Sqwertz wrote:
>U.S. Janet B. wrote:
>
>> You know what smells amazing when you finally do make it to the
>> grocery section of Costco? Those fresh rotisserie chickens.
>
>Never heard of them! ;-)
>
>> And Costco
>> sells around 157,000 of them every day. They go for $4.99 a bird and
>> even Costco knows that's a deal. They have actually confessed that
>> they lose around $30-40 million per year by not increasing the
>> price—but with such a loyal following, it's worth it to them.
>
>Note here that they are not claiming they are a loss leader, or
>selling that at or below cost. A lot of sites out there on the
>Internet are rephrasing what Costco said to mean they are losing money
>selling them when they are simply saying they could be making more of
>a profit on them.
>
>Costco is paying a maximum of $.70/lb for those raw, tumbled chickens.
>4.5lbs X $.70 = $3.15 plus the ovens, labor, clamshell... they're
>still probably making money on them, just not as much as they could.

Any store can make that claim. "not as much as they could"... of
course they are making money, at minimum 100% profit. I can buy 6-7
pound oven roasters for 79¢-99¢ a pound all year, still 100% profit
for the store. I have to roast them myself, which I prefer... because
regardless at what store I've bought those rotisserie chickens they
are always over salted and not cleaned very well inside. I rarely buy
those rotisserie chickens, has to be a ran out of time emergency so
it's a driving-by purchase, maybe once a year. Any store can charge
more but then sell less as just about every store charges the same $5
per. Everytime we've eaten a rotisserie chicken we are dying of
thirst all night. They over salt because those are the chickens that
didn't sell by the sell-by date so could be a bit woofy otherwise...
but still no excuse for leaving all those blood clots and veins
hanging in the cavity. Those rotisserie chickens are rather small,
one barely feeds two hungry adults... maost any diner/greasy spoon has
a half chicken meal on the menu... there's a greasy spoon in town that
serves half a roasted chicken, with a rack of ribs, a salad, veggie,
and baked or fries for $8... much better than those rotisserie
chickens, we do it take out because the joint is truly a dive but the
food is very good. Chicken around here is very inexpensive, ther ea
severa multi million chicken/egg farms nearby. A lot of people here
raise chickens, that dozen eggs we had the other night were brown
organics from a local who raises her own, was a gift for really no
reason other than my wife tutors her with knitting. Today she's at
the high school substiting for the Agri teacher, a lot of the kids
here raise their own animals for shearing; llama, alpaca, certain
goats and sheep, my wife teaches them spinning, dying, and knitting.
These days many more boys than girls are into knitting/fiber arts. She
also subs for the Latin teacher, in Belize she attended school at the
convent, she's fluent in Latin.