Retail giant Costco -- the big box store that stoked America's Brobdingnagian appetite for eight-packs of cereal, 40-unit boxes of AA batteries, and mayonnaise jars the size of R2-D2 -- is being sued. The charge: Shorting its shrimp. A class action suit filed in New York City accuses Costco of systematically serving only 13 or 14 ounces of shrimp in its supposedly one-pound (16 ounce) cocktail shrimp platters. When you tabulate the money Costco has allegedly saved by doling out imaginar
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