Did the price of eggs really come down?

I say falsehood, since they were still $6 / dozen at walmart last weekend.

I was paying $9.99 to $10.99 for a dozen cage free large AA eggs.

I am now paying $5.99-6.99 for the same eggs so uh yeah they have come down.

Before they went up due to corporate greed because of the bird flu, I was paying $4.99-5.39 a dozen.

they'll never come down to the prices we paid before.

My opinion on why prices are coming down at least in my state is because CA threatened to look into corporate greed in egg prices due to the bird flu and was the price increase necessary.

I am 100% certain it has nothing to do with Trump.

Eggs here are 50 cents lower per dozen than they were a few weeks ago.

However, per my Walmart account I bought a dozen eggs January 28, just a few days after inauguration, for 50 cents lower than they are today. They were about a dollar less than that in December.

So egg prices overall have risen during the Trump administration.

That is what I paid for 18 XL eggs on Sunday at WM.

They are $4.97 for a dozen large eggs.

When the whole coffee/egg tariff thing became more mainstream (before the first rollback..) I was going to the store anyway, so I bought extra eggs and coffee "before it went up."

I wrote those prices down somewhere lol but forgot where. But I do remember that store brand large brown eggs got up to $15.something mid for 18. That was also at the height of the empty egg section... so demand? I later noticed, probably two weeks later with the help of a lady buying eggs at the same time as me.. that the Pete and Gerry's free range, organic, no antibiotics etc and other localish brands were actually considerably cheaper than the store brand 18 pack. I was sort of curious about that... and found some weird undercurrent that the theory is that the free range cage free varieties were more susceptible to bird flu... I don't know one way or the other about that. We've been eating Pete and Gerry's (which is what I bought pre-pandemic and pre-egg prices being a watercooler version of economy talk.) None of us have gotten bird flu, even my sweetheart, who insists on over easy (it has been recommended to not eat fully cooked eggs for fear of disease transmission.)

But, last Friday when I shopped, and bought eggs... the Hannaford large, brown, 18 pack was about 12.something. So, yes, they came down. But the other eggs went up lol. SO, in my unscientific study, my perception is that grocery stores/supply chain are squeezing eggs for every cent they can get out of this particular news cycle. I don't think it has anything to do with Trump or his actions or non actions. I think it's supply and demand, fomo and a literal bird disease.

But even if they want to take credit. I am not seeing post pandemic pricing on eggs in Massachusetts. But we seem to prefer paying more for everything anyway.

They have gone down a little here, but definitely not 50%. Not even close. I also feel like the prices in our area didn't get as high as they did in other parts of the country.

According to this article from CNN, egg prices are actually dropping. After hitting $8 per dozen in February, wholesale prices have now fallen to around $3 because egg supplies are bouncing back as farms recover from the bird flu that had seriously messed things up.

That said, I haven't seen much of a change in retail prices locally.  It's still between $6 - $9 here depending on where I go.  Could be retailers are still working through inventory they bought when prices were sky-high. Could be greed. Who knows when or even if retail prices will ever drop.

For me?  I have a friend who has chickens.    I buy from her at $5 per dozen, best eggs I've ever had!

At my store, they are $3.98. 

I just happen to have 2 weeks of grocery receipts still tucked into my purse, and no, where I live the eggs cost exactly the same 2 days ago as they did 9 days ago ($4.99). Now, that is one dollar cheaper than they were a month ago. But $1.00 is sadly not 50% off. If it were then most people wouldn't be so upset over egg prices in the first place. 

Eggs have always been popular loss leaders for stores this time of year. So, even if stores have to severely limit quantities, I could see regional or smaller stores putting out an in-store coupon or loyalty club sale to get one or two dozen at a reduced price, hoping to nab the rest of your Easter purchases if you're a person who celebrates that holiday.

Stores are limiting eggs in many cases, already, and if a coupon or sale was one use only and tied to a person's loyalty card/account, it seems like something a store might be able to get away with doing, so to speak. And if so, I could absolutely see DT and/or his supporters using that one time thing to bolster his claim that he lowered the price. You know, for two weeks, and on two dozen eggs.

The same on my WM app, but we're in similar regions. Costco has a dozen "medium" eggs for $4.39 in my app.

We already told our kids we wouldn't be dying them this year, they can paint the cardboard ones instead again.

Please - even MAGA knows the man lies constantly. They think it is just part of his schtick. They never went up where I am as much as in other parts of the US but the prices look the same to me now. I expect that they will come down though. I never thought they were MAGA's fault in the first place.