£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????

£4 for milk? LTB. How dairy do this to you.

Damn. Already done.

Your head must be fried thinking about this. Is he always this dippy?

Same! Apparently jokes are in the spirit of the site? Are we formal now? It’s a bit boring if we can’t even use sarcasm to pass the time.

*aren’t

I thought your post was all white, myself.

Obey the rules, unless you want your posting privileges to be revyolked.

Bugger that! There’s loads of farm houses and cottages that sell eggs outside their properties in Norfolk, 6 for a £1. Your dh was too chicken to say anything.

Can you stop with the yolks please or your posts will be removed, we like it professional around here.

Haha I BEAT you. 😛

Yeah stop cracking yolks now, it’s too whisky.

Omelette you off with that one, but no more.

Prices are going up. I blame Breggsit.

He shouldn't have had to shell out like that. The price of milk is udderly outrageous!

Sounds like he hasn't got laid for a while.

Animal foods are expensive to produce and in case you didn't know, there has been a pandemic for birds as well as people. Driving down the cost of meat and dairy only affects the producers, the tight bustards who buy it care nothing of the suffering and cruelty not to mention the trafficking needed to employ people for a few quid a day. Food costs money. You are not a victim you are the problem, if you can't afford something, don't buy it.

Is he a teenager? Do you give him the money and then check the change? My husband wouldn't even have looked at the price and certainly wouldn't get into trouble with me for not getting a receipt. That's weird.

Do you seriously think that £10 is the 'right price' for half a dozen eggs, likewise £4 for 2 pints of milk and that this garage is the only retail outlet in the country that is charging it?

Don't be ridiculous, it was obviously some sort of mistake.

I don't really know, I don't look at prices but everyone knows petrol stations charge more. The only shocking thing about this silly thread is the way the husband is treated like a 12 year old. Poor sod.

No, I'm more shocked that people don't look at prices when shopping (or restaurant menus from the Zizzi thread), especially in places known to be expensive. Most people need £14 of food to make a whole meal, possibly more than one, so spending that amount of money on a tiny top up shop would have quite an impact on their budget.

Probably explains the £75 bottle of engine oil that I bought in a service station petrol station a few months ago. I knew it was going to be expensive (fancy long life stuff that the dealer's service department will charge £50 for but we get it when it's on offer in Costco or Euro Car Parts for about £25) but it wasn't my money, or my car and I was pissed off that I had been supplied with a hire car by our work provider that was very short on oil and I needed to buy it right now).

Things are getting more expensive aren’t they, it could just be hen-flation.

sorry, but is your husband a bit dim?
If I think I've been overcharged I either query it at the till, or get an itemised receipt - and whilst it's sometimes harder with a large basket, I usually have a close idea of what the cost will be, but certainly would with two items.
& Is I noticed a £10 price on the shelf for eggs, I wouldnt get them.

Is he soft in the head? He really doesn't sound like he should be allowed out on his own if he queried the price and still paid it. I hope you savoured every egg

Where I live in rural wales lots of people leave eggs laid by their own hens in boxes of a half a dozen for at most £2!
Pretty sure there's been a mistake at the till. If able I'd check the receipt and take a trip back.

So only people like you, those that are wealthy enough not to even have to look at prices, should be able to give their kids basics like milk and eggs?