If you had to do this, what do you think a fair price for a dozen of eggs would be?
And now back to tariffs …
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I don’t see a difference in store bought eggs but when I buy eggs from a local farmer or someone who has chickens in their yard, the color of the yolks and the consistency is richer and the flavor is different. The price I paid pre-inflation was $3/dozen and my motivation to buy was usually to provide some business to the people I bought from. No clue what the prices are today.
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A 61% reduction in price, I believe. Not too shabby, but you’re not yet getting paid $36 to take the eggs so don’t give up! 
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Turns out that something can’t drop in price by more than 100%. Who knew? 
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A chicken
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Terrance Howard says it depends on if the egg’s resonance is aligned with the molecules of the money.
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1 dozen EB is now $5.19 here (on island so expected to be more expensive). Was $4 and change several weeks ago so they have not gone down here since the AFlu. Organic is $8.99/dz. WA does however have a cage free law. Much of what I’m buying HAS increased (particularly meat and produce) and or downsized in packaging. Tourist season seems to be way down here but even so the shelves are getting empty so I think there are multiple factors at play overall.
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My oldest kid ran errands the other day, came home complaining that our usual Walgreen’s had “nothing” in stock (meaning routine drug store items), just several aisles of out-of-season, clearance, or old “as seen on tv” types of items. And no stock at all of certain drinks.
Seems like some retailers might be clearing out storage/warehouses to keep up the appearance of having goods on shelves, while supplies are limited, delayed, or not coming.
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Stores like Walgreen’s will do something like this as transitions between merchandising seasons and/or before an inventory.
Out of stock on certain drinks during this time of year is just poor ordering or inventory control. We have seen this happen many times while managing grocery stores in good times and bad times … and on other seasonal items during the winter.
That is probably the correct assessment.
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I suspect some of the issues (especially with big chains) is pencil-pushers looking at the reports from computer algorithms will say “This item sold 100 last week, so we’ll order 100 for next week”, without considering things like the last few weeks have been abnormally cool, with temps in the 60s, and next week is all 90s+, and people buy more white wine (or soda, etc.) when it’s hotter. Couple that with “JIT” distribution models, and you end up with bare shelves.
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I don’t disagree that it’s a complex issue.
What’s notable is that this is our first time experiencing it in this specific store that we frequent regularly and have for nigh on 20 years–notable enough that my college kid home for summer noticed it.
Could be something, could be nothing. But it’s a data point, nevertheless.
Of course, for the single-case analysis folks following along at home, you’ll recollect that it takes FOUR data points to make a trend (baseline+3).
So this is where we start tracking. Baseline at anomaly.
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Spoke to my market owner and he said this is why his shelves are bare right now.
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Yeah, the UNFI attack really hurt Whole Foods, which has them as one of, if not the, biggest supplier. Reports of stores deep-cleaning the freezers, because they were totally empty, so a good time to do it.
Prior to this, I’d never heard of UNFI; so no idea how much other stores rely on them.
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They are huge… LOTS of chains rely on them.
We don’t really care for them. We put one of our brands with them 5 years ago. They didn’t do a great job or what they said they would do…
Back to the topic… Stop and Shop here was out of most egg brands. Had to buy organic today… $6.49
Weird
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