒ ๋ถ๊ธฐ๋ ์๋ง๋ ์ฒ์์ผ๋ก ์๋ฃ๋น์ฉ์ด ๋งค์ถ ์ฆ๊ฐ์จ๋ณด๋ค ๋ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์ฆ๊ฐํ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ด๋ฒ ๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ์๋ฃ๋น์ฉ์ผ๋ก ์ธํ ์ญํ์ ๋ค์ ๊ฒช์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ํ ์๋ ์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ฑฐ์ฌ๋ฌ ์ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ๋ ์ธ๊ธ ๊ด๋ จ ๋น์ฉ์ผ๋ก ์ธํด 4bp์ ์ํฅ๋ ์์์ต๋๋ค. ์ ์ฒด์ ์ผ๋ก ์์ฐ์ฑ ์ธก๋ฉด์์ 1bp ๋ง์ด๋์ค๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ง์ฝ ์ด๋ฒ ๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ๋ฐ์ํ ํ๋งค์ธ ๋ฐ ์ฌ์ฉ์ธ ๋น์ฉ์ด ์์๋ค๋ฉด, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์๋ฃ๋น์ฉ ์ฆ๊ฐ๊ฐ ์์๋ค๋ฉด, ์ด๋ฌํ ์์ธ๋ค์ ์ ์ธํ๊ณ ๋ ๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ค ์ค๊ฐ ํ ์๋ฆฟ์๋์ ๊ธ์ ์ ์ธ ๋ ๋ฒ๋ฆฌ์ง๋ฅผ ๋ฌ์ฑํ์ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์์ผ๋ก๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์ด๋ฏธ ์ํํ ์๊ธ ๊ด๋ จ ํฌ์๋ ๊ณ์ ์ด์ด์ง ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ด๋ฌํ ๋น์ฉ๋ค์ ๊ณ์ ์ง์ํด์ผ ํฉ๋๋ค. ์์ ์๊ฐ ์ฐ์ฅ๋ ์ํํ๊ณ ์. ์ง๋ ๋ช ๋ถ๊ธฐ ๋์ ๋ณด์ จ๋ฏ์ด ์ด์์๋ค์ด ์ด๋ฅผ ํ๋ฅญํ๊ฒ ํก์ํด๋๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. ์๋ฃ๋น์ฉ์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ๋ณด๊ณ ์๋ ์ถ์ธ์ ๋ํด ํ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ง ์ ์๋๋ก ์กฐ์น๋ฅผ ์ทจํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก ํฅํ ์ด๋ฌํ ๋น์ฉ๋ค์ด ๊ณ์ ๋์์ง ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ค๋ง ์ธ๊ธ์ผ๋ก ์ธํ 4bp(๋ฒ ์ด์์คํฌ์ธํธ) ์ํฅ๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ ์์ค์ ์์ํ์ง ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฌํ ๋ชจ๋ ์์๋ค์ ์ข ํฉํด์ ์์ผ๋ก๋ฅผ ์ ๋งํด๋ณด๋ฉด, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ญ์ฌ์ ์ผ๋ก ํ๋งค๊ด๋ฆฌ๋น(SG&A) ๋ ๋ฒ๋ฆฌ์ง๋ฅผ ํ๋ณดํ๊ธฐ ์ํด์๋ ์ค๊ฐ ํ ์๋ฆฟ์ ๋งค์ถ ์ฑ์ฅ์ด ํ์ํ๋ค๊ณ ๋ง์๋๋ ค ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ํ์ด ์ฐ์ฅ ์ด์์๊ฐ์ ์์ํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ์ํํ ์์ ๋ค, ์ง์ ํฉ์์ฌํญ์ ์์ํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ํ์ด ํด์จ ๋ ธ๋ ฅ๋ค์ ๊ณ ๋ คํ๋ฉด, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ทธ ์ ๋ ์์ค์ ์ ์๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. ์ค์ ๋ก 1๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ํ๋งค์ธ ์กฐ์ ์ด ์์๋ค๋ฉด ๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ค์ ์ด๋ ์ ๋ ๋ ๋ฒ๋ฆฌ์ง๋ฅผ ํ๋ณดํ์ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ด ๋๋ค. ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ด๋ฐ ์์ผ๋ก ์ดํดํ์๋ฉด ๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Operator: And our next question comes from the line of Greg Melich with Evercore ISI. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ์๋ฒ์ฝ์ด ISI์ ๊ทธ๋ ๋ฉ๋ฆฌ์น๋๊ป์ ์ฃผ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Gregory Melich: Evercore ISI Institutional Equities, Research Division Gary, I think you mentioned that inflation was running similar. I just wanted to make sure I got the numbers right. It was up low single digits in general merchandise. Was food inflationary or not in the quarter? And how do you see that trending? | **Gregory Melich:** ์๋ฒ์ฝ์ด ISI ๊ธฐ๊ด ์ฃผ์ ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ์์ ๊ฒ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ์ธํ๋ ์ด์ ์ด ๋น์ทํ ์์ค์ผ๋ก ์งํ๋๊ณ ์๋ค๊ณ ์ธ๊ธํ์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์๋ฐ, ์ ๊ฐ ์ซ์๋ฅผ ์ ๋๋ก ์ดํดํ๋์ง ํ์ธํ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค. ์ผ๋ฐ ์ํ(general merchandise)์์ ๋ฎ์ ํ ์๋ฆฟ์ ์์น์ด์๋์? ์ํ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์ ์ด๋ฒ ๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ์ธํ๋ ์ด์ ์ด ์์๋์, ์์๋์? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ด ์ถ์ธ๊ฐ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์ ๊ฐ๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด์๋์? |
| Gary Millerchip: Executive VP & CFO Yes. Food and fresh -- food and sundries and fresh, Greg, would have been slightly inflation. So low single -- low to mid-single digits. No real change really from last quarter. The are quite a few puts and takes in there, as I mentioned in the prepared comments that you've got a few of the commodities that would be inflationary right now when you look at items like beef and seafood and coffee, but then you've got produce, which is deflationary currently, and there are other items like eggs and cheese, which are still inflationary year-over-year, but a lower inflation than they were earlier in the year. So you've got kind of puts and takes that are offsetting each other, which really essentially sort of leveled it all out at the same level as it was for the last couple of quarters. | **Gary Millerchip:** ๋ค, ์ํ ๋ฐ ์กํ์ ์ ์ ์ํ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์ ์ฝ๊ฐ์ ์ธํ๋ ์ด์ ์ด ์์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฎ์ ํ ์๋ฆฟ์์์ ์ค๊ฐ ์ ๋ ์์ค์ด์์ฃ . ์ง๋ ๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ๋น๊ตํด์ ์ค์ง์ ์ธ ๋ณํ๋ ์์์ต๋๋ค. ์ ๊ฐ ์ฌ์ ๋ฐํ์์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฐ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ ์ฌ๋ฌ ์๋ฐ๋ ์์ธ๋ค์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ ๊ณ ๊ธฐ, ์์ฐ๋ฌผ, ์ปคํผ ๊ฐ์ ํ๋ชฉ๋ค์ ํ์ฌ ์ธํ๋ ์ด์ ์๋ ฅ์ ๋ฐ๊ณ ์์ง๋ง, ๋์ฐ๋ฌผ์ ๋ํ๋ ์ด์ ์ํ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ณ๋์ด๋ ์น์ฆ ๊ฐ์ ํ๋ชฉ๋ค์ ์ฌ์ ํ ์ ๋ ๋๋น ์ธํ๋ ์ด์ ์ด์ง๋ง, ์ฐ์ด๋ณด๋ค๋ ์ธํ๋ ์ด์ ์จ์ด ๋ฎ์์ง ์ํ์ ๋๋ค. ์ฌ๋ฌ ๊ธ์ ์ ์์ธ๊ณผ ๋ถ์ ์ ์์ธ๋ค์ด ์๋ก ์์๋๋ฉด์, ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ง๋ ๋ช ๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ๋์ผํ ์์ค์ผ๋ก ํ์คํ๋์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Gregory Melich: Evercore ISI Institutional Equities, Research Division It -- would it be fair to say that most of the ticket growth in comp was driven by inflation? | **Gregory Melich:** ์๋ฒ์ฝ์ด ISI ๊ธฐ๊ดํฌ์์ ์ฃผ์๋ถ๋ฌธ, ๋ฆฌ์์น ๋ถ๋ฌธ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ฐ๋จ๊ฐ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๋๋ถ๋ถ์ด ์ธํ๋ ์ด์ ์ ์ํด ์ฃผ๋๋์๋ค๊ณ ๋ณด๋ ๊ฒ์ด ํ๋นํ ๊น์? |
| Gary Millerchip: Executive VP & CFO I think there'll be a combination of both in there. We have -- and remember for us, there's -- inflation for us the way we measure it would be -- it could be the members buying a bigger pack size or it could be the members buying an upgraded item of new electronic or appliance. So I think you kind of have to look at it, there's sort of probably -- or there is a combination of some level of natural inflation on like-for-like items, some level of inflation of members buying bigger pack sizes and increasing -- moving to the newer model, if you like, and then some level of unit growth as well in there. | **Gary Millerchip:** ๋ ๊ฐ์ง๊ฐ ๋ณตํฉ์ ์ผ๋ก ์์ฉํ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ด ๋๋ค. ์ ํฌ์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ ์ธํ๋ ์ด์ ์ ์ธก์ ํ๋ ๋ฐฉ์์ด ์กฐ๊ธ ๋ค๋ฆ ๋๋ค. ํ์๋ค์ด ๋ ํฐ ํฌ์ฅ ๋จ์๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ๋งคํ๋ ๊ฒ์ผ ์๋ ์๊ณ , ์๋ก์ด ์ ์์ ํ์ด๋ ๊ฐ์ ์ ํ์ผ๋ก ์ ๊ทธ๋ ์ด๋ํ๋ ๊ฒ์ผ ์๋ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ์ฌ๋ฌ ์์ธ์ ์ข ํฉ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ดํด๋ด์ผ ํฉ๋๋ค. ๋์ผ ํ๋ชฉ์ ์์ฐ์ค๋ฌ์ด ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์์น๋ถ๋ ์๊ณ , ํ์๋ค์ด ๋ ํฐ ํฌ์ฅ ๋จ์๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ๋งคํ๋ฉด์ ๋ฐ์ํ๋ ์ธํ๋ ์ด์ ํจ๊ณผ๋ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋งํ์๋ฉด ์ ๋ชจ๋ธ๋ก ์ด๋ํ๋ ๋ถ๋ถ๋ ์๊ณ , ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์ ๋ํด ์ค์ ํ๋งค ์๋ ์ฆ๊ฐ๋ถ๋ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Edward Kelly with Wells Fargo. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ Wells Fargo์ Edward Kelly๋๊ป์ ์ฃผ์ จ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Edward Kelly: Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division I wanted to dig into total paid members. You've had remarkable growth over the last few years. Model has obviously resonated. And 5% this quarter is still very good. But it has slowed a little over the last few quarters. I was wondering if you could just maybe discuss what you're seeing there. Is that more so in the U.S. And then have you seen any stabilization in that? I think the math would kind of suggest that maybe exit rate lower than 5.2%. So just thoughts there. | **Edward Kelly:** ์ง๋ ๋ช ๋ ๊ฐ ๋๋ผ์ด ์ฑ์ฅ์ ์ด๋ฃจ์ จ๊ณ , ๋น์ฆ๋์ค ๋ชจ๋ธ์ด ํ์คํ ์์ฅ์์ ํตํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฒ ๋ถ๊ธฐ 5% ์ฑ์ฅ๋ ์ฌ์ ํ ๋งค์ฐ ์ํธํ ์์ค์ ๋๋ค. ๋ค๋ง ์ต๊ทผ ๋ช ๋ถ๊ธฐ ๋์ ๋ค์ ๋ํ๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด์ด๋๋ฐ์. ์ด ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋ํด ์ข ๋ ์์ธํ ๋ง์ํด ์ฃผ์ค ์ ์์๊น์? ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์์ฅ์์ ์ฃผ๋ก ๋ํ๋๋ ํ์์ธ์ง, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์ ํ ์กฐ์ง์ด ๋ณด์ด๋์ง ๊ถ๊ธํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ณ์ฐ์์ผ๋ก๋ ๋ถ๊ธฐ ๋ง ์ฑ์ฅ๋ฅ ์ด 5.2%๋ณด๋ค ๋ฎ์์ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์ถ์ ๋๋๋ฐ, ์ด์ ๋ํ ๊ฒฌํด๋ฅผ ๋ฃ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Gary Millerchip: Executive VP & CFO Yes. Thanks, Ed. Yes, membership, as you mentioned, in general, we've been really pleased with the results that we've seen in the quarter with the new members and the younger population that we're recruiting, the acceleration in upgrades and overall growth that you mentioned just over 5% and exec up 9%. So we're pleased with the results that we've seen overall. I think your point is accurate that if you look at the year-over-year growth, it has slowed a little bit from where it's been over the last couple of years. And I think some of that is just starting to cycle some strong growth in the last year or so. But we still feel really good about the health of the membership growth. And we think there's a lot of continued opportunities to maintain that growth in the future. I know Ron mentioned a few of them in one of the questions we answered earlier, but with -- partly with the existing warehouses that we're -- I think we're in a good position where every year, we've been opening 20 to 30 warehouses and we can see the maturity curve of the increase in the number of members that sign up as warehouses mature. We're obviously opening new warehouses each year. And in particular, to your point, in international, we tend to see a much higher number of new member sign-ups and as that mix continues to blend out to sort of closer to 50-50 between international and the U.S. We do think with the actions that we're taking, as I mentioned also earlier on the call around improving renewal rates, there's an opportunity to help that trend as well. And then we're committed to continuing to improve the value of the membership. We've made obviously some major changes recently with the extended opening hours and the Instacart benefits and 5% gas on the credit card, but we'll continue to look for ways to add greater membership value. So I think it's accurate to say that it's a little bit slower than it has been, but we feel good about the momentum and the opportunity to continue to grow. | **Gary Millerchip:** ๋ค, ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ง์ํ์ ๋๋ก ํ์ ๊ด๋ จํด์๋ ์ด๋ฒ ๋ถ๊ธฐ ์ค์ ์ ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋งค์ฐ ๋ง์กฑํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ ๊ท ํ์ ์ ์น ์ํฉ, ์ ์ ์ฐ๋ น์ธต ํ๋ณด, ์
๊ทธ๋ ์ด๋ ๊ฐ์ํ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ง์ํ์ ์ ์ฒด 5% ์ด์ ์ฑ์ฅ๊ณผ ์ด๊ทธ์ ํํฐ๋ธ ํ์ 9% ์ฆ๊ฐ ๋ฑ ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ธ ์ฑ๊ณผ๊ฐ ์ข์ต๋๋ค. ์ ๋ ๋๋น ์ฑ์ฅ๋ฅ ์ ๋ณด๋ฉด ์ง๋ ๋ช ๋ ๊ณผ ๋น๊ตํด ๋ค์ ๋ํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ฌ์ค์ ๋๋ค. ์ด๋ ์ง๋ 1~2๋ ๊ฐ์ ๊ฐ๋ ฅํ ์ฑ์ฅ์ธ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ์ ๋ก ๋น๊ตํ๊ธฐ ์์ํ๋ฉด์ ๋ํ๋๋ ์์ฐ์ค๋ฌ์ด ํ์์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋ด ๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ํ์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๊ฑด์ ์ฑ์ ๋ํด์๋ ์ฌ์ ํ ๋งค์ฐ ๊ธ์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ํ๊ฐํ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ํฅํ์๋ ์ด๋ฌํ ์ฑ์ฅ์ธ๋ฅผ ์ ์งํ ์ ์๋ ๊ธฐํ๊ฐ ์ถฉ๋ถํ๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. Ron์ด ์์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋ต๋ณํ๋ฉด์ ๋ช ๊ฐ์ง ์ธ๊ธํ์ง๋ง, ๊ธฐ์กด ์ฐฝ๊ณ ๋ค๊ณผ ๊ด๋ จํด์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, ๋งค๋ 20~30๊ฐ์ ์ฐฝ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ์คํํ๊ณ ์๊ณ ์ฐฝ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ฑ์ํด์ง๋ฉด์ ๊ฐ์ ํ๋ ํ์ ์๊ฐ ์ฆ๊ฐํ๋ ์ฑ์๋ ๊ณก์ ์ ํ์ธํ ์ ์์ด ์ข์ ์์น์ ์๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. ๋งค๋ ์๋ก์ด ์ฐฝ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ์คํํ๊ณ ์๊ณ ์. ํนํ ๋ง์ํ์ ํด์ธ ์์ฅ์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ, ์ ๊ท ํ์ ๊ฐ์ ๊ฑด์๊ฐ ํจ์ฌ ๋ ๋ง์ ๊ฒฝํฅ์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ด๋ฌํ ๋ฏน์ค๊ฐ ํด์ธ์ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ฐ 50๋ 50์ ๊ฐ๊น๊ฒ ๊ณ์ ์กฐ์ ๋๋ฉด์, ํตํ ์ด๋ฐ์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฐ ๊ฐฑ์ ์จ ๊ฐ์ ์ ์ํ ์กฐ์น๋ค๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ์ด๋ฌํ ์ถ์ธ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ ํ ๊ธฐํ๊ฐ ์๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ ํฌ๋ ๋ฉค๋ฒ์ญ์ ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ์ ํ๋ ๋ฐ ์ ๋ ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ต๊ทผ ์์ ์๊ฐ ์ฐ์ฅ, ์ธ์คํ์นดํธ ํํ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ ์ฉ์นด๋ ์ฃผ์ 5% ํ ์ธ ๋ฑ ์ฃผ์ ๋ณํ๋ค์ ์ ์ฉํ์ต๋๋ค๋ง, ์์ผ๋ก๋ ๋ฉค๋ฒ์ญ ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ๋์ผ ์ ์๋ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ๋ค์ ๊ณ์ ๋ชจ์ํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ์ด์ ๋ณด๋ค๋ ๋ค์ ๋ํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์ฌ์ค์ด์ง๋ง, ์ ํฌ๋ ํ์ฌ์ ๋ชจ๋ฉํ ๊ณผ ์ง์์ ์ธ ์ฑ์ฅ ๊ธฐํ์ ๋ํด ๊ธ์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Operator: And our next question comes from the line of Zhihan Ma with Bernstein. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋ฒ์คํ์ธ์ Zhihan Ma ๋๊ป์ ์ฃผ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Zhihan Ma: Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., LLC., Research Division So on the nonfood side of things, I think your comp is now in the mid-single-digit percentage range. Can you just update us on when you expect to [ unlap ] the tough comps from the gift card sales? And does that timing coincide with the tax refunds or the incremental ones that consumers are going to get, especially middle to higher income consumers early next year, will you start to see some more outsized benefit in that category? | **Zhihan Ma:** ๋น์ํ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ, ํ์ฌ ๋งค์ถ ์ ์ฅ๋ฅ ์ด ์ค๊ฐ ํ์๋ฆฟ์ ํผ์ผํธ๋์ ์๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ธฐํํธ ์นด๋ ํ๋งค๋ก ์ธํ ๋์ ๊ธฐ์ ํจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ธ์ ์ฏค ๋ฒ์ด๋ ์ ์์์ง ์ ๋ฐ์ดํธํด ์ฃผ์ค ์ ์์๊น์? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ทธ ์์ ์ด ์ธ๊ธ ํ๊ธ ์๊ธฐ, ํนํ ๋ด๋ ์ด ์ค์์ ์๋์ธต ์๋น์๋ค์ด ๋ฐ๊ฒ ๋ ์ถ๊ฐ ํ๊ธ๊ธ ์๊ธฐ์ ๋ง๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ๊ฒ ๋๋์? ๊ทธ๋ ๋ค๋ฉด ํด๋น ์นดํ ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์์ ๋ ํฐ ํญ์ ์ํ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ธฐ ์์ํ ์ ์์๊น์? |
| Gary Millerchip: Executive VP & CFO Yes. I think overall, obviously, we generally don't provide sort of comments on forward looking, what we would expect. I think what we would say around nonfoods is that the team's done a great job of continuing to deliver exciting items at great value and quality. And we see while we have -- I think your comment is accurate that the growth year-over-year has come down to low double digits into that mid-single-digit range. And I think you've heard us mention before and you referenced it, that some of that really is starting to cycle the impact of gold being sold in warehouse and online and also some of the gift card programs that we had last year. But overall, we still see good market share gains in really pretty much all of the nonfood categories. And we saw -- you may have heard us mention in the prepared comments that gold and jewelry, special events, health and beauty were all double digits. We also saw high single-digit growth in majors, in tires and small appliances. And I didn't mention apparel during the call earlier, but that's also showing really strong improvement in sales momentum and comp growth as well. So I think our perspective on nonfood is that we think our teams are doing a really good job in delivering great value for the member. And we think we have a clear path to continue to grow our market share in nonfood by continuing to deliver on that promise to our members. And that's really where our focus is. | **Gary Millerchip:** ๋ค, ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ ํฌ๋ ์ผ๋ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ํฅํ ์ ๋ง์ ๋ํ ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ์ฝ๋ฉํธ๋ ์ ๊ณตํ์ง ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ค๋ง ๋น์ํ(nonfoods) ๋ถ๋ฌธ์ ๋ํด ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ์๋ฉด, ์ ํฌ ํ์ด ํ๋ฅญํ ๊ฐ์น์ ํ์ง์ ๊ฐ์ถ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์ธ ์ํ๋ค์ ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ์ ๋ณด์ด๋ฉฐ ์ ๋ง ์ข์ ์ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ง์ํ์ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ ์ ๋ ๋๋น ์ฑ์ฅ๋ฅ ์ด ๋ฎ์ ๋ ์๋ฆฟ์์์ ์ค๋ฐ ํ ์๋ฆฟ์ ๋ฒ์๋ก ๋ค์ ๋ํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ฌ์ค์ ๋๋ค. ์ด์ ์๋ ๋ง์๋๋ ธ๊ณ ๋ฐฉ๊ธ ์ธ๊ธํ์ ๊ฒ์ฒ๋ผ, ์ด๋ฌํ ๋ํ๋ ๋งค์ฅ๊ณผ ์จ๋ผ์ธ์์ ํ๋งค๋๋ ๊ธ(gold) ์ํ๊ณผ ์๋ ์ ์งํํ๋ ๊ธฐํํธ ์นด๋ ํ๋ก๊ทธ๋จ์ ๊ธฐ์ ํจ๊ณผ๊ฐ ๋ณธ๊ฒฉ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ฐ์๋๊ธฐ ์์ํ๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ์ ์ฒด์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์ ํฌ๋ ์ฌ์ ํ ๊ฑฐ์ ๋ชจ๋ ๋น์ํ ์นดํ ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์์ ์ํธํ ์์ฅ ์ ์ ์จ ์ฆ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฌ์ ๋ฐํ์์ ์ธ๊ธ๋๋ ธ๋ฏ์ด ๊ธ, ์ฃผ์ผ๋ฆฌ, ํน๋ณ ์ด๋ฒคํธ ์ํ, ํฌ์ค ์ค ๋ทฐํฐ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์ด ๋ชจ๋ ๋ ์๋ฆฟ์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๊ธฐ๋กํ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ํ ๊ฐ์ ์ ํ, ํ์ด์ด, ์ํ ๊ฐ์ ์์๋ ๋์ ํ ์๋ฆฟ์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๋ณด์๊ณ ์. ํตํ ์ค์๋ ๋ฐ๋ก ์ธ๊ธํ์ง ์์์ง๋ง, ์๋ฅ ๋ถ๋ฌธ๋ ๋งค์ถ ๋ชจ๋ฉํ ๊ณผ ๊ธฐ์กด์ ์ฑ์ฅ๋ฅ ์์ ์ ๋ง ๊ฐ๋ ฅํ ๊ฐ์ ์ธ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋น์ํ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์ ๋ํ ์ ํฌ ๊ด์ ์, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ํ๋ค์ด ํ์๋ค์๊ฒ ํ์ํ ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณตํ๋ ๋ฐ ์์ด ์ ๋ง ํ๋ฅญํ ์ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ด๊ณ ์๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ํ์๋ค์๊ฒ ๊ทธ ์ฝ์์ ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ์ดํํจ์ผ๋ก์จ ๋น์ํ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์์ ์์ฅ ์ ์ ์จ์ ๊ณ์ ํ๋ํ ์ ์๋ ๋ช ํํ ๊ฒฝ๋ก๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์๋ค๊ณ ๋ด ๋๋ค. ์ด๊ฒ์ด ๋ฐ๋ก ์ ํฌ๊ฐ ์ง์คํ๊ณ ์๋ ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Operator: And our next question comes from the line of Scot Ciccarelli with Truist Securities. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ Truist Securities์ Scot Ciccarelli๋๊ป์ ์ฃผ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Scot Ciccarelli: Truist Securities, Inc., Research Division I guess another question on warehouse expansion. What are your latest thoughts around long-term warehouse potential, both in the U.S. and in total. And then second, I think all of the lower price examples you gave were Kirkland products. So are most of your heaviest price investments on your private brand products. | **Scot Ciccarelli:** ์ฐฝ๊ณ ํ์ฅ์ ๋ํ ๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๊ณผ ์ ์ฒด์ ์ผ๋ก ์ฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ์ฐฝ๊ณ ์ ์ฌ๋ ฅ์ ๋ํ ์ต๊ทผ ๊ฒฌํด๋ ์ด๋ ์ ์ง์? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ ๋ฒ์งธ๋ก, ๋ง์ํ์ ์ ๊ฐ ์ฌ๋ก๋ค์ด ๋ชจ๋ ์ปคํด๋๋ ์ ํ์ด์๋ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์๋ฐ์. ๊ทธ๋ ๋ค๋ฉด ๊ฐ์ฅ ํฐ ํญ์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ธํ๊ฐ ์์ฒด ๋ธ๋๋ ์ ํ์ ์ง์ค๋์ด ์๋ ๊ฑด๊ฐ์? |
| Gary Millerchip: Executive VP & CFO Yes. On the first part of the question, Scot, I think Ron briefly alluded to it earlier as well, we tend to look at 5 to 10 years out in terms of our real estate plans, and we would still see a really good road map for 30-plus warehouses a year is the goal that we have, at least achieving 30 new warehouses a year is the goal that we set for ourselves. And when we look at that 5- to 10-year plan, we see opportunities for growth in all the markets and geographies that we're operating in today. So generally speaking, we're expecting around half, maybe slightly over half to be in the U.S. and then just around half just slightly under half to be in the rest of the markets that we operate in. So think of that being Canada, Mexico, Europe, Asia, Australia, across those different markets. And I wouldn't say it's 1 specific geography, it's really fairly well spread across those markets to continue to build our presence in each of those different geographies. On the second part of your question around Kirkland Signature. I think it's more a reflection of we tend to have, obviously, a very strong understanding of the costs involved in those items, and we want to be always the first to lower prices for our members and the last to increase them. And so buyers and our category managers who look at those items, whenever we see an opportunity either to work with our partners or to find ways to buy more effectively. We want to be looking for those opportunities. So in most of those cases, that's really working very closely with our suppliers to look at what we're seeing in the cost base and working creatively to either increase buying globally so that we can improve our economies of scale or looking at ways to operate more efficiently without ever compromising on the quality of the item. And those would be all great examples of where our teams really looked and found opportunities to bring down the price and increase the value for our members. | **Gary Millerchip:** ๋ค, ์ง๋ฌธ์ ์ฒซ ๋ฒ์งธ ๋ถ๋ถ์ ๋ํด ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ์๋ฉด, Ron์ด ์์ ๊ฐ๋ตํ ์ธ๊ธํ๋ฏ์ด ์ ํฌ๋ ๋ถ๋์ฐ ๊ณํ์ ์๋ฆฝํ ๋ ๋ณดํต 5๋
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๊ณํ์ ์ดํด๋ณด๋ฉด, ํ์ฌ ์ ํฌ๊ฐ ์ด์ํ๊ณ ์๋ ๋ชจ๋ ์์ฅ๊ณผ ์ง์ญ์์ ์ฑ์ฅ ๊ธฐํ๊ฐ ์๋ค๊ณ ๋ณด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ์ผ๋ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๋ฉด, ์ฝ ์ ๋ฐ ์ ๋, ์ด์ฉ๋ฉด ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ฝ๊ฐ ์ํํ๋ ์์ค์ด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์์ ์ด๋ฃจ์ด์ง ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ์์ํ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๋๋จธ์ง ์ ๋ฐ ์ ๋, ์ฝ๊ฐ ๋ฏธ๋ฌํ๋ ์์ค์ด ์ ํฌ๊ฐ ์ด์ํ๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์์ฅ๋ค์์ ์ด๋ฃจ์ด์ง ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์บ๋๋ค, ๋ฉ์์ฝ, ์ ๋ฝ, ์์์, ํธ์ฃผ ๋ฑ ๋ค์ํ ์์ฅ์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฒ๋๋ค. ํน์ ์ง์ญ์ด๋ผ๊ธฐ๋ณด๋ค๋ ๊ฐ ์ง์ญ์์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์
์ง๋ฅผ ๊ณ์ ๊ตฌ์ถํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ์ด๋ค ์์ฅ ์ ๋ฐ์ ๊ฑธ์ณ ์๋นํ ๊ณ ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋ถ์ฐ๋์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ปคํด๋๋ ์๊ทธ๋์ฒ(Kirkland Signature)์ ๊ดํ ๋ ๋ฒ์งธ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋ํด์๋, ์ด๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ํด๋น ์ ํ๋ค์ ์๊ฐ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฅผ ๋งค์ฐ ์ ํ์ ํ๊ณ ์๋ค๋ ์ ์ ๋ฐ์ํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ํญ์ ํ์๋ค์ ์ํด ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ๋จผ์ ๋ด๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ฅ ๋ง์ง๋ง์ ์ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ ํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ๋ฐ์ด์ด๋ค๊ณผ ์นดํ ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ ๋งค๋์ ๋ค์ด ์ด๋ฌํ ์ ํ๋ค์ ๊ฒํ ํ ๋, ํํธ๋์ฌ๋ค๊ณผ ํ๋ ฅํ๊ฑฐ๋ ๋ ํจ๊ณผ์ ์ธ ๊ตฌ๋งค ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ ์ฐพ์ ์ ์๋ ๊ธฐํ๊ฐ ๋ณด์ด๋ฉด ์ธ์ ๋ ๊ทธ๋ฐ ๊ธฐํ๋ค์ ์ฐพ๊ณ ์ ํฉ๋๋ค. ๋๋ถ๋ถ์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ, ๊ณต๊ธ์ ์ฒด๋ค๊ณผ ๊ธด๋ฐํ ํ๋ ฅํ๋ฉด์ ์๊ฐ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฉด๋ฐํ ๋ถ์ํ๊ณ , ๊ธ๋ก๋ฒ ๊ตฌ๋งค ๊ท๋ชจ๋ฅผ ํ๋ํด์ ๊ท๋ชจ์ ๊ฒฝ์ ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ ํ๊ฑฐ๋, ์ ํ ํ์ง์ ์ ๋ ํํํ์ง ์์ผ๋ฉด์๋ ๋ ํจ์จ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ด์ํ ์ ์๋ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ๋ค์ ์ฐฝ์์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ชจ์ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฐ ์ฌ๋ก๋ค์ด ๋ฐ๋ก ์ ํฌ ํ๋ค์ด ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ์ ๋ฎ์ถ๊ณ ํ์๋ค์๊ฒ ๋ ํฐ ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณตํ ์ ์๋ ๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์๋ธ ํ๋ฅญํ ์์๋ค์ ๋๋ค. |
| Operator: And our next question comes from the line of David Bellinger with Mizuho. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋ฏธ์ฆํธ์ David Bellinger๋ก๋ถํฐ ๋ฐ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| David Bellinger: Mizuho Securities USA LLC, Research Division Regarding the personalization efforts, those seem to be working pretty well early on. How much further does that have to roll out? Is it hitting every member at this point and any specific examples you can share on the conversion or the sales uplift that some of these personalization changes are helping with today? | **David Bellinger:** ๊ฐ์ธํ ๋ ธ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ๊ด๋ จํด์ ์ด๊ธฐ ์ฑ๊ณผ๊ฐ ์๋นํ ์ข์ ๋ณด์ ๋๋ค. ์ด ๋ถ๋ถ์ด ์ผ๋ง๋ ๋ ํ๋๋์ด์ผ ํ ๊น์? ํ์ฌ ๋ชจ๋ ํ์์๊ฒ ์ ์ฉ๋๊ณ ์๋์ง, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ด๋ฌํ ๊ฐ์ธํ ๋ณํ๊ฐ ํ์ฌ ์ ํ์จ์ด๋ ๋งค์ถ ์ฆ๋์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๊ธฐ์ฌํ๊ณ ์๋์ง ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ์ฌ๋ก๋ฅผ ๊ณต์ ํด ์ฃผ์ค ์ ์์๊น์? |
| Gary Millerchip: Executive VP & CFO Yes, we have been pleased, as you heard Ron mentioned in the comments around the progress that we made on personalization, where we really are now starting to use our membership data to look for ways, how can we really make the experience better for the member? How do we improve the convenience for them, how do we help them see the most relevant messages that help them get to the best value from Costco? I still think there's plenty of road map and opportunity for us to continue to improve. First of all, we're relatively early on the journey. So we're learning what do our members really like, where are the places we can fine-tune and improve those communications and the places in which they show up. I still think there are a number of elements on our road map where we still see parts of the experience that our members have that we can make that personalization more relevant, whether that's the items and the order in which they see on things like the MVM or whether it's the way in which we deliver e-mail communication to our members. So we still see a really strong runway to continue to improve. We don't really talk about metrics. I think our focus is much more on how we're driving overall member experience and top line sales. So some of these things are intended to improve the way the members are able to engage in our warehouses or the way they're able to buy online. So we tend to look at it more. Is it driving an improvement in member engagement? And is that helping drive our digital sales, which we continue to expect to grow at a faster pace overall than our warehouse business. And is it driving more member engagement overall. And we've been really pleased with the results so far in that journey. | **Gary Millerchip:** ๋ค, ๋ก ์ด ์ธ๊ธํ๋ฏ์ด ๊ฐ์ธํ(personalization) ๋ถ๋ฌธ์์ ์ด๋ฃฌ ์ง์ ์ ๋ํด ๋งค์ฐ ๋ง์กฑํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด์ ํ์ ๋ฐ์ดํฐ๋ฅผ ํ์ฉํด์ ํ์๋ค์ ๊ฒฝํ์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ ํ ์ ์์์ง, ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ํ๋ฉด ๋ ํธ๋ฆฌํ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค ์ ์์์ง, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ฝ์คํธ์ฝ์์ ์ต๊ณ ์ ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ์ป์ ์ ์๋๋ก ๊ฐ์ฅ ๊ด๋ จ์ฑ ๋์ ๋ฉ์์ง๋ฅผ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ณด์ฌ์ค ์ ์์์ง๋ฅผ ์ค์ ๋ก ๋ชจ์ํ๊ธฐ ์์ํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฌ์ ํ ๊ฐ์ ํ ์ ์๋ ๋ก๋๋งต๊ณผ ๊ธฐํ๊ฐ ์ถฉ๋ถํ ์๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. ์ฐ์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ด ์ฌ์ ์์ ๋น๊ต์ ์ด๊ธฐ ๋จ๊ณ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ํ์๋ค์ด ์ค์ ๋ก ๋ฌด์์ ์ข์ํ๋์ง, ์ปค๋ฎค๋์ผ์ด์ ์ ๋ฏธ์ธ ์กฐ์ ํ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ ํ ์ ์๋ ๋ถ๋ถ์ด ์ด๋์ธ์ง, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ด๋ฌํ ๋ฉ์์ง๋ค์ด ๋ํ๋๋ ์์น๋ฅผ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์ต์ ํํ ์ ์๋์ง ๋ฐฐ์๊ฐ๊ณ ์๋ ์ค์ ๋๋ค. ๋ก๋๋งต์๋ ์ฌ์ ํ ๋ง์ ์์๋ค์ด ์๊ณ , ํ์๋ค์ ๊ฒฝํ ์ค์์ ๊ฐ์ธํ๋ฅผ ๋ ๊ด๋ จ์ฑ ์๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค ์ ์๋ ๋ถ๋ถ๋ค์ด ์๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. MVM ๊ฐ์ ๊ณณ์์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ง๋ ์ํ๋ค๊ณผ ๊ทธ ์์๋ , ํ์๋ค์๊ฒ ์ด๋ฉ์ผ ์ปค๋ฎค๋์ผ์ด์ ์ ์ ๋ฌํ๋ ๋ฐฉ์์ด๋ ๋ง์ด์ฃ . ๊ทธ๋์ ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ์ ํ ์ ์๋ ์ฌ์ง๊ฐ ์ถฉ๋ถํ ์๋ค๊ณ ๋ด ๋๋ค. ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ธ ์งํ์ ๋ํด์๋ ๋ฐ๋ก ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ์ง ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ ํฌ๋ ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ธ ํ์ ๊ฒฝํ๊ณผ ๋งค์ถ ์ ์ฅ์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ์ด๋์ด๋ด๋์ง์ ํจ์ฌ ๋ ์ง์คํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฌํ ๊ฒ๋ค์ ํ์๋ค์ด ๋งค์ฅ์์ ๋ ์ ์ฐธ์ฌํ ์ ์๋๋ก ํ๊ฑฐ๋ ์จ๋ผ์ธ ๊ตฌ๋งค๋ฅผ ๋ ์ํํ๊ฒ ํ ์ ์๋๋ก ํ๊ธฐ ์ํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ ํฌ๋ ํ์ ์ฐธ์ฌ๋ ๊ฐ์ ์ ์ด๋์ด๋ด๊ณ ์๋์ง๋ฅผ ๋ ์ค์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๋ ํธ์ ๋๋ค. ์ด๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ๋์งํธ ๋งค์ถ ์ฑ์ฅ์ ๊ฒฌ์ธํ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๋์งํธ ๋งค์ถ์ ์ ์ฒด์ ์ผ๋ก ์ฐฝ๊ณ ์ฌ์ ๋ณด๋ค ๋ ๋น ๋ฅธ ์๋๋ก ์ฑ์ฅํ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๊ณ์ ์์ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ํ ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ธ ํ์ ์ฐธ์ฌ๋๋ฅผ ๋์ด๋ ๋ฐ๋ ๊ธฐ์ฌํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ง๊ธ๊น์ง ์ด๋ฌํ ์ฌ์ ์์ ๋ํ๋ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์ ๋ํด ๋งค์ฐ ๋ง์กฑ์ค๋ฝ๊ฒ ์๊ฐํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Operator: And our next question comes from the line of Kelly Bania with BMO. | **Operator:** ๋ค์ ์ง๋ฌธ์ BMO์ Kelly Bania๋๊ป์ ์ฃผ์๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Kelly Bania: BMO Capital Markets Equity Research I was hoping to go back to the topic of renewal rates a little bit. I know you don't prefer to guide or forecast, but I think you did say, Gary, we might see still a decline in the renewal rate in the next few quarters. So I was just wondering if that's a little bit of conservatism because it sounds like you are having some success on mitigating that dynamic. Just wondering if you could comment on that. But also if you were to pull out that cohort of the younger members would the membership rates be improving, excluding that? Or can you share any of a deeper dive on that renewal rate dynamic? | **Kelly Bania:** ๋ฆฌ๋ด์ผ ๋น์จ ์ฃผ์ ๋ก ๋ค์ ๋์๊ฐ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ฐ์ด๋์ค๋ ์ ๋ง์ ์ ํธํ์ง ์์ผ์ ๋ค๋ ๊ฑด ์์ง๋ง, Gary ๋๊ป์ ํฅํ ๋ช ๋ถ๊ธฐ ๋์ ๋ฆฌ๋ด์ผ ๋น์จ์ด ์ฌ์ ํ ํ๋ฝํ ์ ์๋ค๊ณ ๋ง์ํ์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ด ๋ถ๋ถ์ด ๋ค์ ๋ณด์์ ์ธ ์ ๊ทผ์ธ์ง ๊ถ๊ธํฉ๋๋ค. ์๋ํ๋ฉด ์ด๋ฌํ ์ํฉ์ ์ํํ๋ ๋ฐ ์ด๋ ์ ๋ ์ฑ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ๋๊ณ ๊ณ์ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ค๋ฆฌ๊ฑฐ๋ ์. ์ด์ ๋ํด ์ฝ๋ฉํธ ๋ถํ๋๋ฆฝ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ง์ฝ ์ ์ ํ์ ์ฝํธํธ๋ฅผ ์ ์ธํ๋ค๋ฉด, ๊ทธ๋ค์ ์ ์ธํ์ ๋ ๋ฉค๋ฒ์ญ ๋น์จ์ด ๊ฐ์ ๋๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฑด๊ฐ์? ์๋๋ฉด ๋ฆฌ๋ด์ผ ๋น์จ ๋ํฅ์ ๋ํด ์ข ๋ ์ฌ์ธต์ ์ธ ๋ถ์์ ๊ณต์ ํด ์ฃผ์ค ์ ์์ผ์ ๊ฐ์? |
| Gary Millerchip: Executive VP & CFO Sure. Yes, really the -- Kelly, the impact that we've been talking about really is attributable to this phenomena that I've mentioned on the call earlier around as we add in, and it sounds like you fully understand the sort of concept of what's happening with the membership base overall. But as we've brought more of these digitally sign up members who are generally younger that just they do renew a lower rate. So really, the impact that we've talked about the last few quarters on renewal rate is a function of those members moving into the renewal rate overall. So that really is what's driving the -- what has driven the slight decline that we've seen over recent quarters. To your point, our goal obviously is to arrest that decline as quickly as possible. And certainly, we're encouraged by what we saw this last quarter with the improvements that we made through the more targeted and relevant communication to members who we know have signed up through that channel. So we're very encouraged by what we've seen so far. Our goal is to stop that decline and to reverse that decline as quickly as we possibly can as we're only 1 quarter into the change that we made. We wanted to flag that, of course, there's still work to be done there. And we are still at a lower renewal rate on digital sign-ups than we are on warehouse sign-ups. And so our expectation of ourselves is to close that gap as quickly as possible, but we want to be transparent in all that we share that there's still work for us to do. And there is a possibility the next couple of quarters could still show a slight decline because of the factors that I've mentioned in prior calls. | **Gary Millerchip:** ๋ค, ์ ํํ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๋ฉด ์ผ๋ฆฌ, ์ ํฌ๊ฐ ๋ง์๋๋ ค์จ ์ํฅ์ ์ค์ ๋ก ํตํ ์ด๋ฐ์ ์ ๊ฐ ์ธ๊ธํ๋ ํ์์ ๊ธฐ์ธํฉ๋๋ค. ํ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ ์ ์ฒด์์ ์ผ์ด๋๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฐ๋ ์ ์ถฉ๋ถํ ์ดํดํ๊ณ ๊ณ์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์๋ฐ์. ๋์งํธ๋ก ๊ฐ์ ํ ํ์๋ค์ ๋ ๋ง์ด ์ ์นํ๋ฉด์, ์ด๋ค์ ์ผ๋ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ ์ ๊ณ ๊ฐฑ์ ์จ(renewal rate)์ด ๋ฎ์ ํธ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ์ง๋ ๋ช ๋ถ๊ธฐ ๋์ ์ ํฌ๊ฐ ์ธ๊ธํ๋ ๊ฐฑ์ ์จ์ ๋ํ ์ํฅ์ ์ค์ ๋ก ์ด๋ฌํ ํ์๋ค์ด ์ ์ฒด ๊ฐฑ์ ์จ์ ํธ์ ๋๋ฉด์ ๋ฐ์ํ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ด๊ฒ์ด ์ต๊ทผ ๋ช ๋ถ๊ธฐ ๋์ ์ ํฌ๊ฐ ๋ชฉ๊ฒฉํ ์ํญ ํ๋ฝ์ ์ด๋ ์์ธ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ง์ํ์ ๋๋ก, ์ ํฌ ๋ชฉํ๋ ๋น์ฐํ ์ด๋ฌํ ํ๋ฝ์ธ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ ํ ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ๋ฉ์ถ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ์ง๋ ๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ํด๋น ์ฑ๋์ ํตํด ๊ฐ์ ํ ํ์๋ค์๊ฒ ๋ณด๋ค ํ๊ฒํ ๋๊ณ ๊ด๋ จ์ฑ ๋์ ์ปค๋ฎค๋์ผ์ด์ ์ ์ ๊ณตํ๋ฉด์ ๊ฐ์ ๋ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ํ์ธํ๊ณ , ์ด๋ ๋งค์ฐ ๊ณ ๋ฌด์ ์ ๋๋ค. ์ ํฌ๊ฐ ๋ณํ๋ฅผ ์์ํ ์ง ์ด์ 1๋ถ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ ๋์ง ์์๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์, ๊ฐ๋ฅํ ํ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์ด๋ฌํ ๊ฐ์์ธ๋ฅผ ๋ฉ์ถ๊ณ ๋ฐ์ ์ํค๋ ๊ฒ์ด ๋ชฉํ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก ์์ง ํด์ผ ํ ์ผ์ด ๋จ์์๋ค๋ ์ ์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ถ์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ ๋์งํธ ๊ฐ์ ์ ๊ฐฑ์ ์จ์ด ๋งค์ฅ ๊ฐ์ ๋ณด๋ค ์ฌ์ ํ ๋ฎ์ ์ํฉ์ ๋๋ค. ์ ํฌ ์ค์ค๋ก์ ๋ํ ๊ธฐ๋์น๋ ์ด ๊ฒฉ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ์ต๋ํ ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ์ขํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด์ง๋ง, ์์ง ํด์ผ ํ ๊ณผ์ ๊ฐ ๋จ์์๋ค๋ ์ ์ ํฌ๋ช ํ๊ฒ ๊ณต์ ํ๊ณ ์ ํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ ๊ฐ ์ด์ ์ฝ์์ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฐ ์์ธ๋ค๋ก ์ธํด ํฅํ ๋ช ๋ถ๊ธฐ ๋์์ ์ฌ์ ํ ์ํญ ๊ฐ์ํ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Operator: And our final question comes from the line of Spencer Hanus with Wolfe Research. | **Operator:** ๋ง์ง๋ง ์ง๋ฌธ์ Wolfe Research์ Spencer Hanus๋ก๋ถํฐ ๋ฐ๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Wolfe Research, LLC: Just curious if you could talk about the cadence of comps you saw through November and then into December. And how that's informing how the consumer is holding up heading into the holiday from your vantage point? And then are you seeing any trade down or divergence in performance by customer cohort that is changing how you guys are buying. | **Wolfe Research, LLC:** 11์๋ถํฐ 12์๊น์ง ๋งค์ถ ์ ์ฅ๋ฅ (comps)์ ํ๋ฆ์ ๋ํด ๋ง์ํด ์ฃผ์ค ์ ์๋์ง ๊ถ๊ธํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ด ์ฐ๋ง ์์ฆ์ ์๋๊ณ ์๋น์๋ค์ ์ํฉ์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ ์๋์ง์? ๋ํ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๋ฑ๊ธ๋ณ๋ก ๋ค์ด๊ทธ๋ ์ด๋๋ ์ฑ๊ณผ ์ฐจ์ด๊ฐ ๋ํ๋๊ณ ์๋์ง, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ด ๊ท์ฌ์ ๊ตฌ๋งค ์ ๋ต์ ๋ณํ๋ฅผ ์ฃผ๊ณ ์๋์ง ๊ถ๊ธํฉ๋๋ค. |
| Gary Millerchip: Executive VP & CFO Yes, I think -- thanks for the question. I think we don't obviously get into talking about specifically our current quarter because we report our sales on a monthly basis. But overall, I would say we're seeing relative consistency in how our members are shopping. I mentioned it earlier that we've -- we have seen month-to-month some, I call it, bumpiness, if you like, in the sales, but most of that's been attributable to whether it's cycling, port strikes or consumer uncertainty, 1 month with tariffs and then the sales come back the next month. And if we look at the last 6 months or so, outside of the 2 things that I mentioned around, we've seen continued strong growth in nonfoods and market share gains, but we have seen a deceleration in nonfoods. And I think that that's really been offset when you look at the total comps by the benefit we've seen from extended operating hours. But net-net, really in that sort of 6.5% range when you look at the last 2 quarters over the last 7 months, really, outside of a couple of months being one slightly above and one slightly below that 6% to 7% growth range. And those months are right next to each other. So when you average out the two, they came in at 6.5% as well. We've been really in that consistent range. So nothing that we'd call out that we're seeing is a change other than the 2 factors I just mentioned in terms of member behavior and the way in which we believe our value is resonating with them. | **Gary Millerchip:** ๋ค, ์ง๋ฌธ ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค. ์ ํฌ๋ ๋งค์ ๋งค์ถ์ ๊ณต๊ฐํ๊ณ ์๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ๋น์ฐํ ํ์ฌ ๋ถ๊ธฐ์ ๋ํด ๊ตฌ์ฒด์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ง์๋๋ฆฌ์ง๋ ์์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ํ์๋ค์ ์ผํ ํจํด์ ์๋์ ์ผ๋ก ์ผ๊ด์ฑ์ ์ ์งํ๊ณ ์๋ค๊ณ ๋ง์๋๋ฆด ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์์ ์ธ๊ธํ๋ฏ์ด, ์๋ณ๋ก ๋งค์ถ์ ์ฝ๊ฐ์ ๊ธฐ๋ณต์ด ์์์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ์ด๋ฌํ ๋ณ๋์ฑ์ ๋๋ถ๋ถ์ ํญ๋ง ํ์
์ด๋ ์๋น์ ๋ถํ์ค์ฑ ๊ฐ์ ์์ธ๋ค, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ํ ๋ฌ์ ๊ด์ธ ๋ฌธ์ ๋ก ๋งค์ถ์ด ์ํฅ์ ๋ฐ์๋ค๊ฐ ๋ค์ ๋ฌ์๋ ํ๋ณต๋๋ ์์ ํจํด์ ๊ธฐ์ธํ ๊ฒ์
๋๋ค. ์ง๋ 6๊ฐ์ ์ ๋๋ฅผ ์ดํด๋ณด๋ฉด, ์ ๊ฐ ์ธ๊ธํ ๋ ๊ฐ์ง ์์ธ์ ์ ์ธํ๊ณ ๋, ๋น์ํ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์์ ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ ฅํ ์ฑ์ฅ๊ณผ ์์ฅ ์ ์ ์จ ํ๋๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ฌ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ค๋ง ๋น์ํ ๋ถ๋ฌธ์ ์ฑ์ฅ์ธ๊ฐ ๋ค์ ๋ํ๋๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ฌ์ค์
๋๋ค. ์ ์ฒด ๋งค์ถ ์ ์ฅ๋ฅ ์ ๋ณด๋ฉด ์ฐ์ฅ ์ด์์๊ฐ์ผ๋ก ์ธํ ํํ์ด ์ด๋ฅผ ์์ํ๋ค๊ณ ๋ณผ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ง๋ 7๊ฐ์๊ฐ ์ต๊ทผ 2๊ฐ ๋ถ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉด ์ค์ง์ ์ผ๋ก ์ฝ 6.5% ์์ค์ ์ ์งํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ํ๋ ๋ฌ ์ ๋๊ฐ 6~7% ์ฑ์ฅ ๋ฒ์์์ ์ฝ๊ฐ ์์๋๋ก ๋ฒ์ด๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ๊ฐ ์์์ง๋ง, ๊ทธ ๋ ๋ฌ์ด ๋ฐ๋ก ์ธ์ ํด ์์ด์ ํ๊ท ์ ๋ด๋ฉด ์ญ์ 6.5%๊ฐ ๋ฉ๋๋ค. ์ ๋ง ์ผ๊ด๋ ๋ฒ์ ๋ด์์ ์์ง์ด๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฒ์ด์ฃ . ๋ฐ๋ผ์ ๋ฐฉ๊ธ ๋ง์๋๋ฆฐ ํ์ ํ๋ ํจํด๊ณผ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ์น ์ ์์ด ํ์๋ค์๊ฒ ๋ฐํฅ์ ์ผ์ผํค๊ณ ์๋ค๊ณ ํ๋จํ๋ ๋ฐฉ์, ์ด ๋ ๊ฐ์ง ์์ธ ์ธ์๋ ๋ณํ๋ผ๊ณ ํน๋ณํ ์ธ๊ธํ ๋งํ ๊ฒ์ ๋ณด์ด์ง ์์ต๋๋ค. |
| Operator: And ladies and gentlemen, that concludes our question-and-answer session and today's call. We thank you for your participation, and you may now disconnect. | **Operator:** ์ด์์ผ๋ก ์ง์์๋ต ์๊ฐ๊ณผ ์ค๋ ์ปจํผ๋ฐ์ค ์ฝ์ ๋ง์น๊ฒ ์ต๋๋ค. ์ฐธ์ฌํด ์ฃผ์ ์ ๊ฐ์ฌ๋๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ, ์ด์ ์ฐ๊ฒฐ์ ์ข ๋ฃํ์ ๋ ๋ฉ๋๋ค. |
# Costco 1Q ์ค์ ๋ฐํ ์ฃผ์ ์์ฝ
## ํต์ฌ ์ฌ๋ฌด ์งํ ๋ฐ ์ค์
- **๋งค์ถ ์ฑ์ฅ**: ์ต๊ทผ 7๊ฐ์๊ฐ ํ๊ท 6.5% ์ฑ์ฅ๋ฅ ์ ์ง (์ ๊ฐ ๋ฐ ํ์จ ์กฐ์ ๊ธฐ์ค)
- **ํ์ ์ ์ฆ๊ฐ**: ์ด ์ ๋ฃํ์ 5% ์ด์ ์ฆ๊ฐ, ์ด๊ทธ์ ํํฐ๋ธ ํ์ 9% ์ฆ๊ฐ
- **๊ฐฑ์ ์จ**: ๋์งํธ ๊ฐ์
ํ์ ๋์ ํ๊ฒ ์ปค๋ฎค๋์ผ์ด์
๊ฐํ๋ก ์์๋ณด๋ค ์ํธํ ๊ฐฑ์ ์จ ๊ฐ์
- **SG&A ๋ ๋ฒ๋ฆฌ์ง**: ์๋ฃ๋น ์ฆ๊ฐ์ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ์ธ๊ธ ์กฐ์ (4bp ์ํฅ)์ผ๋ก 1bp ๋ง์ด๋์ค ์์ฐ์ฑ ๊ธฐ๋ก. ์ด๋ค ์์ธ ์ ์ธ ์ ์ค๊ฐ ํ์๋ฆฟ์ ๊ธ์ ์ ๋ ๋ฒ๋ฆฌ์ง ๋ฌ์ฑ
## ๊ฒฝ์์ง ํค ๋ฐ ์ ๋ต ๋ฐฉํฅ
- **๊ธฐ์ ํฌ์ ๊ฐ์ํ**: ๊ฐ์ธํ, AI ํ์ฉ, ๋์งํธ ๊ฒฝํ ๊ฐ์ ์ ์ ๊ทน ํฌ์. ์น์ฌ์ดํธ ํธ๋ํฝ 24%, ์ฑ ํธ๋ํฝ 40% ์ด์ ์ฆ๊ฐ
- **๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ๊ฒฝ์๋ ฅ ์ ์ง**: ๊ธฐ์ ํฌ์์๋ ๋ถ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ์ต์ ๊ฐ ์ ๊ณต ์์น ๊ฒฌ์ง. ์ปคํด๋๋ ์๊ทธ๋์ฒ ์ ํ ์ค์ฌ์ผ๋ก ์ง์์ ๊ฐ๊ฒฉ ์ธํ
- **๋งค์ฅ ํ์ฅ ๊ณํ**: ํฅํ 5~10๋
๊ฐ ์ฐ๊ฐ 30๊ฐ ์ด์ ์ ๊ท ๋งค์ฅ ๊ฐ์ค ๋ชฉํ. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋ด ์ ๋ฐ, ๊ตญ์ (์บ๋๋ค, ๋ฉ์์ฝ,