Everyone seems to be talking about the price of eggs these days like (first of all) it's a crisis of epic proportions and (second of all) it's some sort of failure by either the Biden administration or the Trump administration, depending on which of the two you wish to view as utterly incompetent. But I dunno. I still seem to be able to order eggs for around thirty-five cents each from Costco (that's them above) and while that's higher than just a few years ago, the cost still doesn't seem to be that horrible.
I got two dozen from Costco last Sunday. The Ralphs Market near me seems to have them for between 75¢ and a buck an egg which leaves me to ponder a couple of questions. How is Costco getting their eggs at a price low enough for them to sell them for around a third of what Ralphs is charging? Before you answer that Costco is such a huge retailer that they can get deals that smaller markets can't, remember that Ralphs is part of the Kroger corporation and they're pretty danged big, too.
Are the people at Costco just nicer to not raise prices at this time? Or is this a loss-leader for them like all that cheap toilet paper in the rear of each Costco warehouse or the hot dogs in the food court?
Is the management of Ralphs taking advantage of a shortage to jack prices up more than necessary? I would imagine Costco customers wouldn't bitch too much if Costco did raise egg prices as long as they stayed well below chain stores like Ralphs.
And is it possible that the price of eggs, which seems to have a lot to do with the Bird Flu, is just one of those things that no President of the United States can do a whole lot about? I mean, it's not like this country has warehouses full of strategic egg reserves that the Chief Exec can release.
Still, people who thought COVID was a hoax or a minor inconvenience like the flu seem to be really upset at what it costs to make an omelet. I don't understand these priorities.