I have not bought any eggs in about a year or so. The price of food keeps increasing and this is one of the more egregious examples. Sure there’s the bird flu outbreak, but I wouldn’t be surprised if prices are being increased far beyond the actual cost.

According to the following, the average egg price for a dozen large grade A eggs in December of 2024 was about $4.15: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000708111

According to the following, a large egg is classified as at least 2oz in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_egg_sizes

So that means it is about $2.77/lb of egg. According to the following, you can get whole chicken for cheaper: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000706111

They cannot be everywhere, but they’re certainly trying with ever-increasing surveillance and AI to go through all that data.

I didn’t watch it but I still heard all about it.

Yet a robot made specifically to cook burgers, a job disparaged as simply “burger flipping”, has yet to make any inroads even though it’s been talked about since at least as far back as 2012: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/burger-making-robot-could-revolutionize-202800987.html