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.
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.
So covid was a hoax but bird flu and measles are real. I’m not quite following.
They might remain real things right up until the moment they have to change one IOTA of their own lives, or if they think it’s making donvict/fElon look bad in some way.
I will never forget how many younger right-leaning/red-pilled types did this collective shrug about Covid, by the way: “that’s something that only impacts old people who just need to die anyway and fat people and/or diabetics, and that’s their own fault, so I should not have to adapt one little bit”. Many of these people in the same generations that a lot of people are telling me are soooo much better than every other generation that ever existed.
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.
Holy hell that is hilarious on multiple levels.
Am I correct that that is him pointing and looking directly at the sun?
Yup
Even better, it’s him staring at a solar eclipse
That is absolutely perfect. *chef’s kiss*
Technically the eclipse which you aren’t supposed to look at. Because you risk going blind.
Fucking idiot.
This is fun
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.
French ticklers for me!
Or just sell the non processed eggs that’s easier since they don’t need to be refrigerated
You see the Daily Show sketch?
No, did they do that?
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.
It doesn’t sound like that person has ever been to a city
It’s so common for tourists to see higher prices than they’re used to and assume the place is a rip off. They have no idea how insane the rent for a tiny shop can be in NYC. Meanwhile, they’ll have no problem dropping $30 for a ‘value meal’ in Times Square.
I agree with your criticism for the need loosies In the first place, But there has been a rising trend where Bodegas In communities, like the Bronx, have taken advantage of an influx of higher earners. If they raise the price for them, they raise the price for all. This is just another form of hyper focused capitalism.
Ah yes. Privately owned corner stores. The ultimate in hyper focused capitalism 🙄
The irony of that guy recognizing that the only war is the class war and then going after …checks notes… poor immigrants trying to make a living in retail.
I’m guessing you don’t know what hyper-focused capitalism means.
I don’t need to guess, I know you don’t know what it means.
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.
Feel free to explain you opinion.
Here. I found an article on it. You won’t hear of a corporate manager making the same considerations.
Radhames Rodriguez, owner of Pamela’s Green Deli in the Bronx’s Morrisania section, said the idea of selling loose eggs came to him after seeing customers leaving full cartons on the counter because they couldn’t afford it.
Hoping to help customers in the community, Rodriguez now sells three eggs for $2.99, which he says is a better than paying at least $12 for one carton.
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/egg-prices-bronx-bodegas/
OP isn’t going to read that. Prices=Bad to them.
but stay ignorant.
I don’t think that works as well on people as you might think. Perhaps you’re the one who has remained ignorant by dismissing the opinions of others who may have very convincing arguments.
But hey, stay ignorant.
There is no opinion. There is a fact why stores sell loosies, and it’s not “to be cool”. That’s the dumbest most out of touch thing I’ve ever heard.
It’s because people can’t afford the whole thing, so they charge a premium for a single. If they gave a shit they’d just charge 1/12th of a carton of eggs, instead of gouging poor people. 17¢ might sound like a ridiculous amount to complain about to you and I, but if a person cannot afford a $10 carton, I’m guessing that money matters.
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.
spoiler
This was fun to just go off and write, have the Republicans considered making a weird sci-fi world to role play in, instead of ruining the world?
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.
I live in a Philly suburb (sorta coastal) and they’re $10 a dozen right now.
Neighbor just brought over a dozen since they cannot use all theirs. We may end up passing some on, since eggs take a long time to get used up in my household.
I don’t want this to be the new toilet paper, at least not at my house. :)
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.
Okay and what does the price of eggs in Canada and their structure have anything to do with the price of US eggs and their structure?
A few months is not enough time to restructure the entire egg industry in the USA.
I think the point was we’ve been heading in this fucked direction for a long time while everyone else has been building robust regulations.
Okay I don’t disagree with that assertion I’m just not sure what that has to do with the original comment of this chain.
The point is that better leaders would have not let this happen, it wasn’t inevitable.
I don’t disagree with that. Hence this was going to happen regardless of who won.
$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!
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.
I love it. Might be a bit deep for them though.
What a weak president. Being thrwarted by someone not in power.
Reminds me a lot of Snowball’s ghost in Animal Farm, always coming around at night to sabotage things conveniently out of sight from any witnesses. This was all Snowball’s doing, dontchaknow!
He killed all the birds, according to Bronzo the Clown’s spokesxtian.
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.
Different coloured eggs are different prices in the US?
Yeah. Generally, brown is more expensive than white, organic is more expensive than non-organic, free-range is more expensive than caged etc. The current situation has rendered everything fucking expensive, though.
Hmm - here in England the colour of an egg doesn’t make any difference to its price, or to its taste. But yeah, organic and free range usually cost more. Larger eggs cost more too. I’ve not checked the exchange rate but I’d say it costs about $6 for a dozen free range eggs.
I’d love to keep hens myself but it’s not feasible. I have friends who live on a farm where the chickens just kind of wander about and I swear their eggs taste better than shop bought.
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
It’s one quote, @phubarr@lemmy.world, how often could you have seen it? Ten thousand times?
Poor Canada, egg prices are the same. /s
I paid $3.93 CAD for a dozen yesterday.
Save on is usually more expensive than other places
Ontario NoFrills?
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.
Bruh. I just paid $11.83 for a dozen (granted they were organic pasture raised but still)
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.
And in some cases, the flavor is dramatically different for better or worse. For example, I cannot stand organic bananas, and I eat bananas almost every day. Something about the organic ones just taste so off to me. Can’t really pinpoint why - it’s been a while. But it’s stuck with me ever since I tried one.
Yeah.
Organic produce is often inferior, which kinda stands to reason because all the tOxIc ChEmIcALs are added to improve the product.
I mean, it’s obvious that adding fertilizer (phosphate) is going to produce bigger plumper tastier fruit and vegetables?
I buy organic cauliflower not because I prefer organic but because it’s all my local green grocer sells. It always has these little green caterpillars. I don’t let that bother me but I have noticed that it doesn’t seem to keep quite as long. Whether that’s because the caterpillars munching bits of it makes it deteriorate quicker, or it takes longer to get from the farm to me, or it’s a different variety, I really don’t know. It’s def not objectively as good as the non-organic version.
As an aside, Bananas (like most fruit and veg) has been heavily domesticated by humans and the original from the pleistocene was pretty awful from the sounds of it with much less edible flesh and much bigger and harder seeds.
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.
