I used to work at petco and unfortunately its because they do buy the snakes at market price, they can chose from a list of available morph combos from the company they have a contract with that they get their animals from. they dont get any animals in bulk besides normals, so of course they have to make a profit from buying a 400+ animals and only stores with a high traffic that make lots of money have access to buy these animals.
I do think its good because people are seeing these animals and I myself have pushed customers into the direction of reputable breeders on mm that have better prices. So its opening up the market to new people and theyre not only finding better deals obviously from better breeders but also getting better info on care
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