Eggs are 10.99 in denver.

[synopsistantilize@lemm.ee]

Yep I'm near Delaware so we have all the chicken farms at least near us. And our eggs are $4.5 for a dozen.

[vinstaal0@lemmy.world]

Even worse when you consider this is without tax and the compareisons are made to prices without tax. To be fair the rest of the world doesn't threat their eggs so they need to be refrigerated like these US eggs need to be, which also costs money.

[legge@lemmy.world]

Definitely some greed. One grocery store here charges 50% more than the other just because (imagine: it's a Kroger owned store). Neither store is a discount or lower-end store either. Ridiculous

[runawayfixer@lemmy.world]

Caged is already no longer available where I live, so the price I gave is for perchery eggs, medium sized. I would have added that it was for perchery, but I only learned that word 5 minutes ago from your post ;). In the last few years when caged eggs were available, a 6 pack of perchery eggs usually was the same or almost the same price as caged. I remember the price difference being so insignificant that I always bought perchery.

But there's bound to be so many regulatory differences, that probably even the perchery label will have different rules. And some of those labels are pretty empty. So imo for a simple comparison, it's still best to just compare cheapest with cheapest of the same size and ignore labelling/marketing.

[styxem@sh.itjust.works]

Food is not taxed in the US. At least in my state.

[ziltoid1991@lemmy.world]

It'll be even more soon...

[aa5b@lemmy.world]

We’re only talking eggs here, this is not an indicator of general inflation.

We had that too so prices are higher over say five years, but as far as I know, general inflation is under control. The biggest problem there is all the price increases blamed on “global supply chain disruption” from a couple years back: why haven’t they gone away since the disruption has?

[aa5b@lemmy.world]

In any sane world, would something as specific as eggs drive politics? They also didn’t weigh in on how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie-pop. That’s fine, they should be concerned about bigger things

[thericcer@reddthat.com]

In Colorado stores must sell cage-free eggs now. The law just went into effect.

https://ag.colorado.gov/press-release/all-eggs-sold-in-colorado-starting-in-2025-will-be-cage-free

[tachyontele@lemm.ee]

Where in upstate? They're $4 everywhere Ive seen them.

[shortrounddev@lemmy.world]

It's just inflation. Corporate greed is a poor excuse for price increases

[mapleengineer@lemmy.world]

It's ok, though. Trump has installed a loyalist who will scrub all mention of bird flu from the USDA website. Problem solved!

Look how well it worked out at the FAA!

[remon@ani.social]

Just over the border in Switzerland I've got 0,79€ per egg (0,75€ in a 12 pack). But that's still cheaper than OP.

[dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de]

Ok thanks.

I don’t think corporate greed is a poor excuse though.

All prices in the UK have gone up by substantial amounts over the last 5 years. While at the same time these massive corporations have recorded record profits.

If the price increases were purely inflation then it would stand to reason that profits wouldn’t have gone up so much. Clearly they’ve used inflation as an excuse to squeeze consumers as much as possible.

I am talking generally here and not specifically about eggs.

[frog_brawler@lemmy.world]

What if I told you that the 3-4 corporations that control our food supply increased prices to punish voters for not voting for a Republican in 2020?

[frog_brawler@lemmy.world]

It's actually just corporate greed. The "inflation" is the excuse.

[lesrid@lemm.ee]

I wonder if writing that up is a full-time job. I'd love to interview chickens.

[zephorah@lemm.ee]

The bird flu is likely affecting all of North America. Mine is commentary on Canada vs States rxns on the price of eggs.

I can’t imagine the focus on eggs for most of 2024 didn’t impact the price hike as well.

[entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

What state doesn't have tax at the checkout?

[frostbeard@lemmy.world]

Not necessarily better. My uni did experiments to see how far a chicken moved after being put in a free range pen, and they hardly move. Such pens are large and contain hundreds if not 1000s of chickens. (We tend to imagine free range as 15 hens in a flock, but that is miles away from the truth) Hypothesis was that since Chicken are flock animals tbey get stressed in these pens and the weaker ones now are on the outside of multiple flocks leading to more stress and feather picking as dominance never really are settles. Roomy cages with proper perches and such paradoxically might be "better" for industrially farmed chicken.