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.
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.
Those would be poached eggs.
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!
6.00 at Meijers
$5.49 a dozen, store brand, limit of two, Lincoln, NE. Regional supermarket chain. When they have stock, sometimes the shelves are bare.
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”
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. 
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. 
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’.
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.
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.
The morning news is showing surveillance video from a restaurant in Seattle, of thieves stealing 540 eggs
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.
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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.
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.
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.
I saw eggs for $4.69 a dozen yesterday.
‘So? We sell our eggs for $3.69 a dozen when we’re out!’
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.
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).