Originally Posted by
rbrenton88
A dozen eggs at wholesale has doubled in price lately. It may take some time to go back down as they need to replace 30 million hens (or some such).
Doubled in price
where?
This is a regional problem in a few states in the mid-section of the USA. I doubt the prices of eggs are the same everywhere in all 50 states of the USA, let alone worldwide. Yet FT is a worldwide forum.
I was at a Trader Joe's in Los Angeles the other day, and at the sampling station the new item they were promoting was their prepackaged hard-boiled eggs. But I know from experience that the packaged Trader Joe's products I see in Los Angeles don't tend to appear in Trader Joe's DC area locations, so I doubt these eggs come from anywhere near the mid-section of the USA. I don't see why they'd promoting such a product if the price had just skyrocketed in SoCal, but then I haven't paid attention to egg prices here in SoCal so I have no idea how they've done here.
Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
I saw a sign yesterday in a RI saying that there will be no more eggs at breakfast because they cannot be obtained from the food supplier that the hotel uses. Most guests were commenting that there's no egg shortage in the USA, just higher prices for eggs.
Where was this RI?
There are entire farms that are shut down in a
few states. If a local supplier had been using exclusively one such farm, I can see how they could have a shortage, even though stores in the area might only have higher prices, not a shortage.
But you'd have to be pretty close to the epicenter of this issue for that to be likely. So if it's an RI in Iowa, I might consider their explanation somewhat reasonable, but if it's an RI in California, forget it.