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.
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!’
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”.
$7.90 for 18 extra large eggs here at Walmart in North Georgia.
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.
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.
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:
and the other half:
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. 
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:)
It was as around $2/dozen as late as fall 2023.
Thanks for that. It never occurred to me that in other countries eggs were not just sold in multiples of six.
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.
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.
Price per dozen, at the Mennonite store: basically $4 for the conventional local eggs, $6 for the local organic pasture raised (I think actually 3.99 and 5.99; and I doubt the chickens are out on pasture here in January, though I don’t know for sure.)
At the standard Tops grocery chain: a whole mess of options, the cheapest 4.50 and the most expensive 6.50. (They also had packs of 6 and of 18, I didn’t check the prices on those.)
ETA: both places had plenty of eggs.
I didn’t think to check Aldi’s.
I just looked up the prices at the grocery store I use. In CAN$, 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.)
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.
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.
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).
Fast-forward to 10:25 if the video does not queue up to the point the ingredients are laid out.
$7.89 for 2 dozen organic free range at Costco.
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.
An 18 pack at one store was over $9. The same quantity was about $8.40 at our regular store.
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.