The prices are still almost TRIPLE the prices from January, 2021...

Dollar General had large eggs on sale for $3.99 last weekend. :)

Who knows where they came from or their real age. There is a reason they are so cheap.

Where they came from? Phony eggs?:icon_wink:

No conspiracy here. The largest egg producer in the US, Cal-Maine Foods, Inc., reported a 110% increase in profits on November 28, 2022. They said it was mainly due to the increase in egg prices generally. Think about that. If you buy ten portable generators for $500.00 each, take them in your pickup truck to a Florida city where a hurricane has hit, and sell them for $1,000.00 dollars each (a 100% profit), you will be sent to jail. End of story, as you are a price gouger. But if you are Cal-Maine Foods, Inc., nobody seems to care. By my calculations, they are price gouging.

...meanwhile, "Happy Eggs" (the brand) are still available for under $6 per dozen. That is high for regular factory-farm white eggs, but Happy Eggs aren't factory farm white eggs. They're from cage-free pasture-raised hens. Right now I can't get them at Walmart, but Winn Dixie had them for I think $5.94? At Walmart they were $5.88, which is the same price they were last year.

They're more expensive than normal eggs are, WHEN there is no avian flu. But right now they appear to be cheaper than normal eggs, and they're superior to normal eggs. Their prices haven't fluctuated much.

The take-away on this: if you want low-quality stuff made in factories, don't be surprised when something happens at the factory that drives up the prices, and don't be surprised when the CEO of the factory realizes he can make bank even if the factory problem gets fixed, by simply not reducing the price after it was raised.

If you want good quality products and are willing to pay extra for them, you can expect some measure of consistency in quality and pricing.

No one really knows where any eggs come from. They tasted great!