FYI price of eggs. USA

↑ singleagain ↓

Fri, Aug 23 2024, 10:11 am

amother Bottlebrush wrote:

Thank you Singleagain!
Your store isn’t a ripoff (like someone else said).
I have no idea where you work but I went shopping yesterday and didn’t buy eggs because they were $4.50 a dozen. I asked dh to get some because the place near his work has better prices. He paid $5.

I'm a bookkeeper in a kosher chain grocery store. We're actually looking for a new bookkeeper in one of our locations and I posted in something about it in working women. So if you want to go look it up. I don't even care. I don't even know why I'm bothering to be all coy about it.

amother

Hawthorn

Fri, Aug 23 2024, 10:12 am

out-of-towner wrote:

IME Walmart usually is the lowest in my area for eggs, but the prices have definitely gone up. I paid close to $13 for 60 (yeah I use a lot of eggs) and it was less than $10 a few weeks ago.

I'm in Baltimore and the price at Walmart today for the box of 60 is $10.77. The 2-pack of 18 eggs (meaning 3 dozen total) is $6.53. Aldi is usually cheaper than Walmart and is my preferred store for eggs, even though it's a bit of a shlepp for me.

I checked online out of curiosity and the price now at the kosher supermarket for a dozen is $3.99-$5.89, depending on the brand, and I honestly don't understand why anyone would buy eggs there unless it is paid for by WIC or they really can't go to another store. It is generally a very well-priced store for almost everything, but not eggs. It is so worth it to go to Walmart or Aldi once a month to stock up.

amother

↑ Lemonchiffon ↓

Fri, Aug 23 2024, 10:16 am

amother DarkViolet wrote:

Wow I didn't realize people still are so strict about not buying german. You don't buy anything german made/owned?

Depends. I have bought some things. But not if it isn’t necessary.

when I want to dh reminds me they killed my grandmothers entire family. Sometimes I’m tempted. He can’t understand how saving money is worth giving them money when they slaughtered a huge part of your family. (And he runs around to sales)

The 2 brothers who own aldi and trader joes actually fought in German army part of SS. They died about 10 years ago

amother

Forsythia ↓

Fri, Aug 23 2024, 10:17 am

amother DarkViolet wrote:

Wow I didn't realize people still are so strict about not buying german. You don't buy anything german made/owned?

Same. I don't have an issue purchasing German products but my mother and grandmother still refuse. I think its generational and it makes sense.

I feel like these days, there are no live Nazis anymore, Germany has changed and their population changed, and we have much bigger enemies these days. I'd rather boycott products from Iran which is pretty easy since all they own is bombs and oil.

↑ singleagain ↓

Fri, Aug 23 2024, 10:25 am

amother Dahlia wrote:

I have heard, but never bothered to verify, that big chain stores have their wholesale prices basically already negotiated. And the wholesalers need to honor their origin pricing.

Whcih is why in stores like target Walmart and shoprite, you may not see as much of a fluctuation.

I believe it's more due to the fact that they have larger buying power so they can promise certain number of cases. They're not just buying 10 cases, 15 cases, whatever they're buying hundreds of cases for all of their locations .

amother

↑ Peru

Fri, Aug 23 2024, 10:29 am

amother Forsythia wrote:

There are Nazi towns in Argentina
They don’t allow Jews to come in

↑ singleagain ↓

Fri, Aug 23 2024, 10:31 am

amother Dahlia wrote:

But its not just that because when prices sky rocket the big box stores pricing stays relatively stable

They also might be losing money on the eggs. By the way, some people will specifically do negative pricing and sell it to you for less than they purchased it to get you in the door in the hopes that if they get you in the door for that, you'll do the rest of your shopping there also.

I one time asked one of my suppliers. How can he sell this item to me for a penny less than a different store was selling it to the customer right? The customer was selling it for $3.99 and when I looked at my price my cost price was $4 I said. How are you doing that? What price are you giving it to him for? And he looked it up on his computer and he said he's giving it to him for $4 that guy's losing a penny every time he sells one of those items.

Loss leaders are a big thing. Jewish stores might have other loss leaders than eggs.

frieda967

Fri, Aug 23 2024, 10:54 am

singleagain wrote:

I work in a kosher grocery. Was just told whole sale price of eggs are going up by a dollar next week

Apparently chickens on the west coast are getting sick and so the East Coast is shipping eggs to the west coast and all of that traffic and production is driving the prices up and they are already higher than last week

So stock up of you need... It looks like the price is just going to keep going up

Thanks for the heads up!
You are very knowledgeable about grocery store backend.. this was interesting information that shared in this thread TY

↑ singleagain ↓

Fri, Aug 23 2024, 11:06 am

frieda967 wrote:

Thanks for the heads up!
You are very knowledgeable about grocery store backend.. this was interesting information that shared in this thread TY

Just past my 7 year anniversary for being a bookkeeper. I have a lot of know-how. Happy to share. Obviously though it's only limited info ...but it is interesting and I can't tell you how much I've gotten sticker shock

amother

Ghostwhite

Fri, Aug 23 2024, 11:12 am

singleagain wrote:

Correct. Costco is known for their cooked rotisserie chicken as their. It's in the back of the store and you have to walk the whole thing to get it. Sold at a loss but brings buyers.

Kosher stores have kosher food so you are coming into the store regardless. Once there, makes sense to "just get this also that is cheaper at Walmart because why shlep".

Bread in a kosher store is WAY more expensive than anywhere else so can recoup some prices of wtvr their loss leading item is on some other "benign" items that ppl don't think about.

My DH bought eggs yesterday for $4.50. Crazy! Apparently the local costco is selling the 60 egg thing for ~$10 BUT it's only the open one layer carton packaging so have to really be worth it to risk breaking them + the extra drive.

For this reason many ppl will get their eggs in the kosher store along with chicken etc so it's not worthwhile for kosher stores to have that as their loss leading item typically.

amother

↑ Dahlia ↓

Fri, Aug 23 2024, 11:15 am

singleagain wrote:

Right that definitely might be it as well.
I know someone who lives in an out of town community and they were told by their local kosher butcher store to shop the meat or chicken at Costco, because he can't sell the meat for the prices that Costco sells it, even though he's the one supplying it to Costco.

Back to the eggs, I saw in one of the kosher supermarkets they were selling bowl and basket brand eggs, likely shoprite is selling it for less than they can get wholesale, based on the pricing mentioned in this thread that makes sense

amother

Azalea ↓

Fri, Aug 23 2024, 11:20 am

You wanna know one reason why frum stores charge so much for eggs and other things? Because of wic and food stamps. They caused the prices to go up. Of course, other things have an effect too, like buying power.
(And for the record, last time I priced bowl and basket seltzer, it was cheaper at the kosher store than at shop rite.)

PinkFridge

Fri, Aug 23 2024, 11:31 am

singleagain wrote:

Whoa! Thanks!
People, do check the dates on your eggs. You can go past the date a little but stock up with chochmah.