Eggs

[buckguy]

You can see where outbreaks are happening and how they vary by state https://www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po ... ard-flocks, which probably helps explain prices overall, but not necessarily local week to week fluctuations.

Ohio is the #2 egg producing state and commercial poultry has been very hard hit, probably effecting the Great Lakes region and Ohio Valley. Iowa is the #1 state for eggs and doing much better. Given Iowa's low population, they probably supply much of the middle of the country. California and Washington state are not doing so well.

[storewanderer]

So Wal Mart in Reno has gotten their Great Value Large Eggs down to 5.46 per dozen or something along that line. They also are now using a supplier from Utah (no longer coming from California).

The bad news is Smiths has now increased the Dozen Kroger Large Eggs to 7.49. Safeway has kept a 7.49 price in Reno for Dozen Lucerne Large Eggs but over the line in CA Safeway is now charging 9.49 for the same eggs (up from 8.99). Save Mart in Reno also took a price increase this week and is now charging 9.29 (up from 8.99) for a dozen of store brand large eggs...

All stores were VERY well stocked on eggs except Wal Mart which was only about 20% stocked. I am expecting either a ton of markdown or a ton of eggs getting thrown out.

[Alpha8472]

Trader Joe's has set a nationwide limit of 1 dozen eggs per customer per day.

https://www.khon2.com/news/national/tra ... ationwide/

[mbz321]

There is now a limit of 3 at my Costco. Although it's not programmed to block in the POS, so it's up to the cashier to actually enforce it. Also all we've had for days is 18 count white eggs. The 5 dozen boxes we were receiving have been out all week,. and only a small amount of the 2 dozen organic have been arriving here and there.

[storewanderer]

Trader Joe's has set a nationwide limit of 1 dozen eggs per customer per day.

https://www.khon2.com/news/national/tra ... ationwide/

I can't wait to see how enforcement of this goes.

They may need to hire security.

Also "1 per day" - I go in at 8 AM then go back at 6 PM (entirely different crew is working). Buy 1 dozen each time. No way to enforce this. No loyalty card.

[SamSpade]

Trader Joe's has set a nationwide limit of 1 dozen eggs per customer per day.

https://www.khon2.com/news/national/tra ... ationwide/

I can't wait to see how enforcement of this goes.

They may need to hire security.

Also "1 per day" - I go in at 8 AM then go back at 6 PM (entirely different crew is working). Buy 1 dozen each time. No way to enforce this. No loyalty card.

Valid. But most people can respect being a "good neighbor." Also based on what my Cathedral City, CA friend posted - many locations are running out of eggs by later in the day anyway. So you might spend all that gasoline and time for nothing.

[Alpha8472]

The Berkeley Bowl supermarket is an insider secret. They have not had an egg shortage because they have their own chicken flock. They keep them in chicken coops and haven't gotten infected yet.

[storewanderer]

Trader Joe's has set a nationwide limit of 1 dozen eggs per customer per day.

https://www.khon2.com/news/national/tra ... ationwide/

I can't wait to see how enforcement of this goes.

They may need to hire security.

Also "1 per day" - I go in at 8 AM then go back at 6 PM (entirely different crew is working). Buy 1 dozen each time. No way to enforce this. No loyalty card.

Valid. But most people can respect being a "good neighbor." Also based on what my Cathedral City, CA friend posted - many locations are running out of eggs by later in the day anyway. So you might spend all that gasoline and time for nothing.

I don't see much of a good neighbor behavior occurring in retail these days. Not in California and Nevada where costs are so out of control and people are very stressed over costs.

I see things like a family of 5 arguing they should be allowed to buy 5 dozen in one transaction because they are 5 separate families. They are so arrogant they aren't even smart about it. They could easily do 5 separate transactions with each person paying separately and the store would likely just process them. If I were the store, I would just treat those as all separate customers if they paid separately and otherwise appeared separate. But that isn't enough, they have to argue, make a scene, and refuse to do more than one transaction...

[mjhale]

The Berkeley Bowl supermarket is an insider secret. They have not had an egg shortage because they have their own chicken flock. They keep them in chicken coops and haven't gotten infected yet.

I wonder how many co-op or specialty type one off food stores have or would be willing to move to maintaining their own flock or going with a smaller local producer. The local Save-A-Lot operator near me has eggs from a smaller producer about an hour from the store. Pricing was about $6.50/dozen. That is in line with the other traditional grocers in town and about $1-1.50 more than Walmart and Aldi. Interestingly, Save-A-Lot was fully stocked. Maybe what they have isn't moving, though the expiration dates were several weeks out on what they had. If the avian flu continues long term, maybe the move is to go with smaller local producers who theoretically would have better control over their chicken populations. The problem with this would be getting the volume and scale needed to service the large grocery chains, Walmart, Aldi, etc. at a price point that comes in line with what those retailers are looking for.

[SamSpade]

Last night Trader Joe's locally was out of eggs for the day and the signs have been updated to "one dozen per..." so I was incorrect in saying it was two. That changed quickly. Still, I appreciate them holding the pricing.