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Re: Eggspensive

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Post by sciurus »

tempsy wrote: post #61
Tagbert wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A Starbucks coffee is not $10. A large, handmade dessert like a Frappuccino is $10. A basic cup of coffee is about $3. Sorry to jump on you but people frequently post complaints about Starbucks coffee being super expensive but then using the price of the most expensive item on their menu that is not a normal coffee.

I went to the Starbucks Reserve in NYC and got a coffee thinking it’d be a regular drip and it ended up being $8-$9

> Starbucks Reserve

For anyone not familiar, Startbucks Reserve is not the same as standard Starbucks. Instead, it's the company's attempt to compete in the high-end coffee market.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starbucks_Reserve

https://www.starbucksreserve.com/

Re: Eggspensive

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Post by bombcar »

steve_adams_86 wrote: post #162
93po wrote: post #83

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I started buying the really expensive pasture raised chicken eggs for ethical reasons and can't go back to normal eggs anymore. They taste so much better. I'm sure yours are even better.

Though the ethical choice is better in your case, I came to realize that chickens (as they exist for agriculture) are kind of strange abominations of what they came from, and they really do live bizarre lives of eating and pumping out eggs. As soon as they're spent they get turned into dog food or similar. Ethically it's better if they aren't trucked around and crammed in cages, but the end result is still servitude…

If you get some backyard chickens you'll realize that 1. they don't need to suffer to produce an egg and 2. they can live a long damn time.

Re: Eggspensive

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Post by bombcar »

dokem wrote: post #168
voakbasda wrote: post #64

We raise chickens on non-GMO feed and collect over a dozen eggs per day. The eggs available at Walmart are utter garbage compared to those raised locally on good feed and pasture. There's no comparison. Farm fresh egg yolks are the same orange color as the HN banner, while Walmart's eggs are pale imitations that were raised with copious antibiotics and literal shit in their feed. I would go so far as to say that thei…

Is there any macronutrient differences, though? And i'll be honest every egg I've every tasted has just tasted like egg.

The main differences that I noticed was the thickness (strength) of the shell, and that you can change the taste somewhat by modifying the feed.

Re: Eggspensive

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Post by Ccecil »

Like I said to my family members when this topic came up the other day. "Egg prices are barely a blip compared to paying an extra 2 months rent per year for no reason"

If investigating collusion...I suggest starting with real estate.

Re: Eggspensive

#185

Post by neoncontrails »

pishpash wrote: post #138
rcme wrote: post #129

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Just adding a data point, I checked Whole Food's online ordering system and I can order these eggs for delivery later today for $3.79: https://www.amazon.com/365-Everyday-Value-Brown-Non-Gmo/dp/B...

Depends on where you are. Shows "Currently unavailable." for me. Also, +$9.95 for delivery. Who knows if Amazon is willing to deliver to you because of that and empty the store shelves instead? So again, unless you see them with your eyeballs or get them at $3.79 all in in your hands, I am not sure what this means.

I was every bit as skeptical (and agree there's nothing particularly meaningful about a bargain on a product that's unavailable), half expecting the available eggs to cost $6-7 or more as they do just about everywhere I shop in California. (Which is not at high-end markets like Whole Foods, either — we're talking places like Grocery Outlet, Smart 'n Final, etc., that are just barely a step up from a 99¢ store.) On the rare occasion that there's a shelf advertising eggs under five bucks, they're gone, of course. Folks are buying chickens left and right. At my local Costco there've been actual fistfights within 2-3 minutes of the doors opening as people scramble (ha) over giant palettes of eggs. It's absolutely crazy.

So color me shocked that I could buy these dudes for a mere $3.29 from Amazon Fresh and have them delivered this afternoon, if I want:

https://www.amazon.com/365-Whole-Foods-Market-Brown/dp/B074H...

Sure, there's the delivery fee which at $10 isn't cheep (last egg pun, I swear). But to see Whole Foods selling 'em for less than half of what a bargain reseller is charging down the street is surprising to say the least.

So are eggs replacing flat-screen TVs the new doorbuster? Sell 'em at wholesale prices just to get people in the door, where they're sure find plenty of questionable "deals" to more than make up for the paltry ~$3 opportunity cost of charging less than market price? The $10 delivery fee practically guarantees people will be filling up their online carts with plenty of other stuff besides eggs.

Re: Eggspensive

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Post by LesZedCB »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #87
nostrademons wrote: post #66

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Wasn't there a movie where a coffee exec sardonically talks about plying customers with "legal addictive stimulants"? Caffeine is addictive. There are a lot of caffeine addicts in the U.S. Starbucks sells a menu full of caffeine. That's why people buy from them.

Let’s think critically for a moment. Coffee is cheap to brew at home and it’s usually at the office. You can even take caffeine pills if you wanted to liken it to narcotic addiction. You sure as hell don’t need to go to Starbucks to get your fix, which is the most expensive way to get coffee, so that can’t be the reason people buy from them.

Lacan and subsequently Zizek call it "Surplus Enjoyment"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P18UK5IMRDI

Re: Eggspensive

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Post by bombcar »

adoxyz wrote: post #24
mattw2121 wrote: post #15

Now you've given me something to ponder on the entire day -- why do the Walmarts within 10 miles of me have different prices? Some at $3.23 and others at $2.42. A 28% difference. Do other products have this same price difference? Are some stores consistently priced lower and should I shop at those instead of the one I go to?

I don't think it's specific to walmart, I've noticed that prices in supermarkets (Target, Walmart, etc.) located in lower priced neighborhoods tend to be lower than those in higher priced neighborhoods. The same item, same brand, same everything, but price difference can be from 10-30% different, sometimes more.

Stores have to make their money to survive, and a grocery store (the side of Walmart we're interested in here) has to deal with nationally advertised prices on a huge portion of their product base, so they adjust prices on the other side to compensate.

What has been pissing me off of late is that Walmart and Target will have shelf prices that are higher than online-for-in-store-pickup. You can get them to price match it but @#$@# annoying.

Re: Eggspensive

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Post by tomcam »

flyingcircus3 wrote: post #114
NDizzle wrote: post #80

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I wish I could go back in time about 40 years, where I had the same faith in government that you have currently. (I'm age 43 at the moment)

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Which commenter identified as conservative? Or are you mind reading?

Re: Eggspensive

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Post by bombcar »

ginko wrote: post #169

I find it kind of strange that $5 for a dozen eggs is considered expensive. I'm from Austria and more used to 2.90€ for half a dozen freerange eggs. How is it possible to pay less than $2 for a dozen eggs without treating the chicken like absolute shit?

it would depend on how you feed and handle them, but you can throw some chickens in your backyard and have them eat food scraps for nearly nothing at all
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