The Profit Prophet

The Million-Dollar Toilet Paper War: How Amazon Crushed Costco's Kirkland Empire

Episode Summary

In 2018, Amazon quietly launched a private label toilet paper that cost more to make than it sold for. What seemed like business suicide was actually the opening move in a brutal war against Costco's $50 billion Kirkland brand empire. This is the story of how two retail giants weaponized mundane household products to reshape the entire consumer goods industry.