Crazy egg prices

atlarge54

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I thought 49 cents a dozen was cheap a few weeks ago. Yesterday one dozen large eggs at Aldis (NE Ind.) 37 cents.

I almost feel guilty when I pay $1/dozen for super quality free range eggs from a local couple.

How can egg producers pay the light bill?
 
27 years ago I spent a short stint at then
the world's largest egg farm in Croton OH.
There cost per dozen back then was just
under .50 per dozen. Surely over double that
now,
 
We paid 40 cents a doz today at Aldi. We have been buying milk there for the last 2 years for 85
cents a gallon. I read that they can do this as a way to get people in the store. Sell some things
at a loss but while people are in there they buy other things. I sat an watched the other day while
waiting for my wife and every one coming out had milk and most had a lot of other items in their
cart. The Aldi stores in Germany are very big stores and sell clothes as well as food and most have
a big greenhouse built on them
 
I learned back in the mid-80's how stores would put some things on sale, while marking up the price of everything else very, very slightly. Sounds like Aldi's likes keeping some of the staple foods at a lower price. Must be a good-working method.

Last time in town, we paid $1.59 for eggs and $3.89 for 2%.
 
.29 and .39 a dozen ? What's this world coming to? I think there still over a buck or buck-50 at Walmart here in town. Not to get off the subject but- I paid $1.89 for gas today. Yeah!
 
Wife brought home her usual five dozen from Aldi at $0.29/doz just the other day. I bet you have to buy a $hitload of them cardboard trays to get the price of the tray down to $0.29 ea.
 
Remember also that eggs are perishible. If they get a backlog, selling all of them at a reduced price can be better than getting nothing for some of them when they go out of date.
 
Yesterday we paid $0.49/dozen for large eggs and $1.54/gallon for whole milk at the Aldi in Bellevue, Nebraska. The Walmart Pantry store and the Walmart Super Store have similar prices.
 
Still getting $3/doz. for my non-white eggs in my roadside stand. But I have a theory as to why. I have a golf course 1/4 mile down the road. She didn't want him to take the
afternoon off work to play golf so he figures he can calm the waters a bit by bringing home a doz. "farm fresh" eggs.
 
Milk today at Aldis half gallon was $1.19. Couple of weeks ago at different Aldi paid .79 for a half gallon. And when that Aldi had the milk at .79 they had eggs a .49 but the one I was at today was .89 for half gallon, that was same day.
 
Been thinking about this - for anyone who really wanted to take advantage of those low-cost eggs, you could dehydrate some of them for really long shelf life, and prepare others for freezing. Not sure, but I think you can also scramble eggs, then vacuum seal them for freezing. Would make for a quick and easy breakfast, especially if you add ham and cheese before freezing.
 
You pay for what you get. Store eggs are old as in could well be 6 months old. Back when i was young we had a family that went to the church my dad preached at that had an egg production house. When they picked up the egg each day they went into a cooler. They stayed in that cooler till they had an 18 wheeler load of them which could take 3 or more months. Then they went to be sorted as to size and hen to a ware house before the stores. Back then I was told it could be 6 months before they hit the self at a store.

Me i sell eggs for $2 a dozen and have sold them for that for over 5 years now and I keep gettign that but at the oldest I have maybe a month if even that old
 
Just a marketing stunt ! When one store does it , they all have to . Stores are loosing $$ on the eggs
, don't feel bad for them , they are just trying to manipulate you the customer , and try to get you to
come into their store. Once inside you may fill your complete grocery order in their store , while you
may well have never shopped there at all.
Marketing ... can't sell stuff to people if they don't come through the door .
 
Aldi's in Angola IN have been at .37/doz. for large eggs for a long time. I think since Easter. Also large eggs at Aldi's are larger than the large eggs at Walmart in the same town.
 
We get $4 per dozen here. Folks really want it, we sell all we get, down to only a dozen per day. I should order some more chickens....
 
Near Jamesport, MO, there are ELEVEN egg houses. Each house has 18,000 to 24,000 hens. They hover around a 90% lay rate per day. Do the math - that is a LOT of eggs. Each house has a semi pick up eggs every 7 days. From here, they go to a sorting facility in Iowa, then on to (mostly) California.
They will sell you a few dozen for $2 a dozen(or give you some "un-standard" ones....). They taste like store bought, though....we only get them if we HAVE to. We get ours from local Amish for $1 a dozen...
 
Those prices do not bring people in to the store unless they were already in the store for their shopping. You do not know the price untill you see the shelf tag so only already customers know about it. If it brings in a new customer it has to be because a customer told a friend about it and brought them in. Those low prices are never in an add to draw customers. That is the way it is at Aldi and there are at least 4 stores in my area but only go to 2 of them.
 
we are still getting 2.50 a doz at farmers markets, brown eggs sell out in the 1st 15 or 20 minutes.
 
I've read that demand for eggs dropped and has not fully recovered after the shortage and price spikes caused by bird flu. Over-production and an effort to re-build demand could be reasons for the current low prices. Would any egg producers care to comment?
 
Leroy, you're forgetting about sales flyers. Around here, there are freebie papers that can be found in most gas stations that have sales flyers and/or ads in the papers. So in this area, it'd be nothing for someone from outside the area to know about the sale on eggs, as well as other items.

Just in case there's anyone who doesn't already know, folks go to college and get a degree in marketing - part of which is how to lay out product in a store in order to get the highest amount of overall sales possible. It's a well-known fact that the longer someone stays in a store, the more likely they are to spend more money. Wife and I both know and understand this, so we're no longer influenced by much of the stuff. However, there are times we simply go without something because they've raised the price beyond what we're willing to pay.

And who'd of ever thought that it really mattered that perishable items (mostly dairy) were always at the back of the store, or the last section before checkout? There's a lot of time and money that goes into how to best lay out the products in a store. What items go on the bottom shelf, and what items stay at eye level? What items do you see when you first walk in? And then there's always the little things hanging at the checkout registers - chewing gum, lighters, flashlights, candy, magazines (almost always women's magazines), etc, etc, etc.
 
I get at least 3 copies of that add every week in either the mail or the newspaper and that ad covers all the stores but it is just one of the stores that will have these deals, the others are regular price. So the adds will have nothing about them in.
 
My GF and I have been buying our eggs at an egg auction locally for several years.
On a whim, she went to Aldi's with a co-worker and bought some of their cheap eggs. Those are the lousiest eggs we have ever had, and I cannot wait until they are used up. They have a lousy texture, poor taste, and are way smaller than what we are accustomed to. I wouldn't buy them again even if they were 10 cents a dozen.
BTW, no disrespect to Aldi stores. They have good quality foods for the most part. Their pickles are the best I have had that were not home made.
 

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