by Michael Snyder, The Economic Collapse Blog:
We live at a time when global events are moving at a blistering pace. As Donald Trump and Elon Musk shake the very foundations of Washington D.C.’s giant bureaucracy, very alarming things are starting to happen all over the world. Chaos is erupting all around us, and I am entirely convinced that it is only going to intensify during the months ahead.
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Let me start by discussing the worst egg shortage in U.S. history.
All over the country, grocery stores and restaurants are having a really difficult time finding enough eggs right now…
American restaurants are falling victim to a national egg shortage that has already plagued grocery stores from New York City to San Francisco and sent prices to $7 a carton.
I never imagined that egg prices would reach such dizzying heights in 2025, and the year has just begun.
In the Big Apple, a dozen cage-free eggs will set you back $11.99…
In New York City, prices reached as high as $11.99 for a dozen cage-free eggs at Whole Foods Inc. The national retailer placed a three-carton purchase limit on customers at some locations in the city. Customers in Nassau County on Long Island found supplies of Vital Farms pasture-raised eggs and Nellie’s free range ones sold out at Whole Foods online in the past week.
Organic eggs have been in short supply too. Over the weekend, refrigerated shelves were almost completely bare at a ShopRite in Brooklyn. The few crates left were priced at about $1 per egg. A nearby Costco was out of everything except quail eggs, according to grocery delivery app Instacart, and a Wegmans had run out of some of its store brands.
This is nuts.
A dozen eggs should be less than a dollar.
Or at least that was what life in America was like during the “good old days” prior to the pandemic.
But now it appears that those days are gone for good.
In fact, things are so bad that the Waffle House has decided to implement a “50 cent per egg surcharge”…
The Waffle House restaurant chain is putting a 50 cent per egg surcharge in place due to the biggest bird flu outbreak in a decade.
The 24-7 restaurant said that the resulting egg shortage has led to a dramatic increase in its costs.
Bird flu is forcing farmers to slaughter millions of chickens a month, pushing U.S. egg prices to more than double their cost in the summer of 2023. And it appears there may be no relief in sight with Easter approaching.
Once upon a time, the two egg breakfast at the Waffle House was one of the most affordable breakfast meals in America.
But now you will have to shell out $7.75 for it…
The Waffle House, a reliable source of a cheap breakfast, said that its egg surcharge became effective this week and that it applies to all of its menus. The restaurant’s two-egg breakfast, which comes with toast and a side, was listed at $7.75 on Tuesday.
“While we hope these price fluctuations will be short-lived we cannot predict how long this shortage will last,” the company said.
The bird flu pandemic that has been raging all over the world since early 2022 has not gone away.
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