Eggs priced at 78 cents apiece

[gmerkt]

That is what Mrs. Merkt told me when she came home from gro. shopping today. At Fred Meyer. $13.99 for a box of 18 eggs. I'm going to have to think twice before having a couple of poached eggs on toast for breakfast.

And Heaven help me should I break an egg or drop one. Used to be, if I wrecked an egg, I would throw it in the food waste container. No longer. Kinda like dropping a primer on the workroom floor. When they were worth only a penny or two, I'd leave them. No longer.

I've head two dynamics that are contributing to high priced eggs. (1) Avian flu killing flocks of haying hens. (2) Some jurisdictions have the ethical treatment of farm animals laws newly on the books.

What a state of affairs.

I used to keep laying hens out back on my property. They weren't free range due to an overabundance of pesky raccoons at the time. It seems like I was lugging a hefty sack of chicken scratch out there out of proportion to the eggs generated by the birds. So I probably won't go that route again, although I noticed this was a popular thing during the Covid era.

Years ago, a family moved onto some property up the road from me. I think they were from California. They wanted to experience the "country life," of sorts. First thing they did was cut down a lot of trees. Then they put in a garden. Next I saw a small greenhouse go up. After that, a small henhouse was built. It's all gone to rack and ruin now. I don't know that they lasted ten years but I think they lost interest in the work involved much sooner. But those big trees haven't grown back.

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[GWS]

WTH? I just bought 2 dozen eggs at Costco for like $5.93.

 

[titsonritz]

They're trying to keep up with the bacon prices.

 

[Mark W.]

What were they free range organic purple pokka dot?

A dozen Eggland best Large eggs runs about $4.00 a dozen here in Silverton Oregon at Safeway.

 

[Member 53867]

If you're paying that much for eggs, it's on you. Cage-free Large AA eggs are $21.44 for 5 dozen @Walmart (35.7 cents ea.)

 

[MikeInOr]

The last time I tried to claim paying close to that for eggs I was saving up for a Staccato that I didn't want the wife to know about. You better check her underwear drawer!

 

[WillametteWill]

That is what Mrs. Merkt told me when she came home from gro. shopping today. At Fred Meyer. $13.99 for a box of 18 eggs. I'm going to have to think twice before having a couple of poached eggs on toast for breakfast.

This is why I have given up shopping at Freddies and Safeway. The stores are nice, but literally twice the price for many of the goods compared with Winco. Just paid $6ish for 18 there and my bride thought that was high. We have chickens too.

 

[Idaho44]

Gold Rush Days are here again! But, who's getting the GOLD? And just so you know there is no or very little inflation!

However there is this thing called an inflation calculator: https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/ ENJOY!

 

[RVTECH]

A dozen Eggland best Large eggs runs about $4.00 a dozen here in Silverton Oregon at Safeway.

$4.99 in Grocery Outlet in LaPine - and non 'Eggland' brands sometimes $2.99.

 

[gmerkt]

She didn't buy any, she passed. We make supplementary trips to Winco and Walmart. Many items don't make the Fred Meyer shopping list for this reason. I later looked at the FM online site, they had the same $13.99 eggs on special for $7.99. Then I clicked on the item and it said, "sold out."

 

[arakboss]

Eggs are expensive but peanut butter was cheap at Freddy's

 

[TTSX]

In have a hard time believing a buck fiddy for a couple eggs is breaking anyone's breakfast budget, especially those with a budget including guns.

 

[ilikegunspdx]

Would you take 19 cents plus four 9mm once-fired brass?

 

[orygun]

I don't want to guess what the wife pays for chicken food so we can give eggs away... HA!
The few eggs we actually use in this house are real expensive!

 

[Joe13]

Minimum wage is going above $16 an hour so you gotta pay a premium for people stocking shelves….

 

[GrayGoose]

Eggs will be back to normal once this bird flu situation passes.

 

[Richo877]

I work in a grocery setting, and I've watched the egg prices hike up at least 3 times in the last 2 weeks. Had a customer tell me they were $8.49/dz at Walmart and the next day they were $8.99 here. This is the economy were building when we put all the power in corporate politics. I know there was a scare with the bird flu, but the volume I see coming in and going out tells me there's no shortage. As long as consumers keep consuming, capitalists we keep capitalizing.

 

[Richo877]

said, "sold out."

That's because they're all in dozen packs for $8.99. We have hundreds.

 

[TTSX]

Of all the crappy things in life to complain about...

 

[CabbageMan]

Of all the crappy things in life to complain about...

No receipt, photo, mention of brand or type. I didn't expect much either.