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Default Got Some Wagyu Beef!

Victor Sack wrote:

>>>> Anyway, if you can find it at all it retails for about $180 a kilo.
>>>> Colin is selling his to selected customers at cost, which is $60.

>>
>>> Wagyu beef steak cuts are now on sale at one of the local
>>> supermarkets at EUR 29 a kilo, not all that much more than
>>> "regular" steak cuts.

>>
>> Could it be a different thing? There's too much difference between
>> 180$ and 29 EUR...

>
> Those are Antipodean dollars, I imagine, or 109 EUR. However, that is
> the full price; they are on sale for $60, or 36 EUR... not all that
> different from 29 EUR...


The 60 $ / 36 EUR price is "at cost", so you can't compare that to the
prices you have seen, unless also the prices you've seen were "at cost".
Otherwise, they can't be the same thing priced 109 EUR in a aplace and 36 in
another. That's way too BIG different.
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