That’s $3 for 15 eggs. Sadly not free-range, only cage-free.
Not sure if this is the best community for this post, does anyone have a better suggestion?
It costs… 35 what? What kind of currency is
:-? I don’t speak IKEA.Krona, i.e. Swedish crowns. One’s about $0.09.
They denote their currency with :-? Wtf is that? It looks like a lil mosquito
Yeah, we did that in Finland too before euros.
I think it denotes the cents. 35:23 would mean “35 kronor and 23 öre” (where öre is 1/100s of a krona). 35:- means “35 kronor” and “0 öre”.
Ohhh, okay, that actually makes a lot of cents. Thanks!
Is that the American isle? Here in the us, you’ll find the Asian isle, the Hispanic isle, the Curry isle etc depending on your neighborhood. Its encouraging us to shop there when there’s an isle just for us.
I’m gonna be pedantic for just a sec cause I want to share my visualization with you:
Isle - small island
Aisle - row of shelves typically housing objects like groceries or books, etc.
That caused me to think about a small archipelago that could fit in a neighborhood that consisted of different ethnic or national peoples hawking foods. Like large swimming pools with floating stands manned by someone yelling “get your Twinkies here! Twinkies!”
I’m crying.
Ah, when pedanticism leads not to unnecessary eye rolling or hostility but hilarious imagery. Today will be a good day.
Now I really like my grammatical correctness! Thanks stranger for enforcing the laws of the teachers union!
Yea but we’re talking American eggs here. They just cost more for some reason that we can’t seem to find out why.
American eggs are refrigerated so therefore they have a much shorter shelf life.
They just cost more for some reason that we can’t seem to find out why.
golly gee what could it be…
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/as-bird-flu-ravages-poultry-industry-the-damage-spreads/
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/02/science/bird-flu-aid-animal-welfare.html
All very good points. But there was an acute shortage of eggs in Norway a few months ago and they just shipped them in from Denmark. But they kept the prices high even after the shortage was resolved. Malignant capitalism has a far greater share of the responsibility.
Valid, there’s far too little oversight on price gouging and profiteering and I think coupled with a major pandemic, the penalties should be severe for anyone caught engaging in them.
I dunno, I saw some brown eggs in my Texas supermarket last week.
All those woke DEI chickens are leading to a genocide against wholesome, white, AMERICAN eggs.
Here in Russia we have big shortage of eggs. They are insanely expensive. 100 roubles for 10! Entire 1 dollar!
Yes but in Putin’s Russia the egg eats you.
Buying eggs 15 at the times? Funny indeed.
I mean Norway sells them in packs of 6, 10 (occasionally), 12 or 18. But it is odd that a metric country would sell them in multiples of 6. Although I suppose 12 is a good number generally because it divides easily into 2, 3, 4, and 6 so splitting it is easier unless you have a family of 5.
And thus we ended up with a 12 hour clock most places
I have a family of 5 and splitting is never really a consideration. I guess some recipes could be a little easier with multiples of 2 or 3, but I usually just make as many as we’ll eat. Sometimes that’s 11 eggs, sometimes it’s 5. There’s no pattern.
My main consideration is what will fit in my refrigerator nicely. That’s it.
Just found a receipt in my pocket from yesterday. The smallest shittiest eggs are 33.30 Norwegian Kroner for 12 at co-op xtra ($2.95).
Norwegian krone =/= Swedish krona
I mean 1 krone is 0.97 krona so it’s not a huge difference but I’m sure Americans would point out if someone had been talking about US dollars and a person replied with a comment with, idk, Canadian dollars.
Sorry I’m just pedantic and krona and krone is easy to confuse probably, it’s not like one of them is “the default” like USD when talking of dollars. Although krone and krona do have actually different words, but the difference isn’t a massive one to be fair.
Jo, eg veit at det er en forskjell mellom krone og krona. Men det spiller jo ikke noe rolle. Eg har jo sagt at det er det eg har betalt og spesifisitet at eg snakker om norske kroner. Det er mange andre som har svart på samme måte.
En epäile yhtään ettetkö sä ymmärtäisi eroa kronen ja kronan välillä, mutta kun se ero on niin pieni ja ihmiset jotka ei oo Pohjolasta saattaa sekottaa ne, ni ajattelin painottaa sitä eroa, jotta enemmän jengiä oppii meidän (as in the Nordics) kulttuureista.
áh, ok. mun jáhkken ahte du kommentára lei čujuhuvvon munnje. mu meattáhus.
It might have been, I’m not infallible.
I’m just riding on the wave of possibility bro
Excuse me, but Donald Trump never promised to make äggs cheaper for Americans.
Just eggs.
How is that going anyway?
Do libs really believe Trump is causing the egg prices, or are y’all just trying to help keep bird flu out of the public discussion?
No, we don’t think that Trump has the power to manipulate the prices like that. But his voters absolutely believed he would bring down grocery prices and specifically eggs. He also said that multiple times.
Well, egg prices will come down during his presidency, so that’s an easy promise to fulfill by doing exactly nothing.
You’d have to ask them. I really believe Trump said he was going to lower the price of eggs. How’s that working out?
To be fair, that’s one campaign promise he’ll make good on, because eventually the egg supply will return. He doesn’t even need to do anything!
Doesn’t mean it will come back cheaper though. Who’s going to punish companies for price gouging now?
They did the last several times this happened (plus regular inflation), what makes this time different?
I’m guessing $2.50-3/dz at Costco, because they were ~$2.50/dz before the flu and inflation keeps trucking along.
Republicans controlling all three branches of government and looking the other way while businesses charge whatever the hell they feel like charging and collude to keep the prices artificially high.
Chickens go from egg to laying in about 6 months. So maybe I’ll believe you if prices are still high ($4+/dz) at EOY. I’m guessing we’ll be <$3/dz by then (at my local Costco, that is).
Why would I have to ask “them”? You’re right here standing on the claim.
Of course Trump can’t do anything to lower the price of food. Neither party is capable of doing that, because neither is willing to fight corporate grocers and farmers. But I notice both the libs & conservatives are working hand-in-hand to deny coverage to the bird flu outbreak. Putting the egg price on Trump just seems like your side’s version of pandemic denial in service of Big Ag.
Sorry, I am not a “lib” and you wanted to know what they thought. I cannot help you there.
And if you don’t want to be laughed at for not being able to keep your stupid pledges, don’t make stupid pledges.
What “side” am I on anyway? You seem to know a lot about me, so please inform me.
I dunno. I guess another ideology that’s comfortable with spreading Big Ag disinfo. Trying to also spin it into a Trump own implied lib.
You tell me. What political ideology is driving you to post nonsense?
So, making a shit post joke about how Trump pledged to bring down the cost of eggs, thus having his cult believe the prices of eggs were going to go down due to him, and they a currently rising, with no end in sight, because the president doesn’t control the price of eggs, is spreading AG prop and trying to cover up the fact that the bird flu is raising the prices?
You must have extremely long arms to be able to reach that far.
There are Olympics level mental gymnastics going on with that one. I wouldn’t spend too much time trying to figure out what they’re going on about. It’s a level of stupidity mere mortals cannot fathom.
What political ideology is driving me to post nonsense in c/funny…
You know, I’ll have to ponder that one.
He was talking about human eggs.
Ah, in that case all he had to do was devalue women. Mission accomplished!
That makes eggs more expensive in comparasion.
Why are eggs so expensive in Sweden, not even fancy organic free range eggs?
Is $3 for 15 eggs expensive? I pay $3.50 for a dozen in the Netherlands
The price is in Swedish kroner its about $3.20 for 15 eggs.
Actually that’s significantly cheaper than Norway rn. If it weren’t for the price of fuel I’d be going on a road trip.
Ok after converting from GBP its not quite as overpriced as I first thought on seeing it.
Organic outdoor eggs are about $0.50 an egg in Sweden near me. The eggs in the picture are free-range indoor and are less than $0.10 per egg.
I think everything is expensive in the Nordic countries
They get even cheaper than this as well - this is on sale at Hemköp for the non-organic brand. If you look at Lidl for the same category, the regular price is approximately the same. To get lower you’d have to buy the 24-pack. If you get it on sale, then you’re looking at basically the best price imaginable, probably somewhere below 2 SEK/egg.
non-organic brand
Mineral eggs, straight from caves.
Delicious! Though not quite as good as the meteorite eggs, straight from space.
It’s weird, there is no reason for eggs to be expensive. Eggs are ultra cheap to manufacture. You can do that anywhere and just need some kind of food because they can eat a lot of different things. It doesn’t need precious metals or rare earth or patents or import raw materials - any country can just produce chickens and eggs easily.
So egg prices skyrocketing is either a fundamental dysfunction in a countries economy. Or maybe a political move to influence an election.
Chickens do have vitamin, mineral, and macronutrient requirements to maintain health, produce eggs, and produce the next generation of healthy chicks. So it’s not just “anything” in that sense. Some areas couldn’t support sustained, particularly large-scale, flocks with only inputs from the local environment. That said, they’re not too finicky.
Secondarily, whole flocks, commerical and backyard, are being culled to attempt to contain avian influenza. One human recently died after getting it (they had a backyard flock and also other health problems).
well, losing tens of millions of hens to bird flu is bound to make a dent in the supply side of the supply/demand balance.
This is interesting to see as someone who hasn’t been able to afford to travel. One of the cool things since learning German that I have noticed is that I can read a lot of Swedish and Dutch. Those languages kind of look like a combination of English and German with alternative spelling to me now.
This is how knowing Russian/Ukrainian/Belarusian feels.
Yeah I would say there’s a spectrum of intelligibility of English - Dutch - Swedish - German.
I noticed you excluded Danish.
Before English standardized, you could be in different parts of what is now england and hear ‘egges’ and ‘eier’ depending on which languages influenced things.
Ägg is not what I expected the Swedish word for egg to be.
Ä is the swedish way of writing ae: “aegg”. Basically identical to the english pronunciation, but the vowel is a little higher in the mouth.
Apparently the English pronunciation is actually adopted from the norse word, instead of the older “Ei” germanic etymology. If English hadn’t adopted the Norse pronunciation, it would be closer to “Ey”.
its actually pronounced almost identically
I do feel the need to point out that the people posting the astronomical egg prices tend to live in the most expensive areas of the country, and don’t do themselves any favors in terms of their choice of local grocery store.
Eggs are $4 for 12 at Aldi. While that’s a little more than twice what they usually are, it isn’t really the biggest deal in the grand scheme of things for an individual consumer.
R$25, or ~4 dollars for 30 eggs in Brazil
You’re getting scammed bro; there is a store in my city that sell them 30 eggs for R$15 (2.58 USD on current quotation) and I live on the Ribeirão Preto region of São Paulo in a small city.
uai, eu moro no DF 🤷♂️
It’s about 5-6000 KRW/30 eggs here in Seoul, provided you go for the cheapest ones, so about $4 per 30.
Everything else is ridiculously expensive though
