Posted: 1/31/2008 6:49:23 AM EDT
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First of all, I love these things. We have one at least once a week. Sams or Costco, even the local grocery store is selling them. They run about $5/each.... HOW do they make money off this crap? I see chick's in the paper for $1-2 each. I imagine with food and labor to get them to feeding size 2-4lbs, it must take at least $5 worth of food and utilities(heat/water) and a laborer tending them. Then you got another $1-2 in labor to kill,degut and defeather them. After that the store gets them and tack's on another $2-3 to make a profit, cover the employee dishing them out and the electric or gas to cook the damn things. Any chicken farmers out there tell me how these things can be profitable? I'd think they cost more alive than they do fully cooked. |
Considering that whole chickens wholesale for approx $.30 per pound, there is lots of money to be made on them. |
Specialization of labor. They can do it cheaply because they do it efficiently because they do it on a large scale, and do it well. Robert Heinlien would approve of $5 Rotisseire chickens. |
| Because the chickens come bulk packaged in a brine. The company pays the bulk price, not retail on a single chicken. The only labor that is involved in making the chicken is rinsing them off, spraying the wire racks with no-stick spray, and turning the timer on the roaster. |
