# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2025, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/101 "2025-01-26T15:57:11Z")
I posted this on another thread, but I think it fits here, too: > [@The Trump Administration: The Clusterfuck Continues](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues/1010068/1081): > > If pandemics and market forces will not succumb to the indomitable will of Donald Trump, there will surely be hell to pay: ---
**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 26, 2025, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/102 "2025-01-26T16:04:44Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > 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.) As of yesterday (Jan 25 2025): per dozen, conventional local up to 4.49, local organic pastured holding steady at 5.99, still plenty of both. I expect it helps some to be living in an area where multiple people are in the egg-producing business, most of them on a relatively small scale so that if one place is having problems it doesn’t screw the entire supply. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2025, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/103 "2025-01-26T23:04:15Z")
Can’t tell you how expensive they are. We went to Costco and there wasn’t an egg to be found. And no prices posted for missing eggs. Can’t wait for the new leadership to tackle this issue that he talked about so much. ---
**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 27, 2025, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/104 "2025-01-27T00:27:45Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > Can’t wait for the new leadership to tackle this issue that he talked about so much. I suspect they’re going to [lay an egg](https://grammarist.com/idiom/lay-an-egg/). ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/105 "2025-01-27T22:28:52Z")
Meijers in Mentor-4.69 for a dozen latge. ---
**Author:** ![mozchron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mozchron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mozchron)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/106 "2025-01-27T22:37:53Z")
$4.95/dzn yesterday afternoon. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/107 "2025-01-27T23:11:34Z")
They are goiing up, I just bought two dozen, for 4.59 per dozen. Plenty of eggs to sell but no 1-1/2 dozen cartons, they were bought out. ---
**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 31, 2025, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/108 "2025-01-31T04:07:44Z")
After not buying eggs for over a month I gave in and bought a dozen for $7.42 USD. Free range eggs from a Winco store in Southern California. Headed for kitchen now to make an omelette. ---
**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 31, 2025, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/109 "2025-01-31T04:35:00Z")
Today I decided to browse one of our competitors (Haggen, a small upscale chain owned by Safeway) while I was waiting for a prescription to be filled. Their regular 12ct eggs were $6.99, but they somehow had jumbos for $4.99. I would’ve bought some if I didn’t already have most of a box of extra-large brown eggs at home. The regular 12cts remain $5.42 at my work. The price of the 60-count case has gone up to an astonishing $34.20, but we no longer have the quantity limit on them. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/110 "2025-01-31T04:47:16Z")
I went to Save-A-Lot today, and though I didn’t need eggs I checked on my way by. They were mostly around 5.50 a dozen a few cents more foe eighteen. The convenience store I work at is at 7.99 a dozen. One of our customers used to bring us eggs for free (us as in the people that work there). Iwonder if he’s having issues with his chickens, cause he doesn’t any more. So far, the price of eggs is very low on my list of problems. They haven’t gone up so far I’m conflicted about buting them. ---
**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 31, 2025, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/111 "2025-01-31T17:00:14Z")
> [@Sylvanz](#): > > One of our customers used to bring us eggs for free (us as in the people that work there). Iwonder if he’s having issues with his chickens, cause he doesn’t any more If you’re anywhere that has winter, that may be the issue. Chickens won’t lay much to speak of in the winter unless their quarters are heated and provided with considerable artificial lighting to mimic long days; many backyard chicken raisers aren’t set up to do that. Also, if they keep their chickens alive for multiple years (as most backyard chicken people do), the chickens have to pause egglaying to moult (grow a new batch of feathers) about once a year; large commercial operations stagger moulting times or just butcher those and bring in a new batch of younger birds, but most backyard people just let theirs moult naturally in the winter time. Or, in short: he probably doesn’t have nearly as many eggs, if any, at this time of year; and may well start bringing you eggs again in the spring or early summer. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/112 "2025-01-31T17:16:31Z")
Around here (New England) we also have coyote and fox attacks on chicken houses that can wipe out flocks. It’s almost a rite of passage for kids whose families are keeping chickens to experience the first massacre of the chickens. ETA: I live in a suburban “right to farm” town. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/113 "2025-01-31T20:40:03Z")
Here in Schenectady, they’re about $4.50 a dozen. ---
**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 31, 2025, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/114 "2025-01-31T21:21:32Z")
Haggen: $7.19/dozen for Extra Large. The Market: $7.49/dozen for Jumbo. Trader Joe’s eggs are $3.49 to $6.99 per dozen, depending on what kind you get. The guy there said they did not raise their prices. He said they’d sold out about an hour before I got there (not that I was going to buy any), and that they actually lasted longer than they did yesterday. I did buy eggs from Haggen and The Market. ---
**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 31, 2025, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/115 "2025-01-31T21:38:08Z")
What I learned in this thread: you Americans are really serious, maybe even obsessed, about your eggs. For comparison, during early Covid, what us Germans hoarded were toilet paper and pasta, but I never heard about egg scarcity. Talk about priorities… (yeah, I know, that was a different situation, and TP became scarce in America too during Covid, I just wanted to point out that eggs seem to play a much more important role in American cooking than in German. I live alone, and a six pack can last two months for me) ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/116 "2025-01-31T21:52:34Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > What I learned in this thread: you Americans are really serious, maybe even obsessed, about your eggs. At least the price of eggs. Going from $0.30 to $0.70 per egg seems like a rounding error for most people’s household budget. Even if you eat a lot of eggs. ---
**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 31, 2025, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/117 "2025-01-31T22:43:01Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Going from $0.30 to $0.70 per egg seems like a rounding error for most people’s household budget. But that increase is not happening in isolation. Nothing else is going up as much as eggs, but everything has gone up a lot over the past 3-5 years. All I can say is that not everyone is so comfortable financially as to be sanguine about the cost of eggs. And you don’t have to be reduced to living under an overpass to feel concern. ---
**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 31, 2025, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/118 "2025-01-31T22:44:02Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > What I learned in this thread: you Americans are really serious, maybe even obsessed, about your eggs. For comparison, during early Covid, what us Germans hoarded were toilet paper and pasta, but I never heard about egg scarcity. During COViD toilet paper was what people were hoarding. Lots of empty shelves. We’re not obsessed with the price of eggs _per se_. The reason the price of eggs is a big deal is because Trump pointed to the price of eggs during his campaign, and promised to make eggs and other groceries (and gas) be cheaper than ever. So talking about the price of eggs reminds everyone how Trump bamboozled the people who believed he would magically make them cheaper. ---
**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 31, 2025, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/119 "2025-01-31T22:46:15Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > The reason the price of eggs is a big deal is because Trump pointed out the price of eggs during his campaign … I would say “the price of eggs being a big deal” well precedes Donald Trump talking about it. It’s also been a reminder of economic volatility that American consumers had usually been shielded from in recent decades. Today it’s eggs. Tomorrow … what will be the next thing to suddenly double in price? ---
**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 31, 2025, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/120 "2025-01-31T22:48:26Z")
> [@bordelond](#): > > I would say “the price of eggs being a big deal” well precedes Donald Trump talking about it. Yes, bird flu was causing, and continues to cause, a shortage of eggs that made the price increase. Then Trump comes along and points to how expensive eggs are and made it a campaign issue. > **[Trump Vowed to 'Immediately' Bring Down Egg Prices. His New Press Secretary...](https://people.com/karoline-leavitt-defends-rising-egg-costs-bird-flu-outbreak-8783879)** > > Karoline Leavitt claimed former President Joe Biden's administration is to blame for the killing of 100 million chickens and subsequent soaring egg prices. But that is protocol for a bird flu outbreak, which would get worse without intervention > In the 2024 election, the cost of groceries, gas and other necessary goods was a large force behind how citizens voted — and two thirds of the people who cited basic goods cost as the most important issue for them voted for Trump. So that’s why we’re harping on the price of eggs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719.md?page=7)