Eggs and COVID-19

[zevi]

Is the new thing cream cheese or is only Lakewood stores sold out

[grodnoking]

Is the new thing cream cheese or is only Lakewood stores sold out

I'd say only Lakewood. Didnt see any stores out of stock here.
Probably all given out at the lunch distributions with a bag of rolls.

[zh cohen]

https://www.recordonline.com/news/20200416/too-many-eggs-not-enough-cooks-sullivan-poultry-farm-feeling-hurt

[Yard sale]

A dozen eggs rang up at 4.19 in one of the local Lakewood stores before pesach. Costco had 5 dozen for 7.99. Strange...

[avromie7]

https://www.recordonline.com/news/20200416/too-many-eggs-not-enough-cooks-sullivan-poultry-farm-feeling-hurt

It sounds like there was no shortage of eggs, just market inefficiencies.

[AsherO]

It sounds like there was no shortage of eggs, just market inefficiencies.

Sounds a bit similar (but not quite) like the toilet paper shortage Medium.com article posted elsewhere on DDF.

That, or just artificial scarcity as an excuse to raise prices.

[zh cohen]

Sounds a bit similar (but not quite) like the toilet paper shortage Medium.com article posted elsewhere on DDF.

I was thinking about that article when I posted this one.

[AsherO]

I was thinking about that article when I posted this one.

Eggs are still different from TP in that:
1. The restaurant-grade eggs themselves are probably the same as the ones I’m buying by the dozen at my local grocer.
2. The industrial/institutional TP is not the same as the triple-ply tush-coddling variety people buy for home use.

For that reason I’d buy a tray of these eggs if I get an extra tray to put on top so I can get them home without breaking them. But I wouldn’t buy the single-ply massive rolls of TP for home use if there was another option.

[avromie7]

I was thinking about that article when I posted this one.

Before pesach they could've easily sold them in the Jewish neighborhoods by the case.

[zh cohen]

Eggs are still different from TP in that:
1. The restaurant-grade eggs themselves are probably the same as the ones I’m buying by the dozen at my local grocer.
2. The industrial/institutional TP is not the same as the triple-ply tush-coddling variety people buy for home use.

For that reason I’d buy a tray of these eggs if I get an extra tray to put on top so I can get them home without breaking them. But I wouldn’t buy the single-ply massive rolls of TP for home use if there was another option.

Right but I imagine they would have a hard time packaging all their eggs for retail and not all stores or customers would be as willing as you to buy the 2.5 dozen trays.

[zh cohen]

Before pesach they could've easily sold them in the Jewish neighborhoods by the case.

Right. I bought by the case from a distributor and still paid $2.75 a dozen

[AsherO]

Right. I bought by the case from a distributor and still paid $2.75 a dozen

Someone might have made a killing there. N95 masks anyone?

[zh cohen]

Someone might have made a killing there.

Wasn't the distributor.

[aygart]

Someone might have made a killing there. N95 masks anyone?

I know a distributor who couldn't get adequate supply from the farm.