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A FUMING Cosco shopper has revealed a major packaging change to a fan-favourite item – pointing out a significant price increase.
It comes just weeks after shoppers claimed the wholesale retailer’s famous rotisserie chicken has shrunk in size.
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A savvy customer took to Reddit to point out that the popular Cal-Maine eggs now come in a new but smaller case.
However, the user also revealed that the pack now contains only 18 eggs selling for $4.19 instead of 24 – meaning customers now get less amount of eggs for more price.
“At first, I thought they just changed the packaging, kinda like the chicken in a bag … but we now receive 18 eggs instead of 24 eggs for the same price,” they wrote in a post.
Egg prices have experienced significant volatility in recent years.
After reaching an all-time high at the end of 2022, prices plummeted before climbing again towards the end of last year.
Despite these fluctuations, consumer demand for eggs has remained robust.
Meanwhile, Costco shoppers allegedly conducted a fool-proof test that confirmed the warehouse retailer’s famous rotisserie chicken is smaller.
Rotisserie chicken at Costco is offered for $4.99 and has been since around 2009.
Despite inflation rates, the rotisserie chicken price has remained the same for years.
For the most part, the first time things changed for the rotisserie chicken was earlier this spring.
Costco went from selling the item in a clear hard plastic encasing with a black bottom to zippered bags at many stores, causing controversy.
The move was to reduce plastic usage, with each bag taking away at least 75% of the plastic it used to use per product.
Not only that, but Costco said it would reduce about 4,000 metric tons of carbon emissions annually and promised that there was still the “same product quality” despite the packaging adjustment.
Still, members are starting to question the retailer’s promise of sameness this summer, claiming the move to bags allowed Costco to quietly reduce the rotisserie chicken’s size.
“I feel that recently the rotisserie chickens are now smaller,” a customer wrote in a Reddit thread recently.
SHOCKING RESULT
They explained that they used to be able to tell the size by how close the chicken was to touching the outer shell of the old packaging.
After their local Costco switched to bags, they kept the old shell packaging and put the bagged rotisserie chicken inside to see if it matched up visually with what they’re used to.
It was a sort of “container test” that several members have seemingly conducted on their own.
“It is definitely not as filled as before,” they claimed.
“Does anyone else notice this?”
Several Costco members responded with similar suspicions.
