How is a full chicken so cheap?

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I know economies of scale and battery farms and stuff but I can’t reasonably work out how you can hatch, raise, feed, kill prepare and ship a chicken and have it end up in a supermarket as a whole chicken for €4. Let alone the farmers and the supermarkets share. Someone please explain.

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Anonymous 0 Comments

They take a loss to get you in the store. This is at least the Costco way. They want you to walk all the way back of the store to the deli, while impulse shopping along the way. Come in for a 5$ chicken, go out with $300 worth of stuff. Source: ME! Costco deli employee for five years.

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