£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????

Winner!

Well, assuming OP's DH wasn't raised in a barn, he should be free to roam (including the aisles of a Little Waitrose).

Don’t you mean winner winner chicken dinner!?

@PinkSyCo you've totally put egg on my face!!

That's a lot to shell out.

A dozen eggs in our local supermarket is $2.97 [that's Stg 2.43] and they are often much lower.

Sorry..

£10 for six eggs? Cock-a-doodle-don't

Ok but it was established very early on on the thread that you can get six eggs for one English pound in Waitrose.

That's what the thread is about. Eggs aren't £10 for six ordinarily.

Why are you sorry?

Why are you sorry? The price of eggs in the UK is NOT £10 for 6 , it's quite obvious to anyone living here it's a mistake, the shop in question has a branch within walking distance from me and they are £2.00 for 6 eggs (even cheaper if you go to a big supermarket), so there you go..

I always check the receipt in little Waitrose, the staff at our local petrol station are shocking at scanning stuff, you often get overcharged. Pity you didn’t have the receipt 😢

This seems v eggs-tortionate OP! I think your DH has been overcharged

I found a pack of cherries in the mini M&S once in a service station for £8. I thought it was a mistake too and I checked but it wasn't!

Your fella is an idiot for paying 😆

They'd be cheaper in Fortnum & Mason!

Funny how they never UNDER-charge isn't it?

I didn't think Waitrose even sold Happy Egg in principle. Their essentials eggs are £1 and I'd expect them to be £2-3 at most. Milk is pretty standard in price. I would've queried it for sure as I would've expected it to be £5-6 at most.

Where in Norfolk are you?! Most places I know you can buy fresh eggs for sale on every other street! Ours are £1.20 for 6 and usually no more than 2 days old!!! Support local!

I just read through this entire thread just for the puns 😂

@HangingOver I was once charge over £12 for some. They were sour and inedible and I actually email M&S because I couldn’t believe I’d been charged correctly.
their attitude was ‘tough luck, the price was correct’.

He hid the beer.
I just bought 12 happy eggs today - in a big Waitrose - under £5.

Were they poached from Sandringham?

I think OP or her DH is over-egging the pudding here about those prices. One or both of them is milking it. In fact, I think they're Fakenham. And it had to be a Little Waitrose at a Shell garage, didn't it? Udderly ridiculous.

find.shell.com/gb/fuel/10019167-shell-little-waitrose-fakenham

Confused. yesterday it seemed that MNHQ closed this thread for 'breaking talk guidelines' yet now it's up and running.

How would she know? She never looks at prices apparently. Even when our household income was at its peak (referred to ever since as the pop star years) I looked at prices.

Glad to see the thread’s been cracked open again. I’m loving the puns.

Either OP is only yolking or her DH's brain is scrambled.