# What Costco’s $4.99 rotisserie chicken says about the future of American factory farming | Vox

> Vox examines Costco's $4.99 rotisserie chicken, which has kept the same price for over a decade while chicken prices rose 18.6% year-on-year to June 2022. Costco runs its own chicken business, contracting farms in Nebraska and Iowa to raise about 100 million birds a year.

- Date: 2022-07-18 · published 2022-07-18T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: market · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/40643-what-costco-s-4-99-rotisserie-chicken-says-about-the-future-of-american-factory
- Commodities: [Chicken](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CHICKEN.md)

## Why it matters

This is a feature on retail pricing and vertical integration rather than a new supply or demand shock, so it has little direct effect on feed or commodity prices.

## Sources

- vox.com: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23207301/costco-rotisserie-chicken-poultry-farming-inflation

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