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In Colorado stores must sell cage-free eggs now. The law just went into effect.
https://ag.colorado.gov/press-release/all-eggs-sold-in-colorado-starting-in-2025-will-be-cage-free
It’ll be even more soon…
Even worse when you consider this is without tax and the compareisons are made to prices without tax. To be fair the rest of the world doesn’t threat their eggs so they need to be refrigerated like these US eggs need to be, which also costs money.
Food is not taxed in the US. At least in my state.
What state doesn’t have tax at the checkout?
Wow. I saw people mentioning this on another thread and I posted that we can get 15 Medium Free Range Eggs in the UK for $3.37. Could find cheaper than that if I shopped around.
What’s the thing with eggs in the US ?
My understand is mostly a bird flu but also inflation.
It’s ok, though. Trump has installed a loyalist who will scrub all mention of bird flu from the USDA website. Problem solved!
Look how well it worked out at the FAA!
Actual inflation or inflation mixed with greedy price increases?
What if I told you that the 3-4 corporations that control our food supply increased prices to punish voters for not voting for a Republican in 2020? It’s been in the playbook for well over 30 years. Some musicians have even written songs with lyrics that discuss this technique.
Definitely some greed. One grocery store here charges 50% more than the other just because (imagine: it’s a Kroger owned store). Neither store is a discount or lower-end store either. Ridiculous.
And coincidentally (or no really coincidentally at all), OP’s pic looks like a Kroger owned store too based on the price tag and the inconvenience sticker. Shocker that they’d charge that price 🙄
Why not both?
Indeed!
It’s just inflation. Corporate greed is a poor excuse for price increases
It’s actually just corporate greed. The “inflation” is the excuse.
Ok thanks.
I don’t think corporate greed is a poor excuse though.
All prices in the UK have gone up by substantial amounts over the last 5 years. While at the same time these massive corporations have recorded record profits.
If the price increases were purely inflation then it would stand to reason that profits wouldn’t have gone up so much. Clearly they’ve used inflation as an excuse to squeeze consumers as much as possible.
I am talking generally here and not specifically about eggs.
In this case it’s a commodity so that’s actually hard to do.
The prices are caused by inflation, massive cullings of infected hens with bird flu, and just the area you live in. Where I’m at, eggs are $4.50 USD/dozen at the moment. They’ve been higher though.
Those eggs specifically look to be “cage-free”, which increases their price by a little bit.
Yep I’m near Delaware so we have all the chicken farms at least near us. And our eggs are $4.5 for a dozen.
In Germany, you can’t even buy eggs from cage farming anymore.
Not necessarily better. My uni did experiments to see how far a chicken moved after being put in a free range pen, and they hardly move. Such pens are large and contain hundreds if not 1000s of chickens. (We tend to imagine free range as 15 hens in a flock, but that is miles away from the truth) Hypothesis was that since Chicken are flock animals they get stressed in these pens and the weaker ones now are on the outside of multiple flocks leading to more stress and feather picking as dominance never really are settled. Roomy cages with proper perches and such paradoxically might be “better” for industrially farmed chicken.
Upstate NY and a dozen is between 8-9 dollars last I looked.
Where in upstate? They’re $4 everywhere Ive seen them.
The cheapest I can find atm are 2.1 euros for a 12 pack of store brand eggs, 0.175 per egg. Eu.
Edit to add: imo the only relevant comparison is comparing the cheapest with the cheapest available chicken eggs. If you add in branding, location, … Then you’re no longer comparing eggs, but rather cost of living & marketing.
2nd edit: perchery, medium size.
The cheapest available option can differ a lot due to different animal welfare regulations. Caged eggs are the cheapest but they already are or will soon be unavailable in Europe and a few states in America.
The second cheapest is perchery eggs, which is probably available everywhere, so it’d be better fora direct comparison even if the specific regulations differ somewhat.
Caged is already no longer available where I live, so the price I gave is for perchery eggs, medium sized. I would have added that it was for perchery, but I only learned that word 5 minutes ago from your post ;). In the last few years when caged eggs were available, a 6 pack of perchery eggs usually was the same or almost the same price as caged. I remember the price difference being so insignificant that I always bought perchery.
But there’s bound to be so many regulatory differences, that probably even the perchery label will have different rules. And some of those labels are pretty empty. So imo for a simple comparison, it’s still best to just compare cheapest with cheapest of the same size and ignore labelling/marketing.
Clearly we havent deported enough
black and brown people… ahem I mean… the illegals./s
Illeggals
As soon as the farms run out of illegals to exploit, the price of eggs might go up to 10.99 per egg, though…
Wow, food in Germany is indeed cheap.
Current prices: 0,34€ per egg for organic eggs, 0,20€ per egg for a lower grade (Bodenhaltung)
Just over the border in Switzerland I’ve got 0,79€ per egg (0,75€ pr egg in a 12 pack). But that’s still cheaper than OP.
Got a 18 pack from Penny the other day for about 3 or 4 euro. Only thing I miss about American grocery stores are the variety but fuck all that if you can’t afford the majority of it
We’re only talking eggs here, this is not an indicator of general inflation.
We had that too so prices are higher over say five years, but as far as I know, general inflation is under control. The biggest problem there is all the price increases blamed on “global supply chain disruption” from a couple years back: why haven’t they gone away since the disruption has?
for organic eggs
I would like to see mineral eggs.
You mean Rocks? 🤣
Meanwhile in sweden its $3.50 for 12 pieces cage free and if you get cheap ones its $4 for 24 pieces.
Similar in Lithuania but we buy them in packs of 10.
What a sensible, decimal system!
Duodecimal is objectively better and that’s why commoners used it.
$10.00CAD OR $6.90USD for 30 here in Canada.
Everyone trying to call bullshit, but my local discount market is selling eggs for $10.99 a dozen too. Not organic. Probably not even free range. Just the same cheap eggs as usual, but 3x the price.
Hate to be that person, but now that they know people are willing to pay it- it’s probably not going to ever go back down.
Yeah, like reducing tax businesses have to pay won’t make prices cheaper, they’ll just pocket the cash.
Phew, are you OK over there? For comparison in Germany it’s 2€ for 10 eggs, or 2,40€ for cage free. Eggs from the farmer start at 3,50€. In my area anyway.
They’re fighting the bird flu
Jein. It’s not as bad as OP makes it sound, and I’ve never seen a 10 let alone 12 organic eggs in Germany for 2€ but I also live in the city.
What you’re looking at here look like organic (bio) eggs, likely from a very expensive bio-store. Typical prices for eggs in Denver for organic eggs are 7.49 for 12 or .62¢ a egg at a store comparable to REWE. - Non-bio eggs get down to 4.99 on sale for 12 or .41 an egg.
Here at my REWE in Köln organic eggs are 3.39 for 10 or .33 an egg. So they are actually only twice the price for organic which is due to the killing of millions of chickens because of bird flue.
Is the bottom image with or without sales tax? Usually in the US prices are shown without it (as it depends on state, county, etc), whereas in most EU countries and I’m assuming Germany as well, prices for consumer goods are generally shown with taxes included
Everywhere I’ve lived, most groceries aren’t taxed, so what’s showing would be the final price.
Things that might be taxed are things like pre-prepared food or soda.
new innovation in capitalism! 4-pack of eggs. costs what a dozen used to
As someone who grew up in the Denver area, here is some additional context. King Soopers is the grocery store that most people go to(Kroger owned). The Kroger brand eggs are the cheapest they offer and in the city they are $7.89 a dozen. In the suburbs $7.39. Downtown supermarkets are always a little more expensive. There are some egg brands priced at $10.99 and higher but the cheapest ones are still getting really expensive. And that’s if they aren’t sold out due to the shortage.
