Adorable Baby Yoda nightmares... Hasbro's CEO is sweating them. He's Disney's official toy-maker for Star Wars, Marvel, and Frozen. But Hasbro lost out big this holiday season thanks to Mickey's secrecy over The Mandalorian, a Star Wars-ish streaming show with ridiculously cute Baby Yoda cameos. Since November's Disney+ premiere, desperate parents searched Amazon 90K times for Baby Yoda gifts. Hasbro scrambled, but its official version won't hit shelves until May 2020. Multi-million-dollar sigh.
We were only trying to buy some Kleenex in bulk... Costco's online sales growth shockingly slowed last quarter, dropping shares 2% Friday — blame it on the brutally-timed 16-hour outage that hit Costco's site over Thanksgiving and continued into Black Friday. Deal-hungry customers stared at error messages instead of order confirmations, costing Costco big sales. Just a few lost hours can kill the most critical retail quarter of the year.