Originally Posted by sdsearch

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.

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.