{"id":579,"date":"2016-09-17T09:22:57","date_gmt":"2016-09-17T14:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=579"},"modified":"2016-10-17T09:37:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T14:37:17","slug":"the-price-of-an-egg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=579","title":{"rendered":"The price of an egg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pricing can be amusing &#8211; I always thought the 6$ roasted chicken at markets is 3$ chicken with today as a sell-by date. Toss it and you lose money, cook it and you charge more for it.<\/p>\n<p>We recently stopped at McDonald&#8217;s during a marathon shopping excursion (and hungry\/cranky tiny people are *not* good shopping partners). Don&#8217;t know the menu, so we went inside to take our time ordering. Sausage McMuffin = 1.29$. Sausage McMuffin With Egg = 3.29$. Umm, an egg costs 2$? An entire *dozen* eggs doesn&#8217;t cost that unless you want the &#8220;free range&#8221; &#8220;organic&#8221; ones from a major chain grocery store. A dozen from the guy down the street (fully free-ranged hens, but not certified organic) only costs 2$!<\/p>\n<p>I know that pricing is determined by perceived value and demand. And the cheap sausage\/cheese\/English muffin option is included in the tiny &#8216;value menu&#8217; section while the expensive sausage\/egg\/cheese\/English muffin option is a huge menu tile in full color with a picture so a lot of customers (especially those in the drive-through who may not feel comfortable parking long enough to read the <em>entire<\/em> menu) may not even know the other option exists. But where else does a single egg cost 2$?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pricing can be amusing &#8211; I always thought the 6$ roasted chicken at markets is 3$ chicken with today as a sell-by date. Toss it and you lose money, cook it and you charge more for it. We recently stopped at McDonald&#8217;s during a marathon shopping excursion (and hungry\/cranky tiny people are *not* good shopping &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions\/580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}