Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ: COST) and Home Depot (NYSE: HD) are both leaders when it comes to brick-and-mortar shopping, even if they have different specialties. Cerainly, both possess tremendous scale and brand recognition -- and combined, they carry a gargantuan market capitalization of over $700 billion.

But which of these top retail stocks is the better buy today? Let's take a closer look at Costco and Home Depot and see if we can find out.

Investors know Costco as the dominant warehouse club operator that sells high-quality general merchandise at extremely low prices. On its own, this doesn't sound like an exceptional business.

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