Eggs -- This Is An Interesting One -- January 19, 2025

Locator: 44716EGGS.

Breaking: watching the pre-inauguration celebrations, it's almost as if the past four years never happened; Biden is already completely forgotten. The two big changes: elegance is back and, the new president has a normal gait.

Moving inside: dampened no one's spirits; crowds are surging:

Tag: inflation Trump

Eggs:

The price of eggs has nothing to do with underlying inflation / government spending. 

Everyone's blaming it on avian flu -- which is the underlying cause, of course -- but two other things contributing to high cost of eggs, both derivatives of hoarding:

• due to all the talk about an egg shortage, I now maintain a "risk-supply" of three one-dozen cartons at all times; up from my historical two one-dozen cartons (that's a 50% increase); and,
• I'm seeing more and more 18-egg cartons which suggests to me that 18-egg cartons are the new "normal" when it comes to eggs.

For myself, I'm thinking of moving to 18-egg cartons.

I'm starting to save empty 12-egg cartons to transfer eggs from the 1 1/2 dozen carts to 1-dozen cartons.