Eggceptionality eggspensive eggs - what are the prices like in your town?

$19.99 for five dozen (~$4/dozen), Wyoming.

I eat a lot of eggs.

Just checked prices near me (Galveston/Houston area) for a dozen regular large eggs.

HEB $4.66
Aldi $4.39
Kroger $2.49 !

Maybe I should run to Kroger today and buy some extra before they go up. I currently have 15 eggs in the fridge, so if the avian flu crisis doesn’t last too long, three or four dozen should tide me over. USDA sell-by dates are stupid-short.

Around $5 is what we’ve been paying at Publix. I always buy the cage-free though, so possibly there are some cheaper. A co-worker told me she paid $7 last time she bought eggs from Wal-Mart.
And then she paid me $4 for a dozen, because my ladies have started to lay again. :slightly_smiling_face:

Last weekend, Aldi, near Chicago: $3.79, limit 2!

I have no reference point for these prices. What was the normal price of eggs before? $6/doz doesn’t seem like a lot. $0.50 per egg seems like a bargain.

$7/dozen at Winco (a low price grocer) near Sacramento. My son reports $3.20 at Winco in Boise. So it seems somewhat regional - maybe egg farms outside CA are not as impacted?

A couple years ago the now-$6 eggs were about $2.50 most days most places. So double or maybe a bit more percentage-wise.

CA, like WA, has a cage-free egg mandate. Idaho doesn’t.

In Western PA a dozen eggs at Walmart are about $4.53/dozen. Aldi has them for around $4.39/dozen.

Shop N Save has them for $5.89/dozen.

This is according to information re: online ordering.

Have not been to the store to see what types of eggs are available but plan on shopping this weekend.

$9 + (+ if you need something fancy like organic). Just north of Boston.

I bought a dozen large a couple days ago at $3.99. The usual price for those eggs prior to shortages would be around $2. Central NC.

I don’t know what that would have to do with the current shortage/price spike. Last month eggs were in the normal price range of around $4/dozen, and the cage free mandate was in place then?

I think Christmas week was the highest at my local vista, CA Kroger store: $39 for four dozen eggs. I don’t buy eggs but a neighboring customer expressed his outrage with a colorful pejorative and about seven exclamation points!

The government controls the price of eggs here (Israel), so they the maximum price for a dozen large eggs is $3.84 after tax. Some retail chains sell them for a bit less.

Well, presumably your baseline price was already higher to begin with.

Huh. I was not aware of that.

Perhaps the issue is that CA’s normal large cage-free supply is now largely offline from the disease, and the rest of the country is struggling to supply enough of those specialty eggs. Whereas a different state without the cage-free mandate can draw replacement eggs from a far larger national pool.

Yah, that could be.

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.

Eggs are free (on coupon) with Kroger delivery!

…unfortunately, they’re unavailable today. :cry: