WTF is up with egg prices?

[Dinner]

I was at at Vons yesterday and their regular large AAA eggs, not organic or free range, we're $5.49 a dozen. I didn't buy any because someone is going to toss in a hand job before I pay almost $0.50 an egg. Google says there has been an outbreak of avian flu in a few Midwestern states and that federal law says the whole flock has to be put down if even a single bird tests positive so I get why egg production in those states are down.

What I don't get is that here in California most of our eggs are produced in state and our birds haven't been effected. Are fresh eggs really such a fungable commodity that they can ship them around the country profitably? I mean they have a limited shelf life so it sounds like they wouldn't travel all that far. Is this just profit taking or are eggs from the western states being sent back east to make up for their production shortages?

[Dinner]

Maybe I should have named this thread "The Great egg-tastrophy."

[rah]

Yes, simple supply and demand. Eggs keep long enough for local problems to drive the national market.

[pchang]

Toss in a handjob....


Good one

[Spaced Cowboy]

Supply and demand. Cal eggs are probably being shipped to areas where there are none.

However, chickens don't take that long to breed, supply should be back to normal in a few months unless there is more of the bird flu.

[regexcellent]

I paid ~$2.50 for a dozen extra large eggs a few weeks ago in Rochester.

[SlowwHand]

I can get you a flat (30?) for $3.50

[giblets]

I hope Dinner is enjoying his "third world banana republic status".

[onodera]

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

[Bereta_Eder]

Eggs

[regexcellent]

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

WTF is with selling eggs in 10s? They had 10 packs in Estonia too.

[KrazyHorse]

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

[giblets]

He wants more money for craft beers.

[C0ckney]

a dozen eggs are about $1-$1.25 here.

[KrazyHorse]

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.