Stop sleeping on Costco's bakery section. That instruction — from one of the food community's most consistent observers of the warehouse's culinary output — captures the specific commercial reality of the Costco bakery in 2026: a department that has been quietly evolving into one of the most genuinely excellent and most commercially surprising sections of the entire warehouse. The bakery has been dropping hit after hit in 2026, with the twice-baked chocolate croissants, the b