A Most Amazing Graph -- FRED -- Eggs -- August 11, 2023

Locator: 45420FAKEINF.
Locator: 45420EGGS.
Locator: 45420RETAIL.

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Later, 9:28 a.m. CDT: I just got back from Walmart -- a bicycle trip -- it's already 88°F and feels like 100! Whatever. Eggs: a dozen, white, fresh, large, grade A, from badly-treated chickens for $1.22. Had I wanted, I could have paid $5.72 for a dozen "organic, free-range" eggs. No thanks.

Every time I go to Walmart I'm reminded how much better it is than Target, just down the street and slightly closer to home. Walmart:

• is currently remodeling their home and garden section; will be very, very nice;
• has just re-done their parking lot; looks awesome
• is much less crowded during "off-hours" than Target during "busy hours"; 
• never seems to run out of anything; and,
• best of all -- no waiting to pay (compare with long lines at Target) -- so many self-pay stations.

I was looking for a single one-inch white binder: a pack of four, recently $12.21, was "rolled back to $8.48, easily beating the price at Target.

Starbucks: I haven't been to "our" Starbucks in over a month (?). But biking home from Walmart, I biked too closely to Starbucks; touched the "Starbucks horizon event" and was sucked in, unable to escape the gravitational pull despite my speed on the bike. 

Inflation: so, anyway, back to the eggs. This is why the government has to remove food and energy from the CPI -- see below -- the government says eggs are priced at $2.09 right now and I can find them easily for $1.22. 

Later I will stop by Target and see the price for eggs.

Belk: my wife took two of the granddaughters to shop for back-to-school clothes yesterday. Her haul:

Amazon: simply amazing. Between Walmart and Amazon, I can pretty much get anything I want / need. I was introduced to this amazing soy sauce about a year when visiting Portland, OR. At the "spice" shop, it retailed for $50. Through Amazon, I get the soy sauce overnight, no shipping costs, for $27. Lasts me about six months. I use it sparingly.

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Avian flu. 

Link here.

The blog forecast this over a year ago.

Note: this includes all variety of eggs, including the incredibly expensive "organic" (whatever that means, cage-free, and free-range. In our neck of the neighborhood, "organic, cage-free, free-range eggs go for upwards of $6.00 / dozen.

Memo to self: check out the price of eggs at Walmart and Target, and report back.