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I am curious how much they are in your country? In Poland one egg costs about $0.30

About $0.60 currently in the USA, which is quadruple what they were at this time last year. Supposedly this is mostly because many egg suppliers had to cull their flocks due to the current H5N1 bird flu. But there is also concern that egg prices have been rising in general in the long term due to industry consolidation and monopolization.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/business/egg-prices-bird-...

> About $0.60 currently in the USA,

... IF you can find them in a store. Our local Trader Joe's (a grocery store) in SF has been out of eggs for a while.

No shortage in Seattle. About $8/dozen which is about double normal.

About USD 1.50 per dozen here in South Africa.

I would not consider Trader Joe's to be a grocery store.

One dozen is about CAD 3.00 just north of the US border. So I guess about $0.20 USD each.

anyway, the new political administration is bound to solve the problem with costly eggs any minute now, and the soaring egg prices were without a doubt caused by the previous administration :-)

USD$0.30 to $0.40 per egg in Fiji.

Why so expensive in Fiji? I mean it's not that expensive, but more than I'd expect from Fiji, where I can imagine chickens and pigs are running around everywhere between the straw huts and palm trees.

Our producers don't have the economies of scale that yours do. Also, our chickens refuse to stay in their cages and lay eggs, preferring to spend all their time lying around on hammocks under coconut trees sipping pina coladas.

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