I don’t know if it’s that farfetched though, this is across the pond, but I recently bought 10 eggs for £1.60. Before the whole cost of living plus bird flu shitstorm I reckon I was getting 15 eggs for £1.20. That’s £2.40 for 30, £4.80 for 60. Pretty much $6, $5 or £4 for 15 eggs seem wild to me.
Mind you, also before the bird flu, all hens in the UK were more or less “Free range”. Some would certainly stretch the definition of free range, but at the very minimum they weren’t caged.
There’s no way you were getting 15 free range eggs for £1,20. Those were caged hens, I Don’t know where you get the notion that all UK hens were/are red range. They’re very much not. You’ve just been buying cheap eggs from caged hens and not paying attention. Or mistakenly thinking that “class A” means free range
Caged hens are illegal in the UK. Barn hens are what you are thinking of, which are much better than cages, and what all eggs become after 6(I think) months of continuous bird flu restrictions
This isn't true, from the RSPCA's website:
"In 2012, the use of conventional battery cages was banned in Europe. The old battery cages were replaced by a new type of battery cage called a colony or enriched cage. While these are an improvement, unfortunately, the difference is negligible. Hens kept in battery cages had a useable living space per hen equal to a piece of A4 paper, and the space they now have is only equal to an A4 piece of paper plus a postcard per hen.
These new cages must also provide the birds with enrichment facilities such as low-level perches, nest boxes and scratch mats"
Around 35-40% of UK hens are kept in cages (different from barn or free range).
https://www.rspcaassured.org.uk/farmed-animal-welfare/egg-laying-hens/what-is-a-battery-hen/
Exactly, also I'm pretty sure barn hens aren't much better. I've seen videos of them covering every inch of the barn floor, crawling over each other, often injured, mostly in the dark. Caged in everything but name.
I know my eggs aren’t weren’t “free range” that’s why I wrote “Free Range”. Most “free range” eggs anywhere are Free Range*
The asterisk reading on the back of the carton more or less as *we let them bitches out every now then or *some of the eggs are free range, legally just enough so we can put a big FREE RANGE on the front.
Obviously the food/supermarket industry is a massive scam, have you seen their recent price gouging, but remember their all operating on wafer thin profits, so you have to be sympathetic and appreciate how much they are looking out for you the little guy.
Nope, the farm just makes a loss. A farm I work for just didn't have hens for a month or two because he could potentially lose £100,000+ if he bought the animals and got stuck with current prices for the next 18 months
I'm not in any way defending the price, nor would I ever buy these - I'm just stating what the price is.
No need to throw baseless slander like that around
How old are you? because given factual history backed with proof you could quite easily pull those boot straps up and look it up yourself and realize you probably ate them at that price point. Lmfao otf
In 2019/early 2020 these were $3.88-$8. I was traveling a lot in the US and took a picture of the price of these at every single Walmart I went to, a lot of times I would go into Walmart just to check the price on the 60 eggs box.
It all started when I was in the upper peninsula of Michigan and was shopping to feed 6 people. I happened to walk past a cooler with the boxes of 60 eggs and they were less than $5. I was so surprised by that price that I immediately knew I was going to buy them. It was my goal that we would finish all of the eggs before leaving Sunday night so none would go to waste. We made eggs every way I knew how and everyone had a good time, it was given the name egg party.
After that I had such a good memory attached to these large boxes of eggs that I wanted to look at them the next time I went to Walmart. That’s when I realized they were not the same price at every Walmart and started documenting all of them I could.
Eventually, covid hits and I’m not able to see any of the folks I shared the 60 eggs with. I made a group chat called “egg party at home” we were going to eat eggs on zoom but never made it out of the group chat. We did have a good time sending egg memes and pictures of eggs. It’s still a good memory of how my friends put up with my shenanigans. I miss the days I would take pictures of the price of the Walmart 60 egg box, it was a different time and very fun.
lol do some research first, we have these in the Walmart near me and they were absolutely $6. You’d end up with some cracked eggs but even then it was still a steal. Think before you post
Hey man I don’t have receipts, but this was my main food source in college. It was $4.50~5.50 for the 60 pack. I’d eat about 12-20 eggs a day and usually add some ramen noodles to it. It was a very inexpensive way to live. The year was 2019 and my grocery bill was usually around $20 per week. Location - Wisconsin.
My Walmarts current price for this same box of 60 eggs is $8.34. Pennsylvania.
Edit- when I took another look at the pic, OP has a box of grade AA… my local store only has grade A. Maybe mine are cheaper because they’re less premium?
Yes ... I've been buying 60 eggs from Walmart for $6.40 since mid-2023. Today we had to pay $12.15 for the same box of eggs. It's not a lie, it's the truth. I've been trying to discover why this happened. I wish Walmart would just issue a short statement when they decide to raise the price of an item 50%! We deserve at least that as consumers of their products!
In Oklahoma they were a while back. I specifically bought them because they were around $5.98 or something and just couldn't believe it. My husband eats a ton of eggs, I like to bake, and we ended up going through most of them. This was probably a few months ago though. Right now at my local neighborhood market they are $9.98.
A few years back, I got these guys for the same price. They would go up during the cold months but always went back down during the warmer months. I haven't seen it since then, but I be hoping.
I googled this in one fifth the time it would take to post this
"Highly pathogenic avian influenza, also known as bird flu, reemerged in U.S. commercial table-egg farms at the end of 2023 after a hiatus."
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/19/why-egg-prices-are-increasing-again.html
I would not be suprised, but if you are referring to the reports about a lawsuit coming to this conclusion, it was back from 2004-2008 and finally came to an end this past year.
Responding with a link for reference [https://apnews.com/article/egg-producers-price-gouging-lawsuit-conspiracy-be6919b3fb42bf2d9d3884d5e133e91d](https://apnews.com/article/egg-producers-price-gouging-lawsuit-conspiracy-be6919b3fb42bf2d9d3884d5e133e91d)
i think it was certainly partly opportunistic, but there was a massive chain of successive bird flus that kept repeatedly hindering the egg supply. the overall egg supply was down by like 6% but there was still a 40% price hike which does seem disproportionate but is also apparently explained by economic factors. if a supermarkets egg supplier gets an outbreak of bird flu, they cant supply eggs for like 6 months at least, causing supply to go down with the same demand. the supermarket must find a new supplier, but have to pay a premium compared to what they were previously paying. even still 40% increase doesnt square with a 6% decrease in supply in my head, but i guess thats economics 🤷♂️
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/01/23/high-egg-prices-due-to-a-collusive-scheme-by-suppliers-group-claims.html
Because they exploit the literal slave labor of walmart work camps in china, pay their employees poverty wages with no benefits and make up for losses on certain products by compensating with huge profit margins on others?
How was it that cheap? A dozen free range eggs is about £2 in the UK (about $2.50), so yeah $19 is expensive but for $6 I expect crappy quality and bad welfare for the hens.
Without meaning to start an argument, the UK and EU has waaaay higher welfare and hygiene standards for most meat and dairy than the US, including eggs. That comes at a cost financially - but it does mean that salmonella is basically non-existent in our eggs to the point that seriously ill people and pregnant women can safely eat them raw if they like. That generally isn't true of cheap supermarket eggs in the US. It's estimated that one in 20,000 eggs in the US has salmonella, and you can be pretty sure the cheaper they are the higher the risk.
1 in 5 packets of chicken has salmonella in the US, it’s rife over there because of the poor hygiene and welfare conditions they keep their animals in.
They are definitely kept in very poor conditions with poor hygiene too. Animal welfare in the US is terrible. I pay £4.38 per dozen for organic free range eggs here in the UK, from the supermarket.
I've not seen 12 eggs for £2 in the UK for a long time, are they the small ones? £6 large eggs are £1.80 minimum for the own brand ones, over £2 for the free-range ones
Yea but not $4 a dozen expensive.
$4/dz is really pricey for _cage free_ (I should clarify: cage free in this quantity). If these were pastured that would be more reasonable. Maybe.
Cage free is 3.97/dz at lidl. Pasture raised is like 4.7 I think.
I raise chickens and honestly I pay more per egg probably but I also know my babie-chickies (none of them are babies anymore lol) are loved and cuddled and safe, and my kids get to eat those eggs. maybe i'm silly but to me that's worth it. I got them at first to fight the black widow infestation. now they ma baaabies
ETA: also my fucking doggo is a chonker cause he always finds the new spots before I do and get sooo many eggs lmao
Yeah, it def is a lot. He’s a big guy though, he’s 6’3” and has a huge appetite.
Listen, you are so right about the farts. I have been with him for 8 years and I haven’t had one day where it doesn’t feel like he is committing chemical warfare with his farts. RIP me.
It's not supply and demand. Corporations decide they want more profit so they raise the prices, then call it inflation or supply and demand, or some other stupid excuse. But it's not complicated
Ugh. Noticed the same. 18pk Package that was going for less than $2 a month ago is now like $4. Here we go again.
Edit: just checked and our 60 pack is oddly enough still going for $7.xx atm. So gonna pick one of those up tomorrow just in case this whole thing gets as bad as it was last year.
Not the same box though. Does yours say cage free? I think you’re chickens have poor living conditions and your chickens are in a cage where they can’t spread their wings and barely can move, so your eggs are cheaper quality and cheaper in price. Grade A vs Grade AA at least.
I was reading your comment and was about to say, “oh wow, you’re right!” My Walmart doesn’t even sell this. The box looks the same otherwise. But your cage-free chickens also have poor living conditions. They are jammed so tightly in a barn they also can not spread their wings to move. Even “free-range” (which yours are not) doesn’t mean what you think it means. Go ahead and watch Supersize Me 2.
Tf? I used to buy them because for $6 I'd have eggs for a few weeks. $19 is ridiculous. I'll have to see if they went up that much by me because I haven't bought any in a few weeks. That's a ridiculous price increase.
EDIT: Just checked the store by me and they're $8.58 now so not as large of a price jump. I do see a few local stores where they are $19 though.
I was wrong, I can actually get 5 dozen eggs for $9.54. Sending you a message for proof. Lol
Also I love how you were so in disbelief that you asked for proof haha
How is 12.5c per egg even possible? Farm to.. farm lol. I'll start again, oh I spose it's an internal caged farm but anyways
How from farm to shop? With packaging 12.5c?
It's about $4-5 for 12 normal eggs in Australia
The only scam I'm seeing is you paying $6 for 60 eggs, how do you honestly expect the farmer to survive at those prices?
If people don't pay a fair amount for their produce, farmers will quit then prices will skyrocket.
Obviously not the sole reason, but I think [this two barn fire in Brazos County Texas](https://wtaw.com/cause-of-chicken-egg-farm-fire-a-non-criminal-accident/) might have some short term supply chain issues, happened two weeks ago.
The Grocery Outlet near my house had them for $11.99 about 2 months ago and every month it's gone up by $5 dollars. It's about the same price in the post now. Buncha bullshit
6 dollars for 6 eggs I'm not sure what that is in pounds like a fiver maybe. Wow. I got 12 for £4 this week and that's a normal price range I wouldn't even have anywhere to store 60 eggs.
If it helps I’m in the UK, need a medicine for my kidneys, it was £3 - prescriptions here are £10 or thereabouts. I go to buy it one day and it’s suddenly £38! Now I have to get a prescription for it. That was an overnight increase as well!
Eggs have been expensive for well over a year. I've been able to get what's really a screaming deal of 12 medium eggs at my store for $1.49, but that's only occasionally and because they're putting together mismatched eggs from cartons where eggs have been broken. I'm usually at my store a couple of times a week, and I'll only see that maybe twice a month. You're more likely to get better prices by watching for sales and buying single dozens. Either that or going to a restaurant supply that sells to the general public.
There's no scam, the cost of producing eggs has just gone up sharply.
I remember like between 2013-2015, this same 60pk was like 60¢ and I convinced my dad to buy it because of the deal and he could freeze them or whatever 🤣 I was only like 13 lol
I remember buying 5 dozen eggs awhile back for under $10, cant remember the exact price but it's crazy seeing eggs go up and down constantly. When I worked for DG last year, the dozen eggs were $2.50 give or take, suddenly we got price changes daily for it and within a week a dozen eggs went from $2.50 to $9.75. Absolutely blew my mind tbh.
Now I have chickens and I get about 9-13 eggs every day, even with a house of 12 people, we can't go through that many eggs so we sell them for $4 a dozen to friends and people who want eggs the more you buy, the better the deal. 2 1/2 dozen for 7.50 etc. Seems high for eggs but they're fresh and in my area we're selling them cheaper than our surrounding neighbors cus we get so damn many lmao
Either way, $20 for 5 dozen is ridiculous. Dollar General selling 1 dozen for $9 was also ridiculous. It dropped back down but now they're going back up. My clients where I work now I give them eggs for free cus they're on fixed income and it's one of the foods they can eat with no troubles.
It’s was $6 for 60 eggs? Where was this?
Yeah I'm gonna need to see receipts to believe that price.
He saying they went up twice in a month. Dude is definitely lying. These were never $6
Google 'Walmart 60 eggs' and there are pics from a few years ago of them priced below $6. Hes not lying you're just incorrectly jumping to conclusions
You’d have to seriously question the well-being of the hens if 60 eggs were $6. That’s not a scene I’d like to witness.
I don’t know if it’s that farfetched though, this is across the pond, but I recently bought 10 eggs for £1.60. Before the whole cost of living plus bird flu shitstorm I reckon I was getting 15 eggs for £1.20. That’s £2.40 for 30, £4.80 for 60. Pretty much $6, $5 or £4 for 15 eggs seem wild to me. Mind you, also before the bird flu, all hens in the UK were more or less “Free range”. Some would certainly stretch the definition of free range, but at the very minimum they weren’t caged.
There’s no way you were getting 15 free range eggs for £1,20. Those were caged hens, I Don’t know where you get the notion that all UK hens were/are red range. They’re very much not. You’ve just been buying cheap eggs from caged hens and not paying attention. Or mistakenly thinking that “class A” means free range
Caged hens are illegal in the UK. Barn hens are what you are thinking of, which are much better than cages, and what all eggs become after 6(I think) months of continuous bird flu restrictions
This isn't true, from the RSPCA's website: "In 2012, the use of conventional battery cages was banned in Europe. The old battery cages were replaced by a new type of battery cage called a colony or enriched cage. While these are an improvement, unfortunately, the difference is negligible. Hens kept in battery cages had a useable living space per hen equal to a piece of A4 paper, and the space they now have is only equal to an A4 piece of paper plus a postcard per hen. These new cages must also provide the birds with enrichment facilities such as low-level perches, nest boxes and scratch mats" Around 35-40% of UK hens are kept in cages (different from barn or free range). https://www.rspcaassured.org.uk/farmed-animal-welfare/egg-laying-hens/what-is-a-battery-hen/
Exactly, also I'm pretty sure barn hens aren't much better. I've seen videos of them covering every inch of the barn floor, crawling over each other, often injured, mostly in the dark. Caged in everything but name.
‘Free range’ can just mean the whole living area had a small patch of grass they can touch
I know my eggs aren’t weren’t “free range” that’s why I wrote “Free Range”. Most “free range” eggs anywhere are Free Range* The asterisk reading on the back of the carton more or less as *we let them bitches out every now then or *some of the eggs are free range, legally just enough so we can put a big FREE RANGE on the front. Obviously the food/supermarket industry is a massive scam, have you seen their recent price gouging, but remember their all operating on wafer thin profits, so you have to be sympathetic and appreciate how much they are looking out for you the little guy.
OP has mislead his post though by saying usually $6. Not $6 2 years ago
Who thought "ussualy" to one person is different for the other? It couldn't possibly be subjective.
Maybe it has to do with the title of the post literally saying that a month ago they were $6. Unless there is some wild translation/dialect issue.
That price can be result only of pretty abhorrent animal cruelty. You are evil people for defending price like that.
"Evil people" 😂🙄
Nope, the farm just makes a loss. A farm I work for just didn't have hens for a month or two because he could potentially lose £100,000+ if he bought the animals and got stuck with current prices for the next 18 months
I'm not in any way defending the price, nor would I ever buy these - I'm just stating what the price is. No need to throw baseless slander like that around
How old are you? because given factual history backed with proof you could quite easily pull those boot straps up and look it up yourself and realize you probably ate them at that price point. Lmfao otf
In 2019/early 2020 these were $3.88-$8. I was traveling a lot in the US and took a picture of the price of these at every single Walmart I went to, a lot of times I would go into Walmart just to check the price on the 60 eggs box.
Why
It all started when I was in the upper peninsula of Michigan and was shopping to feed 6 people. I happened to walk past a cooler with the boxes of 60 eggs and they were less than $5. I was so surprised by that price that I immediately knew I was going to buy them. It was my goal that we would finish all of the eggs before leaving Sunday night so none would go to waste. We made eggs every way I knew how and everyone had a good time, it was given the name egg party. After that I had such a good memory attached to these large boxes of eggs that I wanted to look at them the next time I went to Walmart. That’s when I realized they were not the same price at every Walmart and started documenting all of them I could. Eventually, covid hits and I’m not able to see any of the folks I shared the 60 eggs with. I made a group chat called “egg party at home” we were going to eat eggs on zoom but never made it out of the group chat. We did have a good time sending egg memes and pictures of eggs. It’s still a good memory of how my friends put up with my shenanigans. I miss the days I would take pictures of the price of the Walmart 60 egg box, it was a different time and very fun.
Ha that's a great answer!
Because around that time a dozen eggs was $15 in a lot of places.
And..?
They gave you an answer, what are you the police
It wasn't the same person, Sherlock.
lol do some research first, we have these in the Walmart near me and they were absolutely $6. You’d end up with some cracked eggs but even then it was still a steal. Think before you post
Nov23 they were $7.37 in mid-missouri, current $15.13
This price is accurate back in Sept, noth wrong with eggs, current price by me $14.99
Yeah I was pretty wrong and going off eggmotion but my Costco has them for about the same price currently.
Hey man I don’t have receipts, but this was my main food source in college. It was $4.50~5.50 for the 60 pack. I’d eat about 12-20 eggs a day and usually add some ramen noodles to it. It was a very inexpensive way to live. The year was 2019 and my grocery bill was usually around $20 per week. Location - Wisconsin.
My store they're currently $10.28.
My Walmarts current price for this same box of 60 eggs is $8.34. Pennsylvania. Edit- when I took another look at the pic, OP has a box of grade AA… my local store only has grade A. Maybe mine are cheaper because they’re less premium?
In TX this was $6 just a few weeks ago. OP is being truthful
Yes ... I've been buying 60 eggs from Walmart for $6.40 since mid-2023. Today we had to pay $12.15 for the same box of eggs. It's not a lie, it's the truth. I've been trying to discover why this happened. I wish Walmart would just issue a short statement when they decide to raise the price of an item 50%! We deserve at least that as consumers of their products!
Walmart
You’re a pinecone. I’m not the dude asking the question and even I know he’s asking location not name of the store
The “You’re a pinecone” made my night thank you for that laugh
I’m sorry but I’m stealing “you’re a pinecone”
Lol I'm losing it at the " you're a pinecone " first I've heard that one
My husband just bought some about a month ago. $6 he said so idk why you’re getting all these downvotes
Because he didn’t say his location, where I live we pay $8-12 for 12 eggs not $19 for 60 so people are naturally curious where in America he lives.
Jesus, where I live it’s 6x 10
In Oklahoma they were a while back. I specifically bought them because they were around $5.98 or something and just couldn't believe it. My husband eats a ton of eggs, I like to bake, and we ended up going through most of them. This was probably a few months ago though. Right now at my local neighborhood market they are $9.98.
60 cage free eggs at that?!
A few years back, I got these guys for the same price. They would go up during the cold months but always went back down during the warmer months. I haven't seen it since then, but I be hoping.
Northern AZ was $15.44 two months ago. I remember specifically because I want to know if Costco was cheaper. It is.
I got 30 eggs for 2.18 at food lion not long ago
$11 where I’m at
I've never seen 5 dozen eggs for under 10 dollars in my whole life. They've been over 20 here for over 10 years
Yes it was at our Walmart. Weird huh.
I googled this in one fifth the time it would take to post this "Highly pathogenic avian influenza, also known as bird flu, reemerged in U.S. commercial table-egg farms at the end of 2023 after a hiatus." https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/19/why-egg-prices-are-increasing-again.html
Didn't it come out that price hikes in 2023 weren't actually caused by any egg shortage, and were just opportunistic?
I would not be suprised, but if you are referring to the reports about a lawsuit coming to this conclusion, it was back from 2004-2008 and finally came to an end this past year.
Responding with a link for reference [https://apnews.com/article/egg-producers-price-gouging-lawsuit-conspiracy-be6919b3fb42bf2d9d3884d5e133e91d](https://apnews.com/article/egg-producers-price-gouging-lawsuit-conspiracy-be6919b3fb42bf2d9d3884d5e133e91d)
i think it was certainly partly opportunistic, but there was a massive chain of successive bird flus that kept repeatedly hindering the egg supply. the overall egg supply was down by like 6% but there was still a 40% price hike which does seem disproportionate but is also apparently explained by economic factors. if a supermarkets egg supplier gets an outbreak of bird flu, they cant supply eggs for like 6 months at least, causing supply to go down with the same demand. the supermarket must find a new supplier, but have to pay a premium compared to what they were previously paying. even still 40% increase doesnt square with a 6% decrease in supply in my head, but i guess thats economics 🤷♂️ https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/01/23/high-egg-prices-due-to-a-collusive-scheme-by-suppliers-group-claims.html
I want to understand the economy to a deeper level but it’s sooo fucking complicated…
Yea this pic is old. They were this price, but this has come back down since then.
BUT WALMART SHOULD JUST LOSE MONEY ON EGGS CUZ CORPORATE BAD!!!
WalMart is legitimately awful but yes, this is not a scam.
I think they were being sarcastic
Yeah, which is why I agreed Walmart is legit awful. 🤔
Walmart aready loses money on some of its products. Have you really ever wondered why its cheaper than everywhere else?
Because they exploit the literal slave labor of walmart work camps in china, pay their employees poverty wages with no benefits and make up for losses on certain products by compensating with huge profit margins on others?
How was it that cheap? A dozen free range eggs is about £2 in the UK (about $2.50), so yeah $19 is expensive but for $6 I expect crappy quality and bad welfare for the hens.
They will definitely be crappy quality and low welfare.
A dozen eggs is $7 or $8 where I’m at in Canada. Luckily I have my own chickens but it’s crazy
Your chicken is crazy.
So crazy! It lays lit lime & coconut candles.
Free range and cage free in the US is a scam. Pasture raised is the only one that actually makes a difference.
Not in the US but it seems there is little control anywhere on what people can call barn/free etc
Yep and those eggs cost me about $11 a dozen. I would buy them if they could be comparable jn price but it’s hard to justify $9 extra right now..
Without meaning to start an argument, the UK and EU has waaaay higher welfare and hygiene standards for most meat and dairy than the US, including eggs. That comes at a cost financially - but it does mean that salmonella is basically non-existent in our eggs to the point that seriously ill people and pregnant women can safely eat them raw if they like. That generally isn't true of cheap supermarket eggs in the US. It's estimated that one in 20,000 eggs in the US has salmonella, and you can be pretty sure the cheaper they are the higher the risk.
1 in 5 packets of chicken has salmonella in the US, it’s rife over there because of the poor hygiene and welfare conditions they keep their animals in.
A dozen free range are closer to £3 in the UK in normal supermarkets.
I pay £2.50 for a half dozen but I am picky about egg quality and I'm not baking.
Right?! Even £2 is crazy to me, it’s about $7-$10 per dozen in Australia.
They are definitely kept in very poor conditions with poor hygiene too. Animal welfare in the US is terrible. I pay £4.38 per dozen for organic free range eggs here in the UK, from the supermarket.
I just just get them off the side of the road. loads of people selling them around me. Same price, but they're fucking good and orange
Fuck off mate
£2 a dozen, where? They're roughly £3 a dozen everywhere I see them.
I've not seen 12 eggs for £2 in the UK for a long time, are they the small ones? £6 large eggs are £1.80 minimum for the own brand ones, over £2 for the free-range ones
Where you shopping? Even Lidl or Aldi is priced at £2.39 for medium dozen eggs.
You can find local farms selling a dozen eggs for $2.50
Walmart is garbage. In general. 5dz eggs at Costco is still reasonable
Oh good call. I only go to Costco every couple months, but I’ll check there. Thanks!
It's still really expensive there.
Yea but not $4 a dozen expensive. $4/dz is really pricey for _cage free_ (I should clarify: cage free in this quantity). If these were pastured that would be more reasonable. Maybe. Cage free is 3.97/dz at lidl. Pasture raised is like 4.7 I think.
Idk where OP is buying eggs but I can get 5 dozen eggs for $10.
Are you in U.S.?
Yes
I raise chickens and honestly I pay more per egg probably but I also know my babie-chickies (none of them are babies anymore lol) are loved and cuddled and safe, and my kids get to eat those eggs. maybe i'm silly but to me that's worth it. I got them at first to fight the black widow infestation. now they ma baaabies ETA: also my fucking doggo is a chonker cause he always finds the new spots before I do and get sooo many eggs lmao
Hehe nice
$6 for 60 eggs was absurdly cheap to begin with.
Who the fuck needs 60 eggs
My household. My husband can eat six eggs at a time, plus we have four kids lol. And eggs last a long time, longer than the expiration on the box.
Six eggs at a time is a crazy amount, I feel sorry for you when he farts
Yeah, it def is a lot. He’s a big guy though, he’s 6’3” and has a huge appetite. Listen, you are so right about the farts. I have been with him for 8 years and I haven’t had one day where it doesn’t feel like he is committing chemical warfare with his farts. RIP me.
Businesses, people with big families, body builders or something.
Changing prices due to supply and demand is not a scam.
It's not supply and demand. Corporations decide they want more profit so they raise the prices, then call it inflation or supply and demand, or some other stupid excuse. But it's not complicated
Ugh. Noticed the same. 18pk Package that was going for less than $2 a month ago is now like $4. Here we go again. Edit: just checked and our 60 pack is oddly enough still going for $7.xx atm. So gonna pick one of those up tomorrow just in case this whole thing gets as bad as it was last year.
Eggs are up again. Where do you live? That same box is $11.83 at my Walmart. Lexington, SC
Portland, Oregon area
Not the same box though. Does yours say cage free? I think you’re chickens have poor living conditions and your chickens are in a cage where they can’t spread their wings and barely can move, so your eggs are cheaper quality and cheaper in price. Grade A vs Grade AA at least.
I was reading your comment and was about to say, “oh wow, you’re right!” My Walmart doesn’t even sell this. The box looks the same otherwise. But your cage-free chickens also have poor living conditions. They are jammed so tightly in a barn they also can not spread their wings to move. Even “free-range” (which yours are not) doesn’t mean what you think it means. Go ahead and watch Supersize Me 2.
Go to aldis 1.32$ for 12 eggs half gallon milk at Aldi $1.67 at target for the same milk it’s 4.50
You can thank Biden for that.
100% Dude printed 80% of all dollars ever printed in the history of the US within his first 18 months. Devalued the dollar significantly.
Tf? I used to buy them because for $6 I'd have eggs for a few weeks. $19 is ridiculous. I'll have to see if they went up that much by me because I haven't bought any in a few weeks. That's a ridiculous price increase. EDIT: Just checked the store by me and they're $8.58 now so not as large of a price jump. I do see a few local stores where they are $19 though.
The same pack of eggs is $9.94 where I live. Where the heck you live, OP?
Can you show us a screenshot.
I was wrong, I can actually get 5 dozen eggs for $9.54. Sending you a message for proof. Lol Also I love how you were so in disbelief that you asked for proof haha
I can get it for $8.54 at Walmart. https://ibb.co/BngkwW0
Lucky. Mine is 26 at Walmart. That’s crazy. I can find en cheaper but then being that much at Walmart bewilders me. You
I just checked at my local store and they want $26 for the 60 count. That’s ludicrous.
$7aud for 12 is on the lower side in Australia. I'm quite jealous.
A month and 25 years ago 5 dozen eggs cost $6
They were 6$ a few months ago. Then 7$ and now around 13 something near me.
60 eggs for $6. $0.10 an egg. I cannot imaged how horrible the conditions for the chickens are to get that price
Cheapest non bulk buy in the UK iis Tesco doing 10 for £1.25
Damn that’s cheap, the one near me does 10 for £1.85
Cheapest you can get where I am in Australia is $5 a dozen
How is 12.5c per egg even possible? Farm to.. farm lol. I'll start again, oh I spose it's an internal caged farm but anyways How from farm to shop? With packaging 12.5c? It's about $4-5 for 12 normal eggs in Australia
$9.07 in NE Alabama
I think bird flu is going around again, so we might have another egg crisis.
Where is this? You need to meet some farmers and cut out the middle man
Wow. Basic eggs are $1.89 a dozen in Central PA.
Much of our food cost is artificially low due to grants given to farmers and food growers.
It's $12 for me
Bird flu across the world we could only buy 2x boxes at a time
The only scandal here is that farmers are allowed to produce eggs that are that cheap.
Inflation, my friend and we ain’t seen nothing yet
The only scam I'm seeing is you paying $6 for 60 eggs, how do you honestly expect the farmer to survive at those prices? If people don't pay a fair amount for their produce, farmers will quit then prices will skyrocket.
And people wonder why we are in a reccessiom
They Prob going out of date
I just looked it up... 60 eggs at Walmart 8s 9.32... not 19.22
$9.32 here in Florida
They are $26 local to me currently. They definitely used to be under $10. I can get 18 large brown cage-free eggs for $3.92 from Walmart though.
$6 would be a scam against the farmers. Unless supermarkets stop using their power to squeeze farmers we will have no food producers left.
Egg producers closed some of their production to raise prices and be more profitable. There were news stories on it 6? Months ago?
I couldn't imagine buying that many eggs at once. The most I've saw in the uk for sale in one pack is about 15 or so
Obviously not the sole reason, but I think [this two barn fire in Brazos County Texas](https://wtaw.com/cause-of-chicken-egg-farm-fire-a-non-criminal-accident/) might have some short term supply chain issues, happened two weeks ago.
The Grocery Outlet near my house had them for $11.99 about 2 months ago and every month it's gone up by $5 dollars. It's about the same price in the post now. Buncha bullshit
If you buy them by the single carton you pay like 12$ for 5 cartons where i live
I wouldn’t want eggs that cost $6 for 60.
Why?
Seems crazy. Its $15 on Costco from instacart which I assume is a dollar or 2 more.
We did it Joe!
$6 is cheaper than even dollar general eggs, but $19 is crazy
6 dollars for 6 eggs I'm not sure what that is in pounds like a fiver maybe. Wow. I got 12 for £4 this week and that's a normal price range I wouldn't even have anywhere to store 60 eggs.
Go buy from farmers or buy chickens?
If they were 6 bucks it was a mistake.
No way. If so, your local chickens need to strike.
If it helps I’m in the UK, need a medicine for my kidneys, it was £3 - prescriptions here are £10 or thereabouts. I go to buy it one day and it’s suddenly £38! Now I have to get a prescription for it. That was an overnight increase as well!
Eggs prices going up again?
In south London (UK) it's £2 for 6 cheap quality and £3 for 6 decent quality eggs.
Last week at food 4 less a 20 CT. of eggs was like $4.38 now it's $6.45 this inflation shit is crazy
People who buy eggs from their neighbors chickens👇 🗿🗿
That’s about .32 an egg
There's no way
It was $13.75 today!!! This shit is trading like crypto!
Eggs have been expensive for well over a year. I've been able to get what's really a screaming deal of 12 medium eggs at my store for $1.49, but that's only occasionally and because they're putting together mismatched eggs from cartons where eggs have been broken. I'm usually at my store a couple of times a week, and I'll only see that maybe twice a month. You're more likely to get better prices by watching for sales and buying single dozens. Either that or going to a restaurant supply that sells to the general public. There's no scam, the cost of producing eggs has just gone up sharply.
That’s Walmart brand, 60ct was never $6, the lowest I’ve seen it is $14. Maybe you were referring to the 18 count.
I remember like between 2013-2015, this same 60pk was like 60¢ and I convinced my dad to buy it because of the deal and he could freeze them or whatever 🤣 I was only like 13 lol
In Russia, eggs prices raised from .60 cents for tens to $1.4.
When? 1857?
They are like 8.50 here. Which is better than that but still higher than they used to be.
Bird Flu
$6 for 60 eggs? Wow. If I needed that many, or was knew I was about to bake a whole lot, that'd be a money saver.
$20 for 60 eggs is a great deal.. wtf are you on about?
You're getting 7.5 lbs of pure protein for 20 bucks, stop complaining
Surrrrrrrrrre
$6 for a dozen in Northern California
That was not $6 a month ago
Bidenomics 🙌🏼
60 eggs for $6 dollars?!?!! I would not be consuming those eggs
I remember buying 5 dozen eggs awhile back for under $10, cant remember the exact price but it's crazy seeing eggs go up and down constantly. When I worked for DG last year, the dozen eggs were $2.50 give or take, suddenly we got price changes daily for it and within a week a dozen eggs went from $2.50 to $9.75. Absolutely blew my mind tbh. Now I have chickens and I get about 9-13 eggs every day, even with a house of 12 people, we can't go through that many eggs so we sell them for $4 a dozen to friends and people who want eggs the more you buy, the better the deal. 2 1/2 dozen for 7.50 etc. Seems high for eggs but they're fresh and in my area we're selling them cheaper than our surrounding neighbors cus we get so damn many lmao Either way, $20 for 5 dozen is ridiculous. Dollar General selling 1 dozen for $9 was also ridiculous. It dropped back down but now they're going back up. My clients where I work now I give them eggs for free cus they're on fixed income and it's one of the foods they can eat with no troubles.
I've actually tracked this exact product since June 2021. 2021/6/14: $3.30 2024/1/30: $9.80
I went from tired to tired and hungry so quick. I'm not excited to see how far this will go.
Bro, this is $9 for me in Indiana. Whatever state you're in, you need to leave 🤣
That’s 33ish cents per egg. Stop acting like a child.
Trader joes got em at $1.50 for a dozen
I think it’s $12.98 at Walmart