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Eggs

How much will the price of eggs drop by tomorrow now that Trump is president?

  • by 50 percent

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • by 90 percent

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • by 99 percent

    Votes: 1 5.9%

  • by 99.99 percent

    Votes: 3 17.6%

  • Egg prices on Planet X are too scrambled to tell

    Votes: 13 76.5%
  • Total voters
    17
  • Poll closed .
99 cents with an online order of $75.

Limit 1.*


*dozen,
 
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In an accidental ambiguity the coming ban on abortion and birth control will inadvertently make unhatched eggs illegal. The administration will acknowledge that it's too bad, but you can't make an omelet without breaking them, and omelets are French and will turn your goldfish gay.

The obedient people will concede that they're better off eating Chick-fil-a nuggets and swarfburgers with ketchup to go along with their twelve dollar cup of instant coffee because otherwise, president Jesus told them they'd have to eat cats like those blood-diluting brown hordes.
 
bruto said:
In an accidental ambiguity the coming ban on abortion and birth control will inadvertently make unhatched eggs illegal. The administration will acknowledge that it's too bad, but you can't make an omelet without breaking them, and omelets are French and will turn your goldfish gay.

The obedient people will concede that they're better off eating Chick-fil-a nuggets and swarfburgers with ketchup to go along with their twelve dollar cup of instant coffee because otherwise, president Jesus told them they'd have to eat cats like those blood-diluting brown hordes.
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You have reached Level 5 in your MAGA promotion examinations. Congratulations! Next stop is White House Communications team.
 
Myriad said:
Nice. A nickel more at a Massachusetts Aldi. Which means they're probably around $6 at the regular supermarkets.
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I assume it's a very deliberate loss leader approach? There's really no way they should be beating the supermarkets.

Also, I miss Loss Leader.
 
Thermal said:
I assume it's a very deliberate loss leader approach? There's really no way they should be beating the supermarkets.
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No, that's exactly not Aldi's business model. Instead, they sell limited selections, like an "all store-brand" store, except instead of the dregs of distributors' inventory that go into most supermarket store brands, Aldi deals directly with suppliers and has the buying power of 12,000 stores all selling exclusively that one item (ketchup, say) instead of a dozen different brands, so their store brands are consistently fair to very good.

How they manage that with eggs, produced and shipped more locally than e.g. ketchup, I'm not sure. It's less of a savings (which is usually about 50% compared to brand name supermarket items for things like ketchup or yogurt). I think the remaining difference is the distributor markup the supermarkets pay. Walmart usually manages similar egg prices. Either store might run out of eggs or put purchase limits on them, when supplies are tight, while other supermarkets try to keep them in stock at all costs, and have to pass those costs along.
 
Sverige afslår at hjælpe USA under æggekrise - på grund af påsken (DR.dk, April 7, 2025)
Sverige kommer ikke til at sende æg til USA, der fortsat er ramt af en æggekrise grundet fugleinfluenza.
I hvert fald ikke i den kommende tid.
Sådan lyder det fra brancheorganisationen Swedish Eggs ifølge Sveriges Radio, efter amerikanske myndigheder skulle have bedt Sverige om hjælp.
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Sweden refuses to help the USA in the middle of the egg crisis - because of Easter (DR.dk, April 7, 2025)
Sweden will not send eggs to the USA, which is still affected by an egg crisis due to bird flu.
At least not in the near future.
This is the message from the industry organization Swedish Eggs, according to Radio Sweden, after American authorities allegedly asked Sweden for help.

Sverige nobbar äggexport till USA – på grund av påsken (SverigesRadio.se, April 7, 2025)
9 years ago, Swedes would consume 64 million eggs for Easter.

I am surprised that Trump didn't ask Swedish Eggs to be the sponsor of this event:
White House plans to use real eggs for the Easter Egg Roll, despite a strain on supply and concern over prices (NBC News, April 3, 2025)
Or maybe that's what he did ...
 
From the White House: Its still Biden's fault. Its especially Biden's fault that Trump has done nothing but try to beg for eggs from countries he insulted.

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

Brooke Rollins blames Joe Biden for the fact that egg prices are spiking again in April 2025
bsky.app bsky.app
 
Egg Prices Hit Record High After Trump Told America Prices Were Coming Down (Farron Balanced on YouTube, April 13, 2025 - 4:56 min.)
Just days after Donald Trump lied to the American public and said that egg prices had fallen by 79%, they reached an all-time high at the end of the week. Eggs have literally NEVER been more expensive in the United States than they are today, and Trump is trying to convince people that this isn't happening. At this point, his policies ARE to blame for the rising prices, as his administration has allowed the bird flu to wipe out poultry. Farron Cousins explains what's happening.
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Egg Prices Hit Record High - Days after Trump's Claim They Were 'Down 79%' (Mediaite/MSN.com, April 11, 2025)
The new CPI report released Thursday showed that eggs had hit a record high price in March: $6.27 for a dozen grade-A large eggs. That is up from $5.90 in February and represents a 5.9% increase, helping drive the overall rise in the food at home index that the agency tracks.
(...)
One bright spot: The egg supply has noticeably improved in recent months. Grocery stores are forecasting there will be "plenty of eggs available for Easter and Passover later this month, CBS News reported.
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Oeuf! U.S. egg prices hit record high despite Trump's claim they're 'much cheaper' (CBC News, April 10, 2025)


I think Trump is implementing one of the carefully thought-out strategies he has come to be known for among his MAGA supporters!
Protesters punch, throw eggs at Trump supporters in San Jose (MPR News, June 3, 2016)

Who can afford to join the resistance at those prices?!
Sorry, but you're on your own, Soros!
 
Andy_Ross said:
Donald says prices are now too low

Trump: "You can have all the eggs you want. We have too many eggs. In fact, if anything the prices are getting too low."

https://twitter.com/x/status/1913273608442450371
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Actual price data here:

Eggs US - Price - Chart - Historical Data - News

Eggs US decreased 2.68 USD/DOZEN or 46.08% since the beginning of 2025, according to trading on a contract for difference (CFD) that tracks the benchmark market for this commodity. This page includes a chart with historical data for Eggs US.
tradingeconomics.com tradingeconomics.com

Not sure about the "too many" part. Perhaps Supply Management might help? :th:
 
I just checked Sam's club where I live because they didn't have any eggs at all last week. They now have them in stock at $4.15/dz, which isn't great but not terrible.
 
Eggs were $5.99 at Giant yesterday at their cheapest. $4.99 a dozen at Aldi, limit 2.

So many eggs….
 
Eggs are $3 for 10 at my local co-op. Also, why eggs? Are they a special indicator or something? I mean, people predicted the downfall of Putin if eggs got too expensive.
 
Hercules Rockefeller said:
Also, why eggs? Are they a special indicator or something? I mean, people predicted the downfall of Putin if eggs got too expensive.
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Good question.

Maybe people fixated on eggs for a combination of reasons:
- Eggs are in common (daily) use with a (relatively) constant demand (its not like something you buy once and then forget for the next half year)
- 'Brands/types' are less important. an egg is an egg, not like, for example, breakfast cereal where you have dozens of 'types' (bran flakes vs. cherrios) and manufacturers (brand name vs. no name) Yeah, you do have specialties like 'organic' or 'brown' eggs, but its not as important
- Unlike something like gas, you wouldn't expect 'fluctuations' (with occasional decreases depending on the weather, what OPEC does, etc.)
- The regular price is an understandable number (not too high nor too low)

But most likely, someone somewhere fixated on 'eggs' in some speech and the issue just stuck.
 
kookbreaker said:
$6 for a dozen large at Giant near Philly, that price has been pretty consistent . I actually bought a pack since I haven't had eggs in a while.

Which means I'll cook two of them in a day or two, remember I have eggs a couple weeks from now and have some more, then have to throw out 1/2 dozen because of the expiration date.
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That double the price in the fancy butchers here.

And ours come without salmonella or listeria.
 
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Segnosaur said:
Good question.

Maybe people fixated on eggs for a combination of reasons:
- Eggs are in common (daily) use with a (relatively) constant demand (its not like something you buy once and then forget for the next half year)
- 'Brands/types' are less important. an egg is an egg, not like, for example, breakfast cereal where you have dozens of 'types' (bran flakes vs. cherrios) and manufacturers (brand name vs. no name) Yeah, you do have specialties like 'organic' or 'brown' eggs, but its not as important
- Unlike something like gas, you wouldn't expect 'fluctuations' (with occasional decreases depending on the weather, what OPEC does, etc.)
- The regular price is an understandable number (not too high nor too low)

But most likely, someone somewhere fixated on 'eggs' in some speech and the issue just stuck.
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No, the reason they fixated on eggs is because egg prices rose at a rate higher than the rate of inflation due to the bird flu epidemic. As a result, they used a 200% increase in egg prices to try to make it look like it was a result of inflation.
 
While eggs might being getting somewhat cheaper, I've noticed a sharp rise in the price of soda. I buy cheap, store brand orange soda. It's gone up a dollar in the past few weeks, not all at once, but little by little. It had climbed to $4.99 a twelve pack and stabilized there when the first round of inflation during Biden happened. Now, in just the past couple weeks, it went to $5.49, then $5.79, and today, was $5.99, a full dollar higher in comparatively no time.
 
Segnosaur said:
But most likely, someone somewhere fixated on 'eggs' in some speech and the issue just stuck.
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it started during the election. egg prices were up due to bird flu and gas wasn’t, so it became bidenomics got the price of eggs high instead of gas.

well they brought it up and now it stuck.

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see pgwenthold above
 
Trump: You know, the cost of eggs have come down like 93, 94% since we took office. They are pretty much normally price now… Groceries have come down. It’s all coming down
 
Andy_Ross said:
Trump: You know, the cost of eggs have come down like 93, 94% since we took office. They are pretty much normally price now… Groceries have come down. It’s all coming down
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We'll add percentages to the very long list of things that Trump doesn't understand.

Unless eggs are less than fifty cents a dozen, he's lying.

Of course if he's saying that 93,94% of the price rise since he came into office has been reversed then that's also a lie - and not the flex he thinks it is.
 
Aldi here still doing half a dozen free range for £1.35 for large or £1 medium
 
It might help if someone in the press asked which measure of consumer prices the White House refers to when it talks numbers about groceries. Trump is obviously just a random number generator, but surely it ought to be possible to have a sane conversation with someone on his staff.
 
Spain: Eggs €2.80 = $3.18/doz. in regular chain supermarket today, pretty much as same as last week ... and the week before ... Cheaper in Aldi or Lidl. Cheaper still from the farmer 10km away.
27º C as well, nice day.
 
Jack by the hedge said:
It might help if someone in the press asked which measure of consumer prices the White House refers to when it talks numbers about groceries. Trump is obviously just a random number generator, but surely it ought to be possible to have a sane conversation with someone on his staff.
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They have all been sacked.
 
shemp said:
Those responsible for the sacking have themselves also been sacked.
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Quis custodiet custodies...who will judge the judges...who will sack the sackers? Me me mee! I am the king of kings, the boss of bosses, the cream in your coffee, the eggs in your basket.

Of course the buck stops here, because all your bucks will end up here.
 
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