No Aldi in the city?
Iāve been to one in Brooklyn. It was filthy and disorganized and I fled.
Bummer. Egg prices are better 
Yes, just checked. Weāre getting a Lidl, so 
My preference is eggs from the greenmarket, but I will not pay more than $7/dozen. There are still two vendors who sell eggs for that amount. If I miss them, I get regular, who knows how the hens are treated eggs, but Iām not thrilled about it.
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I see them for much higher at Aldi, which is strange. Even weirder is sometimes the conventional eggs lately cost more than their free range or cage free!?
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Yes. I imagine the egg vendors I buy from are less affected by market forces. So their egg prices stay pretty constant (although everything shot up during the pandemic - $5/dozen eggs were the norm before that).
A dozen large eggs range in price from $3.99 - $11.99. Their prices make no sense to me. A dozen of the store branded XL cage free eggs are $3.99 while the āregularā ones are $7.39.
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Exactly. I donāt get it. Must be a supplier thing.
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Right. I doubt Lidl sells happy eggs from free-range hens, but I canāt say for sure.
Happy to have access to happy eggs for free where I am, but I suppose not everyone is that fortunate.
PNW USA checking in: Last week I bought 18 commodity eggs for $8.89-ish. Great - down-trending - or so I thought. Today - same box for $10.39. 
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It really makes no sense at all.
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I buy mine here in SE Pa from a smallish stand at a farmers market. Iām anxious to see the price on Friday, as I have agreed to make a LOT of cake in about two weeks.
The data Iām seeing about this outbreak is extremely bad; going to speak to my butcher as well, and am considering doing some very quick and very considerable stocking up.
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I read that avian flu is primarily affecting egg prices rather than poultry because laying hens are 1+ years old, whereas broilers are weeks old.
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It would be helpful if people would indicate their location; Iām sure the shortages vary by area. While some brands of eggs were low yesterday in ShopRite (central NJ), there were still a lot of choices, and prices for what I buy havenāt changed in a while.
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And just yesterday (or Sunday evening?) the local news said that MB was limiting customers to 2 cartons of eggs max per purchase because of the shortage. I havenāt been in either Hannaford or MB for a couple of weeks, or at least I wasnāt looking at egg prices. Will try and remember to do so this weekā¦although I donāt need them, I still might buy a dozen.
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Up here on this side of the border, itās usually the grocery store margins responsible for the swing in prices. If theyāre cheap, theyāre one of the products being sold close to cost.
What I find funny, is that at the same store where butter or eggs might be cheaper than everywhere else, often something fairly ordinary, like canned beans or Tabasco, will be just a bit more expensive than elsewhere.
I have a price checking brain that remembers what everything costs everywhere I shop. Tateās cookies are usually $7.99 CAD at my local indie grocer. They cost $8.99- $9.99 CAD at the 3 chain grocers where I shop, unless theyāre on sale. I drove to an indie market I like on Sunday, 20 miles from where I live. Tateās cookies, regular price $6.99 CAD. Nice nectarines at $2.99/ lb, when mediocre nectarines also coming from South America are costing $4.99- $6.99 CAD/lb. Itās interesting how some grocery stores can run more efficiently and offer more value. (I should have checked the price on their eggs!)
The egg producers set different prices weekly in Canada. Maybe your state has something equivalent. I notice my milk price for a 2 litre container fluctuates at one store by the week, whereas itās been the same price at my other indie store for months.
I went to the Walmart in Scottsdale, AZ ($8.02 - 18 pack)
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