£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????

So eggs are for the wealthy only? You don't think it's an error?

Actual photo of the eggs he bought -

Look, as has been pointed out the DP was clearly too chicken to say anything and the wife is now spitting feathers.

We all know it’s no yoke but your scrambling around trying to make sense of this is like a fox is a hen house and is frying my brains.

Chill, it’s all white.

What I want to know is the DP called Benedict?

Surely this must be a mistake? I know prices have risen but that seems excessive.

I think it’s batter to talk to the shop staff about this. Beak out to the manager. Or am meringue?

We have ours delivered to the doorstep by the farmer, £2.40 for half a dozen, freshest eggs I've ever eaten

Yes if you can't afford to buy things, don't buy them. People can always get cheap shit from Aldi can't they. The issue is that the food is cheap for a reason. Nobody HAS to eat cheap meat, nobody needs pork and beef that much. Plenty of people survive on a low budget and also don't eat crap.

@Thedogshouses are you seriously saying the naice Waitrose eggs are £10 per six? Of course they're not!

No the ‘issue’ here is that OP’s husband is a birdbrain who paid way over the odds for a few eggs and some milk.

Who actually cares. What a silly load of twaddle.

You could get 6 Easter eggs for less! No so sure the omelette would be good though...

I only came for the puns and I’m not disappointed

???

Who actually cares. What a silly load of twaddle

No need for that, aioli tried to help.

You could probably buy an actual hen for that. Eggs for life, or at least a few years anyway.

£10 for such a poultry amount!

You clearly do. 😂 You care that everyone knows neither you or your husband know the price of anything. So that's that achieved. ⭐️

Would be great if OP would come back and give us some more details.

Rather than page upon page of the same puns repeated multiple times .

My blood would be boiled by this. Im surprised he paid, I would have chickened out. He will be terrifried time he goes to the till** to buy something. Maybe he should use the eggspress lane, so he can keep an eye on prices as they ring up?

Hope you can still hatch a plan to save the rest of your holiday in Norfyolk.

I think something went wrong and he was mischarged there OP (unless he also brought something for himself secretly.)

This whole thing has been one hell of a cluster cluck.

I’ve seen prices go up before at this time of year at the end of spring and start of summer.

So normally around Mayo June.

Crazy price

Do you usually give him free range over the shopping budget?