Trader Joe's, Costco, Sprouts limit purchases on fresh eggs amid shortages
Trader Joe's, Costco, Sprouts limit purchases on fresh eggs amid shortages
Costco, Trader Joe's, Sprouts and other grocery stores across the U.S. are limiting how many eggs customers can buy as bird flu continues to dwindle supply.
takes picture of empty shelves
This is what America would look like if Kamala was voted in!
#KamalasAmerica
- some MAGA idiot who can't grasp the irony
I remember they were doing that during Fuckface 45's reign. Showing burning buildings during a [well deserved] series of riots during the George Floyd protests, saying that's what Biden's America was in store for.
They can't think.
I made my daughter scrambled eggs for dinner tonight. They cost an eye-watering £0.23 each. I might have to take out a loan.
A bit under 5 CAD for a dozen at my usual grocery (29 US cents per egg). Maybe that's why Americans want to invade us.
Trump already has a reputation for grabbing by the pussy - now he's going straight for the ovaries.
No eggs are safe.
$3.93 at the nearby No Frills. That converts to about $2.75 USD I think?
I just got back from a trip to California and the first thing I did was order a fried egg sandwich at the Sunset Grill. Oh man, that was sweet bliss! It's good to be home.
Last I checked my closest store is at $0.65 USD an egg. Shit's getting wild
The only place I've seen prices listed that high in the US is in California.
California apparently has some sort of minimum cage size mandate that a lot of the rest of the US doesn't, so can't pull in eggs from the rest of the US, which apparently contributes to California's problems, since it fragments the US market. Which is probably pretty great if you're an egg producer in California who hasn't been hit by bird flu -- you've got a protected market, and a lot of your competition has been wiped out -- but sucks if you're an egg consumer.
Bird flu continues to play a part in higher egg prices in California.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, in a Jan. 10 report, said a dozen large shell eggs in the state rose to $8.97.
Some states, like California, are being hit especially hard by the egg crunch, and part of that is likely a result of state-level legislation.
California's Proposition 12, also called the Farm Animal Confinement Initiative, places restrictions on how hens, sows and veal calves can be kept.
The bill, which took effect in recent years, in part banned confinement of egg-laying hens (chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese and guinea fowl) in certain areas with less than 1 square foot of usable floor space per hen.
Other states, including Arizona, Colorado, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, Oregon and Washington, have similar laws that specifically provide animal welfare protections to egg-laying hens.
That limits how eggs can be produced and what can be sold in each state. Those that allow only cage-free products already face fewer suppliers and farms (a little more than a third of U.S. egg layers are cage-free, according to the USDA). Manufacturers and sellers also are facing a slowdown as they change operations to comply with such laws.
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Is it weird that I have no sense of the cost of eggs and my grocery store isn’t empty and no one is freaking out and doing the math per egg?
Is half of the country losing its mind for any good reason? No one remembers Covid while reelecting trump? As RFK jr gets nominated while stating this shit? Are brains getting scrambled? Is the US using pounds? Does no one recognize avian flu while talking about it?
I made some Ramen the other night, I wasn't thinking and used the last 2 eggs in addition to other ingredients. I then realized I had just made the most expensive Ramen known to man.
My sincere apologies
Every grocery store I go to has eggs on the shelves. Are there just some places where people are panic-buying all the eggs?
Toilet paper all over again
It'll hit you sooner or later, most places near me are nearing empty shelves
My local QFC and Safeway have them for $7. Trader Joe's had them for $3.50. We'll they did at some point. All I saw were empty shelves.
All the MAGA Republicans seem to be experts on bird flu and supply and demand now but blamed Biden for egg prices being high when they were half the price they are now.
Empty shelves at Costco today. Sign saying limit 3 eggs per customer. I'm sure they meant 3 packages, or at least I hope that did. Price label was around $4 per dozen.
Sounds reasonable. People don’t need more eggs than they did before and could probably do with a fewer. Hoarding them hurts everyone.
I'm not sure there's much hoarding. They still have a relatively short shelf life. Although I will admit that this tips the scales a bit to convince people to buy eggs when they aren't sure they'll need them.
A bigger demand is going to come from food service. A lot of small restaurants need eggs, e.g. for anything battered. These places aren't big enough for Sysco, and certainly not big enough for assurances on availability. They often use suppliers like Gordon Foods, Costco, and even retail options like Aldi and Walmart.
While even a large family doesn't need more than a couple dozen eggs per week, small restaurants purchase eggs by the hundreds.
A dozen eggs per customer per day is hardly a limit. How many can one family eat?
Yes
I just figured out an excellent tiramisu recipe... which calls for 6 egg yolks. Looks like I'll be saving up for a few paychecks before I can attempt it.
A few local markets near me are limiting hedges to two boxes per person as well.