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What egg shortage?
This is the 4th store this week I've been to where the egg cooler was filled to overflowing. I thought there was a shortage? And if prices are set by supply and demand, why are these eggs $7-$8/dozen? They'll sit here and rot at those prices. Note the top shelf is empty. That's where the egg whites usually are. People have been snapping those up because they're cheaper. Now you can't find them or they're $7 for a 6oz carton. We went to the local supermarket and found brown Grade A Large eggs in a plastic carton for under $5/dozen. Yet the same brown Grade A Large eggs in a paper carton right next to them were $7/dozen. WTF?
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Just like "inflation" it was all (or mostly) just corporations price gouging. But we are just gonna ignore that it happened.
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but that would have never happened if there wasnt a mass spike in demand in the first place due to wild ass govt stimulus and liquidity injections... ...it was an awesome idea to do this AND lower rates and who would have thought we would have ended up w housing prices doubling in 3 years lol...
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Costco has been out of eggs regularly. What's with calling a marginally medium egg large & extra large? |
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Our shelves were nearly empty a few weeks ago, back to full stock now. Will check prices next time we’re in, but likely they’re back to “normal”
“Corporations price gouging” is such a lazy and ill-informed response. If that was correct, prices would not fall. Ever. |
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I stopped buying eggs. Kind of like not buying a Porsche. 🤣
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Grocery chains aren't the ones gouging, as they dont buy a single thing from a producer.
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There was a shortage where I am...particularly when I went to Costco. I blame places such as Costco that didn't clamp down on the idiots that were doing the same thing with toilet paper. Buying large quantities and hoarding. But the stupid logic of it all is that eggs don't keep well and has to be unloaded relatively quickly. My Costco was literally out of eggs for weeks to include both the regular ones to the organic/cage free ones. There were pics of idiots with the bulk carts pushing stacks of eggs through the check out line. The regular eggs are back in stock now with a limitation notice that only two cartons per customer. This was after a few weeks of absolutely nothing.
The BJs I went to near my vacation home at the beach was stocked well and they had a sign up limiting two per customer which seems to me to have been put up quickly when there were panic runs starting up. |
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I took my wife to breakfast on Friday, and there was a surcharge of $.50/egg. I should have brought some from home. I have 2 trays of 18 fresh eggs that are full and starting to pile up out of the holders. Wife won't let me give them away since her sister is coming end of the month. Not a hill I'm prepared to die on though. . .
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When I can find those Vital Farms eggs I find they are about the same price they were 6 or so months ago when they were already expensive (about $7-$10 per dozen depending on which variety and where purchased). But they are currently rare to see in markets near me.
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