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Eggs, bread, banana prices all up 33 percent plus over last week. So much for inflation decreasing . Are they not matching Aldi prices anymore? Ridiculous

Eggs are increasing all over so you can’t count those. Never knew they tried to match Aldi. Does Aldi even sell those products?

Walmart grocery prices higher on those products at 466 store. 466a store has been matching Aldi prices at Trailwinds. Publix egg prices dollars more than Walmart.

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Scab labor rebellion ?

Heard on the news that Florida leads the nation on price of eggs.

The "Handsome" brand eggs were the same $5.88 yesterday as they've been for most of the past year.

Factory farm eggs are high because of the avian flu that affects mostly birds that are forced to live in insanely close proximity to each other (tens of thousands in a single farm roost building). Eggs from hens that are raised on small farms, who roam freely within a fox-safe but open enclosure, and a spacious, airy shelter where they can sleep at night and lay their eggs in the morning, are not exposed as frequently to the avian flu as factory farm hens. So their price, while higher on average when the factory farm hens are healthy, don't fluctuate as much.

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I noticed that bananas were way up today -- .58/lb. Last week we happened to be in Mt. Dora, bananas there were .25.

Bananas
 

Bananas .25/lb last week at Mt. Dora Walmart.

...a cheaper source of eggs.

Egg smuggling up 108% at US-Mexico border as prices soar

Are these the eggs that cause blood clots?

What happened at Walmart neighborhood store?
QUOTE=Babubhat;2180108]Eggs, bread, banana prices all up 33 percent plus over last week. So much for inflation decreasing . Are they not matching Aldi prices anymore? Ridiculous[/QUOTE]

Likely, nothing happened at the Walmart store other than marking up their input cost to yield their planned level of profit amid consistent competitors.

Article in the Daily Sun today discusses reasons for egg price increases. Bird Flu, packaging, feed and likely some supply chain price gouging.

Bird Flus have been around for years and have not been an extended cause of continuing price increases. No farm is going to produce eggs in small quantity without recovering cost and making a profit. Same with all involved in the supply chain. Is it possible that once they find that they can make the same profit for far less work, that there are forces in place to keep that scheme going? You see that in products such as sodas by Coke, Pepsi and others.

Not really caused by too many hens in the henhouse, but rather, too many pigs at the pig trough. Once they get us used to the higher prices, there is not a high incentive to return to the lower price unless there is healthy competition.

You have obviously never been in farming.
Producers have never been in control of prices.
Markets and buyers have always controlled the price of meat, eggs etc.
If true costs of production were paid by the market, what is deemed high prices now, would be the norm.
The big boys like their animal farmers like their meat, lean, and with little fat!
I've been there, done that, and got all the T shirts!

Did you hear , The news Reported Wal Mart is Paying 17.50 an hour to their workers …. Last year 2022 & back to 2021 all the bleeding hearts wanted the minimum wage to increase… Now it’s here, who did they think would pay for it?

This whole thread response is beyond bizarre...Really makes you wonder. The OP is correct that prices are much higher yet claims are that inflation is going down. Eggs are exceptionally high, and yes there is other issues with them. But we can surmize what the real issues are driving costs up in general. Fuel costs, labor costs, labor shortages have all contributed...2 more years.

Wow. Only 33%. Buy all you can. Eggs nation wide are up almost 100%. The BS about the bird flu is BS. 60 million bids were killed. 40 million of those were egg laying. They were 320 million total chickens. So less than 15% reduction in egg laying birds. . Nothing but price gouging.

Aldi matches Walmart generally, not the other way around. Publix, the villagers dream store, is generally high priced except for most BOGO items. And the comment from the poster about Aldi's carrying the basics you must sleep in Publix's parking lot! LOL

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I'm not sure I know of anything that Walmart sells that Aldi does as well? In any case, I am getting a gallon of milk at the Walmart Neighborhood store for $2.86! I haven't seen a gallon of milk under $3.00 in a few years. Heck, Sam's club is selling it for $3.60.

"Bleeding hearts" You mean people who think others should be paid a living wage? If we are bleeding hearts, what do you call people who think it's okay that people need two or three jobs to stay afloat?

So, in your opinion, how much should an unskilled high school dropout, an ILLEGAL alien, or a 17 year old kid looking for his first job be paid?????

PLUS - it's so dumpy & crowded. I go across the street to Publix where every cashier has a ******.

I don’t understand your comment…..Aldi’s and Walmart both sell groceries which is what this post is about!

Believe the point was that every cost added to producing or supplying a product needs to be offset by an increase in price if the profit is to be maintained. I only hope that the increase is an absolute dollar amount and not a percentage (e.g., 25% increase in cost of goods sold should not mean a 25% increase in profit). If you are making $5 on a sale before you should be allowed to make $5 now but not $6.25!!!

Is that because profit, which is in turn spent on reinvestment in the business, salary raises or dividends is not subject to inflation?????? Ever run a business?????

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$7:50 / hr

Aldis has those items, yes. Aldis is great but they do not carry everything. I go to aldi's first then Publix right after to get those items Aldis did not have.

Ever notice how prices go up instantly but take months, if ever, to drop? Merchants are clearly incentivized to take advantage of the higher margins caused by dropping costs (i.e. lower inflation). Classic example; gas prices. Something happens in the Middle East and pump prices go up over night, even though the new oil takes 3 months to be shipped, refined and delivered to market.

Replacement cost, commodities futures and distribution cost all factors in.

Here is your minimum $15,OO dollars per hour push!! :0000000000luvmyhors
Now they want $22,00 So load up on Eggs before they are $8,00 a Dozen.:icon_hungry:... PLUS INFLATION IS STILL OVER 5%. :pray:

Here is a possible cause for higher prices. The stimulus and its after effects. Those trillions of dollars must be accounted for in the economic cycle and its payback time. Like the people and sectors that benefitted from the stimulus payback may not be fairly spread, or you might say, when elephants dance the price of eggs goes up.

That's pretty much what those posters in #14 and #25 were alluding to. Spend 7-9 trillion dollars on "fighting" COVID and global warming and you shall reap what you sow. :cus:

I just don't understand why eggs, gas and Everything else has increased in price over the last two years its like it is on purpose hummmm.

According to their website, they're 25c each if you buy them individually. If you buy by the lb they're 53c per lb.

That's at the Walmart at The Villages on 441.

Factory chickens (and turkeys) raised for slaughter are placed in small areas that they can't move in. So, they get sick and to stop that they are all fed too much antibiotics, which goes up the chain to humans. Not sure, but I suspect that the factory (Not free ranging) egg layers are also constrained and given antibiotics.
.....Some cities like Portland, Or. allow free-ranging chickens in the city limits. Fringe benefit, they consume massive quantities of insects like most birds. Incidentally, pet cats kill many, many more birds than MOST PEOPLE realize. There were some studies about that, so kitty .....bad, bad for the environment.

You mean feral cats not pet cats, right?

Oil prices went up due to Russia attacking the Ukraine. So shipping costs went up and the fed had to raise interest rates to prevent runaway inflation. Also, the Chinese mishandling of their Covid vaccine led to China producing less and shipping less important products like for the US automobile industry.

Other 1st would countries manage to pay their workers proportionally more than the US does. Maybe compare CEO salaries from those countries to US CEOs to see the REAL PROBLEM.

CEOs are the problem.

Well, the illegals should not be here.....at least we agree on one (uno) thing. Not likely to agree on WHY US workers are and were so underpaid. One theory is that way back like 1940 or 1950 the rich 1% (that wanted to stifle UNIONS and therefore keep worker pay low -- decided to stop white workers and black workers from liking each other and aligning their mutual needs through mutual union representation -- the 1% adopted a divide and conquer strategy. They encouraged blacks and whites to have some animosity between themselves. This allowed the 1% to resist UNIONS and therefore keep wages low.
.........Apparently today this strategy has worked and still works. Black and white workers should be united and true brothers, but that is NOT the way it is. Black and white workers have been twisted apart and the institution of the Police has been used to keep up the division. Today Florida is out to ruin the teachers' unions.
........In Germany workers and management tend to COOPERATE with each other more than in the US. If this were done more (cooperating) we would NOT BE trying to worry about if US workers are paid too much . Or what is the cause of high prices? And is Walmart eggs cheaper than BJs or visa-versa? That would be "small potatoes" compared to the "Big Picture" US economic problems.

Oil prices went up well before Russia invaded Ukraine...

Inflation was caused by massive spending, and not controlled by rate raises...