The price of eggs

[SLB]

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

[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"😁

[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?

 

[JeanneCake]

Wholesale prices are coming down.  Of course, after I bought two more cases on Friday LOL

30 dz extra large white are today at $153 or $149 depending on who you buy from.  A week ago they were hovering around $190.  So this trend is good.

[Katie Meadow]

There's a toney market that we rarely shop at but we were in the neighborhood and needed bread. Organic pasture-raised eggs were $14.99 a dozen! That's some kind of record for our neck of the woods. We need eggs but not that badly. 

[rotuts]

Tj's still have eggs @3.49 doz // large // one doz // customer

 

MarketBasket :  $ 4 .99  for Large doz

 

Ive noticed that Tj;'s  , locally , eggs have larger yolks that the version I used to by @ MB.

 

same weight // carton.   interesting .    as one really buys eggs for their yolks , Ill keep getting TJ's

 

should prices revert to their previous pricings.

 

After all , although Angel Food cake it good , Hollandaise it better .

[TdeV]

9 hours ago, Katie Meadow said:

There's a toney market that we rarely shop at but we were in the neighborhood and needed bread. Organic pasture-raised eggs were $14.99 a dozen! That's some kind of record for our neck of the woods. We need eggs but not that badly. 

 

Name of the market, please?

 

 

Edited March 19 by TdeV (log)

[BeeZee]

Nevermind crying over spilled milk, this looks like $5 worth of eggs in the parking lot at the supermarket😆

[JeanneCake]

wholesale pricing update as of tonight (when the distributors update their online pricing):

 

large cage free 15 dz  is now $69.72/case

extra large cage free 30 dz is holding at $141/case for one distributor and $125 (!) at the one who is always higher than others.  And Restaurant Depot is still leading the price war here at $185 for xlg 30 dz shell eggs....

[weinoo]

And, at Fresh Direct...

Alderfer EggsCage-Free Grade A Large White Eggs, Dozen

current price$3.79/ea