# 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:** 8
**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:** [February 7, 2025, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/141 "2025-02-07T02:20:11Z")
As of today our large and XL 12cts have both gone down 50 cents, to $4.92 and $5.12 respectively. There’s still a quantity limit of 2 on those, though - the 3rd and beyond cost $9 and change. No luck for the resteurateur who thought he was getting one over on his distributor by bringing 60 boxes up to the register and expecting to get the “promo” price on all of them. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2025, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/142 "2025-02-07T03:07:18Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Organic eggs eggspurtly blaegged (see blag) in Pennsylvania Huh, up until now I didn’t know that “blag” also meant “taken in a way that implies sneakiness or theft”. I had only seen it in the sense of “deliberate misspelling of ‘blog’” as used in XKCD. ---
**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:** [February 7, 2025, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/143 "2025-02-07T03:11:14Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > “taken in a way that implies sneakiness or theft” Those would be poached eggs. ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2025, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/144 "2025-02-08T16:59:26Z")
I shopped at my local (SE Texas) Kroger again yesterday morning. They finally caught up to the other stores in the area, and the $2.49/doz. eggs that I bought on Jan. 10th are now $4.99/doz. and the 18-pack is $5.89. All their eggs have a two package per customer limit. Luckily, I still don’t need more eggs! ---
**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:** [February 8, 2025, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/145 "2025-02-08T17:07:47Z")
6.00 at Meijers ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2025, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/146 "2025-02-08T17:11:43Z")
$5.49 a dozen, store brand, limit of two, Lincoln, NE. Regional supermarket chain. When they have stock, sometimes the shelves are bare. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2025, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/147 "2025-02-08T17:42:31Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Huh, up until now I didn’t know that “blag” also meant “taken in a way that implies sneakiness or theft”. Yep still reasonably common in British English. Though nowadays used more for verbally lying or tricking to achieve something: “I blagged my way into the VIP room” ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2025, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/148 "2025-02-08T21:03:36Z")
They’re down to $6.49 at my local Fred Meyer. They were $7.99 for a long while and peaked briefly at $8.99. And our latest match of personalized coupons they send us each month is one for a free dozen. 🍳😁 ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/149 "2025-02-10T14:45:32Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > A dozen cage-free were $5.49 yesterday at Publix. The price remained the same yesterday, however there weren’t any on the shelf. The next cheapest cage-free available were over eight dollars, so I decided to see if we can do without for a few days. On Saturday, we went out and bought four laying hens and a rooster for $90. We’re still integrating them into the current flock, but one of them has already laid me a pretty green egg. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/150 "2025-02-10T15:01:00Z")
Prices are all over the place in grocery stores here. No rhyme or reason. Since I live alone I bought a dozen nice brown eggs at the farmers market for only $5 and had two for dinner with an english muffin . I felt so decadent!. The egg seller also has six double-yolkers for $6 from his ‘over-achievers’. ---
**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:** [February 10, 2025, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/151 "2025-02-10T15:25:39Z")
The wholesale/commodity market is being driven by expectations and emotions right now. Retailers are all over the map on how they are dealing with it. Different types of eggs are impacted differently. Seems like the battery eggs are most impacted in percentage terms, and the cost (wholesale) gap between battery, cage free, free range and pasture is compressing Some retailers are compressing the gaps in retails, while others are maintaining the gaps so they make more margin on the higher grades and less (even negative) on the “basic” eggs. Some states do not even allow battery eggs. There the dynamics are different. ---
**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:** [February 10, 2025, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/152 "2025-02-10T15:42:00Z")
> [@bordelond](#): > > Interestingly, our largest local chain (that is, homegrown in SE Louisiana and still headquartered here) had fire sale brown eggs all through December … **Right before Christmas, they had 18-packs of large brown eggs for $3.59 (!)**. I bought three cartons of those. The fire-sale brown eggs are back! $3.59/18 large brown equals about $2.39/dozen. The second-best price locally for a dozen eggs is Aldi at $4.67/dozen. I felt a little guilty, so I only grabbed two fire-sale cartons. They’re apparently sourced from one or more local poultry farms that are outside of the mega-flock system that is coming down with so much flu. The local farmers can’t produce eggs in huge numbers, but if you get lucky when they happen to be in stock you can get a great deal. The former local leader, WalMart Neighborhood Market, finally could hold their breath no longer. After having 18 large eggs for $6.16 for a few weeks – through this past Monday February 3rd – they shot up 50% all at once. Same 18 pack of eggs, at the same store, was $8.18 on Saturday, February 8th. ---
**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:** [February 10, 2025, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/153 "2025-02-10T16:26:59Z")
The morning news is showing surveillance video from a restaurant in Seattle, of [thieves stealing 540 eggs](https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/west-seattle-restaurant-egg-burglary-amid-rising-prices/281-b6c34d21-2516-4b8d-8106-f4a19d5c02bb) > Surveillance footage from the incident shows two men arriving in a white van then they proceeded to break into the café’s refrigerated shed. The thieves made off with three cases of eggs, one case of liquid egg, and several cases of bacon, ham, and blueberries. > “What’s more important with these eggs these days is more than just the price, it is really hard to get because of the bird flu. We just can’t get it anymore,” [restaurant owner Heong Park] Park explained. I’ve eaten at Luna Park Café, and drove by it countless times when our office was on Harbor Island. . ---
**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:** [February 10, 2025, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/154 "2025-02-10T20:27:52Z")
Down at the corner market just now: $6.99 for large, cage-free brown eggs. $10.99 for large, cage-free white eggs (different brand). Unlike the supermarket yesterday, they had plenty of eggs. ---
**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:** [February 11, 2025, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/155 "2025-02-11T09:22:51Z")
Speaking of Seattle, here’s a short but interesting story about Beth’s Cafe, the venerable Green Lake diner famous for its 12-egg omelettes, and how they’re coping with the availability of eggs these days. > **[‘I Feel Like a Drug Dealer’: How Beth’s Cafe Sources Eggs for Its 12-Egg Omelets](https://seattle.eater.com/2025/2/7/24360468/egg-prices-at-beths-cafe-12-egg-omelets-seattle)** > > The egg shortage has hit the legendary Green Lake diner, where the massive omelets cost as much as $42, particularly hard. ---
**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:** [February 12, 2025, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/156 "2025-02-12T02:22:52Z")
Just bought some for $11.99 for 18 which comes out to $7.99/doz (!!) from the local Jewel aka Albertsons. If I didn’t have a son on the spectrum whose morning routine includes two eggs for breakfast, I would have walked on by. [Edit: Actually they were on “sale” for a buck off so $10.99 paid, $11.99 on the sticker] Costco hasn’t had any eggs in stock for the last two weeks that I’ve looked while shopping. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2025, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/157 "2025-02-12T04:00:01Z")
I saw eggs for $4.69 a dozen yesterday. ---
**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:** [February 12, 2025, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/158 "2025-02-12T04:03:41Z")
‘So? We sell our eggs for _$3.69 a dozen_ when we’re out!’ ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2025, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/159 "2025-02-12T12:41:44Z")
The last couple of times my wife bought eggs at Jewel (major supermarket chain) they were $6 a dozen. Yesterday she stopped at Trader Joe’s and they were $4. Chicago’s western burbs. ---
**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:** [February 12, 2025, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719/160 "2025-02-12T15:37:48Z")
Local Mennonite store, large eggs per dozen local organic up to 6.99 and local conventional brown eggs up to 5.49 – with the first limit I’ve seen anywhere around here: to 3 dozen per customer. Apparently one of the local producers is having some problems, though I didn’t ask whether the problem is bird flu. Tops was advertising in their flyer, and had plenty of in the store, medium eggs for 2.99 /dozen. My guess is that one of their suppliers had to start over with a new flock and they’ve only recently started laying (young chickens produce smaller eggs than older chickens). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eggceptionality-eggspensive-eggs-what-are-the-prices-like-in-your-town/1012719.md?page=9)