Here in Seattle, Eggland’s Best eggs are now $7.49/dozen at Safeway and $9.49/dozen at QFC. Damn bird flu. I just started a low carb/Keto diet and now go through a dozen eggs each week. 2 weeks ago they were only $5.99/dozen.
I don’t even like eggs that much.
Serious issue:
Could the dems turn this into a real advantage?
Like those stickers that right-wingers were putting on gas pumps, pointing to the price-“Biden did this”.
Maybe start a 4-year-long campaign with signs showing price increases in groceries. It would be cheap, using billboards, (and 10-second long radio ads. ) Use a standardized format, so the public would recognize it like a well known logo of a brand name . Just one printed line. saying “eggs before Trump 6.99, after Trump 7.99.”
Change the subject - eggs to ,say, bacon-, every month or so, to keep it interesting and in the public eye.
Nonstop, for 4 years.
Am I crazy, or is this feasible?
Just sub Biden with RFK Jr.
I’ve seen videos also doing something along these lines on TikTok. No idea if it’s made an impact.
They go well with sour grapes…
It is amazing just how quickly it can oscillate between great and forever destroyed.
Do leopards like faces with some egg on them?
Yep, avian flu is going to cause them to go up and up. And I don’t see Trump doing anything to help with this issue once RFK Jr starts saying avian bird flu makes humans healthier and removes any funding to try to stop/slow the spread. Biden is throwing some money at it while he can…hope it helps. Gift NY Times link below.
That’s just looking at Trump. Look at the big picture for the Republican party.
If being poor is the reason you’re voting Republican, then the Republican party wants you to stay poor.
Faces Benedict
I’m not sure what you mean - are you saying Republicans other than Trump are going to help poor people?
No, the exact opposite. The leaders of the Republican party want people to vote for Republican candidates. If being poor causes people to vote for Republican candidates, then the leaders of the Republican party will want to make more people poor.
This is the general Republican policy; create a problem and then say the existence of the problem is a reason to vote Republican.
Trump is an example of this. His tariff led to higher prices on consumer goods and people then voted for him because the prices on consumer goods are higher.
But it’s a mistake to think that Trump is the only example of this. As always, we shouldn’t get so focused on Trump that we stop paying attention to what the rest of the Republican party is doing.
I bought a bag of 6 hard-boiled eggs (Eggland Brand, even) on sale for 2.99.
I usually do not buy the preboiled and shelled eggs because of the cost, I make them myself. But these were actually a little less than half the price of a dozen store brand eggs ( and WAY less than a dozen Eggland eggs), so I get to be lazy AND save a little money.
Datum: I just bought jumbo eggs for $7.39/dozen. (Large eggs were $6.99/dozen.)
Honestly? Voting Republican is more likely the reason for them being poor.
Another datum: At Winco this morning, I saw extra large eggs (they don’t carry jumbo here, no matter what Smapti says) for, IIRC, $4.29/dozen. In somewhat smaller print, the sign informs you that this price is for the first dozen; subsequent dozens are something like $7.19/dozen.
The forest and the railroad tracks.
I bought a dozen large eggs at Aldi today for $3.97.
There was a sign on the cooler door limiting it to two dozen per customer, but that was probably less the price and more the upcoming snowmageddon and St. Louisans’ tendency to hoard French toast ingredients.
Speaking of eggs, we went to BJs Wholesale Club yesterday and there wasn’t an egg to be found. And they sell three different brands, so they usually have a lot of eggs. Nope. Not a one.
It’s possible that hard-boiled eggs are enough cheaper to ship, that they might remain lower in price per egg than eggs in their natural state.
If a few people don’t care where they are on a list, then NO people care where they are on a list.
/you
(Logic score: failing.)
You may or may not be crazy, but this seems like a great idea to me.
We know the people fooled into voting for Trump don’t read message boards such as this one, or watch or read any news that would clue them into the coming Trumpian economic debacle.
So billboards might be one the few ways of reaching them.
This may have happened before Trump got in, but it’s symbolic of the MANY ways ordinary people are going to be paying more for everything in the coming months and years. Huzzah for deregulation!