Costco’s signature $1.50 hot dogs remain an ever-popular staple for shoppers at any of the retailer’s 602 warehouses nationwide, but exactly how has the big-box store kept the price of the all-beef cuisine so cheap since its introduction in 1985?
The reason, at first, was sentimental.
Costco's late chairman Jeffrey Brotman, who co-founded the warehouse empire with its…