As decently priced eggs become more and more difficult to find in grocery stores thanks to the avian flu outbreak and inflation, some Walmart shoppers are expressing their shock in finding one $27 carton.
Seen in a recent Reddit thread, one Walmart customer photographed a box of five dozen eggs at their local store with a price tag that read, “$27.02,” as Mashed reports.
Walmart Customers Are In Shambles Over $27 Eggs https://t.co/vxWT7Gv047
— Torx (@torxie) January 11, 2023
Walmart Shoppers Discussed ‘Overpriced Eggs’ In Surprising Reddit Thread
The shopper posted that they could remember previously “buying [the same eggs] for $6 a couple years ago.” While many Redditors were stunned and in shock by the price, others began making jokes to cope.
Several commenters wrote that “the chickens unionized,” while another user said they were grateful they had “impulse bought” their own chickens the previous summer. Someone else dubbed the five-dozen eggs “the Gaston special.”
Others in the thread stressed their confusion, pointing out that this same 60-count crate was selling for about $10 at their local Walmart location.
Please tell me why this pack of 60 eggs cost almost $23!! @Walmart #inflation pic.twitter.com/K1LxKHpgjk
— Luis Johanna (@luis_johanna07) December 30, 2022
One Reddit user questioned if this $27 crates was even selling, and a self-proclaimed Walmart employee replied, “We can’t keep our egg shelf stocked most days at our store, so they’re definitely selling well.”
“While paying $27 for eggs may seem outlandish, that boils down to about $5.40 per dozen,” Mashed notes, and this is “still above the national average of $3.30, per CBS, but cheaper than the California average of $7.37 per dozen.”
Why are eggs so expensive, @Walmart ? That’s 43 cents an egg? Are they paying you as much as these eggs are worth?#inflation #inflationiscorporategreed pic.twitter.com/M1WjXmz4yU
— (@okaatta) January 14, 2023
Eggs, as the publication reports, have “seen the greatest price increase from inflation, with the cost of a dozen eggs more than doubling.”
Per the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, a “dozen eggs sold for about $1.22 in August 2019, increasing to about $3.12 by August 2022.”
This was also greatly impacted by the avian flu outbreak, which “killed more than 40 million egg-laying hens in 2022,” according to CNBC.
@nikkis_garden_adventure #greenscreenvideo #greenscreen at what point is it considered price gouging. In the span of a couple of months the eggs doubled in price #eggs#inflation#pricegouging #aintnoway#isthisreal#someoneexplain #beforreal #walmart#pricetohigh ♬ Oh No (Instrumental) – Kreepa
Walmart Called Out On TikTok & Twitter For Alleged ‘Price Gouging’ For Eggs
Last month, TikTok video creator Nikki Adams (@nikkis_garden_adventure) posted a clip on December 21st and claimed that she purchased the 60 count ‘Great Value Large White Eggs’ from her local Walmart for $10.56 one month prior. Now, as she showed in the video, this same product is $20.22.
Adams wrote in her caption, “at what point is it considered price gouging. In the span of a couple of months the eggs doubled in price” as commenters and viewers shared their thoughts on the matter, with some relating to her surprising shopping experience.
Walmart blasted for ‘price gouging’ by shoppers sharing pics of ‘doubled prices’ https://t.co/MDS9vSS3wF
— The US Sun (@TheSunUS) December 30, 2022
“I remember that box being less then 5 bucks a year ago” one fellow TikTok user wrote as another chimed in, “They were actually like 7 bucks last year.”
On Twitter, many Walmart customers continue to call out the company for price increases and ‘price gouging,’ specifically. On December 5th, user @FJPence on Twitter tweeted, “Item I was buying at @Walmart was $6.99 3 months ago. It’s now $10.99. I am buying it online from the manufacturer now for $6.50 inflation or price gouging?”
Two weeks later on December 19th, another Twitter user/ Walmart shopper @roxrocksme wrote, “Walmart $6.00 for a dozen just yesterday in rural Colorado. I’m thinking seriously about investing in raising my own chickens and growing my own veggies. Can do that on 1.5 acres. So sick of the price gouging.”
