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Kinda irrelevant, but get fucked Eggslut. Worst place to work for, owners are a bunch of liars and have terrible management practices. This is absolutely killing them and I love that for them.
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.
Yeah, these are specialty farm eggs, cage free, and brown. They’re also stacked in with the organic eggs. They probably command a markup without the price increases from bird flu. This is also *probably* some trendier grocery store OP is shopping at.
Our “fancy” grocery store has a dozen cage free large brown eggs for $5.49, so either this is a local issue in Denver or OP is posting some BS engagement bait.
Just snapped this pic from our store’s online shopping app.
You are both posting anecdotes, essentially.
That price tag is missing its Trump “I did this!” sticker.
Thanks for reminding me about him looking straight at the sun like a 2 year old.
He needs to see the target he want to nuke
I need a high resolution version so I can print some stickers.
6.19 in Oklahoma.
I moved to California from Tulsa last year and that blows my mind. They’re $12 here one per customer but Cali had made me numb to outrageous prices but that price in Oklahoma brings it all back.
Not really Trump. That’s avian flu driving that.
There are certainly voters who credit or blame everything in the economy on whoever happens to be President and voted for Trump because they saw a lot of inflation under Biden and hoped that voting for Trump would result in less inflation. Those guys are probably operating on a flawed understanding, though the “if things are going well economically at the moment, credit the President, and if they’re going badly, blame the President, because it must be the current President’s doing” is not a new phenomenon in American politics.
But this particular effect is really driven by nature.
EDIT:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/eggs-prices-shortages-bird-flu-2025/
Why are egg prices soaring?
Behind rising egg prices and shortages is a strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), known as H5N1, that killed 13.2 million commercial egg-laying hens in the month of December alone and continues to depopulate flocks into 2025, according to the USDA. Outbreaks of H5N1 were first detected in the U.S. in 2022 and are considered to be the main driver behind the years-long volatility in egg prices.
H5N1, which has a high mortality rate among infected poultry and wild birds, is being watched closely by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a potential public health threat. So far, the CDC has received one report of a person dying after being hospitalized with severe illness from the virus. Among cattle, the average mortality and culling rate is 2% or less, according to the American Veterinary Medical Association. However, officials warn that H5N1 is lethal to cats
For now, the virus remains mostly a thorn in the side of U.S. consumers fed up with inflation.
I’m calling it Trump Flu, because why not.
Next thing you know you’ll be telling me Biden had no control over the price of gas! 😉
If only there was some sort of center for disease control that could assist the American public in combating illness. Surely, if such a center did exist, the president wouldn’t hamstring them in some way in which may prevent farmers from taking action against infectious diseases destroying their livestock.
Oh, would you look at that, the president did hamstring the CDC by halting regular release of their scientific reports, and so it is, in fact, on him that bird flu is causing egg prices to soar.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/30/health/bird-flu-mmwr-pause-trump-kff-partner/index.html
No one putting up an ‘I did this’ sticker actually gives a shit about the reasons for the price. And no one ever has.
And the CDC being ordered to not report any data on the avian flu via an executive order is also not the current administrations fault I guess?
That order has a long-term effect though. In a few months it will probably be significantly worse than it would’ve been without that order but no decision made in the last couple of weeks could affect egg prices today.
In case you missed it from a few years ago. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Did_That!
The primary problem is most people don’t understand inflation. Inflation is the speed at which things get more expensive. There is always creep up.
That’s what the 3% “cost of living” yearly raise is supposed to cover. It’s not really a “good job” raise, it just keeps your wage exactly the same as the prior year alongside inflation. Another thing a lot of people don’t understand, but that’s a bit of a digression.
So. Inflation speeds or slows but never reverses. Prices never go back down unless there’s recession. When the DC people talked about the economy being good they meant, in part, that inflation was fixed. We were back to 3%. The problem with that is it doesn’t bring down the price of anything. It only means that prices stopped jumping up so high compared to 2019.
So this idea that 2016 prices would return with Trump is based in a misunderstanding of economics. Prices don’t go back down.
In fact, like the COVID jump, I wouldn’t be surprised if the egg industry left prices up once the avian flu passes.
Joe Biden in office for four years: “I sleep”
Donald Trump in office for a week: “This is why your egg prices went up”
BlueMAGA is such a bleak turn for liberalism. We’re abandoning any idea that federal policy might affect our material conditions. Presidents are just a panacea, an excuse to close our eyes and insist everything is actually great, right up until the election cycle breaks against us at which point its not our fault so we can acknowledge it again.
The only thing Democrats in leadership seem to have learned from movement conservatism is how to lie to their rank-and-file members. Now all we do is pass the buck from one failing administration to another, while asserting everything bad is caused by Wrong Party Backed By Evil Foreign Government.
No wonder the US is embracing genocidal fascism on a national scale.
You do realize the comments are tongue-in-cheek right? It’s because he guaranteed an immediate drop in grocery prices and people are volleying after we had to hear a crapton of “Biden Did That” nonsense while gas prices rose back to previous levels alongside the economic recovery after the pandemic. No one here thinks either president is God.
I don’t know whether you’re just imperceptive or whether you’re being willfully oblivious so you can force-feed us the same bLUemAgA talking points you get rightfully downvoted for in every post.
Whose tongue in whose cheek? Are you hitting on me? It’s working.
😉😉
They’re $7/dozen here, but Aldi has cruelty guaranteed eggs for $2.77, limit 2 dozen. I don’t have Aldi near me but was at one within the last week.
I know the prez said he’d drop the price of groceries on day one, but he got a little sidetracked by his side project of destroying the country. But give him a few more weeks to get that done and then I’m sure he’s get right back to the groceries.
Oh no, grocery prices are this term’s infrastructure week.
Groceries, the term he popularized that no one was using until he started saying it.
And if you are an independent egg vendor you have to submit a 1099 form with your taxes. Coincidence?
Weird: this is Safeway, Canada
(For readers, with the USD-CAD conversion they’re closer to $5)
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This is from a Zehrs, it’s Loblaws so not even remotely the cheapest place in town
With exchange, that pack of 30 organic eggs is ~11.90 USD. I usually just buy no name.
Hey Internet stranger, can I buy some of your eggs?
What the heck happened to American eggs?
What the heck happened to American eggs?
Denver is a special place, further its one city in a VERY large country and they don’t cost anywhere NEAR that much in most places. I’m in the middle of Wyoming and 18 large eggs (Dozen and a half) cost $6.72. I can buy 18 Brown Cage Free Organic eggs (just like OPs) for 8.87.
Even those Canadian eggs are relatively expensive to what I’m used to:
These are Euro prices.
That’s expensive. I live out in the boonies where things cost more and my local store is $4 a dozen.
This needs more upvotes. There’s no way these should cost more than meat, whatever the excuse.
There isn’t a massive bovine flu killing huge swathes of flocks…
Lets be clear. Its still bird flu. Not bovine flu. Regardless of whether cattle are getting it.
If a person gets swine flu it doesnt suddenly become human flu.
Things have names and this distinction matters.
Sure but the point is that there isn’t a disease sweeping through cattle herds killing most of them etc.
Which is happening to flocks of birds, including poultry.
Oh there is a flu sweeping through cattle herds. Its bird flu. Its killing some cattle, but the vast majority recover. But, one result of the bird flu, california’s milk production is down 9 percent. That is an absolutely staggering number.
It’s almost like the inhumane, cramped, living conditions we permit a lot of our agriculture industry to have for animals is biting us in the ass.
And before dipshits come in about how that doesn’t apply to cage free chickens, etc. Of course that shit still affects overall product prices. One of the businesses along the line between the farm with the chickens and your grocery store aisle is going to raise the price anyway to gouge a little more profit from the system when they have the chance.
That’s still an obscene price.
Voila is a delivery service, not sure why they decided to pick that out of literally everywhere in the country
They are $3.60 a dozen at Costco ($2.50 USD) last time I was there
Meanwhile my local Costco in AZ had no eggs at all 4 days ago.
Those are fancyish eggs too. I paid $3.69 yesterday for store brand and they are often on sale for a little less. Our avian flu situation isn’t as bad yet though so it can still go up.
Yeah, these are specialty farm eggs, cage free, and brown. They’re also stacked in with the organic eggs. They probably command a markup without the price increases from bird flu. This is also probably some trendier grocery store OP is shopping at.
Our “fancy” grocery store has a dozen cage free large brown eggs for $5.49, so either this is a local issue in Denver or OP is posting some BS engagement bait.
You should put maga stickers next to the price tag, just to remind the folks :)
People need to start putting trump “I did this” stickers on everything like the magats were on gas pumps.
Eventually it becomes cheaper to raise chickens.
Impossible, Orange Julius was fixing the prices. What is the hold up?
He should sign another eggsecutive order
It’s Hussein Obama eating all them eggs! Thanks Obama!
Must be the DEI chickens.
Couldn’t have been, because that pompous dick Gaston eats the entire daily supply every morning to get jacked.
God i love having chickens
12.99 at my tourist town in CA
$4 a dozen in Kentucky.
Wow, translated to NZD that is that is like $19.50. Current egg prices here are $5 for size 6 and around $6.50 for size 7.
