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Retail gold-bar sellout frequency at big-box clubs

count of days per month a retailer's gold bar SKU shows sold-out status online

Feed detail
Measures
count of days per month a retailer's gold bar SKU shows sold-out status online
Source
costco.com and samsclub.com gold bar product pages
Access
scrape-hostile
Cadence
dailyupdates once a day
Thesis
Retail gold-bar sellouts at big-box clubs are a widely-cited but rarely systematically tracked retail safe-haven demand tell
Maps to
gold spot, retail safe-haven sentiment
Crowdedness
contested
Tier
tC
Ban-risk
ban:medium
Where this stands

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