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If you need to buy a 15-pound pork shoulder, Costco's the place.
- Costco is one of America's favorite places to shop.
- It's known and loved for selling products in bulk at affordable prices.
- I went to a Costco store in New York in search of items that embody the retailer's bulk value philosophy - to the extreme.
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"Notorious for its oversized portions and dollarfifty hot dog combo, Costco is the apex of consumerism," reads a 2016 college essay that won a high-school senior admission into five Ivy-league colleges.
Now, three years later, those words still accurately express what Costco means to many American consumers.
Its philosophy of selling bulk for value allows it to offer large quantities of quality merchandise for prices that keep customers coming back. Yes, size does matter at Costco - but so does value.
I snooped around a New York Costco in search of supersized products that embody the soul of America's favorite warehouse store. Here's what I found: