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Eggs are 10.99 in denver.
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Yeah, these are specialty farm eggs, cage free, and brown. They’re also stacked in with the organic eggs. They probably command a markup without the price increases from bird flu. This is also *probably* some trendier grocery store OP is shopping at.
Our “fancy” grocery store has a dozen cage free large brown eggs for $5.49, so either this is a local issue in Denver or OP is posting some BS engagement bait.
Just snapped this pic from our store’s online shopping app.
Your post prompted me to check -- at the "fancy" grocery store in town, I can get a dozen eggs for about $5. Same price at Aldi. Looking at Target, it's about $4.20.
Wait, what? I usually expect Target to be more expensive than other options in the area! Strange times.
I'm in Denver as well, you can't find regular eggs in stock. The only thing I can find is the cage-free/brown egg stuff. So this price isn't too far off (especially for King Soopers (Kroger). I've seen price tags for as low as $5.50, but never in stock (this was at Trader Joe's).
I go to a local grocery store, end of last year a dozen eggs could be had on special (pretty regularly) for $1. I spent $4.50 for a half-dozen on sale... ($9/dozen). It came with a card that said Jubilant Julie is the bird of the month, LMAO. This was the cheapest option, including sold-out stuff.
My recommendation to OP is stop shopping at King Soopers and Safeway. Shop around, try out Sprouts, Trader Joe's, Target, etc. Or, better yet, find a local grocery store (Brother's Market, Max Market, Clark's Market, Sun Market, Syracuse Market to name a few). Not only will it probably be a better product for the same/less price, but you'll support a local business and you won't have to wait in line for 10+ soul-crushing minutes.
Isn’t Kroger the one that got in trouble for “surge pricing”? Basically corporate whitewashing of price gouging. They also switched to e-price tags that would let them more quickly change prices.
Edit: yes those greedy f’ks did price gouge.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/kroger-executive-admits-company-gouged-prices-above-inflation/ar-AA1pBoLi
$11.99 per dozen for regular eggs at a CA Trader Joe’s.
Clown.
You are both posting anecdotes, essentially.
No, this is objective, not a “story”. At this time these are the actual prices for the eggs at my location at a store with historically higher prices. I qualified my assertion with facts. If you want, I will dig up more egg prices to create an unscientific average to prove that egg prices are not insane here. However, OP has offered no qualifications for the store or the farm. That’s a “story” left up to the reader to infer all egg prices are high in Denver.
As a matter of fact, here you go:
Local Price Chopper:
Local ShopRite:
I’m sure I could find expensive eggs for engagement bait.
I get that, but regional egg prices aren't directly comparable without adjusting for the cost of living. I could prove eggs in my area cost a dollar but that gives you no info unless I say they used to cost 10 cents.
I'm not admonishing you, just saying you are both right basically
I live outside a major metropolitan city for context in what many would view as an “expensive State.” CoL is not cheap.
That said, your second choice of “regional” is far more apropos than “anecdotal.”
The latter. Nobody ever posts the store brand eggs and talks price about those.
Where I live, a city in the PNW, Fred Meyer (Kroger) cheap ass eggs are around $7. $7.50 at Safeway. Even Winco and Trader Joe's eggs are around $5/6 a dozen.
I'm not sure where you live, but I'm guessing it's less densely populated or has easier access to diary farms.
Or you shop online for food, which, no, I'm not doing that.