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1 HN user recommended this in 2023, in one comment.
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1 HN user recommended this in 2023, in one comment.
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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.