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| Costco, Aldi, Trader Joe's Limiting Egg Purchases Due to Supply Issues amid Bird Flu Outbreak |
| 2025-02-14 |
| [Breitbart] Several grocery store chains such as Aldi, Costco, and Trader Joe’s are limiting how many eggs customers can purchase, citing supply issues amid an outbreak of the avian flu. A spokesperson for Trader Joes confirmed to CNN that due to “issues with the supply of eggs,” the grocery store chain was limiting its customers to purchasing one dozen eggs per day, meanwhile Costco also confirmed that it was limiting the amount of eggs customers could purchase to “three packages of eggs.” “Due to ongoing issues with the supply of eggs, we are currently limiting eggs purchases to one dozen per customer, per day, in all Trader Joe’s stores across the country,” a spokesperson for Trader Joe’s told the outlet. NBC5 Chicago also reported that a local Costco had placed signs up reading, “Due to limited supply please: Limit 3 eggs,” while an Aldi in Chicago was reported to have limited customers to purchasing two dozen eggs. Other places such as Waffle House have taken steps to account for the “continuing egg shortage” caused by the Bird Flu, such as adding a “temporary .50 per egg surcharge to all menus.” Breitbart News’s Amy Furr previously reported that the bird flu outbreak has caused the price of eggs to soar, leaving many Americans feeling the sting of the costs. The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently reported that the average price for a “dozen Grade A eggs” had reached $4.95 in January, representing a record high, according to ABC News: The average price of a dozen Grade A eggs in U.S. cities reached $4.95 in January, eclipsing the previous record of $4.82 set two years earlier and more than double the recent low of $2.04 that was recorded in August 2023. Breitbart News recently reported that after seven cases of the bird flu were reported to have been “found in poultry during routine inspections of live bird markets in” several boroughs of New York City, New York officials directed live poultry markets to close down for a week in order to help combat the spread of the bird flu. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #11 We're paying $4/dozen for 'Jumbo Free Range' from one of our local family-run farms. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2025-02-14 17:39 |
| #10 The same bureaucrats who slaughter a million chickens 'just to make sure it doesn't spread' are the same bureaucrats who are whining and screaming its being done to them back in the Swamp. Irony is not a river in Wisconsin. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2025-02-14 13:34 |
| #9 I just got back from Costco, $4.59 for a dozen and a half egg lands best |
| Posted by: Beavis 2025-02-14 11:51 |
| #8 Panic! At The Costco. The Whisper People are really trying to make this a thing to pin on Trump. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2025-02-14 11:43 |
| #7 Check out the egg stock CALM. Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. |
| Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed 2025-02-14 08:28 |
| #6 The link at #1 says hens could have a bird flu vaccine added to several others they routinely take, but the Feds won't allow it. Ironic, eh? Maybe that vax is not from Big Pharma? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2025-02-14 08:11 |
| #5 Roasters and egg layers are different birds entirely. Roasters mature meat wise in 8-10 weeks and are slaughtered. Egg layers have much less meat and start laying at six months. |
| Posted by: Itsoktobewhite 2025-02-14 07:01 |
| #4 Loss-leaders or not. I am sure the 10,000+ cooked birds sold each week, by just SAM's nationwide, were not all roosters ☺ and many could be producing more eggs. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2025-02-14 05:31 |
| #3 The roast chickens are priced to be a loss leader, NN2N1, to get you in the door. Costco does the same. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2025-02-14 04:45 |
| #2 The Beef, Swine, EGG and Fish Prices 4+/- X since 2021. All thanks to the Liberals and Democrats that stole power in 2021. A dozen at Lidl's is usually 20 to 40 cents lower on the cost per dz. Strangely, although, EGG prices are way up. SAM's & Wally World are still selling $4.95/ $6.95 fresh fully cooked hot chickens ?????? |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2025-02-14 04:00 |
| #1 I'm a farmer who was forced to kill 6.5m hens. Here's the terrifying truth of America's egg shortage... and who's REALLY to blame |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2025-02-13 12:00 |