5 Dozen egg prices jump FOUR DOLLARS today.... (Monroe: minimum wage, groceries)

[Hemlock140]

On Saturday we drove to Monroe and stopped at the Walmart there for a few things. The big boxes of 5 dozen eggs were $14.99, and the had a whole stack of them.

[oregonwoodsmoke]

Originally Posted by Hemlock140

On Saturday we drove to Monroe and stopped at the Walmart there for a few things. The big boxes of 5 dozen eggs were $14.99, and the had a whole stack of them.

Before Covid, I was paying $4.50 for that flat of 5 dozen eggs. So price has gone up a lot and the requirement for eggs to be cage free raises the price even more because it costs a lot more to raise them, more space (bigger real estate) and a lot more labor. I was buying the 5 flat to feed to my dogs, but they aren't getting eggs any more.

[CalWorth]

Prior to the pandemic, there was a general store-type place that sold eggs for 69 cents a dozen, all the time. There were smaller eggs & obviously a loss leader, but still…that’s over now.

[oregonwoodsmoke]

Apples to apples, I am about 30 miles from Washington with no cage-free requirement in my state. Today at the market, the cheapest brand of cage free eggs, on sale price, cost $1.40 more per dozen than regular eggs. The cage-free eggs that were not on sale cost almost $3 more per dozen.

OP's original point was that the cage-free law caused an increase in the price of eggs for everyone in the state of Washington. It looks to me like perhaps the increase in the cost of a dozen eggs due to no other factor but the new cage-free law must be somewhere in the neighborhood of $1.40- $3.00 more per dozen eggs.

[CalWorth]

My point was that everything has cost more, post-pandemic, at least where I live. You either work around it, or you complain.

[jabogitlu]

That's the advice I've gotten from folks who lived through periods of inflation. Adjust your life because nothing else will adjust. So far so good I think.

[MechAndy]

We can adjust our lifestyle because we have to.
We can also adjust the people and policies that we vote in.

[Transmition]

Make sure you don't vote in people who will allow anti-competitive practices so that we still pay more, but all the profit goes to the shareholders instead.

https://www.just-food.com/news/us-eg...round%20%2453m.

[StealthRabbit]

Originally Posted by jabogitlu

That's the advice I've gotten from folks who lived through periods of inflation. Adjust your life because nothing else will adjust. So far so good I think.

Do you happen to have a j-o-b, or at least a paycheck? That makes 'adjusting-your- life's a little more possible than those beyond employment.

No paychecks or pension here for the last 19 years. WA State / county mandatory spend has increased 4x. Food... Still capped at $100/ month. I'm not buying many eggs. 1 dozen / month is my spending cap.

[StealthRabbit]

Originally Posted by jabogitlu

That's the advice I've gotten from folks who lived through periods of inflation. Adjust your life because nothing else will adjust. So far so good I think.

Do you happen to have a j-o-b, or at least a paycheck? That makes 'adjusting-your- life's a little more possible than those beyond employment.

No paychecks or pension here for the last 19 years. WA State / county mandatory spend has increased 4x. Food... Still capped at $100/ month. I'm not buying many eggs. 1 dozen / month is my spending cap. More eggs possible since I travel out of state frequently.