So, how much are you all spending per dozen eggs?

[conuly]

I went to the store to re-up eggs, and they were going for $10 a dozen. It was actually cheaper to get organic eggs, at $8.50! I seriously considered getting the 2.5 dozen pack, but even at a (slightly) cheaper per unit price of $8.20/dozen that sticker shock was still insane.

And while I love complaining about the way our local store gouges on butter ($8 a pound for store brand!), this time it's not just them - the prices were about the same at Stop and Shop. Well, okay, everybody's talking about egg prices lately - except then I read an article about skyrocketing egg prices and the article cite a shocking (!) $4 a dozen, which, don't make me laugh.

So was that article already painfully out of date, or are we just getting massively ripped off over here?

Poll #32662 Egg prices

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Price per dozen eggs?

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Mean: 6.25 Median: 6 Std. Dev 1.89

2		0 (0.0%)
3		4 (7.5%)
4		4 (7.5%)
5		13 (24.5%)
6		11 (20.8%)
7		7 (13.2%)
8		7 (13.2%)
9		4 (7.5%)
10		2 (3.8%)
11		1 (1.9%)
12		0 (0.0%)
13		0 (0.0%)
14		0 (0.0%)
15		0 (0.0%)

Comments

[cactuswatcher]

Yep, I noticed eggs were over a dollar a piece last week.

Bird flu problems I'm sure.

[conuly]

A dollar an egg! Who needs them to be made out of gold and/or chocolate at this rate?

[jessie_c]

Since I'm Canadian my answer would skew your data. I'll put it here
1 dozen medium eggs, C$4.25
flat of 30 large, $10.59

[dine]

per the safeway site just now, pricing is all over, with most running $6-7 per dozen, but you can definitely spend a lot more if you wanted.

they also listed a package of 60 for $27 (45c per egg), which would clearly be the way to go if you're feeding crowds or baking tons

[hannah]

I've taken to joking the grocery stores have finally caught up to the farmers' markets.

[armiphlage]

They're $3.73 Canadian for a dozen medium eggs here, or about $2.60 US dollars. The Canadian poultry industry does have stricter rules than in the US, but avian flu shouldn't be stopped by a border line. Something seems a bit strange about the prices you're paying.

https://www.nofrills.ca/en/food/dairy-eggs/c/28003

[fox]

$4.69 at the Whole Foods by me.

[armiphlage]

Wow, they're $3.73 here in Ontario. I'd have thought they'd be cheaper in BC due to the shorter distance to transport feed.

[conuly]

That’s about $2.60 US

[conuly]

$4.25 = about $3 US

[nicki]

I'm in Cali, all our eggs are cage free, so I don't want to skew the poll. roughly $9 per dozen.

[conuly]

American farmers aren't allowed to vaccinate because some countries won't take imported chickens or poultry products from birds that have been vaccinated.

[conuly]

Also, it looks like your egg farms are smaller scale than ours.

[topaz_eyes]

Smaller farms, spread further apart, more cooperation between suppliers. Supply management works? I know a lot of American farmers hate Canada's egg and dairy marketing boards, but in this case they seem to be a layer of protection...

[ioplokon]

To add to the Canadian comparator comment thread: I pay a bit under $4 Canadian/dozen (large) if I go to the discount supermarket.

[archersangel]

at the local wal-mart they're $5.46 for 12 large & $6.12 for extra large. at aldi it $5.15 for 12 large.
you can't get medium anymore, it seems.

[redbird]

I paid $5.99 for a dozen cage-free eggs yesterday. That was an Instacart order from Star Market in Boston.

Sometime recently, Adrian came back from Whole Foods without eggs, because we didn't need them enough to pay $9 for a dozen. That market generally has several different brands of eggs, at different prices, and she said the case was mostly empty, and what was left were the most expensive eggs.

[hafnia]

$5.69 for a dozen in OR here (western part of the state). Part of that is the general markup on eggs after the laws changed regarding poultry farming, though. Supposedly Trader Joe's still has them for $3 but we don't actually eat eggs all that often so I haven't confirmed it.

[ethelmay]

Just checked website of local QFC in Seattle, and the cheapest were $4.99. Most expensive $10.99, average I think about $7.50. An average of 63 cents an egg doesn't seem that outlandish to me (even a three-egg omelet would be under two bucks), but I don't eat a ton of eggs.

[fred_mouse]

Australian prices, at the big two supermarkets, range between $5.00 and $13.45, with the bottom end being 'free range' or 'cage free' and the top end being "free range organic". One of those supermarkets has a limit of two items per transaction but isn't showing anything out of stock; the other is showing a lot of the bottom end of the price range out of stock. But we've had ongoing shortages for some time. Youngest, who was working in a cafe in Queensland, reported that they almost never reached 'full' in terms of where the stock should be, over the two years they were working there.

[siderea]

I just checked Stop and Shop online: house brand large brown is $7.99/dz. Large white is $8.49/dz.

(The 1.5 dz packs for both work out to the same per dz price; there is no discount for the larger package.)

Nellie's large brown is $9.99, Eggland's Best large white is $8.99, England's Best large brown $8.29, Nellie's extra large brown is $10.29, Pete and Gerry's large brown is $10.49. These are all premium brands, some organic.

Land o' Lakes large brown is $8.59. Nature's Promise (a house brand) organic large brown is $9.29, and extra large brown is $9.49.

[smokingboot]

12 medium free range eggs at Tescos supermarket would be about £2.70, so approximately 22 pence an egg.
10 mixed size organic eggs at Tescos would be £4.60 so 46 pence an egg.

12 large free range eggs at Morrisons would be around £3.15, 26 pence an egg.
10 free range organic at Morrisons would be around £4.00, 40 pence an egg.

[conuly]

When I went by Stop and Shop online all their store brand eggs were out of stock where I am.

[moxie_man]

It depends on the store and brand.
Store brand ones at the moment are running $8 per dozen.
Brand name organic haven't jumped in price yet, provided you can find them as they're still running $5 per dozen.

Me? The last time I bought eggs was 2 weeks ago when the local food salvage store (gets their product from a restaurant supplier warehouse) got a half pallet of eggs in with one box busted, which made a mess on the outside of the other boxes. After repackaging in egg cartons that all his customers bring in, he sold off 300 dozen at a buck a dozen. I told him he was charging too little compared to the competition. He didn't care. He wanted to help his loyal customers. I bought an 18 pack for myself and six dozen for my father. If I had more room in the fridge, I'd have bought a couple more.

The time before that, I paid nothing 'cause of the Shaw's (Albertson's) Big Brother tracker program. Only thing I ever buy in that overpriced chain are the lead-loss sale items on the front page of their ads. It adds up and I had enough points in the program to walk away with two free dozen organic eggs, normally $6 per dozen at that time. (I did mention this is the expensive chain supermarkt, right?)

I'm a thrifty squirrel, but not looking forward to the next time I need to get eggs.

[agoodwinsmith]

Cost of doing business in the lower mainland. Outrageous rent isn't just housing.