# 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:** 3
**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, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/41 "2025-01-08T22:26:00Z")
**Q** : If you’re a store owner, what’s the best kind of free promotional product? **A** : The kind you’re out of. If you’re a store _employee_ it’s less good since you get to field all the angry bitching. ---
**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, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/42 "2025-01-08T22:35:00Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > **Q** : If you’re a store owner, what’s the best kind of free promotional product? > **A** : The kind you’re out of. That reminds me of an old joke. A woman goes to a butcher and asks how much the veal costs. The butcher says, ‘$16.99 per pound.’ The woman says, ‘What? That’s outrageous! The butcher a few blocks away has veal for $12.99 per pound!’ ‘So?’ says the butcher, ‘Why don’t you go _there_ to buy your veal?’ The woman says, ‘He’s out of veal.’ The butcher says, ‘Ah! I sell veal for _$10.99_ per pound when _I’m_ out!’ ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/43 "2025-01-08T22:52:00Z")
My local grocery store’s prices for a dozen eggs is between $4.99 to $6.39. The more interesting thing is they have had sign taped to the cooler door saying: > The eggs in the cooler are all we have in stock. Do NOT ask if we have any in the “back”. ---
**Author:** ![MindsEye\_Watering](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindseye_watering/32/3619_2.png) [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/44 "2025-01-08T23:08:12Z")
$7.90 for 18 extra large eggs here at Walmart in North Georgia. ---
**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, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/45 "2025-01-08T23:57:28Z")
> [@dorvann](#): > > The more interesting thing is they have had sign taped to the cooler door saying: > > > The eggs in the cooler are all we have in stock. Do NOT ask if we have any in the “back”. I mentioned upthread my own recent research. I did not mention that someone was stocking the largely empty egg section of the fridge case as I approached. Nor did I mention she did a pretty good imitation of a beaten puppy when I asked the price of what little stock she had. I was cheerful and appreciative in response, but her body language suggested I was the first such in the last hundred people she’d dealt with. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/46 "2025-01-09T00:17:35Z")
> [@X.L.Lent](#): > > They were asking $6.42 (USA dollars) for a dozen. What are the prices like in your town? Last I checked, prices varied with brand and quality – generally between $5-something to $7-something a dozen CAD (about $3.50 to $5 USD). Unless prices have risen dramatically in the past week or two. The free-run large brown eggs I usually buy are about $7 and change CAD. I’m also not aware of any shortages but again, the last time I bought eggs was a couple of weeks ago. ---
**Author:** ![SailorHG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SailorHG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SailorHG)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/47 "2025-01-09T14:34:42Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Is fifteen the usual quantity of eggs in Sweden? Because, in the US, it’s multiples of six; usually a dozen but sometimes just six eggs, or eighteen or 24. I’d say 15 is pretty common, but there are usually a variety of sizes: 6, 12, 15, 18, 20 and maybe higher. Here’s half of the egg aisle from the store today: [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/NMvUciE.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/NMvUciE) and the other half: [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/xIUDvXu.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/xIUDvXu) Note how we don’t have to refrigerate eggs here in the EU, so there’s much more stock space than could be accommodated if we needed coolers. ETA: apologies if these pictures make you feel like a Soviet-era comrade seeing supermarket shelves from the West. 🤗 ---
**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 9, 2025, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/48 "2025-01-09T14:53:50Z")
I mentioned before that it was around $2-$2.50/dozen. You can find a historical graph going back to 2010 and ending at Nov 2024 here (I can’t link to the image directly:) > **[Egg Prices Are Rising Again. Here’s Why They’re So High - NerdWallet](https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/finance/why-are-eggs-so-expensive)** > > Eggs prices are high because a two-year-long bird flu battle has devastated flocks of egg-laying hens. It was as around $2/dozen as late as fall 2023. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/49 "2025-01-09T15:33:51Z")
> [@SailorHG](#): > > > [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > > > Is fifteen the usual quantity of eggs in Sweden? Because, in the US, it’s multiples of six; usually a dozen but sometimes just six eggs, or eighteen or 24. > > I’d say 15 is pretty common, but there are usually a variety of sizes: 6, 12, 15, 18, 20 and maybe higher. Here’s half of the egg aisle from the store today: Thanks for that. It never occurred to me that in other countries eggs were not just sold in multiples of six. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/50 "2025-01-09T22:11:35Z")
Last eggs I bought were in a 700g carton of 12 free range for $5.70 (about $3.55 US). But my brother gave me a dozen last week from his own chickens. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/51 "2025-01-09T22:36:52Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > It was as around $2/dozen as late as fall 2023. Even as recently as late August _ **2024** _ (yes, five months ago), our local Aldis were selling loss-leader eggs for $1.75 a dozen. Other local grocery stores were, at the time, in that $2.50-or-so range. Three weeks later, the Aldi eggs were back over $3.00/dozen. By Thanksgiving, around $3.75. Been bouncing between $3.75-3.90 ever since (so far, they seem reluctant to go to $4.00). Interestingly, our largest local chain (that is, homegrown in SE Louisiana and still headquartered here) had fire sale brown eggs all through December. They had a dozen extra-large brown eggs for $2.50/dozen one week (I bought six dozen on two separate trips). Right before Christmas, they had 18-packs of large brown eggs for $3.59 (!). I bought three cartons of those. We go through a lot of eggs in this house, but we still have around 30 of those cheap eggs left in the fridge. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/52 "2025-01-12T00:43:58Z")
Price per dozen, at the Mennonite store: basically $4 for the conventional local eggs, $6 for the local organic pasture raised (I think actually 3.99 and 5.99; and I doubt the chickens are out on pasture here in January, though I don’t know for sure.) At the standard Tops grocery chain: a whole mess of options, the cheapest 4.50 and the most expensive 6.50. (They also had packs of 6 and of 18, I didn’t check the prices on those.) ETA: both places had plenty of eggs. I didn’t think to check Aldi’s. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/53 "2025-01-12T01:55:54Z")
I just looked up the prices at the grocery store I use. In CAN$, they range from 4.23 for a dozen of no-name grade A large to 7.09 for a brand we like, also grade A large. Although I am not sure if we could tell the difference, but my wife insists. There are more expensive options (organic, extra large, etc.) ---
**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 13, 2025, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/54 "2025-01-13T14:53:38Z")
I was at Trader Joe’s yesterday, and I noticed that regular eggs (I assume Large, Grade A – I wasn’t buying eggs, so I didn’t look at anything but the price) were $3.49 and $3.99/dozen. Organic free-range brown eggs were $4.99/dozen. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/55 "2025-01-13T14:58:40Z")
> [@bordelond](#): > > [At our local Aldis, by] Thanksgiving, around $3.75. Been bouncing between $3.75-3.90 ever since ( **so far, they seem reluctant to go to $4.00** ). Scratch that - yesterday, our Aldi had a dozen large for $4.53 – a 259% increase in five months. Over the weekend, I’ve made the conscious decision to cut back on eggs. I normally have three eggs on the four or five days a week I’m having breakfast at home. For now, I’ll go with two at a time. That will claw back a lot of the price increase. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/56 "2025-01-13T15:10:14Z")
> [@SailorHG](#): > > > [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > > > Is fifteen the usual quantity of eggs in Sweden? Because, in the US, it’s multiples of six; usually a dozen but sometimes just six eggs, or eighteen or 24. > > I’d say 15 is pretty common, but there are usually a variety of sizes: 6, 12, 15, 18, 20 and maybe higher. We just watched the video below where a German lady and her nephew were cooking together. They are in Saarland in SW Germany FWIW. Anyway, when they lay out the ingredients, you can see the box of _10 Frische Bio-Eier_ (10 fresh organic [?] eggs). [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/jox6bVWlnf8/maxresdefault.jpg "My Nephew Helps Me COOK A SECRET GERMAN FAMILY RECIPE") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jox6bVWlnf8&t=625) Fast-forward to 10:25 if the video does not queue up to the point the ingredients are laid out. ---
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$7.89 for 2 dozen organic free range at Costco. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/58 "2025-01-13T15:16:08Z")
> [@bordelond](#): > > We just watched the video below where a German lady and her nephew were cooking together. They are in Saarland in SW Germany FWIW. Anyway, when they lay out the ingredients, you can see the box of _10 Frische Bio-Eier_ (10 fresh organic [?] eggs). Hate to quote myself, but the embedded video prevents editing in Discourse: The folks in that video also have _Bio-Kartoffeln_ (potatoes) as well as “Bio Eier”. German speakers: does “Bio” here map broadly to the American English grocery term “organic”? @EinsteinsHund , @Schnitte ? Maybe @Pardel-Lux or @Cervaise has seen “Bio-” groceries their way. ---
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An 18 pack at one store was over $9. The same quantity was about $8.40 at our regular store. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/60 "2025-01-13T15:29:14Z")
> [@bordelond](#): > > The folks in that video also have _Bio-Kartoffeln_ (potatoes) as well as “Bio Eier”. German speakers: does “Bio” here map broadly to the American English grocery term “organic”? @EinsteinsHund , @Schnitte ? Maybe @Pardel-Lux or @Cervaise has seen “Bio-” groceries their way. Yes, I think the label “Bio” in Germany means about the same as organic in the US. It’s an official label though, controlled by law. That means that farmers or other producers have to follow certain rules and restrictions, especially regarding animal welfare, use of pesticides and other ecological/environmental regards. ETA: just read the post where you posted the video. Yes, in Germany eggs come in packs of 6 or 10. In the last years, I even sometimes have seen packs of 4. ETA2: as for the prize: I don’t know exactly, but I usually by a six pack of large eggs for about € 2.50. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719.md?page=4)