I visited Costco in Sydney while vacationing in Australia and was amazed at the fresh meats and the bulk quantities that were massive even by US standards

• Richard Truong is a software engineer in Pennsylvania who has been a Costco member since 2016.
• On a recent trip to Australia, Truong visited a Costco warehouse near Sydney to see the differences.
• He found an impressive meat selection and bulk sizing that was massive “even by US standards.”

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Richard Truong. The following has been edited for length and clarity.

I work as a software engineer in Pennsylvania right now for a large insurance company, and I’ve been a member of Costco since 2016. I started taking lots of pictures of the signs and the prices because that’s how I would budget my food expenses in college.

After checking out Costco on a recent trip to Japan, I traveled to Australia to visit family and also because Sydney’s one of the most well-known Australian cities.

The Sydney Costco is about an hour west of town and I actually went to it accidentally.

I had gotten on a bus that I thought was headed downtown, but instead it took me an hour in the other direction, so I figured I’d just drop by this warehouse.