WTF is up with egg prices?

[giblets]

If eggs cost $3 a piece, cultural norms would be different so you would probably be eating fewer eggs.

[Spaced Cowboy]

I probably would not have noticed the price increase if I had not seen a news story earlier in the week about it.

I normally buy Egglands best Xtra large 18 pack as a rule so I'm not usually looking at the price anyway, just that none are broken, put in cart, move on.

Interesting that the price on the egg beaters that I get (says they have real eggs in them...right), did not budge.

I am a little more price sensitive to things that vary greatly, like meat prices at various stores or produce prices during season.

[Jon Miller]

I generally don't look at the cost of groceries and such things.

Which has resulted in me (in Chile) spending ~12$ USD for 1/2 kg of bismati rice and ~30$ USD for a small container of Canadian Maple Syrup.

And I am not wealthy, and while I while I do not have problems with monthly liquidity now I did in the not so distant past. I really should pay attention to price.

JM

[The Mad Monk]

Bought two dozen organic eggs from Costco in Lenexa, KS for $6.50 or therabouts. I don't believe organics were hit by the flu, and at about $0.25 an egg, it's still an insanely cheap source of food.

[Dauphin]

What would you pay for eggs (question to all of you). The situation I'm imagining is that eggs just cost that much (so you can't just go to a different store or wait a few weeks to have eggs). Your choice is to either pay or go without (eat something else). I think I would go to 3-4$ an egg before it even slowed my egg consumption at all. Most of what I eat is similarly far removed from the actual price. Which is why I mostly ignore prices and buy whatever I want.

I'm imagining a situation where Oerdin will pay $3 for a dozen eggs and will throw out six because they go off, but won't buy a pack of six eggs for $2.50.

[Dauphin]

And I don't do any food shopping and don't know how much things like milk or bread cost. The only time I see the cost of the Waitrose deliveries is when entries appear on my wife's credit card statement.

[Dinner]

I can go to the nearby gourmet shop and buy 10 eggs for 67 roubles. That's less than 1.5$ per dozen.

About two years ago they were $0.99 per dozen. Either they are all being shipped back east or there is a hell of a lot of profit taking. We are talking 550% increases in price.

I blame Iowa.

[Dinner]

Why are you paying attention to how much your groceries cost?

Because I am a cheap half Scottish bastard who was brought up to be thrifty and never pay a damn penny more than I have to. As a fellow capitalist I would have expected you to understand that position.

[Dinner]

I'm imagining a situation where Oerdin will pay $3 for a dozen eggs and will throw out six because they go off, but won't buy a pack of six eggs for $2.50.

I will hard boil those *****es as they make a great portion controlled snack. I don't like wasting things.

[ricketyclik]

What would you pay for eggs (question to all of you). The situation I'm imagining is that eggs just cost that much (so you can't just go to a different store or wait a few weeks to have eggs). Your choice is to either pay or go without (eat something else). I think I would go to 3-4$ an egg before it even slowed my egg consumption at all. Most of what I eat is similarly far removed from the actual price. Which is why I mostly ignore prices and buy whatever I want.

In news just in, KH is rich.

[Aeson]

Eggs cost about $0.15 each here.

If you want balut that's more expensive. You don't want balut...

[ricketyclik]

It is probably the only food I've said no to. It's so ironic that it was invented in a 99% practicing Catholic nation, given that it's an abortion.

[giblets]

I wish I hadn't googled balut

[regexcellent]

What would you pay for eggs (question to all of you). The situation I'm imagining is that eggs just cost that much (so you can't just go to a different store or wait a few weeks to have eggs). Your choice is to either pay or go without (eat something else). I think I would go to 3-4$ an egg before it even slowed my egg consumption at all. Most of what I eat is similarly far removed from the actual price. Which is why I mostly ignore prices and buy whatever I want.

I'm with KH here; groceries are so cheap that you have to be making your living off blowjobs under the highway overpass before it starts to be a problem. Especially simple stuff like bread, milk, eggs, most vegetables, etc.

[KrazyHorse]

In news just in, KH is rich.

Even when I was a graduate student the answer would have been ~1.50 an egg