Egg prices - OMG!

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Went up 60₵ in one week.

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Thanks, guys.

Thing is, it tells you so much about the decisions that people make and how there aren't really any good or bad decisions. There's just good and bad results. I actually bought a house in 2002 and everyone said that was the best thing to do. It was the worst thing I could have done at the time considering the results. Going for a piece of land twenty years later, I was just trying to assure my future. I could have rented an apartment and blown all my money on rent in about 2 years. I could have bought a trailer in a trailer park and been priced out of it in about 15 years, stuck trying to sell an old trailer when I was 80. So I chose to do this. But you should have heard people when I told them what I was going to do. I was called crazy and everything else under the sun. In the end, I consider this a success. But I still don't think I made a good decision. I made "a" decision, and it turned out OK because I got lucky. Period. I took a chance and it paid off. Things could have gone south in a such a huge way.
 
I have learned, albeit very late in life, that once I make a decision, whether it be a good one or not, accept that I made that decision not knowing what the outcome would be. No one can know the future, they can make educated guesses, but still do not know.
So if the decision is not perfect - it might hurt, but I can live with it because I made the decision. Golly, guess this sounds garbled, only hope you understand what I'm trying to say.
 
The egg section at Walmart Tuesday. Looks like the hoarding has begun.

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Walmart customers and HEB customers must be different, because there were plenty of eggs at HEB just one day earlier. I can't imagine that Walmart has less buying power... than anyone.

CD
 
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I got 3 12oz paks of bacon the last time I was at Winco. I'm thawing two of them now, because Safeway had diced hash browns on sale. I got those so I can make potato soup (it's hard for me to stand and chop potatoes these days). I don't think I paid more than $3 something for them but if bacon is going to go sky high, I better hoard the last package I have.
 
$3.89 for a dozen store brand eggs at Kroger yesterday. I don't buy eggs often. In fact, it's been over a month since I've picked up a dozen. But compared to some of the prices you all have been posting here, $3.89 seems relatively inexpensive. I don't really know, to be honest. Again, I don't buy them often. I don't do much (if any) baking and I don't eat eggs as often as I used to. So a dozen will typically last me a month, maybe two.

Granted, $3.89 is way more expensive than they used to be (I think the last time I bought eggs I paid $1.79) but egg prices have been going up and down so much lately (chicken farm fires, bird flu, inflation) that I don't know what the norm is supposed to be anymore. I know over this past summer, our local farmers market had them for $5 a dozen. That's definitely pricey, but I'll buy them because it supports local chicken farmers, so it's worth it to me.
 
This may get worse. Farmers and food processors, including egg farmers, are complaining because a lot of their workers are afraid to come to work. Some farms and facilities are saying that as many as 75% of their workers are not showing up.

CD
 
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This may get worse. Farmers and food processors, including egg farmers, are complaining because a lot of their workers are afraid to come to work. Some farms and facilities are saying that as many as 75% of their workers are not showing up.

CD
Is there a reason for that?
 
I'm guessing that poultry workers are more worried about catching bird flu now that a human has died from it recently. Because that was in the news, we also found out that over 60 people were in hospital with bird flu. I think most people worry a bit more about contagious diseases now than before the pandammit.
 
I'm guessing that poultry workers are more worried about catching bird flu now that a human has died from it recently. Because that was in the news, we also found out that over 60 people were in hospital with bird flu. I think most people worry a bit more about contagious diseases now than before the pandammit.

Bird flu is effecting egg prices, but not for that reason. Bird flu's major effect is that a lot chickens are having to be euthanized due to outbreaks, and it takes time to replenish the chickens.

CD
 

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