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The price of eggs

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JoNorvelleWalker

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Only eggs Whole Foods has are quail eggs.

 

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JoNorvelleWalker

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57 minutes ago, gfweb said:

Our supermarkets have lots of eggs. About $5/dozen.

 

Yes, but you live in Pennsylvania.  They probably fell off a truck.

 

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gfweb

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9 hours ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

 

Yes, but you live in Pennsylvania.  They probably fell off a truck.

 

 

LOL

 

Eggs are "from a guy they know"

 

 

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gulfporter

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In small tiendas eggs are sold loose and by weight.  Though we see more cardboard cartons in the supermercados. 

 

I priced dozen-sized cartons today and the average was 40 pesos (under 2 bucks USD).  Saw some as low as 34p and some as high as 50p (in more modern hard plastic cartons).  

 

 

 

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chromedome

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Some good news on this front: the USDA has granted provisional approval to a vaccine to inoculate poultry against the avian flu.

https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-conditionally-approves-vaccine-protect-poultry-avian-flu

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BeeZee

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On the other hand...as an egg-avoiding person...today I ordered a breakfast grain bowl that was supposed to include egg and I asked them to omit them, got $1. discount 😁

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gulfporter

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I stopped at Walmart in Tucson this week.  Eggs were plentiful; dozen large were $4.97.  

Alex

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5 hours ago, FrogPrincesse said:

I paid $14 today for a dozen free range eggs from a local farm.

 

Wow. California prices, I guess. Similar ones I get here just went up to $10 from $8, and that's only to cover the increased cost of feed, etc. Others are less expensive. Supermarket eggs, even "organic," are still $4-5. OTOH, I'm getting some "backyard" eggs today: two dozen for $5.

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chromedome

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In my neck of the woods home-raised eggs sell for $5/dozen, perhaps because I'm in the country and a lot of people have chickens. As of my most recent shopping trip, the price of supermarket eggs has risen from $4.69 to $5.03 (?) at both Sobeys and Superstore.

 

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gfweb

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25 minutes ago, TdeV said:

$5 a dozen: major egg companies may be using avian flu to hike US prices, new report finds

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/04/egg-prices-bird-flu-corporate-profits

 

 

Major source for the charges is Amanda Starbuck, lead author of the FWW report The Economic Cost of Food Monopolies: The Rotten Egg Oligarchy.

 

No bias there...

 

 

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JeanneCake

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Wholesale  30 dz extra large eggs were $120/case on Friday (I got two cases).  By Sunday evening the price rose to $196.  I had been planning on buying two more cases this week hoping to stretch my luck (at finding and buying at the lowest price) but now.... 🤷‍♀️  Liquid eggs aren't much cheaper :(   Wedding season starts at the beginning of April.  I had no illusions of being able to ride out the insanity til supplies were back to "normal" (I've been buying eggs since January, separating them and freezing the yolks  (with sugar) and whites) but I can't absorb the cost at this rate and I'm anxious at just how high the price will go.  

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IndyRob

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An on-line survey of prices in my area... (cheapest dozen large eggs)

 

Kroger $5.99
Target $2.49 (out of stock)
Walmart $5.97
Trader Joe's $4.99
ALDI $6.59
Meijer $5.49

Fresh Thyme $4.49

 

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