Ridiculous prices

@lovebuglena (50492)
Staten Island, New York
February 24, 2025 3:56pm CST
Stopped by an Asian supermarket yesterday with my mom. She asked me to look at eggs for her. The store was selling a dozen eggs for $11.99 and 18 eggs for $17.99. I don’t think they were cage free or organic. Just regular eggs. That’s robbery so of course I told my mom she doesn’t need them. Not at these prices anyway. If people stop buying eggs at these ridiculous prices wouldn’t that make the stores lower them?
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@NJChicaa (126786)
• United States
24 Feb 25
Supply and demand. Bird flu has decimated poultry farms.
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@lovebuglena (50492)
• Staten Island, New York
24 Feb 25
I get supply and demand but these prices are a rip off.
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@NJChicaa (126786)
• United States
24 Feb 25
@lovebuglena I don't disagree
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@porwest (111866)
• United States
25 Feb 25
I am beginning to question whether or not this bird flu thing is real.
@RebeccasFarm (91298)
• United States
24 Feb 25
I am glad I don't buy them anymore but that is due to allergies. I started to get sick of them anyway and the smell was making me sick. Yeah I see everyone gripping ..they are crazy with the prices!!
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• United States
25 Feb 25
@lovebuglena They don't?
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@lovebuglena (50492)
• Staten Island, New York
25 Feb 25
@RebeccasFarm I meant they don’t smell bad, not unless they are spoiled lol. But they do have their own scent when cooked.
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@lovebuglena (50492)
• Staten Island, New York
24 Feb 25
Bummer! Eggs are good source of protein. Eggs don’t really smell though.
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@marguicha (230050)
• Chile
25 Feb 25
I´m sure that people can eat other kinds of food until the egg prices go down.
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@lovebuglena (50492)
• Staten Island, New York
25 Feb 25
A lot of things require eggs though, especially baked items, like cakes, pies, etc.
@allknowing (153626)
• India
24 Feb 25
People have been talking about egg prices being high for a while now.
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@allknowing (153626)
• India
25 Feb 25
@lovebuglena Seems they are on the rise relentlessly
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@lovebuglena (50492)
• Staten Island, New York
25 Feb 25
I know but they weren’t as high before.
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@Deepizzaguy (119651)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
25 Feb 25
It would lower the prices since if and when the stores have to give away the eggs, they would lower the prices just to get of the eggs since they would close to useless.
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@lovebuglena (50492)
• Staten Island, New York
25 Feb 25
I’ve noticed there are people who don’t even look at prices. They will just take something from the shelf, put it in the shopping cart, and go check out.
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@porwest (111866)
• United States
25 Feb 25
In theory, ultimately yes. If demand decreases, it could drop the price of eggs. By how much is debatable. As for bird flu, I am starting to become rather suspicious of the claim that its as real as it is, as I recently posted a question about. Something's not right, here.
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@lovebuglena (50492)
• Staten Island, New York
25 Feb 25
Will we ever know the truth?
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@lovebuglena (50492)
• Staten Island, New York
25 Feb 25
@porwest Wasn't Phyllis Fong (inspector general of the United States Department of Agriculture) responsible for making farmers kills the chickens? Or was I misinformed?
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@porwest (111866)
• United States
25 Feb 25
@lovebuglena Probably not, I suspect.
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@kaylachan (83718)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
24 Feb 25
Might make the price drop some, or it could make it worse. Hard to say the way the market is.
@lovebuglena (50492)
• Staten Island, New York
24 Feb 25
Make it worse how?
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@kaylachan (83718)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
25 Feb 25
@lovebuglena Well, for one thing, you're always going to have people whill pay those prices. You live in an area where the cost of living is considerably higher. You drop 3k on furniture for example, and consider that a bargian. So, you know that smeone out here will see that as a discount. so farms will keep supplying. I'd never deminish enough to where it'd drop the cost. If people stopped buying, farmers still would be compinsated for their stock, so it'd have to be made up elsewhere. its a vicious cycle.
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@lovebuglena (50492)
• Staten Island, New York
25 Feb 25
@kaylachan 3k for Italian furniture is a great deal.
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@RasmaSandra (95839)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
24 Feb 25
Well, soon it will be time to order my monthly groceries and I miss eggs I looked at Walmart and I guess i will get the 18 eggs for $8.94
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@lovebuglena (50492)
• Staten Island, New York
24 Feb 25
Compared to $17.99 your price is a way better deal.
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• China
25 Feb 25
Our eggs are cheap, but I think our bread is more expensive
@lovebuglena (50492)
• Staten Island, New York
25 Feb 25
Why is the bread more expensive?
• China
28 Feb 25
@lovebuglena Bread is not our staple food, our staple food is rice and steamed bread, most families do not make bread.
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