I guess the good news here is that the local Wegmans has eggs.
The bad news is that customers are limited
to 10 cartons per.
Meaning—the total number of eggs you can
get on one trip through the check-out line is 120.
(This, of course, doesn’t preclude people
doing what my mom used to do when there were limits on how many sale items one
customer could by: she’d send all her children through different lanes [this
was when supermarkets had more than one staffed lane open at a time] with the
max allowed and just the right amount of money to buy them. Until Safeway wised
up and put a minimum age requirement on people buying cans of Campbell’s Cream
of Mushroom soup for $0.10 each. Probably unconstitutional, but it worked.)
This makes me wonder: who could actually use
120 eggs? Where would they even store 10 cartons of eggs?
(Unless they’re buying for a middle
school. Or maybe a neighborhood co-op.)
But the other bad news is that these eggs
are $8.59 per dozen. That means (with tax—yes, Virginia taxes groceries), you’d
be forking out $94.49 for that max allowed, so your mom better be giving you a Benjamin to hand over
to the one staffed cashier at Wegmans.
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