But a dozen brown, large, grade A eggs can be had for less than $5.
$5/dozen is cheap
Really? As a Canadian I was quite surprised to see your eggs so expensive.
I recently bought a dozen eggs for like $7cad which used to be $6cad (free range, the caged stuff was usually like $3.5-$4ish)
But at $5.50 usd that’s $8.00 cad, and I thought $7 was expensive!
As a Canadian I was quite surprised to see your eggs so expensive.
The discussions about egg prices relates to the fact that eggs have been varying degrees of unusually expensive over the past couple years due to outbreaks of bird flu that have killed – or caused the killing of – a lot of chickens.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000708111
In September 2020, a dozen eggs in the US averaged $1.35. There’s been some inflation since then, but that’s still no more than about $1.64 in 2024 dollars.
But since then, there have been some very large increases, and a lot of price volatility.
But since then, there have been some very large increases, and a lot of price volatility.
Also, there have been record profits for the egg distributors.
I’m in the NE USA (close to the midwest) and they’re all $6-$12/dozen in my area
I don’t think it’s all about the bird flu, some mark ups are definitely greed. Today I was at a target, eggs priced 9 dollars for a dozen low quality eggs. Ralph’s (West Coast Kroger’s) priced them at 9 also. However, a day ago I was also at a Sprouts and a Trader Joe’s, and the going rates were 4 dollars (although TJ was sold out). Hell, Sprout’s much tastier Pasture raised eggs were like, 8 bucks, although those birds are likely the least likely to get infected.
The thing that killed me is at Target in saw a very ill informed woman buying two 18 packs of crap white eggs for what I can only imagine cost her a second mortgage. Please shop responsibly, y’all.
It’s always greed, but corporations need an excuse, so you don’t get angry at them. Covid was the perfect example for that, when they see the opportunity, they will jack up the prices.
What happened during covid was the forcible closing of thousands of small businesses. Corporations don’t cate about excuses they only care about opportunity. When their competition got forcibly closed by the government, their opportunity appeared.
We had major big box stores staying open while mom and pop shops were closed.
This wasn’t the market in action. This was the government forcibly closing these businesses by centralized decree.
The lockdowns actively killed competition. Competition is the natural check on greed in a free market. The market was enormously consolidated during the period when small stores had to either survive on their savings or perish, while large stores were allowed to remain open.
Yep! These fucking monopolistic capitalist pigs have used every single fucking disaster as an opportunity to price gouge us and they have no intention of stopping.
What are you gonna do? Stop eating food?
Stopping eating eggs is pretty simple tbf
Yeah because only egg prices are going up
I wish I could get them this cheap…
That’s pretty reasonable, but definitely going to go up considerably soon if H5N1 projections are anyone close to correct… Oof.
lol a dozen large are $8.99 in the Bay Area
If someone has a speedboat on hand, I can hook you up with eggs.
All EU regulation compliant XL eggs.
That is about the price I paid recently for 10 organic medium eggs in Austria.
The price of a speedboat?! Damn!
