Costco chief executive Ron Vachris said the company had to rethink how it stocks shelves for the holiday season amid economic uncertainty around the world. Photo by AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File

Costco Wholesale Corp. has chosen to lighten its holiday product line this year as more customers focus on essentials and limit discretionary spending.

Costco chief executive Ron Vachris said the company had to rethink how it stocks shelves for the holiday season amid economic uncertainty around the world.

“Our buyers, when we were booking for this holiday season, really had to evaluate all the discretionary items the toys and the trim and the decorations and those sorts of things,” he said during the retailer’s fourth-quarter earnings call. “We really thinned down that whole category and w

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