Egg prices - OMG!

[pepperhead212]

If enough people just tell them "you know what you can do with that!", and let the eggs rot, the price will come down, or the only buyers will be commercial buyers, that have to have their eggs, but then people will be seeing higher prices for things with eggs in them (which is happening already). How many things will people stop buying?

There are some things, like gas, that many people can't really stop buying, but who can say they absolutely need eggs?

 

[dragnlaw]

But a couple of stores have admitted that they keep raising prices on eggs simply because they feel like it because they know customers will pay it.

Hopefully they won't be in business for long. I can't believe some store would admit to that, basically suicide. Or someone is now looking for a new job.

 

[dcSaute]

yesterday, Weis Markets - $11/dozen
today, Wegman's - $5.79

I'm thinking the larger markets have more clout with sourcing, etc.....

 

[FrankZ]

yesterday, Weis Markets - $11/dozen
today, Wegman's - $5.79

I'm thinking the larger markets have more clout with sourcing, etc.....

Or they are using eggs as a lose leader and making it up somewhere else.

 

[Sir_Loin_of_Beef]

This morning Whole Foods had 1 dozen large brown eggs for $4.99, so I bought two. Two dozen, not two eggs. Don't get silly.

 

[pepperhead212]

Pretty soon, they'll be selling them in small amounts like that! Like reducing amounts of many things, and charging the same.

 

[dragnlaw]

It would take them a long time to recuperate the expense of changing over the machinery used. There is some but probably not many are geared to doing 6 packs of eggs. Then when the shortage is over....

 

[dcSaute]

Or they are using eggs as a lose leader and making it up somewhere else.

observed in my shopping: egg prices vary wildly by store, same day, within an hour of observation.

the local Giant has a sign: "Individual eggs are available" - however, that sign pre-dates the current 'bird flu' issues.

quite some time back one . . . I handed a dozen pack to the stocking clerk - it had been attacked by a fork truck and 3-4 were broken and puddled all over . . . in the course of yakking, he mentioned they had observed people taking a single egg out of the pack and pocketing it (i.e. one presumes...stealing) the egg. this also before the 'crisis in eggs'

 

[dragnlaw]

people taking a single egg out of the pack and pocketing it

How sad someone has to steal eggs or worse one egg.

egg prices vary wildly by store, same day, within an hour of observation.

Gas has been like that for years. Taking the grands to school in the morning or picking them up after, I pass a gas station, come back past same station, - price has changed from 1 to 5¢ more all within 15 minutes. Then this same station drops by up to 7 to 9¢ after 10 pm.
Luckily where we live, this station is always 2 to 3¢ cheaper than other stations, that are closer to the city center.

 

[caseydog]

It would take them a long time to recuperate the expense of changing over the machinery used. There is some but probably not many are geared to doing 6 packs of eggs. Then when the shortage is over....

Six packs of eggs have been available here for many years. I used to buy them for short camping trips, to save space in my cooler.

CD

 

[dragnlaw]

Yes, of course, as I said, we do have them. But not to the extent that 12, 18 and 30 packs are.

 

[Sir_Loin_of_Beef]

How sad someone has to steal eggs or worse one egg.

It is a sad state of affiars that anyone has to steal food at all. The government pays farmers NOT to produce food, then arrests the people that need to steal it to feed their families!

After the blizzard of 1977, grocery stores in Niagara Falls were selling eggs for a dollar apiece, with no cartons. You brought your own carton or carried them home in a paper sack!

 

[Linda0818]

observed in my shopping: egg prices vary wildly by store, same day, within an hour of observation.

the local Giant has a sign: "Individual eggs are available" - however, that sign pre-dates the current 'bird flu' issues.

quite some time back one . . . I handed a dozen pack to the stocking clerk - it had been attacked by a fork truck and 3-4 were broken and puddled all over . . . in the course of yakking, he mentioned they had observed people taking a single egg out of the pack and pocketing it (i.e. one presumes...stealing) the egg. this also before the 'crisis in eggs'

That's because it's up to each individual store how to price the eggs.

I wish I was a manager of a big grocery store. I'd say to heck with it and take the plunge, pricing a dozen eggs at $2.50. You want to see what happens? Everybody comes to MY store to get the cheaper eggs and then other stores eventually follow suit and lower their prices as well, to get their customers back.

Yeah, I would probably run out of eggs quickly. But I wouldn't raise the prices back up. I'd keep them at the same price for when the next shipment comes in. People will wait.

Somebody, at some point, has to throw their cards on the table and just do it.

It is a sad state of affiars that anyone has to steal food at all. The government pays farmers NOT to produce food, then arrests the people that need to steal it to feed their families!

After the blizzard of 1977, grocery stores in Niagara Falls were selling eggs for a dollar apiece, with no cartons. You brought your own carton or carried them home in a paper sack!

Yet another example of price-gouging and stores taking advantage of people. Which really me off.

 

[caseydog]

I wish I was a manager of a big grocery store. I'd say to heck with it and take the plunge, pricing a dozen eggs at $2.50. You want to see what happens?

I think Trader Joe's did something like that, but they put a limit of two cartons on it. You'd pretty much have to put a limit on it, or selfish customers would come in and hoard eggs.

CD

 

[Linda0818]

I think Trader Joe's did something like that, but they put a limit of two cartons on it. You'd pretty much have to put a limit on it, or selfish customers would come in and hoard eggs.

CD

You're right about that. Although not all customers will follow the 'rules'.

I remember during Covid when stores would put limits on how many packages of toilet paper you could buy. But I would still see some people at the checkouts with carts FULL of the stuff.

I recall a sad moment in Kroger back then where some woman literally took the very last several packages of toilet tissue off the shelves and tossed them all into her cart, despite the sign there saying "Limit Two Per Customer." An older lady was behind her, waiting for her to move along so she too could grab some of it. But there was nothing left. Ms. Selfish took it all. The older lady kindly asked the woman if she could have just one package because she was completely out at home. Ms. Selfish snubbed her nose up at the lady and walked away.

The 15-year-old in me wished I knew what car the woman was driving because I wanted to slash her tires.

 

[dragnlaw]

I believe I'm at an age where I don't give a toot. If the shortage was serious enough I would have no problem pointing to the woman at the checkout and holler - "look at these two creatures, neither cares a toot about other human being's and their needs. The pig who's buying all the stock and the ostrich allowing her."
If the manager were to kick me out and/or ban me I tell him he also is not much better for not standing up for his own rules nor even backing up and supporting his employees.

Sort of gotten cranky with my advancing years.

 

[Linda0818]

I believe I'm at an age where I don't give a toot. If the shortage was serious enough I would have no problem pointing to the woman at the checkout and holler - "look at these two creatures, neither cares a toot about other human being's and their needs. The pig who's buying all the stock and the ostrich allowing her."
If the manager were to kick me out and/or ban me I tell him he also is not much better for not standing up for his own rules nor even backing up and supporting his employees.

Sort of gotten cranky with my advancing years.

I hear ya. The older I get, the less I can tolerate.

As for my mouth, it's completely on its own circuit. It says what it wants without first thinking of possible consequences. Stuff just rolls out before I have a chance to stop it.

 

[dragnlaw]

I know - same here. But I suffer a lot from the syndrome of realizing the perfect retort when it's far too late. Like waking up at 2am thinking ARGGHH I should have said....!

 

[caseydog]

I believe I'm at an age where I don't give a toot. If the shortage was serious enough I would have no problem pointing to the woman at the checkout and holler - "look at these two creatures, neither cares a toot about other human being's and their needs. The pig who's buying all the stock and the ostrich allowing her."
If the manager were to kick me out and/or ban me I tell him he also is not much better for not standing up for his own rules nor even backing up and supporting his employees.

Sort of gotten cranky with my advancing years.

Really, I would have never guessed.

CD

 

[msmofet]