Eggs
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PeoplesElbow
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Dozen of large at Harris Teeter today $2something.
PeoplesElbow
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About a month ago the best deal was 2 dozen land o lakes free range eggs at BJs for $8.
What's funny is I've been buying a dozen now and then, and tossing about half of them due to them expiring before I use them all. Now that I'm trapped at home, I've been eating one a day on the breakfast sandwich that's replaced my dailey commute sausage Mcmuffin.
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I'll bet you're tossing perfectly good eggs. I've never even looked at expiration on eggs once they're home. Never had a bad one.
The carton I tossed yesterday were from July 19, 2022. I didn't want to take a chance. Plus they were really, really light. I can dig them out and wash them off, if you want them.
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Ok..... I would have tossed those too. A month or two is ok. Almost a year, not so much.
At a month or 2, I will give them a water test, but just didn't use them fast enough to warrant keeping them on hand. Every time I bagged up my trash, I would forget about them.
PeoplesElbow
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I thnk the great egg bull market is over. Aldi was $2.54 last night.
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That's up a bit from $2.33 a few days ago.
Giant still has the majority of their eggs at $4+/doz. No idea why when everywhere else they've gone down.
PeoplesElbow
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I don't think they have gone down much at Weis either, but at Walmart and Aldi they have dropped like a rock.
Eggs-Tortion? Profits For Largest U.S. Egg Producer Soar 718%
But it turns out that Cal-Maine Foods, the largest U.S. producer, more than doubled its revenue last quarter to nearly a billion dollars because of sharply higher egg prices — and profits surged 718%. And production wasn’t down. Cal-Maine, which controls about 20% of the domestic egg market, said the total number of eggs it sold rose by 1%, CNN reported.
The company said the average selling price for a dozen eggs in the quarter ending February 25 was $3.30. That’s more than twice what a dozen cost a year earlier, when its average price was $1.61, Cal-Maine said. Thus, net income soared to $323.2 million from just $39.5 million a year ago, CNN reported.
In January, the cost of a dozen eggs surpassed the price of a pound of beef, marking the first time that’s happened since the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) began keeping data in 1980. The average price of a dozen large Grade A eggs ran at $4.82 in January 2023, while a pound of ground beef was $4.64, the BLS said. In January 2022, eggs were $1.93, and beef was $4.77, but egg prices have soared by 70% in the last year alone, according to the bureau.
Farm Action, a farmer-led advocacy group, says the “real culprit” behind sky-high prices is a “collusive scheme” among top U.S. egg producers to fix prices to gouge consumers. In a January letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Farm Action said the alleged collusion has helped egg producers to “extract egregious profits reaching as high as 40%.”
I don't really look at the price of eggs anymore. I'm going to buy them no matter what, so if they're $3 or $10 it doesn't matter. Coffee, same.
Sneakers
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I wasn't posting so much for the price as the "return to below normal" from the incredible highs.
I actually get my eggs from a local source now, and coffee I get in bulk at BJs, then mix my own blend.
