Costco built its brand on supermarket staples. If you wanted a truckload of toilet paper or enough ham to pack 50 sandwiches, it was the place to go. But Costco has increasingly moved beyond mustard and milk.The most well-known "surprise" in Costco's sales success strategy may be the boom in gold bars bought by its customers in recent years. But the big-box retailer is also seeing a boom in sales of saunas and sofas, many of them purchased online. In industry parlance, these purchases are termed "big and bu ...

The first checkpoint is the actual cut in retail prices of various products from processed foods and hair oil to air-conditioners and small cars that will attract lower goods and services tax (GST) from Monday, they said."We will be watching out for the extent of pass-through of lower GST to prices, how inventory management takes place and how firms cope with stranded taxes, if any," said Aditi Nayar, chief economist at Gaura Sengupta, chief economist at "We will see how fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) c ...