BJ's Wholesale Club Holdings, Inc. Common Stock (BJ)

Shares of membership-only discount retailer BJ’s Wholesale Club (NYSE:BJ) fell 3.7% in the morning session as investors reacted to competitive pressures after Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) announced an aggressive expansion of its same-day grocery delivery service. The e-commerce giant's aggressive push to expand same-day grocery delivery to over 3,300 U.S. cities intensified competitive concerns across the grocery sector. Amazon's service will include perishable items like produce, meat, and dairy, directly challenging established players. The news impacted several grocery-related stocks, with Instacart (CART) and Kroger (KR) also seeing declines.

As the Q1 earnings season comes to a close, it’s time to take stock of this quarter’s best and worst performers in the large-format grocery & general merchandise retailer industry, including Target (NYSE:TGT) and its peers.

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As the craze of earnings season draws to a close, here’s a look back at some of the most exciting (and some less so) results from Q1. Today, we are looking at large-format grocery & general merchandise retailer stocks, starting with BJ's (NYSE:BJ).

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Wall Street has issued downbeat forecasts for the stocks in this article. These predictions are rare - financial institutions typically hesitate to say bad things about a company because it can jeopardize their other revenue-generating business lines like M&A advisory.

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