Retail's Holiday Season Is Happy So Far

On this Market Foolery podcast, host Chris Hill and Motley Fool Total Income's Ron Gross start by taking the pulse of retail, which appears broadly healthy at the moment -- both traditional and e-commerce. News from Costco (NASDAQ: COST), Gap (NYSE: GPS), Michaels (NASDAQ: MIK) and others has been making investors smile. Even the news from Sears Holdings has its stock heading higher, though it probably shouldn't. And speaking of news that investors are cheering more than they perhaps should, Chipotle Mexican Grill's (NYSE: CMG) CEO is stepping down. Naturally, the hope is that Steve Ells' successor will be able to turn things around after he leaves. The problem: Ells isn't going all that far.

A full transcript follows the video.

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