Scrambled eggs from powder
Jun 23, 2015 | 6:20 pm
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Sounds like another made-up response to justify not delivering a service. I doubt the supplier doesn't have a source. The only shortage I've seen is in my refrigerator, I'm not paying the high price as often.
Jun 23, 2015 | 7:26 pm
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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.
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.
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Jun 23, 2015 | 9:24 pm
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The normal range of wholesale US egg prices is about 20. The national average price peaked last week and is down about a dime this week. The number of egg-laying chickens is down 8% but chick incubation is up 11%.
Jun 24, 2015 | 6:29 am
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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.
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.
It is interesting that egg prices in California had already increased prior to the avian flu due to new state legislation that increased the minimum size of the hen cages. Egg prices increased 40+% in some areas due to this new requirement.