
There's so much to love about Costco [1], including fun facts you might not have heard before. We reached out to a Costco representative to get the scoop on little-known food facts about one of the most budget-friendly grocery stores in the nation to hear about some of the store's fascinating stats. From shocking tidbits about the crazy-popular rotisserie chicken to refreshing facts about some of the cheapest food-court eats, these facts will surprise and delight any major Costco fan. After testing your knowledge, check out some of our favorite foods from Costco [2] plus more grocery store policies [3] you should be taking advantage of.
- Costco has sold more than 600 million rotisserie chickens worldwide.
- That's more than 208,000 per day and 56 million in the year of 2015 alone.
- The pumpkin pies have been the same price since 1995 ($6).
- Customers also love the dinner rolls; more than 17 million were sold in just three days leading up to Thanksgiving in 2015.
- Costco's head wine buyer, Annette Alvarez-Peters [4], was featured as one of Food & Wine's most innovative women in food and drink in 2014.
- Costco's classic hot dog and soda combo meal is the same price it was 30 years ago, $1.50. In 2015, Costco sold more than 120 million hot-dog-and-soda combinations worldwide, including more than 80 million in the US.
- People are in a pretty serious relationship with Costco's famous pizza. In 2015, Costco food courts sold 19 million whole pizzas and 53 million pizza slices.
- People really love Jelly Belly jelly beans. In 2015, Costco sold enough Jelly Belly jelly beans that if you laid them end to end, they would wrap around Earth's equator — that's 24,901 miles.