Went to the grocery store today to pick up a few things and was shocked by the price of eggs. Yes, I know it’s due to the bird flu. They were asking $6.42 (USA dollars) for a dozen. What are the prices like in your town?
I bought them for $5.99/doz at the local major grocery chain this week. Chicago suburbs.
Also noticed that I can never find extra-large these days, just large.
I bought some today. Here’s the price on their online shopping site.
Free Range Eggs 12 Pack, 700g = AUD$6.10*
*approx USD$3.70
At the store I work at, the large 12-count eggs are $5.60 for the first two boxes, and $9.something for any above that. We’ve got a bit of a double whammy here - our egg prices already went up at the beginning of last year because of a new state law requiring all eggs sold in the state to be from cage-free hens, and now bird flu on top of that. Our extra-large eggs are usually about 50% more than the large eggs, but right now they’re at about the same price. We also have 60-counts of medium eggs for $21.something, hard limit of 1 per family.
Here’s some prices from the upmarket UK supermarket (add about one-third for the USD conversion):
$4.19 for a dozen large at Whole Foods.
$4.49 at Haggen.
$5.49 at Safeway.
Yesterday I bought a box of 15 eggs for 45 SEK. Roughly converts to $3.25 per dozen. Apparently even unionised Swedish hens aren’t as expensive as their US free-market capitalism cousins!
$3.92 for 12 large free range at Sainsbury’s - mid market UK supermarket. No doubt could find them cheaper at Aldi.
$5.37 for 18 grade A large eggs at Walmart in Tulsa.
The local grocery has them for $2.99 - $3.99 a dozen. Those are local eggs.
At Stop&Shop the best deal is $8.99 for 1.5 dozen.
Is avian flu affecting your egg supply? That’s why eggs are so expensive here in the US right now. A year ago they averaged about $2.50/dozen. A year before that we had the same problem (or perhaps it was another type of disruption) and eggs were around $5-$6/dozen for the cheap brands. And a year before that, under $2/dozen.
I saw $6.49/doz for large at a mainstream chain grocery store in a doctors-and-lawyers-and-middle-managers neighborhood.
They also had rather few of the usual bewildering array of sizes and types.
I’ve noticed the same thing starting a month or so ago. If I’m lucky, I can find the occasional Extra Large, but Jumbo have gone extinct.
At the moment, that seems to be a US problem, at least according to this article I found in The Guardian. Crossing everything that it doesn’t hop the pond.
The local Costco has them at $16 for 5 doz.
$2.94/dozen, Extra large at Kroger’s yesterday. I was there replenishing beer/wine and my wife asked me to grab a dozen for some baking project. Shelves weren’t full, but there were plenty of cartons and types in all of the fridges.
The only shortage I found was soda crackers. Only one brand left on the shelves, and only one type (Premium Original - no store brands or low-salt).
$3.79 for a dozen large two days ago at Giant. Eggland Best brand.
I’ve very rarely seen jumbo eggs. I grew up on a chicken farm; hens don’t lay them very often.
Last week I bought jumbo eggs for $7.39/dozen at the supermarket. I noticed that large eggs at the corner market were $6.99/dozen on Monday.
I’m guessing “no”? There’s been general inflation on just about everything here, but I don’t recall eggs being affected more than anything else. There hasn’t seemed to be any shortages when I go to buy them (which isn’t all that often, but still…).