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Costco Opens in Manhattan: Will New Yorkers Buy in Bulk?

Last week, Costco opened a 105,000-square foot store on East 116th Street. Which means we city dwellers can now shop like our suburban friends and family—for 5-liter bottles of olive oil and 18-pack...

Bulk Store Fruit Packaging: One Way to Reuse It

After our last few trips to our local bulk grocers, we've returned with our usual fare, along with a few cases of apples. We thought their method of packaging seemed a bit overkill, although we appre...

Found! Inexpensive Bulk Vanilla Beans

In a store where the term "bulk" usually implies 50+ pounds of an item (does anyone really need that many canned peaches?), we stumbled upon two test tube shaped packages of awesomeness! In them wer...

Hot or Not? The New Milk Jug

So, have you seen the new milk jug yet? What? You didn't know there was a new milk jug? Indeed there is. But if you don't shop at larger retailers like Wal-Mart and Costco you may not have seen it yet...

Health Alert: Listeria Contamination in Costco Chicken

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service announced that Costco was recalling approximately 10,368 pounds of frozen chicken that may be infected with listeria....