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Kolzig33189 t1_j1a5bok wrote

Aldi vernon was 4.99 a few days ago. It’s brutal.

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Prize-Hedgehog t1_j1a9t9w wrote

Still finding Shop Rite has the best egg prices for cage free. $8.49 for 2 dozen cage free organic at Shop Rite. For the past couple of months they were actually a better price per egg than the regular dozen eggs.

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Kolzig33189 t1_j1ahyel wrote

Replying to IndicationOver (#1,013,591)

Kind of makes sense though. Groceries in general keep just skyrocketing without stopping and eggs that used to be 99 cents per dozen at Aldi are now 5x that. Double whammy of avian flu and inflation there

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ashlietta t1_j1alws5 wrote

Manchester BJs has Wellesley Farms/Nellie’s 2 dozen free range eggs for $6.99

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raynethackery t1_j1axtse wrote

Walmart Manchester

Great Value Large White Eggs, 12 Count $4.12

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djln491 t1_j1b2n98 wrote

Around 4 bucks for egglands best at Walmart Hartford/west Hartford line. For a dozen.

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djln491 t1_j1b5mw3 wrote

And what about eggnog prices! Sheesh can’t a guy enjoy some nog?

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mznieves t1_j1bhoqo wrote

Shockingly, $3.49 at the Whole Foods in Avon.

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guitar1257 t1_j1bmkkd wrote

Farm around the corner is $6 a dozen. The vo-ag program near me sells them for $3 a dozen

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MyGodItsFullOfClowns t1_j1bpzv5 wrote

Replying to tiredmom07 (#1,015,996)

Normally it's a 60 pack but for some reason it was 90 last week.

But eggs will last a month in the fridge. For a single person that's 2 or 3 eggs a day, for a couple or a family it's far less.

I eat a 3 egg omelet for breakfast most days so we go through a lot of eggs.

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mynameisnotshamus t1_j1bq3x7 wrote

Replying to tiredmom07 (#1,013,636)

I go through a $20 / 50lb bag a month with 3-4 birds. The biggest expense is the coop and run which cost about $1000 when I got finished. Very much over built, but also very secure - lots of predators to keep out. Bedding for the coop, I went the most expensive way- hemp. But, I only have to clean the coop out maybe once a year, so it’s worth it. (Approx $50). First year you’ll get about 20 eggs a week from March-October. Slow decline after the first year. You can put a bulb in the coop during winter if you want them to keep laying, but you also deal with freezing eggs, and fire risks. I just think it’s good to give them some time off. Like humans, chickens are born with all of their eggs. If you deplete them quickly, then you have a chicken who doesn’t lay anything, sooner.

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volanger t1_j1bqrde wrote

Ngl I'm kinda surprised egg prices are so high. There's like 4 people I know who have their own chicken coups and I see several in the side of the road all the time selling eggs dirt cheap.

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InsaniteeBicycles t1_j1c1b4q wrote

This was covered on NPR this morning. 2 things driving the price. 1) new Massachusetts law requiring only cage free eggs be sold in the state.
2) bird flu outbreak earlier this year resulted in destruction of 4 million birds on farms. Worst outbreak ever recorded.

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arod0291 t1_j1c1r97 wrote

So I'm out of state right now and don't know the price in my area but I can offer some insight on why they're so high in the first place.

This year had been exceptionally bad with the avian flu. We got a bad strain in recent years and any time a chicken is suspected of having it the shed is culled to prevent further outbreak. This year a record setting 57 million chickens have been culled. To put it in perspective, the previous record was 50 million. The reason chicken (meat) has stayed relatively on par with inflation is because meat chickens are easier to replace than egg-laying chickens.

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Unscripted_A t1_j1c5me0 wrote

Brookfield BJs…Nellies organic eggs. 2 dozen for $6.99, $3.50 a dozen.

If you have the ability to go to restaurant depot and split some with friends…you can pick up 15 dozen large organic eggs for $48 or 3.20/dozen.

Some brands of organic and cage free eggs are cheaper right now than commodity eggs because of the bird flu

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Kodiak01 t1_j1czup1 wrote

Star True Value Hardware in Ellington is still at $5/dozen for local farm eggs.

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ct-yankee t1_j1d40nj wrote

Wallingford Aldi was just under $5 a dozen a few days ago.

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stopexploding t1_j1d8m2r wrote

Can't remember the price, but Egglands Best was less expensive by the dozen than Stop and Shop brand yesterday.

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0cclumency t1_j1d9n24 wrote

Costco New Britain had 2 dozen for $5 last week. Aldi was $4.29 for 1 dozen. I think I’ll be getting all my eggs at Costco for the foreseeable future.

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blueturtle00 t1_j1dzd03 wrote

80-100 for 15 dozen wholesale. Shits insane. Before the pandemic they were 15$ for 15 dozen.

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gregra193 t1_j1e00p6 wrote

Replying to mznieves (#1,016,771)

Whole Foods is often cheaper than Stop&Shop recently. Higher quality items for less. Not sure why S&S went so wild on pricing, but I rarely go anymore.

Walmart even has many of the exact same SKUs/products for $1-2 less per item than S&S. East Windsor Walmart has done a bunch of significant rollbacks on produce/veggies in the past few weeks as well.

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alisa62 t1_j1eileg wrote

Costco also has two dozen for $7.99…cage free…

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The_Dutchess-D t1_j1lgd3q wrote

Replying to mznieves (#1,016,559)

I came here to comment this too. I compare every week and Whole foods is always the cheapest among the ones I check. Sometimes by HALF.

My husband is allergic to wheat, corn, and cow’s milk dairy, so his breakfast is heavily skewed towards eggs. My kids like them too (hard boiled in lunch box or scrambled at home) we eat a ToN of eggs in this house. Maybe three dozen every ten days. It has always Whole Foods for the best egg prices, this entire past year.

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