“We have a clear road map for future digital enhancements and believe these will allow us to continue to grow digitally-enabled sales at a faster pace than overall sales.”

In context

“partially offset by gallon growth. Turning to digital. Site traffic in the quarter was up 32% and app traffic was up 45%. Sales of pharmacy, gold and jewelry, toys, tires, small electrics, special events and housewares, all grew double digits year-over-year. And our same-day delivery service offered through Instacart, Uber Eats and DoorDash continue to grow at a faster pace than our overall digital sales. The enhancements we are making to deliver a more personalized digital experience for our members are starting to create measurable impacts. In Q2, our personalized product recommendation carousels drove over $470 million of e-commerce sales, and our newly modernized product display pages are driving incremental sales on our dot-com site as well as increased traffic to our same-day sites. We have a clear road map for future digital enhancements and believe these will allow us to continue to grow digitally-enabled sales at a faster pace than overall sales. Finally, a brief update on our February sales results for the 4 weeks ended this past Sunday, March 1. Net sales for the month came in at $21.69 billion, an increase of 9.5% from $19.81 billion last year. Comparable sales were as follows: the U.S. was up 5.2% or 6% adjusted for gas deflation and FX; Canada was up 12.8% or 9.3% adjusted for gas deflation and FX; Other International was up 17.9% or 10.9% adjusted for gas deflation and FX. And this resulted in total company comp sales of plus 7.9% or plus 7% adjusted for gas deflation and FX. Digitally-enabled sales were up 21.8% or 20.8% adjusted for FX. Total company comparable sales for the month, excluding all gas sales and the impact of foreign exchange, was 7.8%. As a reminder, Lunar and Chinese New Year occurred on February 17, 19 day”