Splurging on the cheapest animal protein… Wowee, really living it up in 2026!
To be fair, avocado toast is an actual scam and can be made home for cheap, while rotisserie chicken is legitimately expensive rn no matter how you get it.
But also, it’s still a lie. None of us that aren’t rich douchebags are “splurging” on food 😂
How is rotisserie chicken expensive? It’s a loss leader and one of the cheapest proteins you can find.
Gen Z are buying food, that is why they can’t afford houses. What logic is that ?
I could eat for free for the next 50 years and still not be able to buy a home
Are you sure? If we assume you saved 10 USD per day on food, that means you can invest 3,650 per year. If you do that for 50 years and assume 5% interests, you end up at 844,182.20 USD.
Inflation has been ignored to simplify it a bit, but it works in both directions: your money is worth less than today, but over time, as food is getting more expensive, you also save more and more money per day.
Not really realistic for my hometown at least. I don’t know any bank offering interest on saving deposits that is higher than 3%.
If I only didn’t have to spend money on food and would save like 5000€ per year while earning the average salary in my town with 3% interest (which is already pretty optimistic) I’d have like 500,000€ in 50 years. While an average house would cost several million at that time (rn it’s ~1 million €). I couldn’t even buy a flat.
Too good for bugmeal, are you?
Most millennials are approaching 40. get off our balls WSJ you old fucks did this
The desperation of maintaining a class war against millennials is a major indicator that the ruse is about to fail
Roast chickens are loss leaders and are often the cheapest chicken you can find in a regular grocery store.
They are all drawing in dept that is expensive for no fucking reson, that they have becouse they trusted you when youn told them that this is a best investment that they can ever make.
Their biggest mistake was trusitng in you ability to crate and maintain the system that can benefits anyone else than you.
You failed them. Go away.
Rich dickheads not only want us to be deprived of the good things in life, but also to starve. I hate them.
“Millennials and Gen Z are splugering on clean water while trying to pay down their unbelievable debt from getting a 50 year mortgage on a cardboard box under the freeway overpass!!”
-WSJ in 5 years probably
Ok, Bezos
The rotisserie chicken that costs $7 and is enough for two meals? That’s a “splurge”?
Ok, well I guess I should stop splurging on shoes and water too.
Isn’t the Costco chicken famously $5?
Yes, but there is also the membership fee for Costco. Basically any grocery store will have rotisserie chicken for $7-$10.
https://www.albertsons.com/shop/product-details.960464807.html
https://www.kroger.com/pl/rotisserie-chicken/0500200007
https://www.walmart.com/browse/food/rotisserie-chicken/976759_9569500_1001443_9284629_8331739
I wonder how many $5 rotisserie chickens a person would have to buy per year at Costco in order for the savings to make up for their $65 annual Costco fee?
50% more or 100% more is a non-insignificant amount. Costco prices are often not great when compared to any other store. But that’s why the $5 rotisserie chicken is special.
I hate having to fight by using my time to make sure all these shitty companies stay in check.
You’ll never afford a house if you keep eating FOOD!
Let them eat cake of our times.
That doesn’t account for the time value of money. The reality is even worse because the price of the house is continuing to increase as you push the purchase off into the future. (I haven’t done the math, but it could very well be increasing faster than $5 day, so in reality foregoing the rotisserie chicken doesn’t make you make progress at all, but only fall behind slower.)
Yeah… I wish I didn’t, but I get that reference…
Me too budd, me too
sigh same. We’ve been on the internet too long.
It’s even worse, if you buy “cold” rotisserie chicken (literally the same just not kept warm under heat lamps so you have to warm it up if you want it hot) it was $2.77 last time I bought one at Walmart.
Why the price difference? Don’t know. It’s stored in the open cover “cold food storage” they use it which are probably similar cost to run as the heat lamps. That said for a chicken sandwich or chicken noodle soup such a better deal.
Our local Costco has these. They’re the previous day’s chicken and are sold at a discount.
If I had to venture a guess it’s whatever is left over from the hot section the day prior.
I can’t speak for Walmart but I can confirm other grocery stores do that. Whatever doesn’t sell gets chilled for the following day.
I know there was a time written on the bag, could of been from the previous day I don’t know. That said if I buy a chicken, eat half, put the other half in the refrigerator I would still eat it the next day so…
What a way to live
