I've been blogging about bird flu for a long time and wondering when it would show up in grocery shopping. The graph above is from Bloomberg.
I'm not screaming bloody murder because I can still have breakfast for under $2, but of course this cost is going to metastasize through the food production chain to affect everything else that contains eggs or egg proteins.
American restaurants are falling victim to a national egg shortage that has already plagued grocery stores from New York City to San Francisco and sent prices to $7 a carton.... the breakfast chain is planning to switch to liquid eggs for dishes such as omelets, scrambled eggs and batters, he said. It has less wiggle room for other offerings such as sunny-side-up eggs.Some 104 million egg-laying hens have been lost since the outbreak started in 2022, with 29 million killed since October, according farmer group United Egg Producers. That’s resulted in shortages at grocery stores at a time when shoppers just keep on buying more.Organic eggs have been in short supply too. Over the weekend, refrigerated shelves were almost completely bare at a ShopRite in Brooklyn. The few crates left were priced at about $1 per egg.
It will be interesting to see how this gets blamed on the Biden administration.
Yesterday I paid $6 for a dozen. It was such a good price I bought two cartons. Most of the other eggs in the cold case were selling for $9-$10/doz. I now regard eggs as a luxury food.
ReplyDeleteI paid 9.50. And there weren't a lot of choices in the stores.
ReplyDeleteI paid 2.35E yesterday at the market. I live in Spain where actions to decrease the epidemic have been in place for a couple of years now.
ReplyDeleteOur company executives are too cheap and short-sighted to vaccinate and take other precautions because MBAs regard anything past the quarter as someone else's problem.
DeleteNo worries. The bird flu will go away as soon as Emo Musk deletes the departments that track it. Americans want the freedom to die from e.coli! They don't need to be told by the government was eggs not to eat. Communism!
ReplyDeleteIt’s $10-$12 here in the Bay Area California.
ReplyDeleteRichmond. Virginia here. I just paid $6.59 for 18 eggs at Kroger this morning, $4.49 for a dozen large, non-"special" eggs (not free range/cage free/organic/whatever). It looks like ours are still on the "cheap" end of things. I used to think of eggs as "cheap protein" that were versatile enough to be breakfast, lunch or dinner. Now I'm glad that I went to college in an area full of vegans and vegetarians who taught me a myriad of "egg alternatives!"
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