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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 Eur
by 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.
- tempsy 4y agoOk sure but eggs are still $3 something at whole foods
- busterarm 4y agoWhole Foods is a very large grocer with contractual obligations to buy a certain quantity of eggs. They also have declining foot traffic and price-sensitive customers. At the moment, eggs are probably a loss-leader for them and they're encouraged to still move on volume. If you look at the data in this app as a whole, the stores with the highest egg prices are small chains with low buying-power.