Anonymous
Post 12/09/2022 14:57     Subject: Wegman's rotisserie chickens are now $9.99 each.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We moved out of the area and I worried that I would miss Wegman's. But I don't miss it. Looking back, I think it was way overpriced for most things. It had good prices on dairy (milk, eggs) and raw chicken, but otherwise it was spendy. I went into one recently on a visit to NOVA, and zowie -- the prices were outrageous compared to what I pay now. They lure you in with the nice aesthetics and size of store, but don't be fooled. It is an expensive store experience.


+1, Wegman's is not good and not well priced, it's just got this weird cult in this area because people like their prepared foods and the stores have a more welcoming feel than like a Safeway or a Harris Teeter.

I get devotion to other grocery stores, even if I don't share it, because at least the reasoning makes sense. Like Trader Joe's has it's drawbacks, but I get the appeal of a small store (easy, quick shopping experience) with lots of prepared and frozen foods, plus a good beer and wine selection. It's for a specific customer and it makes sense. Same with Whole Foods -- it serves the people who shop there very well, with all the crunchy, specialty, organic stuff they like. But with Wegman's it's like, what is so great about this? I can buy Cheerios and blocks of cheddar cheese and milk and eggs and flour at the Harris Teeter closer to my house for like 5% less, why would I go to the Wegman's for the all the prepared foods (which I normally don't buy) and better lighting?

Really? If I wanted to save the most, I'd be shopping at multiple stores a week, since each store seems to have better deals on certain things over others, but if I went to one grocery store and bought my whole list, the price between Wegmans, Harris Teeter, and Safeway come out as about the same for me.
Anonymous
Post 12/09/2022 14:00     Subject: Wegman's rotisserie chickens are now $9.99 each.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We moved out of the area and I worried that I would miss Wegman's. But I don't miss it. Looking back, I think it was way overpriced for most things. It had good prices on dairy (milk, eggs) and raw chicken, but otherwise it was spendy. I went into one recently on a visit to NOVA, and zowie -- the prices were outrageous compared to what I pay now. They lure you in with the nice aesthetics and size of store, but don't be fooled. It is an expensive store experience.


+1, Wegman's is not good and not well priced, it's just got this weird cult in this area because people like their prepared foods and the stores have a more welcoming feel than like a Safeway or a Harris Teeter.

I get devotion to other grocery stores, even if I don't share it, because at least the reasoning makes sense. Like Trader Joe's has it's drawbacks, but I get the appeal of a small store (easy, quick shopping experience) with lots of prepared and frozen foods, plus a good beer and wine selection. It's for a specific customer and it makes sense. Same with Whole Foods -- it serves the people who shop there very well, with all the crunchy, specialty, organic stuff they like. But with Wegman's it's like, what is so great about this? I can buy Cheerios and blocks of cheddar cheese and milk and eggs and flour at the Harris Teeter closer to my house for like 5% less, why would I go to the Wegman's for the all the prepared foods (which I normally don't buy) and better lighting?


Why do I shop at Wegman's? Because on Sundays, I go and have lunch in the prepared food area, giving myself 30 minutes of child-free time before I do the shopping. It's a little break for me. I have to eat lunch, but doing it without the kids and video games in the background or their friends hanging out, is a little bit of peace and serenity. I have to shop anyways, and this combines the two into one for a much needed break. Plus there are a few products that I can get there that I can't get at other stores. It's not my everyday store, but I tend to to about once every month or two and just roll all my shopping for that week into that trip so that I can periodically get the handful of specialty items that we use.
Anonymous
Post 12/09/2022 13:56     Subject: Re:Wegman's rotisserie chickens are now $9.99 each.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Have you taken a moment to consider that someone is buying or breeding a chicken, feeding a chicken, raising it, killing it, cleaning it, packaging it, loading it on a truck, driving it, unloading it, then the store roasts it, packages it, puts it on a shelf, then checks you out.....for $10. It's sort of a miracle.



I've never bought a rotisserie chicken in my life and barely eat meat in general, but even I understand that economies of scale actually make this possible. It's not like they are doing this one chicken at a time. Nor are people going in and purchasing a single rotisserie chicken. There are actually a lot of grocery store items with razor thin profit margins (especially staples), but then there are a bunch with wide margins (prepared foods, frozen foods, snack foods). People go in and buy the rotisserie chicken and then a bunch of other stuff and the store and the supplier both make a profit.

We're not talking about a solo farmer lovingly raising a single chicken and cooking it and then selling it to you for $10. That would, indeed, be a miracle (and I assume come with some kind of curse).


Not only that, but the farmers are not the ones getting shortchanged. The retailer is the one taking the loss. They retailer is selling this as a loss leader and using it as an incentive to get bodies into the store, whom they assume will then buy other things with a markup making the store money. They are still paying the wholesale rate to the farmer or corporation that is raising the chickens. The above comment suggests that the retailer is shortchanging the farmer and only paying what they charge for the chickens.
Anonymous
Post 12/09/2022 12:38     Subject: Wegman's rotisserie chickens are now $9.99 each.
Costco $4.99 chicken for life.

I was just reading that they lose like $38m/year on the chickens.

https://thehustle.co/the-economics-of-costco-rotisserie-chicken/
Anonymous
Post 12/09/2022 12:29     Subject: Re:Wegman's rotisserie chickens are now $9.99 each.
Anonymous wrote:Have you taken a moment to consider that someone is buying or breeding a chicken, feeding a chicken, raising it, killing it, cleaning it, packaging it, loading it on a truck, driving it, unloading it, then the store roasts it, packages it, puts it on a shelf, then checks you out.....for $10. It's sort of a miracle.



I've never bought a rotisserie chicken in my life and barely eat meat in general, but even I understand that economies of scale actually make this possible. It's not like they are doing this one chicken at a time. Nor are people going in and purchasing a single rotisserie chicken. There are actually a lot of grocery store items with razor thin profit margins (especially staples), but then there are a bunch with wide margins (prepared foods, frozen foods, snack foods). People go in and buy the rotisserie chicken and then a bunch of other stuff and the store and the supplier both make a profit.

We're not talking about a solo farmer lovingly raising a single chicken and cooking it and then selling it to you for $10. That would, indeed, be a miracle (and I assume come with some kind of curse).
Anonymous
Post 12/09/2022 12:22     Subject: Re:Wegman's rotisserie chickens are now $9.99 each.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Have you taken a moment to consider that someone is buying or breeding a chicken, feeding a chicken, raising it, killing it, cleaning it, packaging it, loading it on a truck, driving it, unloading it, then the store roasts it, packages it, puts it on a shelf, then checks you out.....for $10. It's sort of a miracle.



Right and these same people who are fully ignorant are also screaming “living wages! Living wages!” They demand living wages, but don’t want to pay living wages. Apparently money just like meat materializes from thin air.


100% agree
Anonymous
Post 12/09/2022 12:21     Subject: Wegman's rotisserie chickens are now $9.99 each.
Anonymous wrote:We moved out of the area and I worried that I would miss Wegman's. But I don't miss it. Looking back, I think it was way overpriced for most things. It had good prices on dairy (milk, eggs) and raw chicken, but otherwise it was spendy. I went into one recently on a visit to NOVA, and zowie -- the prices were outrageous compared to what I pay now. They lure you in with the nice aesthetics and size of store, but don't be fooled. It is an expensive store experience.


+1, Wegman's is not good and not well priced, it's just got this weird cult in this area because people like their prepared foods and the stores have a more welcoming feel than like a Safeway or a Harris Teeter.

I get devotion to other grocery stores, even if I don't share it, because at least the reasoning makes sense. Like Trader Joe's has it's drawbacks, but I get the appeal of a small store (easy, quick shopping experience) with lots of prepared and frozen foods, plus a good beer and wine selection. It's for a specific customer and it makes sense. Same with Whole Foods -- it serves the people who shop there very well, with all the crunchy, specialty, organic stuff they like. But with Wegman's it's like, what is so great about this? I can buy Cheerios and blocks of cheddar cheese and milk and eggs and flour at the Harris Teeter closer to my house for like 5% less, why would I go to the Wegman's for the all the prepared foods (which I normally don't buy) and better lighting?
Anonymous
Post 12/09/2022 12:08     Subject: Re:Wegman's rotisserie chickens are now $9.99 each.
Anonymous wrote:Have you taken a moment to consider that someone is buying or breeding a chicken, feeding a chicken, raising it, killing it, cleaning it, packaging it, loading it on a truck, driving it, unloading it, then the store roasts it, packages it, puts it on a shelf, then checks you out.....for $10. It's sort of a miracle.



Right and these same people who are fully ignorant are also screaming “living wages! Living wages!” They demand living wages, but don’t want to pay living wages. Apparently money just like meat materializes from thin air.
Anonymous
Post 12/09/2022 12:06     Subject: Wegman's rotisserie chickens are now $9.99 each.
Anonymous wrote:There's something creepy about a $5 chicken, so this is probably good.


I agree. I think meat prices should be sky high w my Ig would slash demand and help our environment. Meat should be the staple of your diet.

I’d be happy if rotisserie chickens were $20each.
Anonymous
Post 12/09/2022 11:28     Subject: Wegman's rotisserie chickens are now $9.99 each.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There's something creepy about a $5 chicken, so this is probably good.


+1 For a fully cooked whole chicken, $9.99 doesn’t sound unreasonable. Beware dirt cheap meat.


+2 sketchy