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.

Dec 11, 2025 / receipt, needs a key / Gary, CEO | earnings call 2025-12-11 | transcript 1bd1cf90-f9ce-4025-9b22-c3d2608e17e0 | chars 28934-29223 | segment 29

Yeah, well, for our credit card, you know, it's an incredibly successful program for us. And we deliver, you know, a lot of incremental value to our members through the credit card with the rewards that we offer and some of the additional benefits around travel as well. We did recently make some changes to our credit card, recognizing that we felt there was an opportunity to accelerate the value and also to continue to grow that program.

Sep 25, 2025 / receipt, needs a key / Gary, CEO | earnings call 2025-09-25 | transcript f83540c7-66ba-436a-a624-4c809e8da9d0 | chars 45928-46369 | segment 46

Costco travel is another way we deliver unique membership value, and these services continue to resonate well with our members. We offer a wide range of vacation packages, car rentals, cruises, hotels, flights, and other travel-related services.

Dec 12, 2024 / receipt, needs a key / Ron Vakris, other | earnings call 2024-12-12 | transcript 2582df63-6e4a-476a-96f2-1ae5c2cc05a2 | chars 13353-13598 | segment 13

Essentially, yes. Much like the travel business.

Dec 14, 2023 / receipt, needs a key / Richard, CFO | earnings call 2023-12-14 | transcript 1f2ee86f-9f01-4769-85f3-eed6106ff847 | chars 30257-30305 | segment 32

Gas, business centers, and travel were better year-over-year, offset in part by e-comm and pharmacy.

Mar 2, 2023 / receipt, needs a key / Richard Galante, CFO | earnings call 2023-03-02 | transcript 59623e55-e049-4035-845d-986c039f2de3 | chars 5617-5717 | segment 5

Lightning just struck me. No, we really don't look at it that way. I think the thing I mentioned earlier about there's some businesses that are doing well with margin, like gas business, on a smaller way, the travel business, those things help us be more aggressive in other areas or, as you mentioned, hold the price on the hot dog and the soda a little longer, forever. But at the end of the day, no, I don't think we necessarily look to find places where we can harvest margin. But we are - there are different areas. You know, again, the fresh foods business, the strength and fails for a two-year period where over two years you had 30% and 40%, you know, 20-plus percent increases each year, the enormity of the improvement in - And the bottom line, even now we're giving some of that back now, still net-net we're better than we were two years ago. So all those things help that process. But on a go-forward basis, if you're really not looking to take any extra margin in some other categories, should we presume that margins may actually start to drop on a year-over-year basis?

Sep 22, 2022 / receipt, needs a key / Scott Ciccarelli, other | earnings call 2022-09-22 | transcript 0ac4c56a-4d8b-49d3-928e-946666c7c9ef | chars 7775-8861 | segment 8

And in other businesses, travel and business centers performed best relative to the prior fiscal fourth quarter results.

Sep 22, 2022 / receipt, needs a key / Richard Galancy, CFO | earnings call 2022-09-22 | transcript 0ac4c56a-4d8b-49d3-928e-946666c7c9ef | chars 12710-12830 | segment 13

You know, at the extreme, you have a small business, but, you know, in terms of our income statement, travel. You know, travel is almost a brokerage business where it's all margins. a lot of its margin, and that went way down, and now it's improving from where it had gone way down, so that helps you a little bit.

Sep 22, 2022 / receipt, needs a key / Richard, CFO | earnings call 2022-09-22 | transcript 0ac4c56a-4d8b-49d3-928e-946666c7c9ef | chars 32940-33254 | segment 34

A month ago, we reported that Ron Vakris became president of Costco. Ron started his career 39 years ago at Price Company, at Price Club, at the young age of 17. Most of his career was in operations through 2015. Then he spent a little over a year in real estate traveling the world and working on both worldwide and domestic expansion. And since that time in 2016 has been in merchandising with certainly responsibly not only for inline merchandising but online merchandising as well as very involved with logistics and transportation.

Mar 3, 2022 / receipt, needs a key / Richard Galanti, CFO | earnings call 2022-03-03 | transcript d2eef2dc-6580-4a14-a4ea-e87162b8f163 | chars 18257-18793 | segment 18

Gas, travel, business centers, and pharmacy were all better year over year, offset by e-comm and optical.

Mar 3, 2022 / receipt, needs a key / Richard Galanti, CFO | earnings call 2022-03-03 | transcript d2eef2dc-6580-4a14-a4ea-e87162b8f163 | chars 6247-6352 | segment 6

Gas and travel were better year over year as the anniversary of softer quarter a year ago, offset by e-comm, which was particularly strong a year ago and also related to the pandemic.

Dec 9, 2021 / receipt, needs a key / Richard Galanti, CFO | earnings call 2021-12-09 | transcript 1bcfd1e8-525c-4ec5-b614-65e68ee9f06f | chars 6323-6506 | segment 6

Travel is up, not where it was pre. It was almost back to where it was pre-COVID, and then Delta variant hit. And then it was coming back again, and then Omicron hit. And so it fluctuates pretty quickly.

Dec 9, 2021 / receipt, needs a key / Richard, CFO | earnings call 2021-12-09 | transcript 1bcfd1e8-525c-4ec5-b614-65e68ee9f06f | chars 43334-43537 | segment 44