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Inflation has already made eating out expensive, but now, even breakfast staples are coming with extra fees. Blame supply chain issues, blame rising costs—but at the end of the day, consumers are paying more and getting less. The fact that pricing is “market-by-market” just means some diners will get hit harder than others. This isn’t …
Over the last 4 years, egg prices have increased 238%, the largest 4-year increase in history byu/IAmNotAnEconomist inFluentInFinance
by Michael We just received some very serious news. The extremely deadly D1.1 strain of the H5N1 bird flu which has been ripping through the nation’s poultry population in recent weeks has now gotten into the cattle population in the state of Nevada. This is the very first time that cattle in the U.S. have ever …
A hundred thousand eggs were stolen Saturday from an organic supplier in Franklin County amid skyrocketing prices stemming from an avian flu outbreak, Pennsylvania State Police said. The eggs were swiped from the back of a distribution trailer around 8:40 p.m. at the Pete & Gerry’s Organics warehouse on Commerce Avenue in Antrim Township, state …
by Michael We live at a time when global events are moving at a blistering pace. As Donald Trump and Elon Musk shake the very foundations of Washington D.C.’s giant bureaucracy, very alarming things are starting to happen all over the world. Chaos is erupting all around us, and I am entirely convinced that it is only …
Waffle House has added a 50-cent surcharge per egg to all its menu items due to the rising egg prices stemming from bird flu. “The continuing egg shortage caused by HPAI (bird flu) has caused a dramatic increase in egg prices,” Waffle House said in a statement on Monday. “Customers and restaurants are being forced …
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Wholesale egg prices, as tracked by the Urner Barry Egg Index, have reached record highs at the start of the new year. This surge is mostly driven by the ongoing devastating impact of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), which has crushed commercial flocks and dented the nation’s egg-laying capacity Three weeks ago, new data from …
Americans are spending nearly double on eggs compared to a few weeks ago, as bird flu cases continue to affect supplies, and frozen egg storage volumes remain lower than last year. The price of a dozen eggs has risen from $2.11 in early October to $4.16 at present, an increase of more than 97 percent …
Egg prices are exploding in the United States as the food supply chain crisis spirals out of control. A new Bloomberg report exposed that food costs are rising uncontrollably all across America, reaching the highest level since May 1979.A few years back, American consumers could actually fill up an entire shopping cart full of food …