–- how wholesale markets top super-sized supermarket items, a photo collection
imagine a mixture between a "Baumarkt" (Lowe's), an optometrist, fast food restaurant, gas station, and a supermarket and you'll get a u.s. wholesale place such as walmart's sam's club or costco.
a visit to them made my eyes grow to take in the sizes of the items offered. i had thought that 2kg packages of sugar in walmart or kroger were big and heavy when i came to the united states but in order to carry the roughly 25kg hunk of packaged sugar at costco you need a fork lift.
enjoy warehouse charm created by sturdy metal shelves, freezer aisles wide enough to drive a truck through, and fresh produce fridges the size of a room. sold products range from super-sized food containers to bouncing castles, toilets, popcorn machines, matresses next to the pastries, ready to serve party trays of wraps, and a collection of odd items such as germ deleting uv-c wands, muscle milk (probably to prepare for the next hauling of 50 pound bags), and anti belly fat pills.
after an exhausting shopping trip, costco offers a food place that besides pizza and hot dogs sells churros, twisted dough sticks. i've seen xurros, with exactly that spelling, the last time in barcelona. the u.s. version came with cinnamon (but i didn't try).
indulge into a photo collection of random items xxl.
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4 comments:
Everything's giant, but luckily there are not giant bicycles out there yet.
That's right. The bicycles might have been one of the items that weren't supersized. I was also amazed at the variety of items. It seemed like you can outfit a whole house with everything you need, big or small.
And outfit houses we do. Everything my grandparents buy seems to come from Costco. It saves money and it saves time going to many different stores which are often more expensive anyway.
I saw fresh mozzarella that was half the price than Aldi offers it. The Aldi price itself was already half the price than the same mozzarella offered by Walmart.
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