Is it really, in America? Amazing.
This is not the normal human experience at all. Raw food are usually cheaper than processed ones, anywhere in the world.
This is not the normal human experience at all. Raw food are usually cheaper than processed ones, anywhere in the world.
Note that this works for electronics as well. You could buy one resistor for a cent or a thousand of them for a dollar.
Cheap palm oil and other vegetable fats instead of butter, corn syrup instead of cane sugar, much lower quality chocolate than is generally available in grocery stores, various chemical stabilizers instead of eggs, artificial vanilla flavoring instead of real vanilla and so on.
Plus they obviously get everything at a massive discount since they're buying everything by the ton instead of by the kg.
Kind of like how if you remove all the subsidies given to fossil fuel producers, some forms of renewable energy suddenly become much more competitive.
So when you add a whole cost center for IT, the inefficiencies of the way they operate suddenly make the cloud efficient.
The comments on cheap low quality ingredients and bulk pricing are true as well.
And I am sure the local Asian cash and carry's sell even bigger bags even cheaper.