What Rotisserie Chicken Vendors Don't Want You To Know 

Who do you think sells the best rotisserie chickens?

Costco's Rotisserie chickens are the best hands down.

not all stores trash them ours turns them into wraps increasing the profit, chicken $7 makes 2-4 wraps at $7 each

I purchase Costco Rotisserie chicken because I could not purchase a fresh chicken, season it and cook it for the same price. I am a cancer patient and my blood tests show I have low sodium so I do not care about the sodium content. I enjoy the flavour of Costco and SAMS Club chicken so I will continue to purchase them. When I purchase a pre-cooked chicken I have my oven on and make sure the chicken is heated to a food-safe temperature.

Only in the U.S. would employees get fired if they took something home to be eaten instead of putting it in the trash as directed by the company.. Food waste is real.

the animation and lip sync is done really well! Where i came from they did cooked chicken in a hot food section, the leftovers at the end of the day was sold for 50% off

Here in Europe, there are countries like France that have made excessive food waste illegal. You have to give it to the homeless shelter. That’s what they should do in the United States. If you have access food you should have to give it to the homeless shelter.

What my store did. Was an hour before closing Sell them at. BOGO or BOGO 1/2 PRICE Low shrink. And turn over

@mashed - In your last point in the video, yes... Cooked chickens will weigh less than raw. That's because food always shrinks when you cook it.

I always ALWAYS always microwave my Costco chicken to be sure that it is fully cooked! There have been times when the red blood was visible and the meat unfinished. Otherwise, I love it! I live by myself and can get as many as six meals out of one chicken!

HEB uses unsold rotisserie chickens to make chicken salad for sale in the deli section. It's very good.

DUHH! I worked at a small neighborhood grocery store as a teenager 50 years ago and we had weekly "loss leaders". Nothing new here folks!!

Costco has the best and it’s daily fresh.

My local markets they are very good,always between $4,99 and $ 5.99 but most of the time they are $4.99

Costco rotisserie chickens are da bomb. When in the mood, I’ll happily got there just for a chicken.

A nearby supermarket used to mark down the few (they were smart & didn't have a lot) rotisserie chickens 50% when the deli department closed for the night. I was one of several shoppers who regularly came into the store arrived beforehand & just waited; there was never anything left. Then they got savvier & used the leftovers to make/sell chicken salad in the morning. Another smart alternative for supermarkets is to toss them into the freezer, then donate to one of their regular food pantry pick-ups (as a food pantry volunteer, I know that virtually all supermarkets do this daily). Food-insecure people get this great product & supermarkets get the tax write-offs. Sadly, I'm sure that some are still thrown away, but not as much as the story indicates.

stop and shop sells them in bags, the chicken that doesn't sell that day are sold on the cold shelf for a day then it's turned into chicken salad and back onto the cold shelf

No left over at the Honolulu Costco. They stopped cooking it an hour before closing time.

I've bought Costco, Sams Club and BJ's Wholesale Club rotisserie chicken. BJ's had the best consistently each time and had the least offensive ingredients though the flavor is not as good as Costco or Sam's Club.

One whole chicken for each of my four dogs without the bones. Pure vacuum cleaner mode🐶

The unsold Chickens should be given to the employees or the homeless.

They don't have to throw away the unsold chicken, you can make other things with it like a chicken soup/sauce, Brazilian "coxinhas", chicken sandwich, etc.

Yes, Sam's club rotisserie rocks.

I put my rotisserie chicken in the air fryer to make it extra crispy

I have a Costco membership, so I do buy the chickens every so often...but I've never gotten one that has been thoroughly cooked. They were always running blood at the thigh and wing joints, so I've always had to pop them in the oven and finish cooking them. I'm not so fond of chicken that I'm gonna buy a raw one to roast, but the ones from Costco are fine, once they're thoroughly cooked, to add to canned soup or my dog's dinners.

The Costco that I worked at used the leftover rotisserie chicken to make the deli chicken salad the next day.

My local stores don't even give a discount. They charge $9 for rotisserie chicken. And they do seem smaller than they used to be before the pandemic.

It’s simple. The reason stores/restaurants typically don’t let employees take “extra” food home at the end of the night rather than discard it is because they know the employees will prepare too much food because they now know they’ll be able to take home the “extra” food, costing the store money in free to-go meals at the end of the day. Knowing they can’t take it home reduces the instances of preparing extra food that will go to waste. It’s far from perfect, but it is what it is.

Costco near me, will pull breast meat and sell in plastic bags. Smart. Oh, yes, cooking the chicken will reduce fat and moisture. These are what makes you think the uncooked chicken is a better deal.

Meijer in 2012 dumped the old rotisserie chickens in the trash, but put the leftover fried chicken in the cold case. In 2013 they decided to turn the old rotisserie into chicken salad, but stopped putting out the cold chicken because it might hurt sales of hot chicken the next day. So into the trash it went.

This article feels very familiar. Do they repost it every year?

its crap chicken....we only buy the free range capons (about 6 pounders) from our butcher. It costs more but what a great meal and great hot chicken sandwitches after that too! The soup broth from boiling the bones is better too from free range.

So many people go hungry in this country!! Why not donate it to food pantries. Such a wasteful country😢

Costco should leave left over rotisserie chicken in an area in the store for employees to take home if they wish.

Most hot held food is required to be discarded after 4 hours, due to pathogen growth concerns. This is a safeguard for public health. Stores follow this to avoid litigation. If you want to save the unsold chickens, you need to have the health department grant a variance to donate them. A waiver should also be signed, saying the store is not responsible for health issues due to consumption of the donated chicken.

When a cooked chicken is about 10.00 in Publix and in Winn Dixie about 9.00 that is not cheap

A Freind that worked at a gas station would give me a trash bag of food that they had to throw out each night. Fed me and my co workers for months from those “trash bags”

Hello Costco!!!

the local markets where i live do a great job at going green on rotisserie chickens by cooking them early in day and leaving them sit in the bins until store close, the long since dried out and unappealing. this is 100% the wrong way to do it stores should strive to cook a little more than needed to meet expected demand and cook more often in smaller batches, it might be less efficient but it keeps waste down and fresher product for customers

I got 2 cases of Pilgrim's Pride brand rotisserie chickens. $ 15.00. One case was 54 pounds, 12 birds. Other one was 60 pounds, had 10 chickens in it. 33 cents a pound, for 6 pound chickens. Canning the big ones, a pair of breasts, almost filled a quart canning jar completely. steve

It's not just the fact that food is wasted but that an animal gave its life for absolutely nothing...that's the sad part

Oh…good grief! Don’t mention loss leaders in retail at this point in time like it’s a new concept. Loss leaders have been used probably as long as retail has been around. Any featured item in a grocery store could be considered a loss leader.

WOOOOOOOOOH

The suffering of chickens destined to be rotisseried is no different than the suffering of almost ALL chickens destined to be food. As for weight of rotisseried chickens vs raw chickens sold elsewhere in the store, rotisseried chickens do have the approximate, average weight of the chickens on the package (it's not like stores are trying to hide how much they weigh), and raw chickens sold elsewhere in the store will weigh less than the sticker weight after cooking due to loss of water and fat during the cooking process.

My Smart and Finally puts the day before unsold chicken in the fridge for half price. I buy all, chop them up and freeze them. I am surprised Costco doesn't deli it for their pizza or cold sandwiches.

Ugh, don't get me started. I have to put out so much chicken. We are so under staffed, we have to toss out so much because we don't have time to process it properly. I'm talking 25+ a day. And we are a very small store. If we are 1 minute late on a 2 hour mark on cooling 2ed chance chicken we have to toss out all 25 chickens. It is repulsive.

I prefer rotisserie chickens from Sam's Club even though I know they could be using the same supplier as their neighbor (Costco). I don' consume them very often and when I do, I usually use it (sans skin) in another recipe. I have seen the chickens re-purposed in other ready-to-go items that are for sale they make in house and I'm fine with that. I've never seen any chickens tossed out at the end of the day, but I would offer that they donate what's unsold to the local shelters instead. As for what goes in it, everything in moderation. This is a mode of convenience and we pay for that convenience. I could roast my own chicken, sure. Do I have the time or the experience to do so? I would bet not a lot do.

The store down the street from me in California sells rotisserie chickens for $18.00 each.

Mean while Costco just had a new cookie added to their food court. That's 750 calories.... i had it other day omg is so warm and taste good thing I don't live near Costco. But am pretty sure 50 % of us know these food aren't healthy and treat it like a cheap day.

Chickens are $10 at my store... Wegmans They used to be $4.99🤬

Just a few dollars? Try $13 in Australia

Walfarts have changed their. More Watery after Cooked, Half the Size and only One Flavor instead of 2 or 3.. Price has also gone up $2.. They would also Cook that instead of Fried Chicken, that they don't even Start until 1pm IF you remind them, whereas the Piggly Starts their Fried and Rotisserie when they Open in the Morning and Tastes Better and $1 less. Walfarts Chicken is also Half Cold and Half Hot.. Some so cold, it feels like it just came out of the Fridge. Or It's Hot on the Outside but Inside is Still Cold...

Must be an American thing.. here in Canada the cooked rotisserie's are considerably more expensive per 100 grams than a whole raw chicken, even taking into account a 20% to 30% loss in weight when cooking.

People go hungry and they toss out chicken

It is cute that some “ACTIVIST” wants me to NOT eat this product because of chemicals and or handling that “THEY” find objectionable! I can only assume that this individual is probably a vegan? So, NOW I have to go out and buy a Sam’s Club Rotisserie chicken for Sunday dinner!

Correction, they make just little money on chucken to get a lot of money on other product, they don't lose no money

Perfect example of "Gross Generalization"......

Sorry but you didn't talk me out of Costco's rotisserie chicken, it's damn good. As far as sodium phosphate goes, they use a concentrated form to clean you out before a colonoscopy, so if you don't get diarrhea after chowing down some chicken, you're probably in the safe zone.

Homeless people are eating that 😂😂😂

What does high/scalping prices on food bring? It brings expired foods and lower quality foods, due to the fact that quantity does not move. So not only you pay more for that prime rib, but you are also risking getting spoiled food. The current prices are not high due to economy, they are high because someone has planned it that way, it is a campaign of controlled demolition of standards of living for the common man in order to bring forth an agenda that ultimately results in poverty, hardship and total control for everyone not in the club. They do not care about profits, money can be printed and they are. That is why most of the scalping is done at a loss to the corporations(unsold time sensitive foods/goods) in order to achieve a goal. This also screws the farmers and food producers. It is mind blowing what is going on. At some point people will need to follow certain guidelines and medical procedures in order to receive access to foods, goods and services, if the current path is maintained.

1:39 it’s only several chickens wasted after a shift, what’s the big deal? That’s very little waste for Costco, like literally nothing, an error at the last digit in the budget. The scale of waste only several chicken after a day of roasting chicken, this is nothing.

There's no Costco within a 20 mile radius of my home. Therefore, I don't shop at Costco.

"Stores use cheap rotisserie chicken as a ploy to make you spend more money" The stores aren't making anyone spend money. Are they trying to attract people into the store, where they may shop for other food? Sure. But i have gone into Market Basket plenty of times just to buy a rotisserie chicken. Also, the video complains about rotisserie chickens being thrown out at the end of the day, then complains that some stores may "recycle" the unsold rotisserie chicken into something else.

There are air fryer rotisserie chicken recipes that are just as good online, and you know what ingredients are in the seasoning. Beware of MSG, artificial flavorings, 460 gm sodium per 3 oz., other ingredients they wont list in all rotisserie chickens sold anywhere. If you feel bad after eating grocery rotisserie chicken, thats often why.

I kept finding myself saying "no duh" Loss leader ... no duh Reselling nearly expired fresh chicken . No duh Unsold rotissarue chicen in chicken salad. No duh

How come she says chi-CAAAN

Wish vegas had a wegmans....

10 dollars is not just a few dollars

I give zero credence to Reddit users. More often than not, they toss out “opinions” and “reviews” under the protection of Internet anonymity. Their opinions mean nothing.

So expensive here and I swear they’re teeny enough to be Cornish game hens.

I have known folks that have raised birds for a certain company. They say it is a relentless job. Constant, nonstop, that the money is not worth the toll it takes on their lives. That once they start it’s almost impossible to break free because of the incredibly low profit margins

"You think it's healthier because it's not fried and is not red meat"? ......Dude. Red Meat is more nutritionally dense than chicken will ever be 😂

Don't believe anyone selling this type of chicken is losing money, that size and weight of chickens and the huge amounts they buy is like 99 cents a pound.

Wal Mart chicken 🍗 Sucks 😂

If I didn't prep & cook it.…. I would not eat it….also the quality of those chickens is very questionable, to say the least…. You know the saying… “When something is too good to be true”…, well you know the rest… lol 🤣

My chicken is the best 😂😂😂

The last two rotisserries I got last month did hit me as extra salty. Needing to watch my blood pressure, I'm going to stop getting them. And no please don't try to convince me that eating too much salt all the time every meal every day has no effect on blood pressure.

While rotisserie chickens are delcious they are not allergy friendly.

You want to hold grocery stores responsible for all the deficiencies of the poultry industry? Why pick on rotisserie chicken, you may as well pick on all deli meats, Lunchables, just about anything in the frozen food section...including all the shitty processed foods like fake meats, vegetable oils, all bread products made with dozens of ingredients...you get the idea. There would be hardly anything left in the store.

I LOVE rotisserie chicken. I take it home into a room where I can be alone because I like to eat it with my hands. I slather it in ranch and hot sauce and get down. Nobody is allowed to disturb me. Those fool enough to try are treated to a whirlwind of terrible table manners, lip smacking and the sight of my face covered in sauce and grease. Also, I don't share. When the chicken is picked clean, I wash up and return to the civilized world.

Out of the dumpster 😅😅😅😅

You eat,you work and you die.what is the confusion ?

When you live in the United States and 75% of food is junk eating a chicken is that bad. I guess would could grow our own veggies and eat nothing but what we grow organically. I think we would die faster if we did.

Tyson foods is evil, but necessary at the moment.

Can't have nice things.

Keep the Loss leaders coming, affordable food is how I'm able to keep stocking up. Rotisserie chicken turns into jars of canned chicken and broth. Not just fresh eating.

You struggled hard to find downsides and most of them were laughable at best.

Fear mongering

Costco dumpster dive

Most of these points are meaningless... all foods come in excess packaging except fresh produce. High fat is good. It's carbs that will kill you. Sodium - whatever. Everything has sodium, and if you exercise a lot, you need it. It's not my problem or fault what they do with the unsold chickens - I do my part by purchasing a chicken so get out of my face.

😢Poor 🐔

Those things are trash and injected with crap. Make your own - it isn't hard to cook a chicken

6:31 why do you think that's a bad thing? Salt and animal fat are healthy.

Many loves supermarket rotisserie chicken. They taste like fake chicken to me.

This story was a waste of time watching.

This video is so stupid. For every claim - Source: Some redditors said so.