Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
4 Mar 2026 Acquired Costco
“I actually don't know why, but I suspect it's because prices are artificially high in the entire glasses supply chain.”
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Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 4 Mar 2026
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Costco
Transcript context
…Amazing. Wild. All right, more stats just for fun. They sold 2.2 million pumpkin pies in the three days leading up to Thanksgiving last year. They sell 1/3 of the jumbo cashews in the entire world. They, of course, sell eyeglasses. This is one of the areas where they felt they should vertically integrate. I actually don't know why, but I suspect it's because prices are artificially high in the entire glasses supply chain. Yeah, the eyeglass industry is notoriously brutal in this.…
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