rotisserie chickens are bred for that purpose and their lives are cut short to meet the cost and weight targets of the largest customers (walmart, etc), which means the facilities can produce 'more' in the same amount of time than roasters. they cost $6-10 here and $5-6 on sale (higher $ is at the regional convenience store chain, lower is wm), and i can frequently find 'old' ones in the cooler at wm marked down to $2 (yea, just two bucks each).

roasters are larger, priced by weight, and usually cost more (per bird) than rotisserie chicken. here, they're $10-12 at wm, $15 and up at the 'local' grocery store. they're rarely on sale.

As a general rule of thumb, any in-store prepared food in a large grocery store (the ones that come in the store's own packaging) was probably raw food that had been sitting for ages and they couldn't sell in time. They'll literally cut mold out of fruits and slice up the rest for those plastic platters. Every time they re-print a label, it resets the expiry date and you have no idea how many times they've done that and just shuffled food around by turning it into different forms.

CBC Marketplace video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxCT_D6HBd8

Monkey's paw curls. Raw chicken is now more expensive than cooked chicken; The price of cooked chicken remains the same.

Then boil the soup leftovers into stock and freeze it!

And you can turn poo into plants. And you can feed the plants to chickens.

ITS THE CIIRRRCLLLLLLEEE

leaves chicken on counter for a week

The chicken's fate isn't sealed until it is converted to poo.

There's still time for you, little one

It's basic thermonomics, you learn it at busineering school

My local grocery store recently renovated and reorganized the whole store. They placed the rotisserie chickens right by the checkout, next to the impulse purchases rack.

I have bought just a chicken at Costco.

Twice!

That's why I always buy a few rotisserie chicken while I am there.

I never thought groceries needed loss leaders like that. We need to go to buy food, and food is required to survive as a human, after all.

2007scape is leaking

This is the only voice I hear "What's up with that?" In 😂

I always hear Viper's voice.

It's also a way to bring you into the store, particularly Costco and Sam's Club. If they can get you in the door, they can entice you with impulse purchases. For me, it's a good way to have a cheap, somewhat healthy meal when we don't have much time, all while picking up some groceries.

It isn't a chicken that's about to go bad, chickens that are for the rotisserie are smaller than the whole chickens that they sell raw. You pay less because it is a smaller chicken that has been cooked. The raw whole chicken is usually a higher weight than the rotisserie was before it was cooked.

The smaller chicken is chosen to be cooked because people wouldn't buy those smaller chickens raw since the are so small so they are a loss leader to get you in the store.

While I'm at it, bang bang shrimp is similar. It's about to go bad or is of low quality, so put a really strong sauce on it and at least you can sell something vs. throw it out.

No, it isn't, that's ridiculous, and people are up voting it. Use your Critical Thinking Skills, citizens!

You know how much we've been wantin' one'a those. Then why don't we take the b... WE'LL TAKE THE BOX

😆, is that how it adds up? Genius level math my friend.