Summary
Egg prices in the U.S. have reached a record high of $4.95 per dozen amid a severe bird flu outbreak that has led to the culling of millions of egg-laying chickens.
The shortage is compounded by rising feed, fuel, and labor costs, as well as increased demand and stricter cage-free regulations in several states.
Consumers face empty shelves, surcharges, and limited availability, with some areas pricing cartons at $10 or more.
Prices are expected to continue rising, especially with Easter demand.
Buy the ticket, take the ride
This was going to happen under anyone who won, tbh.
Eggs are not super expensive in Canada despite also having issues with bird flu.
Canada structured their industry differently via regulation such that the impact of a bird pandemic wouldn’t be as damaging.
My eggs are cheaper in Canadian dollars than your average is in American dollars, despite the exchange being like 1.42 cdn per USD.
Okay and what does the price of eggs in Canada and their structure have anything to do with the price of US eggs and their structure?
A few months is not enough time to restructure the entire egg industry in the USA.
I think the point was we’ve been heading in this fucked direction for a long time while everyone else has been building robust regulations.
Okay I don’t disagree with that assertion I’m just not sure what that has to do with the original comment of this chain.
The point is that better leaders would have not let this happen, it wasn’t inevitable.
I don’t disagree with that. Hence this was going to happen regardless of who won.
USDA’s puts them at $7.74/dozen based on futures and project to get to nearly $10 this year. Given eggs can often be loss leaders, actual prices might not match contract prices everywhere, but stores trying to bring in customers and increasing other prices to compensate means looking directly at consumer egg prices might be misleading.
loss leaders
Hardly.
Curious when that cost is based on. Given future contracts are often purchased in advanced, those prices could reflect prices from months ago, when the wholesale market price was 1/3rd of the current price. Guess still not technically a loss leader if they price current inventory based on what they are paying for future inventory though.
Poor Canada, egg prices are the same. /s
My close save on (company from graphic) seems to have trouble keeping eggs in stock, plus it’s like $8-9 for free range which I usually try to buy. Their quality (used to be quite orange now more dull, not as yellow as most eggs still) has gone down I hope the chickens are treated better.
I paid $3.93 CAD for a dozen yesterday.
Ontario NoFrills?
Save on is usually more expensive than other places
It’s been 3 weeks since I last saw eggs in my small town grocery store.
Neighborhood chicken lady went from $2 to $3 a dozen due to the price increase of chicken feed. Hopefully her chickens won’t be affected, mostly for her & her family’s sake.
Amusingly, the pasture raised eggs are now the same price as the regular eggs at Aldi.
I have a coworker who keeps about 250 chickens at her house and sells the brown eggs for $5 a dozen. Meanwhile, a dozen white eggs at Shop-Rite are $10.
her house?? She must live on a ranch or something
The eggs are pretty small.
Different coloured eggs are different prices in the US?
Yeah. Generally, brown is more expensive than white, organic is more expensive than non-organic, free-range is more expensive than caged etc. The current situation has rendered everything fucking expensive, though.
Hmm - here in England the colour of an egg doesn’t make any difference to its price, or to its taste. But yeah, organic and free range usually cost more. Larger eggs cost more too. I’ve not checked the exchange rate but I’d say it costs about $6 for a dozen free range eggs.
I’d love to keep hens myself but it’s not feasible. I have friends who live on a farm where the chickens just kind of wander about and I swear their eggs taste better than shop bought.
I’ve been paying $8ish for 12 the past 6 years. Apparently it’s cheap subsidized eggs that are expensive now. That’s because of bird flu no?
Didn’t Jabba-the Orange pledge to lower those prices on DAY ONE?
Yeah, but something, something Biden did it.
He killed all the birds, according to Bronzo the Clown’s spokesxtian.
If biden was a weak and pathetic president…
and trump cant even stop biden from still fucking things up.
then how weak and pathetic does that make trump?
Or is that too much logic for rumpets.
I love it. Might be a bit deep for them though.
What a weak president. Being thrwarted by someone not in power.
Reminds me a lot of Snowball’s ghost in Animal Farm, always coming around at night to sabotage things conveniently out of sight from any witnesses. This was all Snowball’s doing, dontchaknow!
So eat fewer eggs…
I probably don’t even get through a dozen in a month. How has this complete non-issue helped put a lunatic in charge?
I don’t think I go through a dozen in a year
Eggs are used in recipes you wouldn’t even think of. Breads. Baked goods. Fried rice. Pasta.
I have been a Vegan for over a decade and let me tell you, it’s easy to find alternative recipes without eggs.
Not preaching here, btw, just saying that eggs are realy not necessary in most things. Any that very much included cakes and the like.
As someone who has explored this a lot…
Egg replacements often do not confer the same qualities to the recipe that eggs do. Its usually just… off.
Like, how does one replace egg in Egg Fried Rice? It’s a totally different meal.
In receipts that center around eggs (like scrambles Eggs) you will get something that tastes different the Orginal, absolutely.
But in things like cakes? Bread? Pizza? Pancakes? There is simply no need for Eggs and the only reason people use them is because that’s how they are made traditionally.
No, they are used as a binder in baked goods, and provide the proper texture, and loft.
No egg substitute does it the same, and yes, it tastes differently, because it’s not a substitute, like honey can sub in for sugar to proof yeasts…
So, no, the substitutes often don’t work.
Binding, texture and loft are achievable without eggs in baked goods in equal quality, without loosing taste. In my experience. If yours is different then he it so. There no way to prove either or is right or wrong anyhow. If this were the real world I’d invite you to come over and taste some cakes, but allas, we’ll have to resolt to let’s agree to disagree and move on.
Equal quality, only in one’s imagination.
If it weren’t the case, vegan pizza would be palatable, and it’s not.
This has real “let them eat cake” vibes
Eggs have traditionally been one of the cheapest staple sources of protein for the working poor.
Damn, it sucks that you have to eat eggs. It sure would be nice if there were other things you could eat, alas you have to keep buying eggs and bitching about it the whole time instead of just eating something else.
maybe we should just let everyone eat cake?
Eat a bagel or something jesus christ. Nobody is forcing you to buy eggs.
Boohoo the omnis have to consider switching to a different breakfast for a few months, this is just like mass starvation. They don’t sell 5000 other things at the grocery store, eggs are the only staple food and now we have to spend 90% of our daily income on them.
Your preferred breakfast being a bit more expensive while other things that were already cheaper are still cheaper is not comparable to a french peasant being unable to pay for their only staple food. Get a grip.
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BUT Trump said he would lower prices on day 1! I don’t get it, why would he lie?
There’s a giant knob labeled EGG PRICES in the oval office and he hasn’t turned it yet!
Old people have hard time finding right knobs to turn.
$8 here in the supermarket, but 2 dozen for $5 at the farm across the street from my SO’s parents
Just yesterday my friend texted that his local bodega in the Bronx is selling $1 loosies or $12/dozen. Fucking egg loosies. What’s next? Egg dealers on Gun Hill?
Refrigerated trenchcoat sales on the subway.
You see the Daily Show sketch?
No, did they do that?
Or just sell the non processed eggs that’s easier since they don’t need to be refrigerated
Got ya free range here. Extra large. Whites and browns.
“Yo, I got them loose ovoids!”
That’s why I would never shop at a bodega. “Let’s make paying more feel cool and trendy.” It’s a fucking 7-11 with incense.
Bodegas are small businesses that are usually very entrenched in the community. This isn’t extortion. It’s a way to make a few eggs affordable. My criticism is of the need for the loosies in the first place.
It doesn’t sound like that person has ever been to a city
It’s so common for tourists to see higher prices than they’re used to and assume the place is a rip off. They have no idea how insane the rent for a tiny shop can be in NYC. Meanwhile, they’ll have no problem dropping $30 for a ‘value meal’ in Times Square.
I agree with your criticism for the need loosies In the first place, But there has been a rising trend where Bodegas In communities, like the Bronx, have taken advantage of an influx of higher earners. If they raise the price for them, they raise the price for all. This is just another form of hyper focused capitalism.
Ah yes. Privately owned corner stores. The ultimate in hyper focused capitalism 🙄
The irony of that guy recognizing that the only war is the class war and then going after …checks notes… poor immigrants trying to make a living in retail.
I’m guessing you don’t know what hyper-focused capitalism means.
That’s not why they do things like that, but stay ignorant.
Feel free to explain you opinion.
Here. I found an article on it. You won’t hear of a corporate manager making the same considerations.
Radhames Rodriguez, owner of Pamela’s Green Deli in the Bronx’s Morrisania section, said the idea of selling loose eggs came to him after seeing customers leaving full cartons on the counter because they couldn’t afford it.
Hoping to help customers in the community, Rodriguez now sells three eggs for $2.99, which he says is a better than paying at least $12 for one carton.
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/egg-prices-bronx-bodegas/
OP isn’t going to read that. Prices=Bad to them.
but stay ignorant.
I don’t think that works as well on people as you might think. Perhaps you’re the one who has remained ignorant by dismissing the opinions of others who may have very convincing arguments.
But hey, stay ignorant.
There is no opinion. There is a fact why stores sell loosies, and it’s not “to be cool”. That’s the dumbest most out of touch thing I’ve ever heard.
It’s because people can’t afford the whole thing, so they charge a premium for a single. If they gave a shit they’d just charge 1/12th of a carton of eggs, instead of gouging poor people. 17¢ might sound like a ridiculous amount to complain about to you and I, but if a person cannot afford a $10 carton, I’m guessing that money matters.
NYC doesn’t exactly have massive supermarkets on ever highway intersection. They are convenience stores that fill a need.
People will be selling black market eggs in back alleys soon.
There was a news story a few days ago about somebody heisting 144,000 eggs from a delivery truck in PA.
Prices in Ireland for 12 eggs are €3.75 for free range or €2.70 for barn
I’m in Colombia. My local grocery store has them for 23 mil pesos ($5.58 USD at today’s exchange rate) for 30 eggs. That comes out to $2.38 USD per dozen.
The tienda by my home has them cheaper, but I can’t check their prices online to verify the exact cost.
How much for you to paint them to look like toy eggs and ship to the US?
In Russia they hit record high of 1$ per pack of 10.
In Russia monthly salary of $500 is above median.
It fluctuates, but usually yes.
