£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????

Ostrich eggs maybe worth that amount

Maybe he bought something else with it and didn’t tell you.

Like a bottle of whisk-ey

To get that so wrong, your DH is clearly not much of a mathemachicken.

He probably added some cigarettes or wine to the basket and hid the evidence.

I mean, £10 is hardly a poultry amount of money is it?

There’s been some fowl play.

That is so bad it made me laugh. 😂

You've cracked it! 🥚

Yes, DH's feathers sound ruffled from that transaction.

No wonder his brains were scrambled and he now feels in need of coddling or the support of some soldiers.

He has either made an error or been massively mugged off. Either way is not a great outcome if he paid £10 for eggs.

Yeah go easy on your husband. He may have realised his mistake and be feeling a bit appre-hen-sive.

So he queried it and someone working in the shop insisted that those were the correct prices?

I would have replaced them back on the shelf, and said I couldn't afford them at that price - which would be true.

Shame he didn’t get a receipt as that would also have shown the beers DH bought…

Legend!

He bought some chocolate for himself. And then scoffed the evidence because he didn't share...? 🤣🙈

This wins 😆

The puns almost make this whole fiasco worth it.

£10. Holy chicken shit!

No way. Clutching my pearls over this one.

£46 for an avocado at Aldi once, I think the cashier typed it in manually. He blamed the till though.

if I hadn’t only bout a few things I may not have noticed.

How did he query it but not get a receipt? Surely checking the receipt is part of the “querying it” process?

That was very unclucky

Hello @ArtichokeAardvark

I work at Waitrose and know a bit about the petrol station side

Not everything in a Shell /Little Waitrose petrol station is supplied by Waitrose.

Happy Eggs are not even stocked at Waitrose so they must get those from a wholesaler.

There is a price premium ,usually at all small format retailers / petrol stations e.g. Tesco Express, M&S, Sainsburys, Waitrose. Can't remember who sets the prices though, the retailer or the petrol station, pretty sure it's the petrol station.