Summary
Egg prices in the U.S. have reached a record high of $4.95 per dozen amid a severe bird flu outbreak that has led to the culling of millions of egg-laying chickens.
The shortage is compounded by rising feed, fuel, and labor costs, as well as increased demand and stricter cage-free regulations in several states.
Consumers face empty shelves, surcharges, and limited availability, with some areas pricing cartons at $10 or more.
Prices are expected to continue rising, especially with Easter demand.
yea…fucking hilarious how maga sheep all of a sudden seemed to shut the fuck up about egg prices
Assuming they can read anything that isn’t boiled down slop from OAN, Fox, or Breitbart.
Yeah, they should change the book into a tiktok.
They are all now experts on the effects of culling chickens for bird flu.
So covid was a hoax but bird flu and measles are real. I’m not quite following.
They might remain real things right up until the moment they have to change one IOTA of their own lives, or if they think it’s making donvict/fElon look bad in some way.
I will never forget how many younger right-leaning/red-pilled types did this collective shrug about Covid, by the way: “that’s something that only impacts old people who just need to die anyway and fat people and/or diabetics, and that’s their own fault, so I should not have to adapt one little bit”. Many of these people in the same generations that a lot of people are telling me are soooo much better than every other generation that ever existed.
I was expecting a whole raft of letters and op-eds in my local corporate rag (Denver Post) that more or less spew the same old “give him a chance to pivot to being presidential, you guyyyyyyzzzzzz” and “we had to put up with Biden when he was in office and you didn’t see US protesting like this [1]!!! boo hoo hoo” type of stuff for the next several weeks months after he took power. I don’t recall seeing too many of these. Weird.
[1] The fact that these assholes could act like they had to “put up with” Biden when neither Biden or anyone in his administration was trying to target entire demographics and cause “pain” to the American people, etc…completely unlike what donvict is doing. Nevermind that they can sit there and gaslight about not protesting. Protesting is a completely valid and highly American and patriotic tradition - what THEY fucking did when they lost was to throw an insurrection that was run in parallel with a fucking coup attempt.
Make sure at every opportunity that you call everyone of those fuckers a hypocrite, and if you don’t have to maintain any sort of relationship with them, also make sure they know how much of a cunt they are too.
Holy hell that is hilarious on multiple levels.
Am I correct that that is him pointing and looking directly at the sun?
Yup
Even better, it’s him staring at a solar eclipse
That is absolutely perfect. *chef’s kiss*
Technically the eclipse which you aren’t supposed to look at. Because you risk going blind.
Fucking idiot.
This is fun
Is this from that time he stared at the solar eclipse without eye protection?
Yes.
I still wonder if him staring at the sun was more from him just being a complete idiot, or a “imma gunna show them what a MAN I am! This is some real fucking leadership, I tell u wut!”
Given the cost of everything including stickers, maybe it might be good to have a printout of this and take it everywhere, then take an image with this held up next to the prices.
Also, in Bronzo the Clown’s America, I might get deported or sent to Gitmo over defacing some gas pump with…stickers.
The background should probably be the Russian flag.
Swastika would be more accurate.
Is it day 1 yet?
No, flag of Putin’s party
Just yesterday my friend texted that his local bodega in the Bronx is selling $1 loosies or $12/dozen. Fucking egg loosies. What’s next? Egg dealers on Gun Hill?
Refrigerated trenchcoat sales on the subway.
Got ya free range here. Extra large. Whites and browns.
French ticklers for me!
Or just sell the non processed eggs that’s easier since they don’t need to be refrigerated
You see the Daily Show sketch?
No, did they do that?
That’s why I would never shop at a bodega. “Let’s make paying more feel cool and trendy.” It’s a fucking 7-11 with incense.
Bodegas are small businesses that are usually very entrenched in the community. This isn’t extortion. It’s a way to make a few eggs affordable. My criticism is of the need for the loosies in the first place.
It doesn’t sound like that person has ever been to a city
It’s so common for tourists to see higher prices than they’re used to and assume the place is a rip off. They have no idea how insane the rent for a tiny shop can be in NYC. Meanwhile, they’ll have no problem dropping $30 for a ‘value meal’ in Times Square.
I agree with your criticism for the need loosies In the first place, But there has been a rising trend where Bodegas In communities, like the Bronx, have taken advantage of an influx of higher earners. If they raise the price for them, they raise the price for all. This is just another form of hyper focused capitalism.
NYC doesn’t exactly have massive supermarkets on ever highway intersection. They are convenience stores that fill a need.
People will be selling black market eggs in back alleys soon.
There was a news story a few days ago about somebody heisting 144,000 eggs from a delivery truck in PA.
“Yo, I got them loose ovoids!”
Biden and Obama conspiring in the shadows to help the deep state sabotage trump, obviously.
Only Democrats’ shadowy cabal control the economy like this, it’s a known fact from Fox News!
Every day Obama wakes up before every American, and personally draws on the price tags of the things a Republican was craving that day with a sharpie, to ensure they yelled at a store clerk.
Biden personally loves to go to a gas station and round up to the nearest dollar, but at Chevron stations it’s the nearest dollar plus 13 cents.
Hilary Clinton uses space lasers to make streaming services remove content and increase the cost.
spoiler
This was fun to just go off and write, have the Republicans considered making a weird sci-fi world to role play in, instead of ruining the world?
Buy the ticket, take the ride
This was going to happen under anyone who won, tbh.
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Great, now they’re 5.99.
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Its one egg, michael. What could it cost, Ten dollars?
Thanks, trump!
Didn’t Jabba-the Orange pledge to lower those prices on DAY ONE?
Yeah, but something, something Biden did it.
If biden was a weak and pathetic president…
and trump cant even stop biden from still fucking things up.
then how weak and pathetic does that make trump?
Or is that too much logic for rumpets.
I love it. Might be a bit deep for them though.
He killed all the birds, according to Bronzo the Clown’s spokesxtian.
Amusingly, the pasture raised eggs are now the same price as the regular eggs at Aldi.
I have a coworker who keeps about 250 chickens at her house and sells the brown eggs for $5 a dozen. Meanwhile, a dozen white eggs at Shop-Rite are $10.
her house?? She must live on a ranch or something
The eggs are pretty small.
Different coloured eggs are different prices in the US?
Yeah. Generally, brown is more expensive than white, organic is more expensive than non-organic, free-range is more expensive than caged etc. The current situation has rendered everything fucking expensive, though.
Hmm - here in England the colour of an egg doesn’t make any difference to its price, or to its taste. But yeah, organic and free range usually cost more. Larger eggs cost more too. I’ve not checked the exchange rate but I’d say it costs about $6 for a dozen free range eggs.
I’d love to keep hens myself but it’s not feasible. I have friends who live on a farm where the chickens just kind of wander about and I swear their eggs taste better than shop bought.
BUT Trump said he would lower prices on day 1! I don’t get it, why would he lie?
There’s a giant knob labeled EGG PRICES in the oval office and he hasn’t turned it yet!
Old people have hard time finding right knobs to turn.
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I just saw an 18 pack for $14.75 yesterday at my local grocery. A dozen is $10, and that’s for the white eggs, not the brown ones. Luckily we have a Grocery Outlet that had a dozen for $7.50, but holy shit.
2 packs of 18 used to be $7 bucks. Now one pack of 18 is $8.
I’ve stopped buying eggs.
Poor Canada, egg prices are the same. /s
I paid $3.93 CAD for a dozen yesterday.
Ontario NoFrills?
My close save on (company from graphic) seems to have trouble keeping eggs in stock, plus it’s like $8-9 for free range which I usually try to buy. Their quality (used to be quite orange now more dull, not as yellow as most eggs still) has gone down I hope the chickens are treated better.
$4.95 for one egg is ridiculous. I won’t pay more than $4.50 an egg. 😤
“It’s one banana, Michael, how much could it cost? 10 dollars?”
Enough already
It’s one quote, @phubarr@lemmy.world, how often could you have seen it? Ten thousand times?
“Surcharges”
Is that a the grocer version of “dealer premiums” from when car dealers legally price gouged during the covid parts supply shortages?
It’s gonna be like the USSR except instead of bread shops running out of bread you’re just not going to be able to afford it because the grocer jacked up the price to $30/loaf.
Not exactly. More like post-USSR. Before fall of USSR sortages meant everything that was produced was consumed and there was some demamd on top. After fall it meant some things were left to rot on shelves in hope someone will buy for higher price.
Where’s the I did that stickers and artificial blame?
Why does that only go one way?
They are on Etsy, and all over the place where I am
