5mo ago

US egg prices hit a record high of $4.95 and are likely to keep climbing

Summary

Egg prices in the U.S. have reached a record high of $4.95 per dozen amid a severe bird flu outbreak that has led to the culling of millions of egg-laying chickens.

The shortage is compounded by rising feed, fuel, and labor costs, as well as increased demand and stricter cage-free regulations in several states.

Consumers face empty shelves, surcharges, and limited availability, with some areas pricing cartons at $10 or more.

Prices are expected to continue rising, especially with Easter demand.

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- yea..fucking hilarious how maga sheep all of a sudden seemed to shut the fuck up about egg prices
  
  They are all now experts on the effects of culling chickens for bird flu.
  
  I was expecting a whole raft of letters and op-eds in my local corporate rag (Denver Post) that more or less spew the same old "give him a chance to pivot to being presidential, you guyyyyyyzzzzzz" and "we had to put up with Biden when he was in office and you didn't see US protesting like this [1]!!! boo hoo hoo" type of stuff for the next several weeks months after he took power. I don't recall seeing too many of these. Weird.
  [1] The fact that these assholes could act like they had to "put up with" Biden when neither Biden or anyone in his administration was trying to target entire demographics and cause "pain" to the American people, etc...completely unlike what donvict is doing. Nevermind that they can sit there and gaslight about not protesting. Protesting is a completely valid and highly American and patriotic tradition - what THEY fucking did when they lost was to throw an insurrection that was run in parallel with a fucking coup attempt.
  
  Make sure at every opportunity that you call everyone of those fuckers a hypocrite, and if you don't have to maintain any sort of relationship with them, also make sure they know how much of a cunt they are too.
- This is fun
- Holy hell that is hilarious on multiple levels.
  
  Am I correct that that is him pointing and looking directly at the sun?
- Is this from that time he stared at the solar eclipse without eye protection?
  
  Yes.
  
  I still wonder if him staring at the sun was more from him just being a complete idiot, or a "imma gunna show them what a MAN I am! This is some real fucking leadership, I tell u wut!"
- Given the cost of everything including stickers, maybe it might be good to have a printout of this and take it everywhere, then take an image with this held up next to the prices.
  Also, in Bronzo the Clown's America, I might get deported or sent to Gitmo over defacing some gas pump with...stickers.
- The background should probably be the Russian flag.
  
  Swastika would be more accurate.
  
  Is it day 1 yet?
  
  No, flag of Putin's party
Just yesterday my friend texted that his local bodega in the Bronx is selling $1 loosies or $12/dozen. Fucking egg loosies. What’s next? Egg dealers on Gun Hill?
- Refrigerated trenchcoat sales on the subway.
  
  Got ya free range here. Extra large. Whites and browns.
  
  Or just sell the non processed eggs that’s easier since they don’t need to be refrigerated
  
  You see the Daily Show sketch?
- People will be selling black market eggs in back alleys soon.
  
  There was a news story a few days ago about somebody heisting 144,000 eggs from a delivery truck in PA.
- "Yo, I got them loose ovoids!"
- That’s why I would never shop at a bodega. “Let’s make paying more feel cool and trendy.” It’s a fucking 7-11 with incense.
  
  Bodegas are small businesses that are usually very entrenched in the community. This isn’t extortion. It’s a way to make a few eggs affordable. My criticism is of the need for the loosies in the first place.
  
  NYC doesn't exactly have massive supermarkets on ever highway intersection. They are convenience stores that fill a need.
  
  That's not why they do things like that, but stay ignorant.
Biden and Obama conspiring in the shadows to help the deep state sabotage trump, obviously.
- Having the Jews launch bird flu at farms with their space lasers too.
  I hate that I have to, but fucking /s
  
  I skip the /s and leave it as it is as a litmus test over who I can tag with something derogatory for future reference.
- Only Democrats' shadowy cabal control the economy like this, it's a known fact from Fox News!
  Every day Obama wakes up before every American, and personally draws on the price tags of the things a Republican was craving that day with a sharpie, to ensure they yelled at a store clerk.
  Biden personally loves to go to a gas station and round up to the nearest dollar, but at Chevron stations it's the nearest dollar plus 13 cents.
  Hilary Clinton uses space lasers to make streaming services remove content and increase the cost.
Canned white tuna is now cheaper with more protein per dollar than eggs where I am.
- Would you mind saying if you're coastal? It would be extra funny if you're in Nebraska or something.
  
  Could be Colorado. They’re over $12/dozen. Batshit crazy here.
- Which they just had a recall on.
- Plus an extra 2000% of your RDA for mercury!
Buy the ticket, take the ride
- This was going to happen under anyone who won, tbh.
  
  Eggs are not super expensive in Canada despite also having issues with bird flu.
  Canada structured their industry differently via regulation such that the impact of a bird pandemic wouldn't be as damaging.
  My eggs are cheaper in Canadian dollars than your average is in American dollars, despite the exchange being like 1.42 cdn per USD.
$5. They're $5.
- Great, now they're 5.99.
  
  That was honestly a good joke.
- Its one egg, michael. What could it cost, Ten dollars?
Thanks, trump!
Amusingly, the pasture raised eggs are now the same price as the regular eggs at Aldi.
- I have a coworker who keeps about 250 chickens at her house and sells the brown eggs for $5 a dozen. Meanwhile, a dozen white eggs at Shop-Rite are $10.
  
  her house?? She must live on a ranch or something
  
  Different coloured eggs are different prices in the US?
Didn't Jabba-the Orange pledge to lower those prices on DAY ONE?
- Yeah, but something, something Biden did it.
  
  If biden was a weak and pathetic president..
  and trump cant even stop biden from still fucking things up.
  then how weak and pathetic does that make trump?
  Or is that too much logic for rumpets.
  
  What a weak president. Being thrwarted by someone not in power.
  
  He killed all the birds, according to Bronzo the Clown's spokesxtian.
BUT Trump said he would lower prices on day 1! I don’t get it, why would he lie?
- There's a giant knob labeled EGG PRICES in the oval office and he hasn't turned it yet!
  
  Old people have hard time finding right knobs to turn.
$4.95 for one egg is ridiculous. I won’t pay more than $4.50 an egg. 😤
- “It’s one banana, Michael, how much could it cost? 10 dollars?”
  
  Enough already
Poor Canada, egg prices are the same. /s
- I paid $3.93 CAD for a dozen yesterday.
  
  Ontario NoFrills?
  
  Save on is usually more expensive than other places
- My close save on (company from graphic) seems to have trouble keeping eggs in stock, plus it's like $8-9 for free range which I usually try to buy. Their quality (used to be quite orange now more dull, not as yellow as most eggs still) has gone down I hope the chickens are treated better.
- I just saw an 18 pack for $14.75 yesterday at my local grocery. A dozen is $10, and that's for the white eggs, not the brown ones. Luckily we have a Grocery Outlet that had a dozen for $7.50, but holy shit.
  
  2 packs of 18 used to be $7 bucks. Now one pack of 18 is $8.
  I've stopped buying eggs.
- "i just bought the always high priced ones at a high price!"
  Amazing.
  
  They used to be $6 🤷‍♂️
Just a reminder, if you're like me and never even look at organic stuff, check the organic eggs. They're cheaper at my store right now.
- Why not look at organic stuff?
  
  I never look at organic stuff because while they may legitimately avoid pesticides and other chemicals, there is no scientifically demonstrated benefit to organic produce, and it costs a lot more.
  There's an implication that organic is healthier and just better, but there's no evidence of that.
  Like I could buy milk from cows that have nice names and listen to music while being milked, and that might make me feel better, but the nutritional quality of the milk is the same.
  
  Usually organic stuff is 2-4x more expensive around here, so my eyes tend to slip right over them.
  
  Because being anti-GMO is hateful bigotry. Things like golden rice have already saved and enhanced millions of lives, it’s just that the benefit goes to poor people with dark skin.
“Surcharges”
Is that a the grocer version of “dealer premiums” from when car dealers legally price gouged during the covid parts supply shortages?
It’s gonna be like the USSR except instead of bread shops running out of bread you’re just not going to be able to afford it because the grocer jacked up the price to $30/loaf.
- Not exactly. More like post-USSR. Before fall of USSR sortages meant everything that was produced was consumed and there was some demamd on top. After fall it meant some things were left to rot on shelves in hope someone will buy for higher price.
Where's the I did that stickers and artificial blame?
Why does that only go one way?
- They are on Etsy, and all over the place where I am
$4.95? They're freaking $10 here.
- Third world country. Here in Russia it is ten times cheaper. And then we have some healthcare.
$8 here in the supermarket, but 2 dozen for $5 at the farm across the street from my SO's parents
- $10 for a dozen here. But still $7.69 for two dozen at Costco if you can get to them before they sell out.
  
  $8.49 for two dozen brown eggs at Costco in Colorado (Denver Metro)
Neighborhood chicken lady went from $2 to $3 a dozen due to the price increase of chicken feed. Hopefully her chickens won’t be affected, mostly for her & her family’s sake.
Mitchell and Webb situation - Chicken farmer
"You see that? It's made of chicken. It's actually made of chicken. You kill it; you got free chicken, you can sell it to people. Or... don't kill it, and fucking eggs come out of their arses! Fucking hell!"
- They just got the one hole for everything so the eggs coming out of their ass is as accurate as saying they kinda pee them out.
  
  Yeah I don't think the joke would be improved by having Mitchell's character be accurate about the chickens anatomy. In fact, I think it might ruin it a bit if he wasn't as excitedly silly and incredulous.
  But yes I take your point about what terms we use to refer to cloakas.
“Make Egg Price Great Again”
- Bullet omelette?
  
  https://youtu.be/hZ-f_Off5lE
  How did you know?
You don't need eggs, eat something else. Better for chickens, biodiversity and the climate as well
- Excellent whataboutism 👌
  "As a vegan, this issue doesn't affect me in any way, so it shouldn't affect you either💅"
  Let them eat quinoa amirite
  
  Nah, I'd like to turn that around. It is not necessary for you to eat eggs, so it shouldn't affect you, same as it doesn't affect me. More inclusive, you know? Together towards a better world.
  I'd prefer some salted nuts and kidney beans in my enchilada, quinoa is a bit overrated tbh.
  
  It does affect the baby male chicks that get macerated in the egg industry.
- We don't "bleach" the eggs, we wash the outer membrane off along with dirt and feces to reduce salmonella contamination (and because poopy eggs are harder to market) which is also why they're refrigerated. We can't skip the washing process without first addressing the filthy conditions cheap commercial eggs are produced in and Big Ag is just one of many powerful interest groups that has had our government by the balls for decades (at least).
Where are people getting these numbers? Eggs have been above $7 for months
- https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000708111
  
  Very cool resource! Thank you! I'm looking up all sorts of stuff in there
- Average across the nation. They’re $12/dozen here.
- $5.19 where I am.
Cheapest eggs for my grocery store are $5.65.
So are people treating this as a generalized sign of inflation, or are people actually worried about eggs?
Because if you're treating this as a gauge of inflation, it's a bad one, as there's a bird flu outbreak greatly affecting egg prices.
And if it's just concern about eggs... I don't get it. I mean, I think our household eats a lot of eggs, but a lot is like 2-3 dozen a week. And if eggs cost $2 more than usual, well, that's $6 a week. Meh? I doubt this is breaking the bank for many people.
- I think it's a meme at this point, because some people said they voted for trump due to egg prices and he might have promised to reduce them on day one.
  
  He promised to reduce grocery prices on day 1, and end the war in Ukraine after winning the election
  "Known liar lies" could just be the headline every day with him
- Eggs are staple like bread or milk. It's a cheap source of protein and when the price goes up the people who feel it the most are the ones that are most sensitive to grocery prices. So yes, to you it might not seem like a lot, but to someone who's barely able to afford groceries it's life changing.
- Both. People are worried about their eggs.
Lol. They're 5.99 for us.
- Can I ask who's us? Are you talking USD and general region & - mostly just country and general population of where your asking from.
  
  USA.
Meanwhile, my small backyard chicken flock (smallish coop with an enclosed and roofed run) eats the organic trash from our kitchen, and then they give me between 5-8 eggs per day. Literally, I picked up 7 eggs yesterday even though nights are around -10 degrees C. It’s a miracle.
- That's not a miracle that's literally just how chickens work.
  
  I wish! It was 60 F here last night and these ladies still ain't got enough daylight to start laying.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony
  
  You friend, ARE a miracle. There's only one of you, only one known planet in the entirety of the known universe where you could even have come to be. Same for the chickens. Miraculous!!
- Why are you giving trash to your chickens?
  
  I really hope you’re vegan otherwise your ignorance on this topic is pretty staggering.
I’ve been paying $8ish for 12 the past 6 years. Apparently it’s cheap subsidized eggs that are expensive now. That’s because of bird flu no?
USDA's puts them at $7.74/dozen based on futures and project to get to nearly $10 this year. Given eggs can often be loss leaders, actual prices might not match contract prices everywhere, but stores trying to bring in customers and increasing other prices to compensate means looking directly at consumer egg prices might be misleading.
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/eggs-us
- Interesting, I have already seen them for $10.48 a dozen
  
  Yeah, local prices can very a lot. My local prices are pretty similar to the ones in this article. But some places have been over $10/dozen for some time.
- loss leaders
  Hardly.
  
  Curious when that cost is based on. Given future contracts are often purchased in advanced, those prices could reflect prices from months ago, when the wholesale market price was 1/3rd of the current price. Guess still not technically a loss leader if they price current inventory based on what they are paying for future inventory though.
Prices in Ireland for 12 eggs are €3.75 for free range or €2.70 for barn
- How much for you to paint them to look like toy eggs and ship to the US?
- I'm in Colombia. My local grocery store has them for 23 mil pesos ($5.58 USD at today's exchange rate) for 30 eggs. That comes out to $2.38 USD per dozen.
  The tienda by my home has them cheaper, but I can't check their prices online to verify the exact cost.
- Prices here in Norway are... uh, I don't know. I bought a large pack yesterday, and the checkout total was about what I expected. So normal, I guess. Probably same-ish as Ireland.
:(
Yeah is this strange with slaughtering the food control and dismissing like all disease control measures etc?
In Russia they hit record high of 1$ per pack of 10.
- In Russia monthly salary of $500 is above median.
  
  It fluctuates, but usually yes.
$5 for 12 eggs? Where in the US is that?
And specialized varieties, such as organic and cage-free eggs, are even more expensive.
Near me those are cheaper
It’s been 3 weeks since I last saw eggs in my small town grocery store.
Last years data on egg prices globally. Sorry I could not find this year.
Link = Eggs - prices by country, around the world, December 2024
Don't worry it'll certainty go back down
How much is bird flu contributing? It's not mentioned as a factor.
- "...amid a severe bird flu outbreak that has led to the culling of millions of egg-laying chickens."
  It's included in the summary, which is taken from the article.
  
  Ah how did I miss that! Thanks
So eat fewer eggs...
I probably don't even get through a dozen in a month. How has this complete non-issue helped put a lunatic in charge?
- This has real “let them eat cake” vibes
  Eggs have traditionally been one of the cheapest staple sources of protein for the working poor.
- Eggs are used in recipes you wouldn't even think of. Breads. Baked goods. Fried rice. Pasta.
  
  I have been a Vegan for over a decade and let me tell you, it's easy to find alternative recipes without eggs.
  Not preaching here, btw, just saying that eggs are realy not necessary in most things. Any that very much included cakes and the like.
- I don't think I go through a dozen in a year
Do not eat eggs! Specially the ones that keep climbing. It gives you bad cholesterol.
Damn, it sucks that you have to eat eggs. It sure would be nice if there were other things you could eat, alas you have to keep buying eggs and bitching about it the whole time instead of just eating something else.
- maybe we should just let everyone eat cake?
  
  Eat a bagel or something jesus christ. Nobody is forcing you to buy eggs.
  Boohoo the omnis have to consider switching to a different breakfast for a few months, this is just like mass starvation. They don't sell 5000 other things at the grocery store, eggs are the only staple food and now we have to spend 90% of our daily income on them.
  Your preferred breakfast being a bit more expensive while other things that were already cheaper are still cheaper is not comparable to a french peasant being unable to pay for their only staple food. Get a grip.
Eggs are murder. Baby boy chicks are killed at less than an hour old because they are “useless”. Mother hens are killed at 3-4 years old when their egg production starts slowing down. They can live for 10-12 years. #LiveVegan
- So is hamburger, and mouse traps, and bug spray.
  I just wish they would anesthesize the chicks before throwing them in an industrial grinder. There are a lot of zoos and rescues than need bird protein for their animals, and don't care if the meat tastes a little gamey.
  
  all of which, I don't use.
- I don't like the focus on the culling of male chicks, sure it's terrible, but how we raise and exploit the hens is such a larger moral travesty that that should be the focus. We also shouldn't hope for hens to live for a decade. Currently existing hens who can be rescued sure, but the modern egg laying hen should not exist the same way certain dog breeds shouldn't exist, we have selected them for our pleasure rather than their own health and livelihood.
- This comment shouldn’t be downvoted. It is discussing the truth of the egg industry.
- The eggs we eat are unfertilized. How is that murder?
  
  The hens that are killed need to be replaced. So when they hatch as males, they’re killed at less than an hour old
  
  The problem is the hens being shoved into dirty dark cages with no space to move and the male chicks are thrown into shredders.

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