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Default It's only $4.99. But Costco's rotisserie chicken comes at a huge price

On Fri, 11 Oct 2019 09:49:48 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Friday, October 11, 2019 at 11:40:42 AM UTC-4, GM wrote:
>> Ed Pawlowski wrote:
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>> > On 10/11/2019 10:29 AM, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
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>> > >
>> > > Interesting article.
>> > >
>> > > https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/11/busin...ken/index.html
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>> > The numbers are incredible and that is just for Costco. Many other
>> > rotisserie chicken outlets. Same with the millions of hot dogs they sell.

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>> Geez, and I'm old enough to remember that if we wanted chicken, we'd go out to the henhouse and then it was "chop - chop"... ;-)

>
>My mother (who grew up in the Detroit suburbs) remembers her grandmother
>killing chickens in her back yard. We bought our food at the grocery store.
>
>Cindy Hamilton


There used to be live chicken markets all over NYC... my grandmother
would bring me as a toddler, she'd pick out which chickens she wanted
and they were taken in back to be Killed and cleaned.... I hated going
because of the schtink.... could be why to this day I'm not all that
fond of poultry.