(12 Feb 2025)
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Alameda, California – 11 February 2025
1. Various of Joe Trimble checking and arranging eggs in grocery store
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Joe Trimble, owner, Encinal Market:
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"My impression of what’s behind it is bird flu. They’ve had to kill off millions of egg-laying hens. And on our end, what we’re seeing is very limited availability, very limited supply of eggs and increased costs for us and then consumers as well."
3. Various of Trimble checking carton of eggs
4. Customer at check out
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Joe Trimble, owner, Encinal Market:
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"We’re just getting less than what we order from our suppliers. And we’re compensating by limiting occasionally limiting what customers can buy and seeking alternate suppliers for more product."
6. Various of egg cartons with prices and customer checking eggs
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Joe Trimble, owner, Encinal Market:
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"Everyone’s paying more. We’re paying significantly more than we were middle of last year or late last year. And our customers are also paying significantly more than they were last year."
8. Various of Trimble and empty egg shelves
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Joe Trimble, owner, Encinal Market:
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"It’s something you don’t think about until you look at the shelf and it’s nearly empty. You’re just expected to be there in the same way you expect there to be milk. It’s a key item to have in a grocery store because people don’t go out looking for something else to eat on a Saturday morning. They want to have some scrambled eggs or overeasy eggs."
10. Cartons of eggs
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Jon Florey, grocery store customer:
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"We we do use eggs a little less often now."
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Jon Florey, grocery store customer:
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"I was going to make a quiche that I like to make, and it’s about six eggs, so I figured I’d do something else. I like to have just have scrambled eggs sometimes, and I’m not doing that so much."
13. Florey checking egg prices
STORYLINE:
Egg prices hit a record high as the U.S. contends with an ongoing bird flu outbreak, but consumers didn’t need government figures released Wednesday to tell them eggs are terribly expensive and hard to find at times because of an ongoing.
The latest monthly consumer price index showed that 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 low of $2.04 that was recorded in August 2023.
The spike in egg prices was the biggest since the nation’s last bird flu outbreak in 2015 and accounted for roughly two-thirds of the total increase in food costs last month, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Of course, that is only the nationwide average. A carton of eggs can cost $10 or more in some places. And specialized varieties, such as organic and cage-free eggs, are even more expensive.
“We do use eggs a little less often now. You know, because of the price,” said Jon Florey as he surveyed his options in the egg case at Encinal Market in Alameda, California. “I was going to make a quiche that I like to make and it’s about six eggs, so I figured I’d do something else.”
When are egg prices expected to go down?
Relief is not expected any time soon. Egg prices typically spike around Easter due to high holiday demand. And the U.S. Department of Agriculture predicted last month that egg prices were likely to go up 20% this year.
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