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memsom ◴[] No.43113082[source]
Wow! I wondered about this article - US centric. I wondered because eggs are not expensive here. I just looked [1] [2]. I can get a dozen free range for about US$4 at the current conversion rate. They are a supermarket own brand, but even the "fancy" ones are something like that for 6, but some are actually still close to $4 for 12.

The US chicken market (not necessarily eggs specifically) was in the Morgan Spurlock documentary follow up to "Supersize me", and it looked like the chicken "mafia" controlled the business.[3]

[1] https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/search?query=eggs&inpu... [2] https://groceries.asda.com/search/eggs [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Size_Me_2:_Holy_Chicken!

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1. joshstrange ◴[] No.43118966[source]
Some data points from Lexington, KY, USA:

18 eggs today (February 20th, 2024): $8.19 [0]

18 eggs ~1 year ago (March 2nd, 2024): $3.34 [1]

18 eggs a tiny bit over a year ago (February 2nd, 2024): $2.74 [2]

18 eggs, oldest order I can find (April 9th, 2023): $2.33 [3]

A 2.5x increase in a years time. Just insane

[0] https://cs.joshstrange.com/05JYvxsf

[1] https://cs.joshstrange.com/lVlCFcRs

[2] https://cs.joshstrange.com/w5zQcZ2l

[3] https://cs.joshstrange.com/kZ8VjPxP