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Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 10:28 am
by Leisher
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Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 10:36 am
by Cakedaddy
I don't trust ANY Walmart branded anything.
What in all the hell are they doing to chickens that they can sell eggs for $.99 per dozen? I'm not talking about poor treatment. That's obvious. I'm talking about keeping the chicken alive, collecting the eggs, putting them on a truck, hauling to stores, placing on shelves, refrigerating them, and selling them. For less than a $1 per dozen. The are some serious unnatural things going on. Same conversation can be had about pretty much everything they sell. It's all either HORRIBLE quality, or, produced in some altered dimension were it's best not to know what's going on.
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Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 10:50 am
by GORDON
I learned a while back with my own laying chickens that instead of buying empty cartons for $1 a piece, it was cheaper to buy $.88 Walmart eggs and throw the eggs directly into the compost pile, and reuse the carton.
But economy of scale. A chicken lays an egg a day. It doesn't cost $1 to keep a dozen chickens alive for a day, provide the shelter, and the transport, when you have 50k chickens laying, that day. And you're one farm of 100 that supplies walmart.
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Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 11:57 am
by Cakedaddy
Keeping the chicken alive means food, shelter, heating/cooling, water, clean up. Collect them, put them in a carton. Probably automated. Load the carton on a pallet, put it in the truck. Drive the truck to the distribution hub to be combined with other stuff the store needs. Stock the shelf. Refrigerate them on the shelf. There's a lot of pennies adding up.
I would bet that their chickens are laying more than one egg a day. Meaning steroids/hormones/whatever. I get that all they have to do is make one penny off of each egg to end up with huge profits. But that's a 1% return. What's an acceptable return to make it worth pursuing? The opportunity costs? Ya. I'm going to go ahead and believe those are nuclear eggs and shouldn't be eaten.
The only other theory I would buy is that they take a loss on eggs because it brings people into the store. See Costco $5 rotisserie chickens as an example.
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Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 1:03 pm
by GORDON
Walmart does some pretty hardcore pressuring of suppliers to sell at near cost (or even below) at risk of.losing Walmart as a giant customer.
I don't think anyone gets rich selling to Walmart.
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Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 1:41 pm
by Cakedaddy
They also lower the quality of their products for the Walmart shelves. An LG 42" at Walmart < LG 42" at Best Buy. Rubbermade tote at Walmart < tote at Office Max (thinner gauge plastic). Etc.
I hear you. But still say them eggs ain't safe. . .
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Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2019 8:52 am
by Vince
I'm with Gordo on the eggs. Started with 6 layers. Problem you run into isn't cost. You run out of room long before you run out of money if you don't have buyers. We couldn't even hardly give enough away to make room. That's with one fridge dedicated to eggs.
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Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2019 8:53 am
by GORDON
Yep. At times the eggs get thrown back to the chickens.
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Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2020 1:48 pm
by Leisher
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Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2020 12:23 am
by Troy
Fuuuuuuck.
I have taken a lot of that in the last 10 years or so.
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2020 12:58 pm
by Leisher
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Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2020 1:25 pm
by TheCatt
At first I thought this was in the canceled thread, and I was like "REALLY?"
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Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2020 10:09 am
by Leisher
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Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2022 1:14 pm
by Leisher
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Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2022 1:43 pm
by TheCatt
That's why I don't eat the wrappers.
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Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2022 4:10 pm
by GORDON
TheCatt wrote: ↑Fri Mar 25, 2022 1:43 pm
That's why I don't eat the wrappers.
Well I'm sure as hell gonna stop. I'll get my fiber elsewhere.
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Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2022 11:07 am
by Leisher
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Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2023 1:55 pm
by Leisher
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Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2023 2:31 pm
by Leisher
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Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2024 10:25 am
by Leisher
Nature's Fix tianeptine products
That's not just a recall. Seems like the FDA wants it off shelves immediately and possibly forever, or at least, as is.
Robitussin Honey cough syrups.
This is an impactful one because Robitussin is the brand people with CKD have to use. Most other cough syrups have drugs that do kidney damage.