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this is not true whole foods in LA shows $3.29 for a dozen eggs https://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/product/365-by-whole-foods-market-grade-a-eggs-cagefree-plus-l

by tempsy 4y ago

this is not true whole foods in LA shows $3.29 for a dozen eggs https://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/product/365-by-whole-foods-market-grade-a-eggs-cagefree-plus-large-white-12-count-24-oz-b074h67h6b https://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/product/365-by-whole-foods-...

pishpash 4y ago
Did you see them with your eyeballs at the store? You miss the point of the parent completely.
- rcme 4y ago
  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/B07PFDYT9T https://www.amazon.com/365-Everyday-Value-Brown-Non-Gmo/dp/B...
  - pishpash 4y ago
    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.
    - tempsy 4y ago
      I go to Whole Foods all the time, and yes their own brand of eggs really is that price. The egg inflation scare is being largely exaggerated. IMO what is different now vs a few years ago is there's a lot more high end organic pasture raised options. These are $6-$10, but that's not the price of standard conventional eggs.
      - busterarm 4y ago
        Talk to people who raise chickens. Costs for everything from baby chicks to egg-laying hens have tripled pretty much country-wide. H5N1 has hit the US and Europe extremely hard this year and there seems to be no end in sight to this current outbreak.
        tempsy 4y ago
        Ok sure but eggs are still $3 something at whole foods
        busterarm 4y ago
        Whole Foods is a very large grocer with contractual obligations to buy a certain quantity of eggs. They also have declining foot traffic and price-sensitive customers. At the moment, eggs are probably a loss-leader for them and they're encouraged to still move on volume. If you look at the data in this app as a whole, the stores with the highest egg prices are small chains with low buying-power.
        kortilla 4y ago
        Whole Foods does not have price sensitive customers.
        busterarm 4y ago
        Yes, they do, that's why their foot traffic has been declining.
        kortilla 4y ago
        Not really. They are targeting upper middle class people. Price sensitive customers haven’t been going there since it opened.
    - neoncontrails 4y ago
      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/B074H5SRLB 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.
      - lovehashbrowns 4y ago
        My Hill Country Fare Grade A Large Eggs (36 ct) from HEB cost $11.59 on Sunday. But that's from Instacart; maybe they tack on extra to each item? Same item on July 16 was $11.18, but that was 2x18ct at $5.59 each.
      - opportune 4y ago
        Amazon Fresh heavily utilizes dynamic pricing, so that price is subject to change at any time. You can definitely get good deals there though. I once got like 10 16oz containers of deli meat there for just $2/each
- tomjakubowski 4y ago
  Those eggs are available for me at the same price on Amazon Fresh. I live in Los Angeles.
ravenstine 4y ago
Indeed, it shows $3.29 for the Whole Foods in Pasadena. If that's the case, I guess I'd better start shopping for eggs there again despite having abandoned them for the poor quality food at the hot bar.

by tempsy 4y ago

pishpash 4y ago

Did you see them with your eyeballs at the store? You miss the point of the parent completely.

rcme 4y ago
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/B07PFDYT9T https://www.amazon.com/365-Everyday-Value-Brown-Non-Gmo/dp/B...
- pishpash 4y ago
  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.
  - tempsy 4y ago
    I go to Whole Foods all the time, and yes their own brand of eggs really is that price. The egg inflation scare is being largely exaggerated. IMO what is different now vs a few years ago is there's a lot more high end organic pasture raised options. These are $6-$10, but that's not the price of standard conventional eggs.
    - busterarm 4y ago
      Talk to people who raise chickens. Costs for everything from baby chicks to egg-laying hens have tripled pretty much country-wide. H5N1 has hit the US and Europe extremely hard this year and there seems to be no end in sight to this current outbreak.
      - tempsy 4y ago
        Ok sure but eggs are still $3 something at whole foods
        busterarm 4y ago
        Whole Foods is a very large grocer with contractual obligations to buy a certain quantity of eggs. They also have declining foot traffic and price-sensitive customers. At the moment, eggs are probably a loss-leader for them and they're encouraged to still move on volume. If you look at the data in this app as a whole, the stores with the highest egg prices are small chains with low buying-power.
        kortilla 4y ago
        Whole Foods does not have price sensitive customers.
        busterarm 4y ago
        Yes, they do, that's why their foot traffic has been declining.
        kortilla 4y ago
        Not really. They are targeting upper middle class people. Price sensitive customers haven’t been going there since it opened.
  - neoncontrails 4y ago
    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/B074H5SRLB 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.
    - lovehashbrowns 4y ago
      My Hill Country Fare Grade A Large Eggs (36 ct) from HEB cost $11.59 on Sunday. But that's from Instacart; maybe they tack on extra to each item? Same item on July 16 was $11.18, but that was 2x18ct at $5.59 each.
    - opportune 4y ago
      Amazon Fresh heavily utilizes dynamic pricing, so that price is subject to change at any time. You can definitely get good deals there though. I once got like 10 16oz containers of deli meat there for just $2/each
tomjakubowski 4y ago
Those eggs are available for me at the same price on Amazon Fresh. I live in Los Angeles.

ravenstine 4y ago

Indeed, it shows $3.29 for the Whole Foods in Pasadena. If that's the case, I guess I'd better start shopping for eggs there again despite having abandoned them for the poor quality food at the hot bar.