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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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mint2 wrote: post #356
User23 wrote: post #337

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I assume it was to make me laugh, which it did. Nobody actually thinks "regulations are bad." The point that is being humorously made is that these things have significant trade-offs and you're pretending not to get it. And I have to compliment you on playing the straight man in the exchange, it wouldn't have been nearly so funny without your participation! We saw the same thing in early LAN engineering when Ethernet…

Literally half the political commentary in the nation talks like all regs are bad, not just a matter of trade offs. Thanks for the negging, makes for intelligent comments just like posting one line regan slogans for “humor”

> Literally half the political commentary in the nation talks like all regs are bad, not just a matter of trade offs.

Don't be so condescending and you might notice that commenters here are quite a bit above that level.

Since you mention, "Yes" could be a nuclear tier rhetorical slogan. "What do you stand for?" "Yes!" Who can't get behind that positive can do attitude!? I don't know what a regan is, but I'm happy to help him, her, or it out at my standard consulting rate.

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

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dubcanada wrote: post #269
dangus wrote: post #27

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It’s probably a simple matter of bulk paid-up-front purchasing, similar to how Apple and Toyota were the front of the line for chips. Let’s pretend Costco needs 100 eggs. Normally 500 eggs are produced, but this year only 300 were produced. Costco has a guaranteed contract and receives their 100 eggs. Everyone else who hasn’t paid yet fights over the remaining eggs and prices rise. Southwest Airlines was also known f…

Most people do this, this isn't unique to Costco or Southwest Airlines. That's why future contracts exist. Although it rarely guarantees a delivery, it does allow you to hedge against increases/decreases as a company. You can take a look at APU0000708111 and see how crazy it's been the past 2-3 months.

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

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Post by coding123 »

nunez wrote: post #364

I was shocked today when I went to buy eggs and saw that the basic kind were almost as expensive as the Vital Farms eggs I usually get What was even more surprising is that the Vital Farms eggs did NOT go up in price very much.

Vital farms must not be part of the cartel.

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

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Post by ashwagary »

Supermancho wrote: post #297
snapcaster wrote: post #142

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I think the dietary cholesterol == bad thing is just totally wrong. Sample size of 1 but i eat about 4 eggs a day and steak almost every day but it's not processed fast food and my cholesterol, blood pressure, etc. are all _excellent_

> i eat about 4 eggs a day and steak almost every day I also had this diet for many years . Wait till you get older. This is a diet will run your cholesterol through the roof.

Im curious, was your carb intake less than 50g per day during those years?

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

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Post by mym1990 »

thatguy0900 wrote: post #307
mym1990 wrote: post #170

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

Costco is a bulk grocer. You pay a yearly fee to shop at Costco, and in return you can get extremely good deals on bulk food and items.

Yeah I understand that, I do shop there often. It took me a few re-reads to understand how relatively similar pricing for 15 dozen and 5 dozen eggs in 2019 at the same store helps to compare inflation measurements.

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Post by petodo »

softfalcon wrote: post #348
NineStarPoint wrote: post #139

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Does the dominant rooster not cause the hens similar stress for some reason?

In our experience, hens sometimes get into squabbles and the rooster is often the one who breaks up the fight. More like a peace keeper.

Are we still talking about rooster and hens? Reminds me of work enviroment.

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

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Post by apexalpha »

IgorPartola wrote: post #222
joenot443 wrote: post #179

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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…

Can confirm. I am in New England. The startup cost was about $1000 for me, including coop, coop reinforcements, chickens, feed, and various misc equipment. I have 8 hens and basically if I sold a year’s worth of eggs I could break even. That’s sold, not eaten, because I could sell for roughly double the grocery store price. So realistically the difference is that I get fresh eggs every day, I never run out, and they…

What did you spend $1000 on? I just bought some wooden beams and wire mesh. The chickens eat whatever we didn't finish the night before. Though I usually scoop in some extra rice or pasta knowing we have chickens.

They lay their eggs in basically anything. Mine sit in a Aldi crate on it's side.

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