. No wonder it is so cheap. It's funny because so many non-caking people give it rave reviews. 
I agree totally. I was just saying in another thread that I worked for one summer while I was pregnant at Kroger's bakery as a Cake Decorator. I really think they ought to change that title to "assemly line worker". Basically all the cakes at Costco, Sams, grocery stores all come from pretty much the same company. They deep freeze them and they get shipped in great big palates as 1/2 sheet cakes. They are shrink wrapped and packaged in cardboard.
You take them out of the freezer, hack off the size you need and shove the rest of the frozen cake back in the cardboard box. The 8" rounds are premade and shrinkwrapped the same way.
We would do a quick buttercream smear. Buttercream is different I think at Costco which is probably why people like their's better. We were always encouraged to work very fast and just cover all the crumbs. Then we would get 8-10 cakes all laid out on the back counters and fill a huge pastry bag and do a 30 second shell border on each of the cakes.
Sprinkles here and there, or quickly spray some color, etc, then put them in their plastic shell boxes and refreeze them in the bakery freezer. Every morning we take out the frozen decorated cakes and put them on display. God knows how long they had been decorated and frozen before making their appearance as "freshly baked cakes for your special occasion". Sigh.
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