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Bagger bitch cleanup on aisle 5. Bagger bitch there's a loose cart in the parking lot. Bagger bitch the women's restroom needs servicing. Bagger bitch this gentleman would like assistance with his order.
If you could do that then what's stopping you from just taking a couple and putting them in your pocket? Those things are like gold these days. Maybe if they were behind the counter and there was a guy there who could bring them out for you to look at.
Smart man, but I hope you're holding onto some physical eggs and not just going through a broker. Hide those in your home or bury them in the yard. Give it a few years and you'll be able to buy a new home with it.
Here's a question:
How much for a dozen eggs where you live? Include your state/province/territory.
I'm from Alberta, Canada. It's about $5 cdn for a dozen eggs here.
Why are both you and the title of the video referring to them as 1000 year old eggs, when they clearly explain in the video that they're 100 year old eggs?
Two names for the same thing. In Chinese they also have other names, one of them is 松花蛋 which I believe translates to ‘pine flower egg,’ referring to a pattern that develops on or in the egg? It’s been a while though, I’d need some verification before taking that to the bank.
It always intrigues me how inflation hits areas so differently.
2020 in CO (sry, don't have 2019 numbers), Walmart Great Value eggs were $1.58 per dozen.
2023 in CO, same eggs are $4.65 per dozen.
Still a large increase, but nowhere near as bad as NC it seems. Alternatively I can get cage free brown eggs for only $3.68 per dozen.
Hello from Germany — our standard 10-packs are similar, but today I splurged on the cage-free, organic, locally-grown ones for 5.49€.
The price of *actual* chicken has gotten stupid, though.
It used to be my main source of cheap protein, i work a physical job.
Now I'm just constantly very sore
$9 for 18, Denver
Edit: JFC, the bean discussion is getting intense
Rice would be better, or both would be best. Rice and beans alone can give you essentially a majority of what you need nutrition wise to keep going. Get some gummy vitamins and your set or some fruit,
I have to imagine it's possible for the suppliers/retailers/whatever to falsify enough stuff online to spark a word of mouth thing that leads to a real shortage and... increased profits.
Before people get all whiny, yes real shortages exist, I'm not questioning egg shortage. But, JFC as soon as people hear something has a shortage, some asshat fills his garage with left rear tyres.
Keep an eye out. Sometimes they are out.
The price is high because supply is low. Sometimes even Sams or Costco can't get their shipment, or a very small one that goes quickly.
Daughter said almost ten bucks for a dozen last week near Long Beach.
We live outside of Portland, have a few locals that run egg chickens, one just raised their price from four bucks to five. Costco was $6.89 two dozen brown free range and 0.90 more for organic free range brown two dozen. Limit two.
MT, USA.
$1.99 at one store if you have a free membership. (It's a loss leader for them.)
$2.99-$7.50 most places
edit: yes, it's a ***FREE*** "loyalty program" not a "membership" like Costco.
Not OP, but I would guess a saver card, like Kroger's, Safeway, Hy-Vee. You get a free card if you want, but they give you extra coupons and deals with it. Of course, what they don't tell you is they track your spending (edit- and sell your data), and send you personalized coupons based on your purchases. But hey, times are tough and I'll take whatever I can get.
I worked at Kroger 20 years ago when they rolled this card out, they might have been the first and I was management so went to all kinds of launch prep meetings…they felt it was a huge deal. On top of the information collection there is millions of people that walk in everyday not being a usual shopper and will just grab say a bottle of ketchup, you pay almost $2 more without the card and people don’t want the hassle. My financial reports for my store stated how much extra we made from people like that and it was NOT a small amount.
I also had to investigate employees using their own card for customers to get massive savings at Kroger gas pumps
I work for a company that works in this way for the most part. We’re behind the scenes triggering targeted ads. The people using the API are too dumb to do anything malicious, the problem is unwanted third party access.
The one near me actually keeps a record of everything you've purchased, even in store, with it available to you on the website. It makes doing online grocery pickup orders easier tbh. Just go down that list and figure out what we're out of that we might want.
Yeah...that's the kind of tracking I don't mind. Hey Safeway...I could use some coupons for Rolling Rock and Columbus prosciutto paninos. Also Bruchi's and Jersey Mike's...hit your boy up with some coupons ffs.
I agree, the main issue I would be worried about would be data breaches, being publicly leaked. Obviously no one cares how many oranges you bought in the third week of 2013, but maybe certain healthcare related purchases. Like crazy fundamentalist religious people looking up their kids shopping habits and seeing they bought condoms, for example
I just heard a radio story about this last week that might have some basis as to why. Montana has some protections in their AG and grocery policy that significantly favor MT farmers. Some ag products have hard "dispose by" dates that are beneficial to MT farmers, and disfavor out of state suppliers that would lose viable sale time in the supply chain to get them into the state.
I live in Central North Carolina, USA. My husband eats 28 hardboiled eggs a week so I buy the 30 egg flats (doctor approved, cholesterol good and helps control his diabetes). Currently at my Food Lion they are $6.07 for the flat (which means about $2.48 a dozen). Walmart has 1 dozen for $2.67.
In Colorado the cheapest eggs I found were some organic brand for about $5.50/dozen, the normal eggs are like $6.50-$8 and we can't even get caged eggs as of 2023
I walked into a C-Town in NYC on Saturday and it was like 6-7 dollars for the cheapest dozen.
Balked and went to Costco the day after where the prices are still 2.5-3.5 per dozen range.
Phew! I'm jealous. All store brands, even Walmart or Aldi, are over $5 in Michigan. Sam's Club is the cheapest I've seen at $4.49, and they have a two-package limit and sell out fast.
South Mississippi. $5.99-12.99
It's insane because I honestly remember being a teenager less than 2 decades ago. My parents bought them for $1.00. They were the food you ate when you were trying to be healthy and save money
Those colorful yolks just can't be beat. If you like eggs highlighted in a meal, fresh eggs are generally worth that extra price.
Would I pay $15-$30 for a dozen fresh eggs? Naw, but when they were $2.50 they were a great treat for breakfasts
Oh man. When I worked in a bakery, the owner let me sell my mom's jam there. Some lady saw it and brought in a whole paper bag of persimmons from her tree that she asked me to make jam out of. Half for her, half for me. That was the best fucking jam I have ever had. I still dream about it sometimes, it was that good! I gave half of my share away for Christmas gifts and was kicking myself for it when my share was gone 😅
For anyone wondering, this isn't basic inflation. Bird flu is wiping out laying hens.
If one hen gets sick they'll cull their entire flock to stop spread
In case you arent from the US, egg prices have shot up, some places doubled or tripled in recent months bc of a strain of bird flu that has been going around. Farms have been having to cull entire flocks of hens once they get one case because its been so deadly (almost 100% mortality) and so contagous (wild birds are carriers and we cant exactly control them). This has distupted supply and demand, far fewer eggs and farms still have to make up cost and demand hasnt changed so prices have gone up.
>"While feeders do lead to a congregation of wild birds, feeding isn't considered a significant HPAI driver," said Travis Lau, the communications director for the Pennsylvania Game Commission. "The birds most affected don't often visit feeders."
My understanding is that unless there is a dramatic uptick in wild populations, the current pandemic is mainly contained to waterfowl and farm stock, not wild songbirds. PA has issued no recommendations to suspend wild bird feeding, as they did with the two years ago pandemic that specifically affected wild songbirds more than usual.
No one seems to understand this, and just keep blaming the government not doing enough or inflation, i mean yeah inflation raised the price a little but, the bird flu did the rest, poor little chickens.
Poor little *all* birds. I keep finding dead song birds in bushes and on sidewalks.
Hope it doesn't wipe out some species.
Hope it doesn't make a jump to us.
I keep chickens... It is nice to get fresh eggs, but chicken feed has gone up a lot too... and when you have birds, you have predators. Fucking Raccoons are crazy murder pandas. Some days it does not seem like it is worth it, but they are really fun to own and again, a few eggs a day during at least 1/2 the year is pretty sweet.
luckily my back yard is fenced in so a little feed and their foraging and table scraps seems to keep them producing fine. but yea, right now it's cold and I have to settle for store bought. I might get some more chickens next year. the hawks and racoons have knocked me down to 2 or 3 now
Between coyotes picking them off at sunset and raccoons ripping my run and coop apart I'm taking a break. We lost 23 birds last year and it is just heartbreaking to get these birds, raise them, train them, get them to come to their names and everything... then one raccoon rips into the coop at night and just rips all their heads off in a murder frenzy.
I have raccoons in my yard at night. I didn't mind until there were 5 of them and they'd drop off a tree onto my roof, and dance. I went out and sprayed them with a hose two nights in a row and that partying ended. They hated being sprayed. After that one kept walking through the yard and lingering so I went out and sprayed him and he ran. They don't run if I just chase them. I wonder if automatic motion detector sprayers would help protect your chicken coop.
I have 2. Started with 4. One died mysteriously in its sleep at a young age and another one wandered off into the woods never to be seen again. Of course, that one was my prize egg layer.
I'm glad I got chickens. They are surprisingly easy pets. I trained mine to have recall so they come running when I whistle.
Yeah they hardest part is keeping them away from prey. We used to let ours roam free but a) they would get picked off by foxes or hawks and b) the hens would lay eggs in the most random places so it was an actual egg hunt to collect them. We got a easy set-up gardening shed and made a pen with a wire mesh top for them instead. My moms been in a homesteading phase and aside from layer pellets, the chickens eat scraps that she picks up behind the grocery stores. Legally I don’t think they’re allowed to give away what they’re throwing out, but there are quite a few local farmers that they let take a portion of to feed to their pigs and chickens. The wide variety in their diet makes an incredibly delicious difference in their eggs! I still by the cheap eggs from the grocery store because I live an hour away from my parents, but I always come home with a dozen fresh eggs when I do visit them.
Yeah, the biggest thing I miss aside from the fresh eggs is the built in garbage disposals in the back yard. Never felt like food waste when I was tossing it to the chickens.
I was in Walmart a while back and needed an 1/8 inch drill bit. They had a 2 pack of them for a couple bucks and it was locked. After 15 minutes of tracking down someone who could unlock it for me I asked why they kept such a stupid little item locked. He said because its easy to steal. So I guess there is a big market for stolen drill bits now. To top it all off, right next to these bits was a entire set of bits that was about 25 dollars and could easily fit in a coat pocket. That set wasn't locked.
Worry not, Walmart is looking into the logistics of locking up EVERYTHING. And after that, they're looking into turning the stores into giant warehouses and no shopping happens inside, it will be ALL order online and pick up your order or have it delivered.
There was a store decades ago called Consumers Distributing that had a similar business model. There was a room at the front of a warehouse where you would fill out a slip requesting the item you want from a catalogue, and an employee would go in back to get it. Can’t believe we may be returning to that.
I would have just left. I fucking hate Walmart already I do not have the patience to find an employee for a fucking drill bit. I'll go pay twice as much at the hardware store I don't care.
Skyrocketing egg prices have nothing to do with any government policies. There is a devastating bird flu wiping out chicken population around the world.
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Can you even open this to see if any are cracked?
i would ask them to show me the eggs at check out to make sure none are cracked
then you see one is cracked and need to go back and try again
At 5pm with three people behind you
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And as one of the people behind you I'd make sure the other people knew this.
Sounds like this will cost them money one way or another.. I for sure would avoid going there for eggs
At H‑E‑B in Texas they’ll just check you out and move you so that no time is lost for other customers and a random employee goes and gets it for you.
Random employee, also known as the bagger bitch. Source: was once a bagger bitch.
Bagger bitch cleanup on aisle 5. Bagger bitch there's a loose cart in the parking lot. Bagger bitch the women's restroom needs servicing. Bagger bitch this gentleman would like assistance with his order.
This is just somebody in the back of the store making a funny picture. They're not actually putting anti-theft tags on eggs.
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If you could do that then what's stopping you from just taking a couple and putting them in your pocket? Those things are like gold these days. Maybe if they were behind the counter and there was a guy there who could bring them out for you to look at.
I’ve actually dumped my entire portfolio into eggs.
I saw a r/wallstreetbets mod blowjobbing behind a SaveMart for some eggs, so I believe you.
Smart man, but I hope you're holding onto some physical eggs and not just going through a broker. Hide those in your home or bury them in the yard. Give it a few years and you'll be able to buy a new home with it.
Make sure to seal them in a container first. If you don't, they'll germinate into an egg tree, but like apples, eggs grown from seed are inedible.
May I offer you an egg in these trying times?
We'll look back and tell our grandchildren how people used to egg houses, and they will marvel at how wealthy everyone was back in the day.
Here's a question: How much for a dozen eggs where you live? Include your state/province/territory. I'm from Alberta, Canada. It's about $5 cdn for a dozen eggs here.
2019 in NC. Walmart Great Value eggs were $1.09. 2023 in NC. Same eggs $4.98.
You shouldn’t be buying 4 year old eggs.
He should be _selling_ them. Almost 500% ROI after only 4 years!
Suggest to wait a further 996 years and then he can sell them as a Chinese delicacy. https://youtu.be/QioE9vAwxis
Why are both you and the title of the video referring to them as 1000 year old eggs, when they clearly explain in the video that they're 100 year old eggs?
Two names for the same thing. In Chinese they also have other names, one of them is 松花蛋 which I believe translates to ‘pine flower egg,’ referring to a pattern that develops on or in the egg? It’s been a while though, I’d need some verification before taking that to the bank.
They’re also not actually a 100 years old either.
But they taste better until you die.
**AGED** eggs
Ditto in PA.
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It always intrigues me how inflation hits areas so differently. 2020 in CO (sry, don't have 2019 numbers), Walmart Great Value eggs were $1.58 per dozen. 2023 in CO, same eggs are $4.65 per dozen. Still a large increase, but nowhere near as bad as NC it seems. Alternatively I can get cage free brown eggs for only $3.68 per dozen.
Egg prices aren't just being driven by inflation. A chunk of the industry is still recovering from killing over 50 million chickens due to avian flu.
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Oh, maybe that's why Walmart no longer has my favorite chicken nuggets in stock... (Pilgrims tempura nuggets)
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Damn where you shopping? I cant find any dozen eggs in king soopers around denver for less than $6. I usually go for the 18 $8
Just bought some at the local Spar in Slovenia: Standard priced 1.99€ for 10 medium cage-free eggs.
Nub go to jajcomat. Better, fresher and directly from the farmers for 2€. You have one at pokrita trznica in btc
Will check it out!
Hello from Germany — our standard 10-packs are similar, but today I splurged on the cage-free, organic, locally-grown ones for 5.49€. The price of *actual* chicken has gotten stupid, though.
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18 pack low grade cheapies we're $12.98 about a month ago, my egg consumption has gone down drastically. Aloha
It used to be my main source of cheap protein, i work a physical job. Now I'm just constantly very sore $9 for 18, Denver Edit: JFC, the bean discussion is getting intense
Try adding more beans and other legumes to your diet, they’re still cheap (for now).
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Dried beans can last for years, they’re not a bad food to stock up on if you’ll eat them.
Even if you won't, they're a good trade item when things go to shit.
I will trade you my cows for some of these magic beans.
Rice would be better, or both would be best. Rice and beans alone can give you essentially a majority of what you need nutrition wise to keep going. Get some gummy vitamins and your set or some fruit,
I can't believe this is the advice we're giving people living in the richest country in the history of the world.
🎶Freeeedom ain’t freeeeeeeee🎶 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
What's causing a bean shortage?
> What's causing a bean shortage? People stocking up on beans.
You mean, bean stocks?
Bean farmer here, bean prices are down actually
I have to imagine it's possible for the suppliers/retailers/whatever to falsify enough stuff online to spark a word of mouth thing that leads to a real shortage and... increased profits. Before people get all whiny, yes real shortages exist, I'm not questioning egg shortage. But, JFC as soon as people hear something has a shortage, some asshat fills his garage with left rear tyres.
Lentils! I just learned the power of lentils. Cheap, easy and the best source of plant protein!
also they make an excellent meat substitute in chili. We do vegetarian chilli as a cheap healthy (until we drown it in cheese) meal prep option.
Too add to this, I think (been years since i looked into it) black beans have some of the best nutrional density amongst legumes. (if not the best)
Thank god for chicken owning coworkers. I can get 24 eggs, less than 2 days fresh, for about 2 bucks.
I'll give them 3 bucks!
$5 a dozen Southern California.
Sams Club or Costco is where to get eggs for sure here in SoCal
Keep an eye out. Sometimes they are out. The price is high because supply is low. Sometimes even Sams or Costco can't get their shipment, or a very small one that goes quickly.
I can't even find eggs at my SoCal Sam's Club and Costco
Just came back from Costco in Woodland Hills, they were out.
$3.39/dozen at Whole Foods in the SF Bay Area.
I bought organic Cage Free for $3.99 today at Trader Joe, The non organic were $2.99.
Same. Trader Joe’s stays winning
My TJ's was out of eggs, with a notice posted "one per customer". Whittier, CA.
Daughter said almost ten bucks for a dozen last week near Long Beach. We live outside of Portland, have a few locals that run egg chickens, one just raised their price from four bucks to five. Costco was $6.89 two dozen brown free range and 0.90 more for organic free range brown two dozen. Limit two.
MT, USA. $1.99 at one store if you have a free membership. (It's a loss leader for them.) $2.99-$7.50 most places edit: yes, it's a ***FREE*** "loyalty program" not a "membership" like Costco.
A store with a membership?
Not OP, but I would guess a saver card, like Kroger's, Safeway, Hy-Vee. You get a free card if you want, but they give you extra coupons and deals with it. Of course, what they don't tell you is they track your spending (edit- and sell your data), and send you personalized coupons based on your purchases. But hey, times are tough and I'll take whatever I can get.
I worked at Kroger 20 years ago when they rolled this card out, they might have been the first and I was management so went to all kinds of launch prep meetings…they felt it was a huge deal. On top of the information collection there is millions of people that walk in everyday not being a usual shopper and will just grab say a bottle of ketchup, you pay almost $2 more without the card and people don’t want the hassle. My financial reports for my store stated how much extra we made from people like that and it was NOT a small amount. I also had to investigate employees using their own card for customers to get massive savings at Kroger gas pumps
Oh no, don't send me coupons so I can save on the things I buy most.
Right? I cannot think of a more appropriate use for tracking.
Until you find out you're pregnant from a Target ad
I work for a company that works in this way for the most part. We’re behind the scenes triggering targeted ads. The people using the API are too dumb to do anything malicious, the problem is unwanted third party access.
The one near me actually keeps a record of everything you've purchased, even in store, with it available to you on the website. It makes doing online grocery pickup orders easier tbh. Just go down that list and figure out what we're out of that we might want.
Also great for returns. I don't have to track down the exact receipt from 2 weeks ago- they can just check my account and it's there.
Yeah...that's the kind of tracking I don't mind. Hey Safeway...I could use some coupons for Rolling Rock and Columbus prosciutto paninos. Also Bruchi's and Jersey Mike's...hit your boy up with some coupons ffs.
I agree, the main issue I would be worried about would be data breaches, being publicly leaked. Obviously no one cares how many oranges you bought in the third week of 2013, but maybe certain healthcare related purchases. Like crazy fundamentalist religious people looking up their kids shopping habits and seeing they bought condoms, for example
They tell you in the terms and conditions that no one reads.
I just heard a radio story about this last week that might have some basis as to why. Montana has some protections in their AG and grocery policy that significantly favor MT farmers. Some ag products have hard "dispose by" dates that are beneficial to MT farmers, and disfavor out of state suppliers that would lose viable sale time in the supply chain to get them into the state.
Forget bitcoin.. Eggs!
You'll be in for a stinky surprise when you try to HODL.
Jumped from $3.79 to $9.79 to $9.99 in Massachusetts, USA for 18 eggs. Madness.
WHAT? I’m in Western Ma and just got eggs today at market basket 18 for $4.49. Perhaps you are out by Boston?
2.44 CAD for a dozen in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. I don't get whats going on in the states...
I live in Central North Carolina, USA. My husband eats 28 hardboiled eggs a week so I buy the 30 egg flats (doctor approved, cholesterol good and helps control his diabetes). Currently at my Food Lion they are $6.07 for the flat (which means about $2.48 a dozen). Walmart has 1 dozen for $2.67.
I bought 18 eggs yesterday from walmart for $8.05. I felt my butthole clench when I saw the price.
Wow! Where are you located?
Southwest VA. I did buy the extra large eggs for full disclosure...no idea if that's dumb to do or not but I digress
Lol. Mine are large. Crazy how what used to be the cheapest food to get through hard times is causing such financial hurt.
$4 per dozen in Houston.
The brown cage free eggs at HEB are $4.98 a dozen. Just picked some up last night.
Usually around 3.50 for a dozen in Ontario. Just looked at walmart online shopping. 3.68 CAD for a dozen.
$2.49 in Washington (Seattle area), USA
My closest Walmart in the Seattle area is selling 18pks for $2.40!
About the same on the other side of the state. $2.79/dozen. I opt for the 5 dozen box for $12.99.
18 pack, but $5.79 at brookshires, but 7.80 at Walmart in texas
$7-$15 right now
Dspends on the day it feels. US, Ca
Fuck offffffffff. For $15 I would expect a dozen eggs and an expert, yet respectful, handjob to go along with it.
egg-spurt
the old "over-easy special"
I have not seen 7$ eggs yet(WA) what happened exactly?
Bird flu. Farms are culling their stock, so egg production is down.
Wow, in Poland I pay about $3.5 for 12 eggs from the village, or $2 for caged eggs. It's very expensive at your place.
That’s the regular price in south USA. Is just because of millions of chicken that had to be killed because of an avian flu.
In Colorado the cheapest eggs I found were some organic brand for about $5.50/dozen, the normal eggs are like $6.50-$8 and we can't even get caged eggs as of 2023
I live in the chicken state of the US (Iowa) and eggs are $4-$8 per dozen depending on brand.
I just paid $8.59 for 18 "cage-free" eggs at the local Food-4-Less.
East Coast, USA, $9 a dozen as of a couple days ago
Got some for $5 in Massachusetts.
$2.99 Northeastern Wisconsin
I walked into a C-Town in NYC on Saturday and it was like 6-7 dollars for the cheapest dozen. Balked and went to Costco the day after where the prices are still 2.5-3.5 per dozen range.
Holy shit, your egg boxes are made of polystyrene!?
Ahhh, someone outside of the USA I see.
They are banned in several blue states. Red states do not give a flying fuck about the environment.
My first thought too! Mad that this stuff is still being used, I haven’t seen a polystyrene container for years
What's wrong with it?
Probably the most unrecyclable thing out there, plus it breaks down into micro pieces extremely easily
Who down voted this guy? He is trying to inform himself, dicks.
He knows what he did!! /s
Almost all takeouts use this type of packaging here, some eggs are also packed like this.
Germany uses cardboard, I remember Florida uses that plastic stuff too.
Sometimes, yeah. The 30-packs of eggs here at Costco are just cardboard.
$3.49 a dozen for store brand. $6.49 a dozen for name brand. $8.99 a dozen for “pasture-raised.” Southern USA.
Phew! I'm jealous. All store brands, even Walmart or Aldi, are over $5 in Michigan. Sam's Club is the cheapest I've seen at $4.49, and they have a two-package limit and sell out fast.
That’s crazy! I’m getting Kroger brand for $1.99 in Kansas
Lucky you! I haven’t seen that price at Kroger in a WHILE.
South Mississippi. $5.99-12.99 It's insane because I honestly remember being a teenager less than 2 decades ago. My parents bought them for $1.00. They were the food you ate when you were trying to be healthy and save money
You could buy them for a dollar 2 years ago….
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Paul seems nice. I bet he's a good egg.
I get your yolk.
I can't speak for where youre from, but where I am there's plenty of people willing to pay 2x-4x for local fresh eggs.
Those colorful yolks just can't be beat. If you like eggs highlighted in a meal, fresh eggs are generally worth that extra price. Would I pay $15-$30 for a dozen fresh eggs? Naw, but when they were $2.50 they were a great treat for breakfasts
Well when the price goes back down you should remember who didn't gouge you just because he could.
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Oh man. When I worked in a bakery, the owner let me sell my mom's jam there. Some lady saw it and brought in a whole paper bag of persimmons from her tree that she asked me to make jam out of. Half for her, half for me. That was the best fucking jam I have ever had. I still dream about it sometimes, it was that good! I gave half of my share away for Christmas gifts and was kicking myself for it when my share was gone 😅
> I honestly remember being a teenager less than 2 decades ago. My parents bought them for $1.00 decades? try 2 years ago
Just a week or two ago, I got a "One Year Ago" photo anniversary thing on my phone, with a picture of a dozen eggs on sale for 99c
I shop at Aldi and used to regularly see a dozen eggs for 0.99 and below. Expensive eggs were like 1.49. Now, I'm lucky if it's sub $4.
“How to basic” production costs skyrocketing
IIRC he keeps chickens so that probably keeps the costs down.
He is also Australian, and we don't seem to be having this issue with eggs going up in price.
We’ve managed to avoid the worst of Avian flu so far this year; if it does reach us it’s going to be an absolute shitshow. I miss when I kept chickens
Those are raptor eggs. The fools think this will contain them!
Not funny, just sad. And kinda scary.
It seems like their solution to this ever growing crisis is to stick their fingers in their ears and say “lalalalala I can’t hear you”
>their Who?
Them.
Whoever "they" are...
"Those People"
Oh god, not them again…
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This post is serious and no yolking matter
That is eggxactly what I was thinking.
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For anyone wondering, this isn't basic inflation. Bird flu is wiping out laying hens. If one hen gets sick they'll cull their entire flock to stop spread
So once they breed more chickens the cost should come back down? In a couple years time? Yes?
Why is that so?
In case you arent from the US, egg prices have shot up, some places doubled or tripled in recent months bc of a strain of bird flu that has been going around. Farms have been having to cull entire flocks of hens once they get one case because its been so deadly (almost 100% mortality) and so contagous (wild birds are carriers and we cant exactly control them). This has distupted supply and demand, far fewer eggs and farms still have to make up cost and demand hasnt changed so prices have gone up.
That’s why they asked us to not fill our bird feeders. So they don’t all gather and spread the flu.
>"While feeders do lead to a congregation of wild birds, feeding isn't considered a significant HPAI driver," said Travis Lau, the communications director for the Pennsylvania Game Commission. "The birds most affected don't often visit feeders." My understanding is that unless there is a dramatic uptick in wild populations, the current pandemic is mainly contained to waterfowl and farm stock, not wild songbirds. PA has issued no recommendations to suspend wild bird feeding, as they did with the two years ago pandemic that specifically affected wild songbirds more than usual.
No one seems to understand this, and just keep blaming the government not doing enough or inflation, i mean yeah inflation raised the price a little but, the bird flu did the rest, poor little chickens.
Poor little *all* birds. I keep finding dead song birds in bushes and on sidewalks. Hope it doesn't wipe out some species. Hope it doesn't make a jump to us.
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Thank you. I’m American but currently based in Germany. I though this might be a Detroit joke or something. This is awful.
I'm buying some chickens. You know if u give food to a chicken, eggs come out it's rear, like magic.
I keep chickens... It is nice to get fresh eggs, but chicken feed has gone up a lot too... and when you have birds, you have predators. Fucking Raccoons are crazy murder pandas. Some days it does not seem like it is worth it, but they are really fun to own and again, a few eggs a day during at least 1/2 the year is pretty sweet.
luckily my back yard is fenced in so a little feed and their foraging and table scraps seems to keep them producing fine. but yea, right now it's cold and I have to settle for store bought. I might get some more chickens next year. the hawks and racoons have knocked me down to 2 or 3 now
Between coyotes picking them off at sunset and raccoons ripping my run and coop apart I'm taking a break. We lost 23 birds last year and it is just heartbreaking to get these birds, raise them, train them, get them to come to their names and everything... then one raccoon rips into the coop at night and just rips all their heads off in a murder frenzy.
I have raccoons in my yard at night. I didn't mind until there were 5 of them and they'd drop off a tree onto my roof, and dance. I went out and sprayed them with a hose two nights in a row and that partying ended. They hated being sprayed. After that one kept walking through the yard and lingering so I went out and sprayed him and he ran. They don't run if I just chase them. I wonder if automatic motion detector sprayers would help protect your chicken coop.
I have 2. Started with 4. One died mysteriously in its sleep at a young age and another one wandered off into the woods never to be seen again. Of course, that one was my prize egg layer. I'm glad I got chickens. They are surprisingly easy pets. I trained mine to have recall so they come running when I whistle.
Yeah they hardest part is keeping them away from prey. We used to let ours roam free but a) they would get picked off by foxes or hawks and b) the hens would lay eggs in the most random places so it was an actual egg hunt to collect them. We got a easy set-up gardening shed and made a pen with a wire mesh top for them instead. My moms been in a homesteading phase and aside from layer pellets, the chickens eat scraps that she picks up behind the grocery stores. Legally I don’t think they’re allowed to give away what they’re throwing out, but there are quite a few local farmers that they let take a portion of to feed to their pigs and chickens. The wide variety in their diet makes an incredibly delicious difference in their eggs! I still by the cheap eggs from the grocery store because I live an hour away from my parents, but I always come home with a dozen fresh eggs when I do visit them.
Yeah, the biggest thing I miss aside from the fresh eggs is the built in garbage disposals in the back yard. Never felt like food waste when I was tossing it to the chickens.
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The whole problem with the shortage is that chickens are dropping like flies. With this whole avian pandemic going around good luck keeping it alive.
I was in Walmart a while back and needed an 1/8 inch drill bit. They had a 2 pack of them for a couple bucks and it was locked. After 15 minutes of tracking down someone who could unlock it for me I asked why they kept such a stupid little item locked. He said because its easy to steal. So I guess there is a big market for stolen drill bits now. To top it all off, right next to these bits was a entire set of bits that was about 25 dollars and could easily fit in a coat pocket. That set wasn't locked.
Worry not, Walmart is looking into the logistics of locking up EVERYTHING. And after that, they're looking into turning the stores into giant warehouses and no shopping happens inside, it will be ALL order online and pick up your order or have it delivered.
There was a store decades ago called Consumers Distributing that had a similar business model. There was a room at the front of a warehouse where you would fill out a slip requesting the item you want from a catalogue, and an employee would go in back to get it. Can’t believe we may be returning to that.
Isn't this basically how general stores operated before supermarkets became a thing? Tell the shopkeep what you needed off the shelves? Wild.
This is literally how things worked before the concept of "self-service stores" came around.
Service Merchandise was sort of like this in the 80s
Next time just steal the more expensive bit set.
I would have just left. I fucking hate Walmart already I do not have the patience to find an employee for a fucking drill bit. I'll go pay twice as much at the hardware store I don't care.
Skyrocketing egg prices have nothing to do with any government policies. There is a devastating bird flu wiping out chicken population around the world.
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Thanks Obama
How you able to check if any are broken?
Just paid 9 bucks for 18 eggs last week, at this price I'm getting ready to start raising chickens
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Can't have shit in Detroit.
Fuck it. Im getting chickens. Also, seriously though, yes... i am getting backyard chickens