ECON Egg prices so high, popular store pulls them from shelves completely

Dollar Tree has pulled eggs from store shelves over prices skyrocketing, the company said.


Egg prices have increased by as much as 60% in the last year, prompting the popular discount store to pull eggs over not being able to make a profit, Reuters reported. The majority of merchandise at Dollar Tree sits at $1.25, though the store also has other items for $3 and $5.

"Our primary price point at Dollar Tree is $1.25. The cost of eggs is currently very high," company spokesperson Randy Guiler said, according to the Washington Examiner.

Despite the eggs getting pulled, they will likely return to shelves when "costs are more in line with historical levels."


Dollar Tree operates about 8,000 locations across the U.S. and Canada.
Consumer egg prices saw a slight dip last month, but still reported a 55% increase in the one-year span from the same month the prior year.

A dozen large Grade A eggs cost an average of $4.21 in February, down from January’s $4.82 average, according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

"Wholesale prices continue to rise, which indicates retail egg prices have not peaked. The teetering flock numbers couldn’t come at a worse time for consumers," David Anderson, Texas A&M University AgriLife Extension, Bryan-College Station, told the Poultry Times. "The January USDA egg report showed prices were steady to slightly lower than December, but yearly prices for eggs often peaks each spring due to Easter holiday egg hunts and baking."

Dollar Tree did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.

I posted this article as it demonstrates a problem endemic in this nation that we have not identified properly or solved.....

Eggs are on of the easiest things to produce next to pullets ..... it takes 6 months and you have eggs. Lots of eggs.

The problem is as follows: We are going on 24 months with high and very high egg prices......

WHY????

I know they said they killed a million egg layers..... but we have over 379 million egg layers according to google. So we killed less than 1/3%, that doesn't give us a tripling of prices if not more.

Then why have they not gone down when you can have more in just 6 months.....????

We are seeing the beginnings of a food scarcity / shortage / call it what you will in the USA.

WHY???

Ohh this is very bad!

Price of eggs have gone down as far as I have seen. They are about 4 dollars a dozen here.

How much are they where ya'll are??

Ours are down from $4.98/doz to $2.82/doz. Price went down to $2.32 but came back up this past week to $2.82.

Egg prices here in NW Arizona have dropped to $3.99 for 18. That is down from $8.99 for 18 a few weeks ago.

My local Walmart... Great Value 1 doz large white eggs $2.33

DuPage county, IL I never thought I'd see lower prices, again! Although used to be 88 cents during Easter in year's past.

I will never forget at the start of the pandemic, I could not find ANY eggs for three weeks in my area!

SouthernBreeze said:

Ours are down from $4.98/doz to $2.82/doz. Price went down to $2.32 but came back up this past week to $2.82.

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I’d say thays what it is here in Kroger.
About 2.99/dozen
Central Indiana

psychgirl said:

I’d say thays what it is here in Kroger.
About 2.99/dozen
Central Indiana

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My prices were at our local Walmart.

20Gauge said:

I posted this article as it demonstrates a problem endemic in this nation that we have not identified properly or solved.....

Eggs are on of the easiest things to produce next to pullets ..... it takes 6 months and you have eggs. Lots of eggs.

The problem is as follows: We are going on 24 months with high and very high egg prices......

WHY????

I know they said they killed a million egg layers..... but we have over 379 million egg layers according to google. So we killed less than 1/3%, that doesn't give us a tripling of prices if not more.

Then why have they not gone down when you can have more in just 6 months.....????

We are seeing the beginnings of a food scarcity / shortage / call it what you will in the USA.

WHY???

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The cost of grain has tripled since 2019. Energy prices (second only to grain in the primary cost of egg production) have also skyrocketed. There are plenty of eggs on the market, but they'll never be as cheap as they were.

Summerthyme

Loretta Van Riet said:

My local Walmart... Great Value 1 doz large white eggs $2.33

DuPage county, IL I never thought I'd see lower prices, again! Although used to be 88 cents during Easter in year's past.

I will never forget at the start of the pandemic, I could not find ANY eggs for three weeks in my area!

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I paid 2.28/dozen at my local walmart recently. All the eggs you'd ever want in life there. Same at Kroger.

I've said for years that eggs where too cheap.

They should be about 1/10 the cost of a silver ounce. Though silver should be $100 aounce. So $10 fiat for a dozen eggs is right.

Any that can, IMO, need to have established their own flock of layers.

And, explore all the creative ways to supplement and minimize the need for expensive feeds.

Panic Early, Beat the Rush!
- Shane

20Gauge said:

We are seeing the beginnings of a food scarcity / shortage / call it what you will in the USA.

WHY???

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Ever see pictures of the old USSR grocery stores? Welcome to the USSA. IMO you ain't seen nothin' yet.

Elza said:

Ever see pictures of the old USSR grocery stores? Welcome to the USSA. IMO you ain't seen nothin' yet.

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Also, "Got TP?"

shane said:

Any that can, IMO, need to have established their own flock of layers.

And, explore all the creative ways to supplement and minimize the need for expensive feeds.

Panic Early, Beat the Rush!
- Shane

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But plan on it costing you $2-3 a dozen (more, if you consider your time in producing or gathering alternative feeds)!

Summerthyme

ioujc said:

Price of eggs have gone down as far as I have seen. They are about 4 dollars a dozen here.

How much are they where ya'll are??

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They are currently $3.92 for 18 and $2.63 for a dozen at out local super center which really has no competition since our last grocery store gave up over a year ago.

summerthyme said:

But plan on it costing you $2-3 a dozen (more, if you consider your time in producing or gathering alternative feeds)!

Summerthyme

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What was the average price for a gallon of milk before the 1920s?

About $.25 cents, or one quarter of a ounce, or adjusted for today...$25 a gallon!

If you still had a dairy and got free and clear $20 a gallon you would be a bit richer, no?

TKO said:

Also, "Got TP?"

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Yep, thru 2024.

West said:

What was the average price for a gallon of milk before the 1920s?

About $.25 cents, or one quarter of a ounce, or adjusted for today...$25 a gallon!

If you still had a dairy and got free and clear $20 a gallon you would be a bit richer, no?

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Er, yeah. When we got out, milk was near a record high (which it hasn't touched since, 10 years later!) and we were getting $1.70 a gallon.

Summerthyme

I’ve been getting eggs from the Bishop’s Storehouse (2 doz every 2 weeks), 3 lbs of HB a week, 2 gallons of milk, 2 lbs of butter, and various canned soups and dried potato buds. I figure i’m saving about $100 a week right now in food. Im so grateful that the program exists.

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Also, "Got TP?"

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No. I have bidet attachment. I haven’t used a single 12 pack of TP in about two years.

Surge addiction and Scarcity and Surge the finish product again.

Ask yourself how that can be in a free market?

What’s free about culling existing food sources, then injecting mandated beef, fowl, or eggs into the supply chain for the chicken willing to cross the road?

Scholars will one day teach these basics of social engineering in grade school. Until then, we have to pretend we’re going to debate whether or not this agenda is conspiracy.

I mean, come on man…. Who cares!

$2.89 for a dozen large cage-free out at SW lower MI Meijer.

Dollar Store cannot lie. But they could sell eggs one at a time.

Haven't bought eggs since 2020, but went to the Walmartian's website and came up with 2.63/doz bought for orange-door pickup.

We have 15 layers (and yeah, that bottom layer is kinda compressed ) and two roosters. They eat primarily bugs and forage, completely free-range. I don't let 'em out until about 10am so they poop breakfast inside their nest boxes instead of randomly all over the yard and pasture, and we get 10-13 daily with an oddball day of full production. What we don't eat, we trade.

Lunatic dog keeps them safe, he's outside all day running around like a goof, and by keeping 'em in til mid-morning along with our being outside in the evenings, keeps all the crepuscular predators away until the coops are shut. Yeah, plural. We have two separate coops, that way if something DOES get into one, they only get half the critters. So far, since we got them in the spring of '20, we have lost two birds, neither to a predator. But both those birds were retarded.... I mean seriously, they was born different upstairs.

They cost us a sack of scratch every couple months.... not bad for fairly dependable source of protein.

ioujc said:

Price of eggs have gone down as far as I have seen. They are about 4 dollars a dozen here.

How much are they where ya'll are??

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$4.29 for a dozen all natural, free range, no hormones and no antibiotics eggs. Produced locally, sold at one of our real grocery stores in the nearest biggish town. They have gone up a bit in price, but they have never run out and they have scads of the brands of regular eggs they carry, don't know the prices on those.

Rant alert, kind of related...

I have noticed as the chutes narrow that Walmart has become the CNN of the retail business in our nation. They do what they are told to do. If they are told to act as though we have actually developed a coin shortage overnight, they make their self checkout stations all credit, no cash, and tell us they can't get coins from their bank, while the retail stores around them have no such issues.

During Covid they got stupid quick, and pushed the stupid envelope to an extreme where "caution, prevention and mitigation" were concerned, more so than anybody in our neck of the woods, other that Menard's.

If they are told to empty their shelves and make the situation look more dire nationally than it actually is, that's what they do. I can go across the street to Target and find 95% of the things that Walmart wants me to believe are in short supply.

When people begin to tell the Walmart customer service department that all of the other stores in town have kleenex for instance (our Walmart has been out for a month and a half), they tell us that they can't get enough people to stock their shelves because of the Covid aftermath, though they have people stocking their shelves in front of our eyes all day every day with what they do still have. There are a large number of items that they no longer carry at all, in order to make it look that those items are not even being made anymore, because they were told to do so. Those items are available elsewhere, all over town.

Last but not least, Walmart is the only place in town whose egg shelves are empty on a regular basis.

Why Walmart? Because they are powerfully influential, huge, and they are allowed to be huge and/or stay open, for instance, during a pandemic, while the government is closing down their competition, so long as they go along to get along. No different than all of the no talent supposed celebrities making a fortune on TV while carrying water for the government, hence my mention of CNN above. People who shop only at Walmart are every bit as brainwashed as people who watch only CNN.

To a large degree, Walmart is being used psychologically to push an agenda, using contrived circumstances and conditions, because they were told to do so.

RememberGoliad said:

We have 15 layers (and yeah, that bottom layer is kinda compressed ) and two roosters. They eat primarily bugs and forage, completely free-range. I don't let 'em out until about 10am so they poop breakfast inside their nest boxes instead of randomly all over the yard and pasture, and we get 10-13 daily with an oddball day of full production. What we don't eat, we trade.

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How I’d love to have real fresh eggs. Will never happen though.

Dennis Olson said:

I’ve been getting eggs from the Bishop’s Storehouse (2 doz every 2 weeks), 3 lbs of HB a week, 2 gallons of milk, 2 lbs of butter, and various canned soups and dried potato buds. I figure i’m saving about $100 a week right now in food. Im so grateful that the program exists.


No. I have bidet attachment. I haven’t used a single 12 pack of TP in about two years.

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Read that as Biden attachment. A Covid mutated hemorrhoid condition.

Loretta Van Riet said:

My local Walmart... Great Value 1 doz large white eggs $2.33

DuPage county, IL I never thought I'd see lower prices, again! Although used to be 88 cents during Easter in year's past.

I will never forget at the start of the pandemic, I could not find ANY eggs for three weeks in my area!

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you don't have a Kroger in your area of Chicagoland - before the crap hit hard - Kroger had 18 count for 99c >>> the local organic farm sold are at $3/dozen - expect to see $2.50 soon & then $2 - retail follows soon after for egg farm white ....

summerthyme said:

The cost of grain has tripled since 2019. Energy prices (second only to grain in the primary cost of egg production) have also skyrocketed. There are plenty of eggs on the market, but they'll never be as cheap as they were.

Summerthyme

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100% this. I have a teeeeny flock, and I free range as much as possible so they don’t consume a lot of feed, but even in just a year or two I’ve noticed the cost difference. I’m about to start experimenting with fermenting feed, lots of people are having good success with it.

The cheapest eggs here that I've found (supermarket prices) are $4.98/dozen. If you want pasture-raised eggs (what I prefer), then it's about $10/dozen.

DH doesn't want to raise chickens. (We could, potentially, but we'd forever be fighting off rats, raccoons, bobcats, whatever.)

We have a niece, though (East Coast, not West Coast), who is starting a homestead (mostly she is interested in horses, although her (6th grade) daughter has convinced her to do a little food production too). I'm helping out with kitchen gardening advice and resources, as sadly they are clueless, but at least they are willing to put in the effort and give it a good try. They just received 6 chickens, of varying breeds. It will be interesting to see how that works out (given the plethora of semi-feral cats they inherited, as well as their other critters).

I'm still getting my eggs from the Food Link truck on Fridays -- $2.50/dozen for mediums.

Wegmans isn't too bad, but of course the *organics* are still sky high.

Eggs should cost $10 fiat a dozen.

shane said:

Any that can, IMO, need to have established their own flock of layers.

And, explore all the creative ways to supplement and minimize the need for expensive feeds.

Panic Early, Beat the Rush!
- Shane

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I have thought about getting into eggs. Thought about using the kids old swingset / play set into a coup.

That's what they are costing right now, here, for pasture raised eggs!

West said:

Eggs should cost $10 fiat a dozen.

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Let me guess, your planning on going into the egg business. lol

West said:

Eggs should cost $10 fiat a dozen.

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Shhhh!!
Don’t give them any ideas!!!

i have an incubator going and 20 chicks so far.egg heaven baby here i come!

Sometimes I feel bad. With my back being out, we've had to throw out so many eggs this fall and winter. Now that I have had surgery for the pain, I am starting to be able to cook and process food again. I never gave up altogether, but my vegetarian housemate has had a lot of baked eggplant and baked potato suppers in the last few months. She does almost everything else. My job is supposed to be the meals. I froze many of them last fall; thank goodness my freezer keeps things for a time. My chickens had never stopped laying, even when we turned off the lights. Legally they have to be inside an outbuilding which they are, I never get enough eggs when they run around; the cats tend to get the eggs, or the rats do. Now the cats hang outside the run (inside the old building) and eat the rats.

Today I made banana bread with just eggs and no other liquid; tomorrow, I'm hoping to make cookie dough and, later in the week, freeze a few more eggs. My housemate just unburied my Kitchen Aid. It was buried in eggs (lol). I know not everyone can chicken; sometimes they are not that productive (ours aren't always). I also know there have been problems with feed and unexplained chicken deaths (as well as the Bird Flu that keeps us inside). But anyone who can, even if it is two hens in a fancy Yuppie chicken arc, should consider it as they pay for themselves and can be partly fed on table scraps.

What is funny is almost all our birds, except the little Roo, are rescue battery hens. Hens that had been laying a whole year were considered too "unproductive" to continue and destined for rescue or cat food. Even with an egg every other day, six produce more than two people can eat, and some still lay once a day more of the week.

And before anyone asks, we had no one to give the eggs to. We are isolated out here, and most of our friends also keep chickens or have family and neighbors who do. If I had been well enough to go to Middle Ages events, I could have given them away there, but my first one in some time will probably be at towards the end of the month.

It's really quite a difference, now vs then. In FL at Winn-Dixie a few years ago, large eggs were around $1.29/dozen, IIRC.

So like 4 times higher bare minimum now -- at least. Crazy.