Why is everyone so obsessed with eggs? Do people really eat them that often and if so, is it some kind of addiction like coffee or what? Stop paying those prices, stop buying the damn eggs.
Quiz:
Are egg prices high?
Yes
When will they go down?
They won’t
Will they go up?
I can nearly gurentee it
Will wages go up to compensate for higher cost of living?
Absolutely not
Will wages somehow go down squeezing the working class more?
Almost certainly
Why is this happening?
Capitalism
when prices are expected to drop
Keep it up, media. Let’s make sure people notice that shit doesn’t actually go down.
The real problem will be when the media stops reporting on prices altogether.
Well eggs are going to go down, because there’s a specific cause for those to be particularly high right now. It has nothing to do with Biden and the recovery will have nothing to do with Trump, but that will be the timeline, for eggs specifically.
It might come down a bit. Look at all the price hikes since 2019, prices are not going to come down.
That’s okay, I can wait while the greedy middlemen jerk each other off over the flimsy excuse of avian flu. I refuse to pay over $2/dozen on eggs and I’m being generous with that limit. Would be interesting to understand why the value line of this chart rocketed up so hard while production didn’t drop anywhere close to such a dramatic degree:
https://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Poultry/eggprvl.php
The media is just never willing to admit that price gouging is always a great big factor.
What good would it do since no one will stop them?
What good would telling the truth do? Really?
Yes. When—recently—have you seen “telling the truth” actually make a change? I dunno what year you think it is, but no one is doing anything about anything these days. Companies just do whatever they want, totally unchecked.
You really operate under the bizarre idea that there’s no point in informing people, so you might as well lie to them?
That’s a purposefully ignorant take. When was the last time you did anything about anything?
If that is not what you meant, what did you mean?
Yelling about the media is like yelling at clouds. What the media says or does not say has very little impact on what people will or will not do in the long run. So the media calls it price gouging, now what? Literally nothing. A few people get mad, but they were probably mad any way. They’ll blame whomever is president or whomever was president, and then go back to where they were before.
The media needs to say what people should do, but at this point the only thing left to do is illegal to say. Corporate America isn’t afraid of “protests” and “awareness” because they’re making shit tons of money.
I’m sure putting an anti-vaxxer in charge of health care will solve all problems in no time.
Elon has a plan to hire H1B workers that can lay more eggs than the average american worker
Nobody wants to lay eggs any more!
People are so lazy now
The Japanese are mad because 10 eggs are getting close to ¥300 ($1.91).
I buy higher quality eggs and I only pay ~¥250 for 10.
(Japan doesn’t do anything by the dozen.)
Now rice… that’s gotten out of control here in the past few months. Some companies now charging 3 times what they did just last summer.
The biggest factor pushing up egg prices is a wave of avian flu, which began in early 2022 and led to the culling of millions of egg-laying hens. With demand remaining steady, the reduced supply has caused prices to rise.
Supply and demand, folks. Supply and demand. Demand high, supply low? Price goes up. Supply high, demand low, prices goes down.
While prices are expected to ease from late 2024 highs, they will likely stay above pre-outbreak levels through 2025.
Or indefinitely. Once people get used to paying a higher price for eggs, what’s to stop the stores from keeping the prices relatively high, even if the wholesale price goes down? If a store can increase their profit margins on eggs, why wouldn’t they? Especially if the store is a large corporation, always looking to maximize profit and return for shareholders.
Some people might say, “competition will bring the price down. Once one store lowers their price to gain a competitive edge, other stores will have to follow or risk losing customers.” To this I say: who the hell comparison shops for eggs? Look, I’m sure some people do, but, if most people are like me, they’re not going to multiple stores to see who has the lowest price for a dozen eggs. I go to one store, my favorite store, and I just get the same eggs I’m used to getting. Even if I did want to comparison shop, not all stores are going to sell my preferred eggs (I know a lot of people will say, eggs are eggs, but I like cage free eggs even though it’s probably bullshit I like to think my eggs aren’t coming from chickens who are stuffed into those little wire cages all day), so it would be hard to do an apples to apples comparison.
Plus, as more and more stores become consolidated into fewer and fewer major retailer chains, even the theoretical idea of price regulation through competition goes out the window.
This is what we get when we essentially live under monopoly control or pseudo-monopolies created via collusion.
