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I wonder if those regions have some kind of regulations that limit supply

swatcoder 4y ago
It’s a really neat visualization, but you can’t take the data to mean much. It’s only showing the price of store brand eggs at Wal-mart, and each store/region would have a pricing strategy that accounts for a ton of factors beyond supply cost (with or without regulation). To know if eggs in general are more or less expensive in any region, or if people spend more/less on them, etc you’d need much more sophisticated data than one might compile for a hobby project like this.
BurningFrog 4y ago
California has a new law about humane conditions for chickens that has closed many egg producers.
- asveikau 4y ago
  Are you sure? I'm reminded of the headlines a few years ago about how bacon would be harder to come by and more expensive in California due to new regulations. That didn't happen. When I looked into it, it seemed like meat producers were the sole source of the news articles, which reported it as indisputable fact.
  - PaulHoule 4y ago
    What's interesting is that the red zone is literally a line following the south of the San Pablo and Suisun Bays. There are not high prices in the part of the bay area around San Jose or in in Southern California. If it was really about statewide regulations you'd expect the whole state to be a red zone and it isn't. Instead I'd be looking for some bottleneck which affects that area, which I must admit I don't have a good mental picture of.
    - asveikau 4y ago
      > There are not high prices in the part of the bay area around San Jose or in in Southern California I haven't been paying close attention but I haven't seen big price fluctuations in San Francisco. Several weeks ago there were "limit 1 per customer" signs on egg cartons but that's about it. I volunteer at a food pantry in SF and we were giving out free eggs in that peak shortage time, which I think has passed; we often had extras when finished, though they are normally a popular item.
- HDThoreaun 4y ago
  If you're talking about the ban on battery cages my understanding is that the major producers had already implemented that before the law was passed.
  - BurningFrog 4y ago
    From what I hear (WSJ editorial), some of the smaller producers closed down instead. Either way, it's more expensive to produce this way.

It’s a really neat visualization, but you can’t take the data to mean much. It’s only showing the price of store brand eggs at Wal-mart, and each store/region would have a pricing strategy that accounts for a ton of factors beyond supply cost (with or without regulation). To know if eggs in general are more or less expensive in any region, or if people spend more/less on them, etc you’d need much more sophisticated data than one might compile for a hobby project like this.

BurningFrog 4y ago

California has a new law about humane conditions for chickens that has closed many egg producers.

asveikau 4y ago
Are you sure? I'm reminded of the headlines a few years ago about how bacon would be harder to come by and more expensive in California due to new regulations. That didn't happen. When I looked into it, it seemed like meat producers were the sole source of the news articles, which reported it as indisputable fact.
- PaulHoule 4y ago
  What's interesting is that the red zone is literally a line following the south of the San Pablo and Suisun Bays. There are not high prices in the part of the bay area around San Jose or in in Southern California. If it was really about statewide regulations you'd expect the whole state to be a red zone and it isn't. Instead I'd be looking for some bottleneck which affects that area, which I must admit I don't have a good mental picture of.
  - asveikau 4y ago
    > There are not high prices in the part of the bay area around San Jose or in in Southern California I haven't been paying close attention but I haven't seen big price fluctuations in San Francisco. Several weeks ago there were "limit 1 per customer" signs on egg cartons but that's about it. I volunteer at a food pantry in SF and we were giving out free eggs in that peak shortage time, which I think has passed; we often had extras when finished, though they are normally a popular item.
HDThoreaun 4y ago
If you're talking about the ban on battery cages my understanding is that the major producers had already implemented that before the law was passed.
- BurningFrog 4y ago
  From what I hear (WSJ editorial), some of the smaller producers closed down instead. Either way, it's more expensive to produce this way.