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Eggs are 60% more expensive than last year in the US

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Re: Eggs are 60% more expensive than last year in the US

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Post by Damogran6 »

SECProto wrote: post #159
bigtex wrote: post #36

My wife has a cottage baking business and would buy 15 dozen eggs from Costco Business Center. Already high, a few months back in cost about $45 for the box. Just last week it was $110. She doesn't recall but it fairly certain the box was between $20-30 before inflation hit. However she said they had chicken legs that were .49/lb which is a great price but hard to reconcile with the narrative that avian flu is the ca…

> 15 dozen eggs from Costco Business Center. [...] Just last week it was $110. Might I suggest buying eggs from a normal grocery store or other alternative source? That's $7.33 per dozen and unless you have some very unusual situation, a dozen eggs can be had for less than half that price at a grocery store.

Possibly availabilty, in our Denver Suburb, Kroeger and Walmart shelves are nearly always bare. We've had to resort to buying 5 dozen at a time at our Costco...which I don't like, because it takes awhile to get through them.

Re: Eggs are 60% more expensive than last year in the US

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Post by NineStarPoint »

RosanaAnaDana wrote: post #113
SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How could we tell if the published inflation rate was just completely bullshit?

Write an app for people to submit receipts and open publish the data. Maybe some ocr/ml stuff to help.

Question is how you get people who aren’t seeing large price increases to join such an app. It’s easy to imagine a world where only the people above the mean in inflation search something like that out, giving off a false impression of numbers being cooked by institutions that use more complete methods.

Re: Eggs are 60% more expensive than last year in the US

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Post by poulsbohemian »

SECProto wrote: post #159
bigtex wrote: post #36

My wife has a cottage baking business and would buy 15 dozen eggs from Costco Business Center. Already high, a few months back in cost about $45 for the box. Just last week it was $110. She doesn't recall but it fairly certain the box was between $20-30 before inflation hit. However she said they had chicken legs that were .49/lb which is a great price but hard to reconcile with the narrative that avian flu is the ca…

> 15 dozen eggs from Costco Business Center. [...] Just last week it was $110. Might I suggest buying eggs from a normal grocery store or other alternative source? That's $7.33 per dozen and unless you have some very unusual situation, a dozen eggs can be had for less than half that price at a grocery store.

Where? I live in a poor rural area and every grocery store in town (and we ain’t talkin Whole Foods here) has even generic eggs for more than $5/dozen. Thank goodness I have my own chickens.

Re: Eggs are 60% more expensive than last year in the US

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Post by bobthepanda »

mym1990 wrote: post #170
mynameisash wrote: post #136

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No, those numbers are correct.

So in 2019 15 dozen eggs were 30c cheaper than 5 dozen eggs?

Costco is also a special kind of store, where you pay an annual membership to get wholesale-like pricing.

Re: Eggs are 60% more expensive than last year in the US

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Post by [deleted] »

joenot443 wrote: post #179
eftychis wrote: post #155

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I am curious about that statement. Feeding chickens store bought food that is. I grew up with chickens being the garbage disposal. They will eat anything and everything. They are the cheapest animal to raise for food. (Except maybe cattle on the old west when you could parasite off the public land.) The argument against backyard chickens would be health considerations i'd say, not cost. Curious.

Eggs are very, very cheap. Building materials and time are not. Obviously the upkeep costs for laying hens is super low, but it's the startup cost that turns most people off the idea. Eggs are about $3/dozen where I am. You have to eat a _lot_ of eggs before it's actually a net positive endeavor, probably many, many years worth. My parents have a coup on their hobby farm which my dad built on the weekends. It looks g…

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Re: Eggs are 60% more expensive than last year in the US

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Post by tantalor »

umvi wrote: post #187
scifibestfi wrote: post #137

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Early in my career, I consulted for Coke to ensure sugar taxes failed and soda was included in food stamp funding. I say Coke's policies are evil because I saw inside the room. The first step in playbook was paying the NAACP + other civil rights groups to call opponents racist Coke gave millions to the NAACP and the Hispanic Federation - both directly and through front groups like the American Beverage Association. T…

If this is true, shouldn't there be consequences for NAACP? Surely accepting cash to weaponize racism is (or should be) illegal?

See: 1st Amendment to US Constitution

Re: Eggs are 60% more expensive than last year in the US

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Post by threadweaver34 »

bottlepalm wrote: post #167

$40,000 for every man, woman and child was printed for corona stimulus. $13 trillion total. If you're wondering why all this inflation happened, it's pretty simple cause and effect.

And Biden's still trying to give away more in student loan forgiveness and has still paused payments.

Re: Eggs are 60% more expensive than last year in the US

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Post by kragen »

wolfprogramming wrote: post #101
jstx1 wrote: post #82

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Eggs every day don't contribute to high cholesterol either. Dietary cholesterol in general doesn't lead to high blood cholesterol.

Most people who switch to a mostly red meat diet do see a rise in blood cholesterol. I certainly did. The real question is, does that even matter? High cholesterol is also associated with longevity. The ratio of cholesterol is more important. The ratio of waist to shoulder width is more important. Also your blood a1c is more important for bad outcomes than high cholesterol.

the rise in blood cholesterol is probably because you're eating more saturated fat, not eating more cholesterol

Re: Eggs are 60% more expensive than last year in the US

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Post by wincy »

standardUser wrote: post #102

One thing we never seem to consider is that the price of eggs we've become accustomed to is really, ridiculously low. Maybe eggs should cost $5 per dozen. If you didn't know the price of eggs historically, I bet you would consider that a steal!

You know it’s funny that you mention that. I switched to really high end eggs that taste delicious. They were $8 a dozen in 2020 and have stayed at that price.

There must be something that they do different in their business that makes these eggs less susceptible to the problems the other egg producers are having.

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