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I think there's something a bit misleading about these prices. This is reporting prices of $2.76 per dozen at a Wallmart near me. I happened to visit that sto

I think there's something a bit misleading about these prices. This is reporting prices of $2.76 per dozen at a Wallmart near me. I happened to visit that store yesterday and I know damn well there were no eggs being sold at even remotely close to that low price. The Eggspensive site seems to be picking up on this dozen eggs, which happens to be not available at this or any other store in the region. They also are not available to purchase online. The site says they can be shipped in 3 days but it doesn't give me an add-to-cart button. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Large-White-Eggs-12-Count/103020312 https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Large-White-Eggs-12-C... I don't know how it's scraping prices, but it should discriminate as to whether eggs at a price are even available. EDIT: Actually, those exact eggs seem responsible for making most of Southern California appear to have insanely cheap eggs. Outside of getting lucky, this is almost certainly not the case. Go to any grocery store in SoCal and you'll primarily see eggs between $5 and $8, if not exclusively. Nicely made site, though! Keep up the good work.

samstave 4y ago
What we really need is a digital copy of all our purchasing receipts via the following: An app which scans a QR code printed on receipts which leads to a direct json/table of the items purchased, location purchased, date, price paid. NO PERSONAL DATA - just the item, store name & location, price, date, tax %. People can CHOOSE to scan their receipt and have that data slurped into the app and uploaded to a national DB for price index. sans QR system integrated to the sales we just need an OCR capable AI APP that you take a pic of the receipt and it parses it and tracks the prices. An additional feature is just snapping pics of price tags into the app and it parses them, their barcodes, prices, location, etc... Same as the Gas Price app-ish, but for any receipt as the header of every receipt has all the business information and a line item of price for purchases. It would be great if we could require all sales to provide a QR code of every receipt which provides a json/table of the above (anon) data... because I keep a running tally in my head for things that I buy and their prices. At the beginning of the pandemic, juice from MINUTE MAID in half gallon was $1.34 -- currently it is $1.68 11.25% inflation increase for this sugar water alone.
- codemac 4y ago
  I think most people would be fine if we had a national DB for prices. Most people would not be fine if we had 3+ competing private db's with price info used to profit off of others lack of price knowledge.
  - samstave 4y ago
    agree... I originally wrote this in my comment but pulled it out as I figured the thought of a national DB some people might scoff at -- but I have wanted this for decades >>"POS's would need to be able to report each receipt with a QR code to a central (ideally government) FDA site and that information should be API accessible for the public."
  - spydum 4y ago
    this exists basically at very large scales with companies like nielseniq and to some degree Catalina marketing. If there was a way to make money off it, they could easily produce a lot of useful aggregate item pricing dbs by region over time.
- Semaphor 4y ago
  It requires handing over quite some data, but here in Germany, I can get a digital PDF receipt from my main supermarket. There’s a parser on Github [0] that I contributed to (found it when I searched before writing it myself :D), and I use it to track price changes of items I buy. The situation could be a lot better, but at least it gives me some fun graphs. [0]: https://github.com/bietiekay/REWE-eBon-Parser https://github.com/bietiekay/REWE-eBon-Parser
  - rootusrootus 4y ago
    That's pretty common in the US well. Kroger stores do it, I imagine any store with a membership program is similar. Home Depot does it too, without a membership program, if you give them your email address at POS the first time you use a new card. I'm sure they love the data.
rhacker 4y ago
I bet the government's inflation tracker is also connected to walmart links. No wonder the gov things we're at negative inflation.
- mtoner23 4y ago
  lol, they have armies of statisticians working on this stuff. its probably better than this person's side project website scraper.
  - NDizzle 4y ago
    I wish I could go back in time about 40 years, where I had the same faith in government that you have currently. (I'm age 43 at the moment)
    - mtoner23 4y ago
      No you dont, you obviously like not trusting the government. it makes you feel smarter and better than a big organization. But your internet research isnt as good as 1000 econ grads working at the BLS and it will never be.
    - Firmwarrior 4y ago
      The government is definitely full of shit, but historical inflation matches their published numbers pretty well over time. I compared the Big Mac index over the last couple decades, and it fit pretty well I think most of the extra inflation is going into stocks and housing, and the government's cherry picking hides those factors. The end result is that people can't retire and can't comfortably afford houses, which is why everything sucks now
    - flyingcircus3 4y ago
      [flagged]
      - mrguyorama 4y ago
        You're forgetting all the steps about purposely cutting, gutting, kneecapping, etc important government functions when voted in and then pointing around while saying "look how bad government is at doing things!"
tempsy 4y ago
this is not true whole foods in LA shows $3.29 for a dozen eggs https://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/product/365-by-whole-foods-market-grade-a-eggs-cagefree-plus-large-white-12-count-24-oz-b074h67h6b https://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/product/365-by-whole-foods-...
- pishpash 4y ago
  Did you see them with your eyeballs at the store? You miss the point of the parent completely.
  - rcme 4y ago
    Just adding a data point, I checked Whole Food's online ordering system and I can order these eggs for delivery later today for $3.79: https://www.amazon.com/365-Everyday-Value-Brown-Non-Gmo/dp/B07PFDYT9T https://www.amazon.com/365-Everyday-Value-Brown-Non-Gmo/dp/B...
    - pishpash 4y ago
      Depends on where you are. Shows "Currently unavailable." for me. Also, +$9.95 for delivery. Who knows if Amazon is willing to deliver to you because of that and empty the store shelves instead? So again, unless you see them with your eyeballs or get them at $3.79 all in in your hands, I am not sure what this means.
      - tempsy 4y ago
        I go to Whole Foods all the time, and yes their own brand of eggs really is that price. The egg inflation scare is being largely exaggerated. IMO what is different now vs a few years ago is there's a lot more high end organic pasture raised options. These are $6-$10, but that's not the price of standard conventional eggs.
        busterarm 4y ago
        Talk to people who raise chickens. Costs for everything from baby chicks to egg-laying hens have tripled pretty much country-wide. H5N1 has hit the US and Europe extremely hard this year and there seems to be no end in sight to this current outbreak.
matthewdgreen 4y ago
Since this comment is at the top of the thread, I’m going to attach a quick reminder that egg prices are high due to a major outbreak of bird flu. I know that won’t keep this thread from degenerating into political rants about inflation, but maybe it will help someone move on with their day.
- gh02t 4y ago
  I believe the context of this post is likely the other one earlier today, which asserts that bird flu is being used as a pretense to gouge prices when the impact is actually minimal. I'm not taking a position one way or the other, but that's probably why this was posted. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34898074 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34898074
  - bombcar 4y ago
    My midget of data is that the local cage-free eggs have remained the same price for 3+ years now, but the "regular supermarket eggs" are now more expensive than the local ones.
    - HeyLaughingBoy 4y ago
      That's about right. Ever since I stopped raising chickens, I've been buying cage-free eggs. The price doesn't seem to have changed much over the last year and that is probably why they were selling out faster. I just bought groceries yesterday, and checking the Walmart I went to, this site was accurate at least for that location.
      - contingencies 4y ago
        Here in Australia they use the term "free-range" and additionally publish the number of animals per land area (density). There's some pretty vicious things being sold as "free-range". I think "cage-free" is a scam also. You want the hard numbers.
mzs 4y ago
Might be grade A twelve count, that's available at the said price here.I checked when I went to get cheese just now. Yours is grade AA. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Large-White-Eggs-12-Count/145051970 https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Large-White-Eggs-12-C...

samstave 4y ago

What we really need is a digital copy of all our purchasing receipts via the following: An app which scans a QR code printed on receipts which leads to a direct json/table of the items purchased, location purchased, date, price paid. NO PERSONAL DATA - just the item, store name & location, price, date, tax %. People can CHOOSE to scan their receipt and have that data slurped into the app and uploaded to a national DB for price index. sans QR system integrated to the sales we just need an OCR capable AI APP that you take a pic of the receipt and it parses it and tracks the prices. An additional feature is just snapping pics of price tags into the app and it parses them, their barcodes, prices, location, etc... Same as the Gas Price app-ish, but for any receipt as the header of every receipt has all the business information and a line item of price for purchases. It would be great if we could require all sales to provide a QR code of every receipt which provides a json/table of the above (anon) data... because I keep a running tally in my head for things that I buy and their prices. At the beginning of the pandemic, juice from MINUTE MAID in half gallon was $1.34 -- currently it is $1.68 11.25% inflation increase for this sugar water alone.

codemac 4y ago
I think most people would be fine if we had a national DB for prices. Most people would not be fine if we had 3+ competing private db's with price info used to profit off of others lack of price knowledge.
- samstave 4y ago
  agree... I originally wrote this in my comment but pulled it out as I figured the thought of a national DB some people might scoff at -- but I have wanted this for decades >>"POS's would need to be able to report each receipt with a QR code to a central (ideally government) FDA site and that information should be API accessible for the public."
- spydum 4y ago
  this exists basically at very large scales with companies like nielseniq and to some degree Catalina marketing. If there was a way to make money off it, they could easily produce a lot of useful aggregate item pricing dbs by region over time.
Semaphor 4y ago
It requires handing over quite some data, but here in Germany, I can get a digital PDF receipt from my main supermarket. There’s a parser on Github [0] that I contributed to (found it when I searched before writing it myself :D), and I use it to track price changes of items I buy. The situation could be a lot better, but at least it gives me some fun graphs. [0]: https://github.com/bietiekay/REWE-eBon-Parser https://github.com/bietiekay/REWE-eBon-Parser
- rootusrootus 4y ago
  That's pretty common in the US well. Kroger stores do it, I imagine any store with a membership program is similar. Home Depot does it too, without a membership program, if you give them your email address at POS the first time you use a new card. I'm sure they love the data.

rhacker 4y ago

I bet the government's inflation tracker is also connected to walmart links. No wonder the gov things we're at negative inflation.

mtoner23 4y ago
lol, they have armies of statisticians working on this stuff. its probably better than this person's side project website scraper.
- NDizzle 4y ago
  I wish I could go back in time about 40 years, where I had the same faith in government that you have currently. (I'm age 43 at the moment)
  - mtoner23 4y ago
    No you dont, you obviously like not trusting the government. it makes you feel smarter and better than a big organization. But your internet research isnt as good as 1000 econ grads working at the BLS and it will never be.
  - Firmwarrior 4y ago
    The government is definitely full of shit, but historical inflation matches their published numbers pretty well over time. I compared the Big Mac index over the last couple decades, and it fit pretty well I think most of the extra inflation is going into stocks and housing, and the government's cherry picking hides those factors. The end result is that people can't retire and can't comfortably afford houses, which is why everything sucks now
  - flyingcircus3 4y ago
    [flagged]
    - mrguyorama 4y ago
      You're forgetting all the steps about purposely cutting, gutting, kneecapping, etc important government functions when voted in and then pointing around while saying "look how bad government is at doing things!"

tempsy 4y ago

this is not true whole foods in LA shows $3.29 for a dozen eggs https://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/product/365-by-whole-foods-market-grade-a-eggs-cagefree-plus-large-white-12-count-24-oz-b074h67h6b https://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/product/365-by-whole-foods-...

pishpash 4y ago
Did you see them with your eyeballs at the store? You miss the point of the parent completely.
- rcme 4y ago
  Just adding a data point, I checked Whole Food's online ordering system and I can order these eggs for delivery later today for $3.79: https://www.amazon.com/365-Everyday-Value-Brown-Non-Gmo/dp/B07PFDYT9T https://www.amazon.com/365-Everyday-Value-Brown-Non-Gmo/dp/B...
  - pishpash 4y ago
    Depends on where you are. Shows "Currently unavailable." for me. Also, +$9.95 for delivery. Who knows if Amazon is willing to deliver to you because of that and empty the store shelves instead? So again, unless you see them with your eyeballs or get them at $3.79 all in in your hands, I am not sure what this means.
    - tempsy 4y ago
      I go to Whole Foods all the time, and yes their own brand of eggs really is that price. The egg inflation scare is being largely exaggerated. IMO what is different now vs a few years ago is there's a lot more high end organic pasture raised options. These are $6-$10, but that's not the price of standard conventional eggs.
      - busterarm 4y ago
        Talk to people who raise chickens. Costs for everything from baby chicks to egg-laying hens have tripled pretty much country-wide. H5N1 has hit the US and Europe extremely hard this year and there seems to be no end in sight to this current outbreak.

matthewdgreen 4y ago

Since this comment is at the top of the thread, I’m going to attach a quick reminder that egg prices are high due to a major outbreak of bird flu. I know that won’t keep this thread from degenerating into political rants about inflation, but maybe it will help someone move on with their day.

gh02t 4y ago
I believe the context of this post is likely the other one earlier today, which asserts that bird flu is being used as a pretense to gouge prices when the impact is actually minimal. I'm not taking a position one way or the other, but that's probably why this was posted. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34898074 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34898074
- bombcar 4y ago
  My midget of data is that the local cage-free eggs have remained the same price for 3+ years now, but the "regular supermarket eggs" are now more expensive than the local ones.
  - HeyLaughingBoy 4y ago
    That's about right. Ever since I stopped raising chickens, I've been buying cage-free eggs. The price doesn't seem to have changed much over the last year and that is probably why they were selling out faster. I just bought groceries yesterday, and checking the Walmart I went to, this site was accurate at least for that location.
    - contingencies 4y ago
      Here in Australia they use the term "free-range" and additionally publish the number of animals per land area (density). There's some pretty vicious things being sold as "free-range". I think "cage-free" is a scam also. You want the hard numbers.

mzs 4y ago

Might be grade A twelve count, that's available at the said price here.I checked when I went to get cheese just now. Yours is grade AA. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Large-White-Eggs-12-Count/145051970 https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Large-White-Eggs-12-C...