Egg price relief hasn’t hit consumers' wallets despite cost “ease”

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The price of eggs is now so high it has sparked a flock of memes pointing out that it's now probably too expensive to egg your enemy's house.

Friday, the federal agency said consumer demand continues to decline and “shell egg prices remain at unappetizing levels in retail outlets relative to other proteins.”Another meme showedBrian Moscogiuri, a global trade strategist at Eggs Unlimited, an egg supplier based in Irvine, California, told Axios retail pricing often lags the wholesale market and there is traditionally a 20 to 30% drop from seasonal highs to January and February lows.

“But if input costs continue to increase and the bird flu continues to kill large quantities of hens the costs will likely be passed on to consumers," Covington said.or bird flu that began in February 2022 is a key factor in the price hike. Egg farms are recovering but there are 6% fewer hens laying eggs, Emily Metz, American Egg Board president & CEO, said in a statement to Axios, citing recent USDA data.as the index declined on a monthly basis, the first drop since last summer, Axios’ Courtenay Brown reports.Most expensive and cheapest egg pricesInstacart shared a breakdown of state average egg prices with Axios that shows how much customers paid on the platform in December for a dozen eggs.

 

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Stop eating them, or at least cut your intake by half.

My L.A. eggs never went past $2.99.

Good eggs in California are at least $8.00 a dozen, organic, pastured hens, the best, not sure we have any for $4.25.

You don’t mention the avian flu in this tweet or in the first half of your article. ~60 million chickens dead.

Same in the U.K. Households are being limited to purchasing 2 boxes at a time. It does make me laugh that people are still trying to blame Biden for it though. Do they think he started the bird flu epidemic himself? 😂

If factory farmed eggs cost that much, why not go to the farmer's market and pay another dollar for eggs from chickens who aren't aren't tortured. The problem with low prices for animal products is that they never should have been that low to begin with.

And the f’ing large eggs are small to medium sized at best. BidenInflation

Biden’s America

Where the hell these 4.25 eggs at?

Ummm...no

Corporations that sell the eggs are still recording massive profits... not hard to figure out

High prices due to the buyers not paying the farmers enough

Ask Bernie Sanders about that conclusion. Bring earplugs.

Add to that California’s proposition 12, new education requirements for CDL’s and legalized state marijuana use vs federal truck driver testing tolerances…..

Or it's collusion and greed: 'Although these figures seem to support the theory that the avian flu outbreak of 2022 was significant, its actual impact on the egg supply was minimal.'

Sure it is... 🙄

...but its still got nothin on corporate greed. TaxTheRich

Two dozen organic, cage free eggs are $7 at Costco. They hardly breaks the bank.

those organic eggs have always been $7.99

Some ppl are thinking of raising a chicken 🐓 in their backyard! Seriously!

Bon Appetit’s best new restaurant which specialized in egg sandwiches just suddenly closed due to inflation

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