Costco

4588.277 - 4613.276 David Rosenthal

Yep. And there was a forcing function to this. It wasn't just that Jim had a soft spot for his mentor, Sol, and for Price Club. Sam's Club and Walmart was aggressively expanding at this point in time. And so if they had waited too much longer, Sam's Club would have just gotten huge and potentially run away with the market. So after the merger happens, even the newly combined Price-Costco