my local target corner store (not like a supermarket) sells eggs for like $1.50/dozen. the cage free eggs are like $2.30/dozen. meanwhile the eggs at my nearest costco are $5.50 for 2 dozen eggs. dictates that the costco eggs cost more than the target eggs, but how? i know sometimes costco isn’t always cheaper than the competition, but the target eggs are a fair bit cheaper than the costco eggs. i just wonder how target manages to pull that off and whether or not it’s impacting the quality of the eggs
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I was gonna speculate that’s it’s because egg prices were weird for so long, but I guess that started to resolve more months ago than I thought so I don’t know if lingering fallout from that makes sense.
the issue there is that costco sells food wholesale. the average markup at costco is apparently around 11%, which means the price you’re paying for eggs is basically the same as the price they spent getting the eggs. that should mean that costco eggs should, if anything, be more sensitive to fluctuations in price, since if the price of eggs went up by $1, that would just mean that the price you pay would go up by ~$1.11 and vice versa. eggs at target don’t obey the same rules and should have substantially higher markups. idk sorry for rambling.