On Tuesday, August 8, 2017 at 10:12:05 AM UTC-4, Jill McQuown wrote:
> On 8/7/2017 3:20 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> > The chickens must be working hard. A week or so ago I bough an 18 pack
> > of eggs at Stop & Shop for $1.29. I thought it ws a good price. Today,
> > I too may grandson to WalMart and while there I figured I get some eggs.
> > An 18 pack there as only 68 cents.
> >
> > I know some egg farms are nasty conditions but . . I don't know how
> > you can feed a chicken, clean, sort, candle, pack an egg, ship it and
> > sell it at a profit for .0377 cents.
>
> I wonder at what price local chicken farmers are selling eggs? I had to
> have some blood drawn a couple of weeks ago. When I was checking in I
> noticed a few empty egg cartons behind the counter. I'm nosy, so I
> asked the guy what the egg cartons were for. He said a couple of the
> employees buy fresh eggs from a woman who raises chickens. She delivers
> the eggs to the office, they put them in the empty cartons to take home.
> Seems like a nice arrangement for getting fresh eggs.
>
> Jill

Well, local is... local. The guy at work who brings in eggs says
his chickens are molting and production is way down. He's
still charging the same $2 (large) or $3 (X-large, jumbo) per
dozen. My husband says they're delicious. I don't like eggs all
that well, so I pretty much leave them to him, and eat the
grocery store eggs that I buy as a backup. I believe those are
$2.49 for large eggs. Eggland's Best, which husband says are
better than the really cheap ones.

Cindy Hamilton