Kroger Grade A Large eggs $2.59 per dozen in Houston TX. Where are they $13?
Non sale prices at my local Safeway are ~$10-11 per dozen for cage free or organic eggs. Not even the cheapest eggs were as low as you list by quite a stretch. I don’t frequently purchase eggs; I do have a large number of chickens. Areas when the egg supply is heavily impacted by AI are where you will find the highest prices.
When I do purchase eggs, it is usually hatching eggs, and I pay about $150 or more per dozen. But I’m not looking for eggs for breakfast or baking, lol.
Organic “Simple Truth” store brand brown eggs $4.99 per dozen at Kroger in Houston
How are egg prices impacted by AI??
Paid $5.99 for 18 eggs at Costco yesterday. Equivalent of $3.99 per dozen.
My Sister told me she saw $16.95 for a dozen in rural Hawaii.
Costco here (who was out at the time) was about $6 something for 18 eggs. I will check next time I’m up there but ended up buying a dozen eggs at Walmart, but can’t find the price at the moment.
At Walmart today, 18 count is at $8.02. 12 ea at $5.42 and a 12 count at $12.82. Three others are listed at various sizes and quanties but those 3 also out of stock. So I guess Walmart has no eggs.
Since they are all out of stock, I guess it doesn’t matter what price they list 
Keep in mind that many of those eggs (but not all) are shipped here from the mainland.
Avian Influenza. That is the abbreviation/term that has been commonly used since long before artificial intelligence came off the drawing board.
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$6.99 per dozen last Monday in Kansas City
My guess would have been Avian Intellegence or Artifical Influenza. Thanks for the correction.
Last I read Ohio, with the highest bird flu rate in the country, has killed more than 10 million chickens, turkeys etc in just three or four counties since December. At that rate the price of eggs is not going to be an easy fix.
I saw Grade B eggs today, but they didn’t have a price on them
Although we import lots of goods including what are labeled as “Mainland Eggs”, we also have poultry farms in the islands. It does not appear as though we can export eggs easily in any quantity and our prices are higher anyway.
A fact I didn’t know, U.S. eggs are generally kept in the refrigerator unlike eggs in many other countries.
Organic ValleyCoop: It turns out that, here in America, eggs are refrigerated because the U.S. Department of Agriculture requires eggs sold for consumption to be washed, processed, and then refrigerated before they come anywhere near a store’s shelves. On the other hand, most European and Asian countries have reached the opposite conclusion, requiring that table eggs not be wet-washed, and also not refrigerated. (…) Both regulations were arrived at as effective ways to solve the same problem: reducing exposure to salmonella, a bacteria that causes unpleasant, though non-life-threatening, illness.
So there you have it.
An aside: If a Novella is a short novel, is Salmonella actually short salmon?
And what about Shingella ? Coachella?
Eggs have a bloom on them that protects against bacteria penetrating the shell. Washing removes the bloom. That said, what is room temperature? I suspect it is much warmer in Arizona summer than Maine summer.
Sailors cruising in the tropics routinely store unwashed eggs without refrigeration for 30-60 days without spoiling. You can also wipe washed eggs with Vaseline or mineral oil and it serves the same purpose as natural egg bloom, protecting the raw egg from bacteria and spoilage.
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$3.99 per dozen at Kroger in Houston yesterday.
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5.46 Aldi’s today.
