Month: June 2025

Costco held their quarterly earnings call on May 29, and the call brought some good news, as well as a major change for shoppers on the way. As for the earnings, Costco reported an 8% year-over-year sales gain. While Costco doesn’t offer an annual outlook, the management on the earnings call said that in general, tariffs have resulted in higher prices and some challenges, so Costco had to work with its supply chain and raise some prices. But, the company still posted a gain.

Costco’s earnings per share was $4.28, which is higher than its $4.24 expected. Revenue was also $63.21 billion, which is higher than the $63.19 billion that was projected.

As for tariffs concerns, according to CFO Gary Millerchip, goods and items imported from China make up about 8% of Costco’s total U.S. sales. “We felt it was important to to really eliminate the impact there for the member by working with our suppliers and by us finding efficiencies and accepting that there may be a margin impact,” Millerchip said.

While numbers are fun, when it comes to what actually impacts the average customer at Costco, the earnings call also brought news of Costco working on ways to speed up wait times for people at the checkout area. A busy Costco store often means a long wait to check out, and they want to change that.

“We’ve also engaged in some ‘scan and go done by Costco’ kind of tests that we’re doing out there that have been extremely successful of moving people through the lines and expediting the transactions,” CEO Ron Vachris said on the call. Vachris added that the early tests of these “scan and go” devices were “very positive.”

“Scan and go” is a mobile self-checkout solution, where shoppers are able to use their mobile devices to scan items as they shop and pay right through an app.

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In the big finale of MobLand Season 1, several revelations and twists hit nearly all at once. If the show doesn’t get a full second season, it will be a shame, because there’s simply too much story left to tell. And, among all those questions, viewers might wonder what became of one specific character who seems to disappear towards the end of the finale. After all the chaos, where does Eddie end up?

Men’s Journal caught up with MobLand star Anson Boon to figure out just what became of Eddie, how he crafted the character, and what we can expect of a hypothetical Season 2. Spoilers ahead for the MobLand Season 1 finale, “The Beast in Me.”

After learning that the man he thought was his grandfather, Conrad Harrigan (Pierce Brosnan), Eddie goes nuts, briefly attacking his mother, Bella (Lara Pulver), and then, what? While the finale focuses on Harry (Tom Hardy) and Jan (Joanne Froggat) in the kitchen, in which Jan accidentally stabs Harry, we’re not sure what happened to Eddie as the rest of the Harrigans regroup.

“I think he is fleeing, and I think he just needs some time to be on his own,” Boon tells Men’s Journal. “I think Eddie is thinking about his next move, because who do you trust anymore? The only person that he really thought he could definitely trust was his grandmother [Helen Mirren’s Maeve] because she’s always saying the right thing to him. And then he finds out he’s not even blood-related to her!”

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The start of MobLand begins with Eddie’s seemingly insane decision to murder the son of a rival mob family, Tommy Stevenson. This single event sets the entire show into motion, and as such, makes Eddie a pivotal figure in the saga. Later, he makes advances on Harry’s daughter, Gina (Teddie Allen), complicating his entire standing within his own family.

“They are both lost souls,” Boon explains. “And why not? At first, when they’re walking around the lake, and they’re sitting in the shed when he’s saying he was confused growing up and that his family, that’s all a load of rubbish! But I think in the end they do both find a bit of comfort in each other.”

Boon also makes it clear that he never wanted to play Eddie as a complete psychopath, and that he hopes that, as Season 1 unfolded, audiences started to realize how manipulated Eddie has been the entire time.

“I never want to play someone that’s so two-dimensional because humans aren’t two-dimensional,” Boon explains. “Obviously, he’s done terrible things and he’s doing terrible things, but look, no one in that family is exactly an angel. I think that he is obviously the very youngest person in the family, and he’s being dragged from pillar to post. But I don’t believe he’s absolutely evil. I don’t think he’s a monster.”

If Season 2 of MobLand happens, Boon hopes that his character will continue to evolve.

“He’s still very much coming of age,” Boon says. “I’m 25 now, and I realize how different I am now from how I was one year ago, let alone five, six years ago. If we are lucky enough to do a Season 2 — which I’d love to do — I’m just really excited to see how this character can grow and what kind of man he could become.”

MobLand Season 1 streams on Paramount+.

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It’s difficult to imagine an existence without toilet paper, but it’s possible that in the future, going toilet paperless could be a real option. So, why would humans move away from toilet paper? According to Think Stewartville, “Environmental concerns, health implications, and cultural preferences are driving this change toward more sustainable alternatives.”

According to Cottonelle, the average person uses the toilet five times a day, but anything from four to ten times is considered “normal.” Also, the average person uses about seven sheets of toilet paper per wipe, “6.41 sheets per toileting occasion for women, and 8.1 sheets per occasion for men,” Cotonelle states. Also, the average American adult uses around one roll of toilet paper every week and 50 rolls in a year.

So, what could replace toilet paper? There are a few options, and some of them have been around for a long time.

According to Think Stewartville, bidets are the most established and common toilet paper alternative, and they date back centuries. “These standalone fixtures use precisely directed water streams for cleaning, eliminating the need for paper products entirely,” Think Stewartville states. The Cambridge Dictionary describes a bidet as a “small, low bath in which a person washes the lower part of their body.”

If bidets don’t sound too appealing, there are other toilet paper alternatives that are gaining popularity, too. One is reusable cloth toilet paper, which offers an environmentally-friendly alternative. “Typically crafted from organic cotton or bamboo fibers, these washable squares provide a soft, effective cleaning option,” Think Stewartville states. On top of being better for the environment, reusable cloth toilet paper could also cut down on household costs.

One criticism of reusable cloth toilet paper is the concern that it’s not hygienic. Heathline says that to properly clean clothing toilet paper, wash it “in a hot-water laundry cycle that’s at least 160°F (71°C) for at least 25 minutes, or a sanitize setting if you have one.” Healthline also adds that a downside of clothing toilet paper is that, “it can retain stains that make the cloths appear undesirable to use.”

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