How Costco is helping stop spread of covid. Opinions???

Have the specifically said that's the reason why they are no longer selling them? Because I'm not sure that would stop someone from having a party. Maybe they just aren't selling right now? I'd be afraid to buy one--I'd eat the whole thing with the week we are having!

So you buy two instead of one....highly doubt that's the reason considering pretty much everything else is in "party" size

I did read an article over the weekend about this. They have stopped selling them to help with social distancing in the bakery area. It just coincides with large gatherings and the selling of those cakes for large gatherings. I will see if I can post a clean article.

New York (CNN Business)The past few months have been chaotic for Costco customers, with product limitations, long lines and the temporary elimination of free food samples. Now, it appears there's another change for devoted shoppers: Costco has eliminated the iconic half-sheet cakes that are the centerpiece of graduation and birthday parties.

Costco (COST) has quietly stopped selling the $20 half-sheet cakes across its US stores for the past month, instead pointing people toward its 10-inch round cakes and other assorted bake goods.
"To help limit personal contact and create more space for social distancing, Costco has reduced service in some departments," the company explained to outraged customers on its Facebook account. In a statement to the New York Times, Costco said it has no plans to immediately bring back the half-sheet cakes and said the round cakes are "resonating with our members."

Costco didn't immediately return CNN Business' request for comment.

The decision also coincides with a recommendation from several US states and health agencies to avoid or prohibit large gatherings in light of Covid-19. Half-sheet cakes feeds around 50 people, while its 10-inch round cakes feeds around a dozen.

Kroger (KR) and Sam's Club stores have also appeared to stopped selling the half-sheet cake, according to an online search. However, Walmart (WMT), Albertson's and H-E-B are still selling sheet cakes of various sizes.
Despite a growing number of coronavirus cases, a Costco executive previously told CNN Business it's "trying to get back to normal, as areas around the country are trying to do the same."
The chain started bringing back free food samples in a handful of stores and plans to roll them out to additional locations in coming weeks. Costco is also loosening restrictions on the number of people members are allowed to bring with them during shopping trips.

Yeah ok....LOL

Haven't had one of these in ages, or at least not what I can remember. Wouldn't their round cakes taste as good as their sheet cakes?

I know around Easter groceries stores were advertising Easter dinners that fed a big group, and it seemed kind of irresponsible of them. Should you be enabling people to gather in unsafe numbers?

I can tell you Costco cake got us through the early days of shelter in place! My friend had a party cancelled and I had ordered a white and a chocolate Costco cake. I cut each cake into five slice chunks and wrapped and froze them. My family had cake twice a week for many weeks and it brought us so much joy! I love Costco cakes.

 

It seems like the bakery area isn't so congested now that there are fewer choices for customers.

Before, people would be in front of that case for a few minutes making all those difficult decisions: chocolate/vanilla/carrot cake? Balloons, big flowers/little rosebuds?

Now people can look at a couple choices, grab one, and move along.

have they never heard of putting a cake in the freezer?  Or workplace birthdays?  



this does make sense--  smaller cake = less people touching one LARGE cake.  (as well as in the bakery area at Costco, lol)

I just got the new Costco Connection magazine in the mail today and they were advertising the round cakes. It appears that they are the same cake and mousse filling as the sheet cakes, just in a smaller size.

So everyone, go forth and buy yourselves a Costco round cake with confidence! And if it’s more than you need today, slice it up, place the slices on a sheet pan lined with parchment, freeze them until they’re firm and then wrap them up individually tightly in plastic wrap then put the wrapped slices in a ziplock freezer bag. The next time you have a hankering for a hunk of Costco cake, take one piece out of the bag, thaw it on the counter and 15-20 minutes later when you’re shoveling it into your cake hole you can thank me!

I can tell you that I have personally eaten Costco cupcakes that had been frozen and wrapped up that way as much as FOURTEEN MONTHS later and they were still as good as the day I froze them. No freezer burn, no weird tastes, simply perfection. 

My friend is bummed that he can’t get their chresecake for his birthday on a Wednesday. Apparently they’ve also stopped those.

Thanks for making me laugh.  The first time I heard the term "pie hole", I was partially grossed out, but then it struck me as so funny.  And the term "cake HOLE" along with how you said "shoveling it in" added to my giggle, becauseee.....SHOVELING sweets is something that I've gotten wayyyy too good at during quarantine!!