The price of eggs

[SLB]

Costco Harlem (NY, USA):  5 dozen in two flats, $22.49.  Not organic, obviously.  

[chromedome]

1 hour ago, gfweb said:

 

And what's the bias of the site you cite? 

 

"Discover more from BIG by Matt Stoller

The history and politics of monopoly power"

 

 

So do you have a refutation of the underlying statistics, most of them from public sources? Or just gonna keep rolling with dismissing an obvious abuse of financial muscle, because the people writing about it... specialize in the study of that kind of abuse?

[BeeZee]

Someone in my office is active in a hunting/fishing club and I think they were looking to batter/fry a whole lotta something...they found an egg farm that sells broken eggs (that is, they take the cracked eggs and dump the contents into containers) and sell at a large discount. Obviously you need to use them rather quickly, but it sounded like a great way to not "cry over spilled milk"😁

[gfweb]

2 hours ago, chromedome said:

So do you have a refutation of the underlying statistics, most of them from public sources? Or just gonna keep rolling with dismissing an obvious abuse of financial muscle, because the people writing about it... specialize in the study of that kind of abuse?

 

I wasn't aware I was in an argument.

 

You are probably aware that the problem with biased sources is that they will cite the things that support their POV and neglect the other side of an argument (eg Fox vs MSNBC).  I am not inclined to trust them or to do a deep enough dive to find out what's true. 

 

One-sided, disingenuous news is what put the US into the current mess. 

[AlaMoi]

it might be helpful to point out / know / consider . . . eggs are more a 'local item' than 'from anywhere'

eggs are not shipped from the west coast to the east coast (or the east coast to the west coast... north/south/etc)

 

this has a pretty big influence on costs in any given area - when local/semi-local egg producers are forced to kill every chicken in the coop because of bird flu . . . prices spike - since any supply has to come from further further further away.

 

there is, however,  a supporting fact to 'price gouging' - 

the "bird flu problem/all chickens are dead" has not had a severe impact in south-eastern states.
but,,,, egg prices are up there as well....

 

which one could ascribe to "supply and demand" - or not.

 

is this not deja vu all over again . . . . like the toilet paper issue?

or, , , Tickle-me-Elmo dolls?