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What’s the thing with eggs in the US ?
My understand is mostly a bird flu but also inflation.
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 “cag-free”, which increases their price by a little bit.
Upstate NY and a dozen is between 8-9 dollars last I looked.
In Germany, you can’t even buy eggs from cage farming anymore.
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)
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.
Clearly we havent deported enough
black and brown people… ahem I mean… the illegals./s
As soon as the farms run out of illegals to exploit, the price of eggs might go up to 10.99 per egg, though…
Illeggals
Meanwhile in sweden its $3.50 for 12 pieces cage free and if you get cheap ones its $4 for 24 pieces.
$10.00CAD OR $6.90USD for 30 here in Canada.
Similar in Lithuania but we buy them in packs of 10.
What a sensible, decimal system!
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.
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.
They’re fighting the bird flu
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.
Looks like I need to fly out to Denver to save some money on eggs.
I used to buy those eggs at the bottom of the picture. They come with a newsletter inside about how the chickens are doing.
The cheap eggs now cost what those eggs used to cost.
I still buy those eggs, the notes they put in are cute.
I regret not making friends with the neighbors who owned chickens. They’re sitting on bird gold.
They will have security tags in them soon
