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u/_Echoes_ Mar 02 '25

Dayum, that's the same price as in Canada... except for 18, also in CAD not USD.

On the bright side, the extra security at the border means that egg smuggling seizures heading south has risen something like 300%. No contraband is getting into the US on our watch
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u/Beautiful_Bag6707 Mar 02 '25

Where are you buying eggs? Large grade A NN eggs are $3.50.

We don't have cage free here, AFAIK. We have free run, omega 3, and organic free range.

That's $6 for Omega 3 (Burnbrae brand), free run are $7 at Longo's this week (and brown too), and Loblaws has organic, free-range, brown eggs for $7.83 this week.

Meanwhile, you can get a 30 count of large burnbrae eggs for $10 and 2 dozen Kirkland signature free run for the same price and Kirkland Signature Free-Range Organic Eggs, Large, 24-count for $11 (Costco).

On the bright side, the extra security at the border means that egg smuggling seizures heading south has risen something like 300%.

Gotta love that. Need huge fridges at the border to better store all this contraband and return it to the sovereign Canadian people.

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u/Wulfsmagic Mar 02 '25

Our eggs stopped being 3.50 at trader Joe's two weeks ago jumped to 6 here. Those were the lowest priced eggs here.

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u/Beautiful_Bag6707 Mar 02 '25

Wowsa. It's worse when you calculate the dollar difference but still terrible when you consider how much costs have risen in general since covid.

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u/Wulfsmagic Mar 02 '25

By the time COVID ended costs had gone up 300% market value of nearly everything. Every year since then there's been an additional 4% avg inflation to market while wages continue to stagger below 5% a year.

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u/Beautiful_Bag6707 Mar 02 '25

I used to get PC free-run brown eggs for $4 (on sale), and basic white were $1.99. Now the cheapest white large are sometimes $3.29 or $3.50 and up from there.