# Eggceptionality eggspensive eggs - what are the prices like in your town? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 8, 2025, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719 "2025-01-08T06:36:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![X.L.Lent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a5b964/32.png) [@X.L.Lent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/X.L.Lent)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/1 "2025-01-08T06:36:42Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/2 "2025-01-08T06:46:07Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/3 "2025-01-08T06:54:29Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/4 "2025-01-08T07:19:35Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/5 "2025-01-08T07:31:42Z")
Here’s some prices from the upmarket UK supermarket (add about one-third for the USD conversion): [https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/shop/browse/groceries/fresh\_and\_chilled/milk\_butter\_and\_eggs/free\_range\_eggs](https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/shop/browse/groceries/fresh_and_chilled/milk_butter_and_eggs/free_range_eggs) ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/6 "2025-01-08T07:42:04Z")
$4.19 for a dozen large at Whole Foods. $4.49 at Haggen. $5.49 at Safeway. ---
**Author:** ![SailorHG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SailorHG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SailorHG)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/7 "2025-01-08T09:53:41Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/8 "2025-01-08T10:16:41Z")
$3.92 for 12 large free range at Sainsbury’s - mid market UK supermarket. No doubt could find them cheaper at Aldi. ---
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/9 "2025-01-08T12:23:40Z")
$5.37 for 18 grade A large eggs at Walmart in Tulsa. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/10 "2025-01-08T12:27:13Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/11 "2025-01-08T12:29:40Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/12 "2025-01-08T12:37:08Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/13 "2025-01-08T12:44:20Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > Also noticed that I can never find extra-large these days, just large. 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. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/14 "2025-01-08T13:05:28Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Is avian flu affecting your egg supply? That’s why eggs are so expensive here in the US right now. At the moment, that seems to be a US problem, at least according to [this article](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/us-egg-prices-bird-flu) I found in The Guardian. Crossing everything that it doesn’t hop the pond. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/15 "2025-01-08T13:22:25Z")
The local Costco has them at $16 for 5 doz. ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/16 "2025-01-08T13:24:56Z")
$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). ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/17 "2025-01-08T13:43:41Z")
$3.79 for a dozen large two days ago at Giant. Eggland Best brand. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/18 "2025-01-08T14:32:52Z")
> [@Jasmine](#): > > If I’m lucky, I can find the occasional Extra Large, but Jumbo have gone extinct. I’ve very rarely seen jumbo eggs. I grew up on a chicken farm; hens don’t lay them very often. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/19 "2025-01-08T14:39:55Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![SailorHG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SailorHG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SailorHG)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/20 "2025-01-08T15:25:57Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Is avian flu affecting your egg supply? 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…). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719.md?page=2)