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[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 5 points 39 minutes ago

They will have security tags in them soon

[-] _stranger_@lemmy.world 19 points 2 hours ago

I used to buy those eggs at the bottom of the picture. They come with a newsletter inside about how the chickens are doing.

The cheap eggs now cost what those eggs used to cost.

[-] asqapro@reddthat.com 4 points 10 minutes ago

I still buy those eggs, the notes they put in are cute.

[-] Yokozuna@lemmy.world 11 points 2 hours ago

Kinda irrelevant, but get fucked Eggslut. Worst place to work for, owners are a bunch of liars and have terrible management practices. This is absolutely killing them and I love that for them.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

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.

[-] elephantium@lemmy.world 2 points 7 minutes ago

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.

[-] settxy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago

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.

[-] SoJB@lemmy.ml 1 points 17 minutes ago* (last edited 16 minutes ago)

$11.99 per dozen for regular eggs at a CA Trader Joe’s.

Clown.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

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

[-] Phantom_Engineer@lemmy.ml 1 points 36 minutes ago

The latter. Nobody ever posts the store brand eggs and talks price about those.

[-] _stranger_@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

You are both posting anecdotes, essentially.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

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.

[-] _stranger_@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

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

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

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.”

[-] Monstrosity@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

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.

[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 89 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

That price tag is missing its Trump “I did this!” sticker.

[-] Ketram 1 points 1 hour ago

I know it's crude but I still can't kick my love for the idea of a "I raped that too!" Sticker

[-] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 100 points 6 hours ago
[-] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 45 points 6 hours ago

Thanks for reminding me about him looking straight at the sun like a 2 year old.

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 hours ago

I need a high resolution version so I can print some stickers.

[-] AtariDump@lemmy.world 12 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)
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[-] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 66 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I know the prez said he'd drop the price of groceries on day one, but he got a little sidetracked by his side project of destroying the country. But give him a few more weeks to get that done and then I'm sure he'll get right back to the groceries.

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[-] Cool_Name@lemm.ee 3 points 3 hours ago
[-] noxypaws@pawb.social 2 points 2 hours ago

I hope Just Egg gains some new customers from all this. Really good stuff!

[-] paysrenttobirds@sh.itjust.works 34 points 6 hours ago

Weird: this is Safeway, Canada

[-] Harvey656@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

That's still high, assuming cad, but much better. It's around 6-8 'freedom' dollars down here is southern America.

[-] tiefling 5 points 5 hours ago

(For readers, with the USD-CAD conversion they're closer to $5)

[-] noride@lemm.ee 7 points 6 hours ago

Hey Internet stranger, can I buy some of your eggs?

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[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 5 points 4 hours ago

They're $7/dozen here, but Aldi has cruelty guaranteed eggs for $2.77, limit 2 dozen. I don't have Aldi near me but was at one within the last week.

[-] kikutwo@lemmy.world 25 points 6 hours ago

Impossible, Orange Julius was fixing the prices. What is the hold up?

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[-] Loce@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

You should put maga stickers next to the price tag, just to remind the folks :)

[-] GluWu@lemm.ee 5 points 3 hours ago

People need to start putting trump "I did this" stickers on everything like the magats were on gas pumps.

[-] Rodneyck@lemm.ee 3 points 4 hours ago

Good! (Said with a condescending vegan tone.)

[-] thisguy1092@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Love how everyone blames trump for this when egg prices were way up before he was in office.

[-] teletext@reddthat.com 8 points 3 hours ago

Did he say he'd bring the prices down? And if he did, did the prices still go up? And if both is true, is he a lying bastard or a stupid fool? Both?

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