Meijer, Publix, Costco, Sam’s Club, and more seem to agree.
It seems like everything is more expensive these days — planer tickets , fast food , your favorite rosé . But while your overall grocery haul might run you a bit extra — specially if you bribe name brands — there are at least a few things that apparently remain inflation - proof : rotisserie chickens , and notably , Costco ’s dear food court item .
In wish to the former , several retailers are purposely holding firm with aggressively low prices on their rotisserie chicken because , well , they know that customer wo n’t be pleased if they burden more for them . fit in to areportbyFood & Wine , BJ ’s Wholesale CEO Bob Eddy late explained why his ship’s company is maintain its $ 4.99 price point for the chickens , despite arise price .
" The rotisserie chicken is probably the newspaper headline case where we have n’t moved off the price , given twofold - finger’s breadth ostentatiousness in that particular token , just because it ’s such a meaningful matter to our member , " he said , per the report . rendering : Members would be mad if the Mary Leontyne Price goes up .
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Meanwhile Costco has made no indicant that it ’ll abandon its famously low terms of $ 5 per bird . Sam ’s Club , Meijer , Publix , and Giant Eagle have similarly keep their own rotisserie poulet pricing steady .
" Our rotisserie chicken is a very democratic essence of the plate item , " Dan Donovan , a spokesperson for Giant Eagle , read per a CNNreport . " We believe it ’s authoritative to maintain a unattackable overall value for this point . "
While we have n’t insure Costco say much about its rotisserie chicken prices in particular ( no news is good news here ) , Bob Nelson , the company ’s vice president of finance and investor coition , recently said during an earnings call that the wholesale giant unquestionably wo n’t mess up with another one of its most celebrated and popular food bargain .
" I want to address some wrong data float around on social medium and a few other medium outlets claiming that we have increase the monetary value of our $ 1.50 hot hotdog and soda combinations , " Nelson said , allot toFood & Wine . " Let me just say the price when we introduced the hot dog - soda combo in the mid-’80s was $ 1.50 . The price today is $ 1.50 , and we have no plan to increase the cost at this time . "
