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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.

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.

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.

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.

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. . .

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.

Yep. At times the eggs get thrown back to the chickens.

Leisher wrote: Zantac

Fuuuuuuck.

I have taken a lot of that in the last 10 years or so.

Leisher wrote: Pilgrim chicken nuggets

At first I thought this was in the canceled thread, and I was like "REALLY?"

Seems like the best place for this...

Food wrappers from tons of fast food places and grocery stores found to contain toxins.

Leisher wrote: ↑Fri Mar 25, 2022 1:14 pm Seems like the best place for this...

Food wrappers from tons of fast food places and grocery stores found to contain toxins.

That's why I don't eat the wrappers.

TheCatt wrote: ↑Fri Mar 25, 2022 1:43 pm

Leisher wrote: ↑Fri Mar 25, 2022 1:14 pm Seems like the best place for this...

Food wrappers from tons of fast food places and grocery stores found to contain toxins.

That's why I don't eat the wrappers.

Well I'm sure as hell gonna stop. I'll get my fiber elsewhere.

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.