Our 60ct medium eggs have as of today dropped from $37 to $24, but there’s now a quantity limit of one at that price with any subsequent cases being $42. 12ct and 18ct (both large) are steady at $5.46 and $8.02.
I am trying to imagine who needs multiple cartons of sixty eggs each. Perhaps a restaurant owner?
You’d be surprised. Even with them as expensive as they are now (compared to when that case used to be $5-7 in the Before Time) we still go through an entire pallet about every two days.
How many people is we???
“We” being the grocery store I work at.
I think we are talking past each other. Dewey Finn was clearly talking about retail customers, i.e. households.
If a household is buying multiple cases of 60 eggs on a single shopping trip, they must either:
- have a huge household (e.g. a sorority house)
- eat a huge number of eggs per capita per day
- be stockpiling eggs
Or d) have volunteered to do something involving eggs for some function or other.
I don’t need multiple 60-pack cartons per se … but I, personally, go through a lot of eggs. 12-15 per week.
Right now, I have 62 eggs in the fridge – three full 18-packs and another pack with eight eggs left. I will go to the grocer mentioned in this post (upthread) sometime over the next day or three. If they have those fire-sale eggs (18 for $3.59) in stock, I will absolutely buy at least two cartons despite already having 60+ eggs at home.
Essentially, I’m hoarding eggs when I find them at the right price. They last long enough in the fridge (~3 months) that I can get away with doing so. Should prices ever drop back down, I’ll return to something closer to just-in-time egg purchases (although even before the price jumps, I didn’t like being down to my last dozen eggs).
You’re correct; I was wondering how many households buy multiple five-dozen packages of eggs. I do see people at the supermarket or Costco buying the five-dozen packages (neatly organized in two trays of thirty eggs each) but usually only one at a time.
I usually only get five dozen at a time, but occasionally I pickle eggs, which requires me to pick up quite a few more…
$5.36/dozen at the Aldi today. My normal general-shopping supermarket was at $9.99 for the cheapest. (I never buy eggs nor milk there, even back before the avian flu days.) It was limit two, but I just buy a dozen at a time. I don’t care if I pay a buck more next week. I go through about a dozen to dozen and a half a week. Five bucks a dozen is a plenty fine price. If it gets seriously more expensive even at Aldi, I’ll just eat something else. I can live without eggs.
In our Aldi, they were $5.64/doz. I didn’t need any - I just noticed the sign as I passed.
No eggs at all in our Aldi or our Lidl. The local Western Beef (a small chain in NYC and Long Island) had Eggland brand, a dozen large for $5.29 and a dozen XL for $5.39. They also had another brand (a name I can’t remember, but I’ve seen it around) for $10.99 a dozen, and they weren’t organic or free range or anything special; those were $7.99.
About $3.00 to $4.00 / dozen on average in Canada (in CAD).
Costco Oahu Hawaii today. $8.99 for 24 organic, 7.99 for 24 inorganic???
limit is up to three (72) packs. About the same as before the great chicken culling. Same packaging as before so their supplier(s) are back clucking.
Made 12 hard boiled eggs last night. Went in fridge and only 7 were left. 4 after lunch. Wife has two gals staying over for a conference. I ate the rest so I wouldn’t be shut out. “Talk about a shortage.”
Will prices actually come down or will economic shenanigans by the current administration keep them elevated?
I lucked out yesterday and got a dozen for $4.99 at Trader Joe’s - they’re usually sold out. The store I normally shop at - Winco - is now charging $8.82 / dozen.
Yesterday Trader Joe’s had a full egg case and they were selling for $4-something a dozen. Today at Meijer the egg case was nearly empty and they were $5-something a dozen. I rarely eat eggs so I wasn’t shopping for them, I just happened to look since I’ve been reading this thread.
On that topic, we had a guy come in today and buy 15 of the 60ct cases - a total of $618 for 900 eggs.
Unfortunately I didn’t get to ask what he was doing with them.
Restaurant, perhaps? Was the price particularly good for the 60 count package?