at King Soopers the next day. This is going to be interesting.

sale?

next day.

were on sale at Walmart or something. I normally see them at $8.99-11.99 here in Southern California.

which I do not use, no matter what is on sale.

A friend who goes to one of the catholic church food banks here has gotten a dizen eggs the last two times he has gone.

evil empires these day.

Vital Farms Organic Pasture Raised Eggs Large Brown, 12 Count $10.99 ($0.92 / count)

I happily gave up eggs a few months ago.

There are eggs for less than $11/dozen.

We're getting 18-packs in our CSA box for $8.

I used to be vegan but became lacto-ova vegetarian when my weight dropped too much in old age.
Also, through Amazon, all eggs are large but look jumbo with huge yolks I don't care for.
For baking, I've found success with Namaste's Egg Replacer.

It's about how much they think they can get away with in light of everything else going up and still stay under the wire with consumers not blaming them directly. Rather blaming the "tarrifs" buzzword they just learned.

for smaller producers, those more connected to farmers like coops. Global events do affect them — the Ukraine war raised grain prices too much for our local CA pork supplier, one of the few I could find that took the welfare of the animals and the environment seriously enough. I know pastured chickens still require additional feed, and I’d bet tariffs will hit those commodities hard. Vital Farms may seem big, but it’s only 5-6% of the U.S. egg market.

"screw you" to all people who, you, know, eat.

But I'm sure he'll blame Biden.

"tariffs ... could also affect the purchasing behavior of its customers"

Does this mean ...

1) Their customers might have less to spend on eggs, so they're raising prices to try and keep profits the same with lower volume? Or ...

2) Their customers are now pre-conditioned to accept rising prices and blame them on tariffs?

I really have no idea how to cut though the doublespeak.

Seems pretty simple. Want to see those prices come down? Leave them all with millions of eggs rotting on the shelves. Record profits garnered by fucking the American consumer at every single turn shouldn't be the accepted norm.

I wish just once, one of the analysts on earnings calls like this would just ask, "So what if the American shell-egg product purchasing consumer basically says 'fuck you and your bullshit price gouging, what then?'"