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  • Post #631 - August 28th, 2024, 10:34 am
    Post #631 - August 28th, 2024, 10:34 am Post #631 - August 28th, 2024, 10:34 am
    "Bloomberg reported Tuesday that "in Illinois, where Kroger operates the Mariano's chain, company executives create a weekly report on egg prices, comparing prices from Walmart, Meijer Inc., and Albertsons' Jewel-Osco, said Matthew Marx, president of the Kroger division overseeing Mariano's."The FTC walked Marx through several of the weekly egg reports from 2022 and 2023," the outlet added. "In May 2022, for example, both Walmart and Meijer dropped egg prices by 14 cents a dozen, but Mariano's opted to keep its pricing the same to match the higher price at Jewel-Osco, Marx said. A year later, in April 2023, as egg prices again soared, Mariano's opted to keep its pricing near Jewel-Osco's even as Walmart was lowering its own."

    https://www.rawstory.com/during-antitrust-trial-exec-admits-kroger-jacked-up-milk-and-egg-prices-above-inflation/
  • Post #632 - August 28th, 2024, 9:46 pm
    Post #632 - August 28th, 2024, 9:46 pm Post #632 - August 28th, 2024, 9:46 pm
    I was just at the Target in downtown Evanston, and regular eggs are now $3.49 a dozen.
  • Post #633 - August 29th, 2024, 9:44 am
    Post #633 - August 29th, 2024, 9:44 am Post #633 - August 29th, 2024, 9:44 am
    Can someone explain to me why it's only the lower priced eggs that seem to fluctuate in price so much? My wife likes the Vital Farms pasture raised eggs and their price has only gone up around $0.50 the past few years from $6 to $6.50 a dozen while the lower cost eggs have gone from $1 to $3+ a dozen.
  • Post #634 - August 29th, 2024, 9:47 am
    Post #634 - August 29th, 2024, 9:47 am Post #634 - August 29th, 2024, 9:47 am
    Jim-Bob wrote:Can someone explain to me why it's only the lower priced eggs that seem to fluctuate in price so much? My wife likes the Vital Farms pasture raised eggs and their price has only gone up around $0.50 the past few years from $6 to $6.50 a dozen while the lower cost eggs have gone from $1 to $3+ a dozen.


    Maybe because they can? If their organic/pasture raised competition is in the $6.50 range they can easily go to $4 and still have a price advantage for the cost-conscious.
  • Post #635 - September 2nd, 2024, 10:32 am
    Post #635 - September 2nd, 2024, 10:32 am Post #635 - September 2nd, 2024, 10:32 am
    spinynorman99 wrote:
    Jim-Bob wrote:Can someone explain to me why it's only the lower priced eggs that seem to fluctuate in price so much? My wife likes the Vital Farms pasture raised eggs and their price has only gone up around $0.50 the past few years from $6 to $6.50 a dozen while the lower cost eggs have gone from $1 to $3+ a dozen.


    Maybe because they can? If their organic/pasture raised competition is in the $6.50 range they can easily go to $4 and still have a price advantage for the cost-conscious.


    More likely it's because lower priced eggs are raised in situations that involve huge numbers of chickens and are therefore more likely to be wiped out if bird flu or other problems occur. According to NBC News: "More than 14 million egg-laying chickens died in November and December due to avian flu, according to USDA data. There are more than 368 million egg-laying chickens in the U.S., the USDA said. That loss has caused wholesale prices to increase, though “not nearly to the same degree” as at the end of 2022 into 2023, Rispoli said."
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  • Post #636 - September 2nd, 2024, 4:07 pm
    Post #636 - September 2nd, 2024, 4:07 pm Post #636 - September 2nd, 2024, 4:07 pm
    bweiny wrote:Jumbo eggs are currently $4.29/dz at Fresh Farms Touhy (Dutch Farms blue carton).
    Now $4.79/dz after 70 cent sale/markdown. This location's inferiority to Golf Rd is getting annoying. Zero boneless shortrib in stock when it was the lone protein I came for. The deli also doesn't carry low sodium Krakus ham, which is my family's order.
  • Post #637 - September 25th, 2024, 11:16 am
    Post #637 - September 25th, 2024, 11:16 am Post #637 - September 25th, 2024, 11:16 am
    Addendum: Sorry, Ron. Not trying to steal your thunder; but this article belongs in this thread.
    > ========
    I am finding lots of significant information about the prices of items at grocery stores from Cory Doctorow's [a science-fiction writer] weblog.

    Here's a piece of how somebody in Austria detected the pricing shenanigans of grocery stores there. Most significantly, he got an official Austrian agency to take action against it.

    Could the Federal Trade Commission perform a similar task in the U.S.A.? We may hope so, but it definitely matters what happens in the national election in November, and who winds up in charge.
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  • Post #638 - December 9th, 2024, 4:09 am
    Post #638 - December 9th, 2024, 4:09 am Post #638 - December 9th, 2024, 4:09 am
    Who has the cheapest eggs right now? It seems like a dozen regular eggs at Jewel are $4.49 a dozen. I went into Target last week, and they were about the same price.
  • Post #639 - December 9th, 2024, 4:50 am
    Post #639 - December 9th, 2024, 4:50 am Post #639 - December 9th, 2024, 4:50 am
    NFriday wrote:Who has the cheapest eggs right now? It seems like a dozen regular eggs at Jewel are $4.49 a dozen. I went into Target last week, and they were about the same price.

    $2.99/dozen Kroger large eggs at Food 4 Less.
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  • Post #640 - December 10th, 2024, 3:03 pm
    Post #640 - December 10th, 2024, 3:03 pm Post #640 - December 10th, 2024, 3:03 pm
    Coffee drinkers may soon see their morning treat get more expensive, as the price of coffee on international commodity markets has hit its highest level on record.

    On Tuesday, the price for Arabica beans, which account for most global production, topped $3.44 a pound (0.45kg), having jumped more than 80% this year. The cost of Robusta beans, meanwhile, hit a fresh high in September.

    It comes as coffee traders expect crops to shrink after the world's two largest producers, Brazil and Vietnam, were hit by bad weather and the drink's popularity continues to grow.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c36pgrrjllyo
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  • Post #641 - January 8th, 2025, 5:54 pm
    Post #641 - January 8th, 2025, 5:54 pm Post #641 - January 8th, 2025, 5:54 pm
    Went to Jewel earlier this week and found that they only had Jewel brand eggs. Large eggs were 6.99 a dozen.

    Looked for eggs at Whole Foods on Halsted today and there wasn't a single egg in the store but there was a sign limiting purchase to 3"units".

    Looks like bird flu will be with us for a while.
  • Post #642 - January 8th, 2025, 7:21 pm
    Post #642 - January 8th, 2025, 7:21 pm Post #642 - January 8th, 2025, 7:21 pm
    Today's discussion on Vanilla has been moved to Substituting Vanilla Extract for Vanilla Bean
    Cathy2

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  • Post #643 - January 8th, 2025, 7:25 pm
    Post #643 - January 8th, 2025, 7:25 pm Post #643 - January 8th, 2025, 7:25 pm
    Cathy2 wrote:Today's discussion on Vanilla has been moved to Substituting Vanilla Extract for Vanilla Bean

    Thanks, Cathy. I was going to get to that later this evening. It's much appreciated. :)

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  • Post #644 - January 8th, 2025, 10:15 pm
    Post #644 - January 8th, 2025, 10:15 pm Post #644 - January 8th, 2025, 10:15 pm
    ronnie_suburban wrote:
    Cathy2 wrote:Today's discussion on Vanilla has been moved to Substituting Vanilla Extract for Vanilla Bean

    Thanks, Cathy. I was going to get to that later this evening. It's much appreciated. :)

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    You're welcome.
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  • Post #645 - January 8th, 2025, 10:56 pm
    Post #645 - January 8th, 2025, 10:56 pm Post #645 - January 8th, 2025, 10:56 pm
    I was at Jewel last night, and their cheapest eggs were $5.99 a dozen. I ended up going to the Evanston indoor farmer's market at Immanuel Lutheran church next to the Holiday Inn, and I bought a dozen brown eggs for $8 a dozen. There are two farmers there selling eggs. The woman I bought the eggs from, said that she only has 100 chickens, and so salmonella is non existent at her farm. I heard that there was a problem with salmonella with a large batch of eggs at Costco a few weeks ago. Normally I won't pay $8 a dozen for eggs, but they are really good. The farmer's market will take place again on 1/18 from 8:00am-12:30pm.
  • Post #646 - January 8th, 2025, 11:08 pm
    Post #646 - January 8th, 2025, 11:08 pm Post #646 - January 8th, 2025, 11:08 pm
    On a Jewel Facebook group that I belong to that has 15,200 members, people post about deals at Jewel. Last week, somebody posted about a deal at Mariano's and Food4Less, where you go to the Kroger app, and you can get a dozen eggs for $1.99 a dozen with a limit of five dozen eggs. Apparently you go to the Kroger app, and download the $1.99 eggs, and then you can go to your account at Mariano's or Food4Less and apply them there, and get them for $1.99. There is somebody on Jewel Deals with Barb, who posted about her purchase of 10 dozen eggs at Mariano's. She bought five dozen eggs, and then her son who also had an account at Mariano's also purchased five dozen eggs. This was after getting a huge amount of groceries at Jewel for $65, including ravioli, cheese, oatmeal, and Nature Valley granola bars on Saturday.
  • Post #647 - January 22nd, 2025, 9:37 am
    Post #647 - January 22nd, 2025, 9:37 am Post #647 - January 22nd, 2025, 9:37 am
    This NPR article on prices at Walmart over the last six years is pretty interesting (if slightly discouraging) - I thought it might interest those whole follow this thread . . .

    https://www.npr.org/2025/01/14/nx-s1-52 ... wtab-en-us

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  • Post #648 - February 4th, 2025, 9:53 pm
    Post #648 - February 4th, 2025, 9:53 pm Post #648 - February 4th, 2025, 9:53 pm
    I was in Waukegan today. I stopped by Lewis Market on Grand Ave and Tony's Fresh on Lewis Avenue. Eggs were ranging in $8-$10. I saw aprice at Tony's for less than $6, but it was for a half dozen eggs.

    I stopped at Aldi on Lewis where I bought two dozen eggs at a steal: $4.67 each. I did stop at Jewel at Grand and Green Bay to buy some fruit. I did not dare look at the egg prices.

    My Dad has no idea what is happening in the world of egg prices. I told him to take care of this precious cargo.

    Regards,
    Cathy2
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  • Post #649 - February 5th, 2025, 4:56 am
    Post #649 - February 5th, 2025, 4:56 am Post #649 - February 5th, 2025, 4:56 am
    It would be nice to know what eggs people are talking about. Are we talking the bleach white factory farm egggs whose yolks are beige. Or are we talking beautiful brown, cage free, vegetarian fed chicken eggs with glowing orange yolks.

    I still see the good eggs for around $7 a dozen. I’d pay a dollar an egg for a great one. Without hesitation.

    Quality food, products have been expensive for years.
  • Post #650 - February 5th, 2025, 5:32 am
    Post #650 - February 5th, 2025, 5:32 am Post #650 - February 5th, 2025, 5:32 am
    I've been on the egg beat for a few weeks now.

    I shop weekly at Aldi and Angelo Caputo's. Commodity eggs at Aldi have been over $4 all year so far. I typically prefer eggs from chickens raised in better conditions, but have been buying the cheap ones for the kids and baking. Their Goldenhen products are inconsistent quality-wise and I typically buy whichever is cheapest, usually cage free. But lately all four grades of Goldenhen have cost ~$6 and I've found rich, orange- yolked eggs in cartons of both the free range and pasture raised products. All eggs, even the trash are >$6 a dozen at Caputo's.

    I popped in Trader Joe's this week to pick up some snacks for the kids and noticed all of their eggs were <$6 a dozen, so next week I'll investigate further.

    Turns out elections can't control nature. As a bird lover, this all breaks my heart. The story about the 100s of dead mergansers on the lake front really bummed me out.
  • Post #651 - February 5th, 2025, 5:55 am
    Post #651 - February 5th, 2025, 5:55 am Post #651 - February 5th, 2025, 5:55 am
    100,000 organic eggs worth $40,000 from Pennsylvania farm stolen from back of truck

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/stolen-egg ... rry-farm/#
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  • Post #652 - February 6th, 2025, 7:02 am
    Post #652 - February 6th, 2025, 7:02 am Post #652 - February 6th, 2025, 7:02 am
    Hey Jimswide,

    If you like rich eggs, try duck eggs. They will spoil you.
  • Post #653 - February 7th, 2025, 7:50 pm
    Post #653 - February 7th, 2025, 7:50 pm Post #653 - February 7th, 2025, 7:50 pm
    I don't eat eggs much; I usually have some on hand, but not having them available for months wouldn't bother me. But I do sympathize with those who buy them regularly and are dismayed at the high prices current and recent bird flu forces have created.

    I wonder, though, if it might help get over the sticker shock to keep in mind that eggs are still a good buy even at higher-than-usual prices. For example, $7/dozen for large eggs (24 ounces a dozen) is $4.67/lb, for a food with a protein, vitamin, and mineral profile different in some details but on par in nutritional quality, as far as I can tell, with beef and pork. While you can buy some kinds of beef and pork for less than $4.67/lb, many of us don't think twice about paying more, sometimes much more, than that. Sure, $7/dozen for eggs is a shock, but $2 for a dozen large eggs was $1.33/lb, and what beef or pork products are selling for $1.33/lb any more? Again, I do sympathize with those for whom high egg prices range from inconvenient to problematic, especially to the extent eggs were substituting for more expensive sources of protein.

    I also wonder -- and those who use eggs more than I do could say better than I could -- can you make a pound and a half of beef or pork go as far, mealwise, as a dozen eggs?
    Last edited by Katie on February 8th, 2025, 11:18 am, edited 2 times in total.
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  • Post #654 - February 8th, 2025, 5:58 am
    Post #654 - February 8th, 2025, 5:58 am Post #654 - February 8th, 2025, 5:58 am
    Katie,

    I have been debating posting about this and have been unable to come up with the correct way of phrasing the post. You did it far better than I ever would have.
  • Post #655 - February 8th, 2025, 10:16 pm
    Post #655 - February 8th, 2025, 10:16 pm Post #655 - February 8th, 2025, 10:16 pm
    I think the comparable lean protein/low waste "blank slates" are boneless skinless chicken breast and pork tenderloin. That chicken is readily available on sale for $1 - $2/lb, and the pork for $2.50 - $3/lb. Those prices have been stable for a few years. Eggs at < $2/dozen, or even < $1/dozen, were a great bargain comparatively. At $4+, they're about on par.

    But there's more to the story: Eggs have about 12g protein per 4oz serving (2 eggs) while chicken breast and pork tenderloin have about 23g, nearly twice as much. My guess is that the difference is more water content in the eggs.
  • Post #656 - Yesterday, 3:21 am
    Post #656 - Yesterday, 3:21 am Post #656 - Yesterday, 3:21 am
    I was at the Skokie Jewel on Skokie Boulevard on Friday, and I noticed a woman getting a lot of chicken, and I looked to see if there were any deals, and they had Perdue thinly sliced boneless/skinless chicken breasts marked down from $7 a pound to 99 cents. I was going to get a few packages, but then I noticed the expiration date was 2/8. I know I could have frozen it, but I decided to pass. The store brand chicken breast that Jewel has been having on sale for $1 a pound, I've heard is not good. I try to get free range chicken when I get it, which is not very often.
  • Post #657 - Yesterday, 9:40 am
    Post #657 - Yesterday, 9:40 am Post #657 - Yesterday, 9:40 am
    NFriday wrote:The store brand chicken breast that Jewel has been having on sale for $1 a pound, I've heard is not good.

    They tend to be really large and some have been a pound each. While big, I can use one to make a small batch of chicken salad or for Chinese cooking. I do everything, but cook them as a single-serving chicken breast per person, because they are too big and likely to overcook.

    Regards,
    Cathy2
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  • Post #658 - Yesterday, 9:43 pm
    Post #658 - Yesterday, 9:43 pm Post #658 - Yesterday, 9:43 pm
    A few years back those giant chicken breasts tended to be coarse and tough. More recent purchases have been much better, although like Cathy says they're not easy to use in recipes intended for smaller breasts. The last few I've bought have even been double breasts - the entire front of the chicken in one piece - rather than divided into sides. I have plans to make one of those into a stuffed arrangement by pounding it a little and folding it over stuffing.

    In hopeful news, I just bought a dozen large Goldhen eggs at Aldi in Kenosha (75th and Green Bay Rd) for $4.67. Unenforceable limit 2.

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