The egg section at a grocery in Redondo Beach. The average retail price for a dozen large eggs jumped to $7.37 in California this week, up from $4.83 at the beginning of December and $2.35 at this time last year. (Jay Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)
Revelations 18:23:’For the merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.’
Important Takeaways:
- $7 a dozen? Why California eggs are so expensive — and increasingly hard to find
- Golden State shoppers are shelling out extreme prices for eggs, amid an outbreak of bird flu that has killed millions of hens and left local grocers struggling to stock cartons that comply with California law.
- Egg cases were bare across Los Angeles County this week, from Trader Joe’s in Long Beach to Amazon Fresh in Inglewood, Target in MidCity to Ralphs in Glendale. Those such as Hodges who found cartons were shocked by the sudden spike in price.
- “I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Anna Sanchez, 32, who scoured the half-empty shelves at a Smart & Final in University Park looking for a dozen eggs for less than $10.
- The average retail price for a dozen large eggs jumped to $7.37 in California this week, up from $4.83 at the beginning of December
- The cause is an unprecedented outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza — commonly known as bird flu — that has killed tens of millions of egg-layers nationwide.
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