£10 for 6 supermarket eggs!

[ArtichokeAardvark]

We're on holiday in Norfolk, and needed some eggs. Stopped at a Shell garage for petrol and asked DH to nip into the Little Waitrose attached for a box of 6. He came out looking shell-shocked, having just spent £10 on a box of crappy supermarket quality eggs! Not lovely local eggs which I might have understood, but 6 of those bog standard Happy Egg Co ones! The idiot didn't get a receipt or I'd be fuming on the Waitrose twitter feed.

He also spent £4 on 2 pints of waitrose semi skim milk.

Is this normal for a Little Waitrose? It wasn't a motorway services, just a local Shell garage. Or has the cost of living crisis hit Norfolk particularly hard????

I reckon he snuck a packet of fags in there on the sly

There must have been a mistake with the till (I’ve had this at big Waitrose before) either that or the cashier is on the take.

I'm shocked that he actually paid that much.

I bet he was clucking mad. No wonder his feathers were ruffled.

I was once behind an old lady in Harrods and she was buying a pack of paper napkins. The cashier rang up £9.99 and she handed over a £10 note. I spoke up and said "I think you will find they are 99p". At least the cashier apologised to her.

This!

Im waiting for this to turn into a thread about husband secretly buying something at the shop like lottery tickets or porn mags. (Probably is something normal like accidentally paying for someone else’s petrol)

I hope to see another thread later about how somebody in Norfolk was pleasantly surprised to discover that milk eggs and petrol only cost £4 at Little Waitrose

I've just looked online - the very large Burford Brown's are 2 for £5. I reckon there was something else on the bill
My granny always told us to get a receipt! I scanned my shopping in last week and double scanned an item. My excuse is that I needed a cataract op - (just done)

It was harrods
not the pound shop
id be more inclined to this it was a tenner than 99p!

Good lord why did he buy them? Imagine cracking one and the yolk splitting at that price 😂. Cheaper buying a chicken….

Why didn't he query it? I know I would.

why would you be complaining on Twitter if you had a receipt 🤔your husband CHOSE to spend that on them. Or did Waitrose force him at gunpoint?

He did query it at the till (and made sure he wasn't paying for someone else's petrol too!). I think the shop made a mistake and rang it through multiple times. We're out with the kids this afternoon but I'm determined to return there tomorrow and check the prices on the shelf!

So annoyed he didn't get a receipt, he's USELESS at anything to do with life admin or shopping and the type of person too polite to quibble after he's already checked once. 🙄

You are nice than me. I was thinking condoms...

Dedication!

I think it got rung through multiple times. Aaaargh.

Dedication comment was at @notagamer

We’re they laid by Chicken Little or perhaps Lady Cluck?

but I'm determined to return there tomorrow and check the prices on the shelf!

So annoyed he didn't get a receipt, he's USELESS at anything to do with life admin or shopping and the type of person too polite to quibble after he's already checked once

Do you see the irony in these two sentences?

Their number is

01328 862127

6 happy eggs… £2.09

Useless at life admin
too polite to quibble

or… a bit thick
or… snuck in a packet of fags

£10!!! No way is that all white.

I agree. It's definitely a yolk!

Surely a pricing mistake? WR Essential eggs are £1 for 6. I buy them weekly. Smaller stores sometimes have a bit of a mark-up (eg motorway services.)

I would a poach the owners and query it myself.