How much are eggs for you?

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A few weeks ago, I noticed other people talking about the cost of eggs with alarm. I hadn't noticed the price increase as much, and there are a couple of reasons for this. We already pay higher prices for eggs here in California due to certain poultry farm regulations that were voted on a few years ago, so seeing a dozen eggs for $3.50-$4/dozen wasn't that unusual for me. It's also been a while since I've bought a carton of eggs at a store -- I get free culled eggs from work pretty often, plus I also automatically get 2 dozen eggs included with the weekly produce order that is delivered to my house. But with the alarm in other people's posts about the price of eggs, I started investigating and noticed that they've gone up a great deal in my area too, or at least the "inexpensive" eggs have really increased in price. The pastured and organic eggs have gone up, but it's not as significant of an increase. At the store where I work, the least expensive eggs are $4.39/dozen. At a mainstream grocery store in my neighborhood (Safeway), the cheapest eggs are currently $4.99/dozen. The cheapest eggs at my local Walmart are $4.52/dozen. I'm not sure why my store has the better deal, as it's a much smaller company than the other two and largely sells natural/organic groceries, but perhaps they're currently a loss leader in order to draw customers. How much are you currently paying for eggs, and how much were you used to paying? While this seems like an American-centric post, I'm actually curious to hear about how much eggs cost in other countries too. Have you had to cut back on buying eggs?