January '25 Inflation highest in a year

[QuarterMillionMan]

Can someone please explain to me why chicken meat hasn't seen the same high price inflation as eggs.

[james.hendrickson]

Can someone please explain to me why chicken meat hasn't seen the same high price inflation as eggs.

Different types of chickens? Maybe only the laying hens were slaughtered? Not the chickens that are raised for meat?

[ua_guy]

Yes, bird flu has impacted egg-laying chickens (raised for their eggs) more so than broiler chickens (raised for meat).

[Fishindude77]

Can someone please explain to me why chicken meat hasn't seen the same high price inflation as eggs.

I think the price of chicken (meat) has risen considerably over the past couple years.
Stopped at a Wal Mart about a week ago and was going to buy a whole bird to cut up and fry and they didn't even have any whole birds. Used to be able to buy whole birds for $6-7 each, they run $10-12 or more now.

[LivingAlmostLarge]

I think the price of chicken (meat) has risen considerably over the past couple years.
Stopped at a Wal Mart about a week ago and was going to buy a whole bird to cut up and fry and they didn't even have any whole birds. Used to be able to buy whole birds for $6-7 each, they run $10-12 or more now.

doesn't look ilike it's going back down.

[ua_guy]

Looks like lumber and dairy are the next big tariff items after the huge tariff disaster this week. Oof. As if food and housing prices weren't high enough.

[QuarterMillionMan]

I was considering buying Just Egg which is a plant based product due to high egg prices. But after seeing the ingredient list no thanks. Would you try it?

Just Egg is made with the following ingredients:

Public Health+2

• Water
• Mung Bean Protein Isolate
• Expeller-Pressed Canola Oil
• Dehydrated Onion
• Gellan Gum
• Natural Carrot Extractives (color)
• Natural Flavors
• Natural Turmeric Extractives (color)
• Potassium Citrate
• Salt
• Soy Lecithin
• Sugar
• Tapioca Syrup
• Tetrasodium Pyrophosphate
• Transglutaminase
• Nisin (preservative)

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[disneysteve]

I was considering buying Just Egg which is a plant based product due to high egg prices. But after seeing the ingredient list no thanks. Would you try it?

Not unless I was vegan. Eggs are $4.99/dozen here. That's not going to move the needle on our spending as an 18-pack lasts us a couple of weeks.

[Fishindude77]

Same here, we probably average a dozen eggs a week.
If they double to $6 that's $150 per year. Not enough to make us change our shopping routine or diet.

[QuarterMillionMan]

I predict soon like a lot of stories in Los Angeles you’ll be lucky if you can find eggs on your store’s shelves. Then what?

[ua_guy]

Inflation slowed to 2.8% for February, down from 3% in January. The market was able to tread water today on the upbeat news. The tricky part is knowing if inflation is slowing because the economy is shrinking, and that is potentially bad news. It's also bad news if inflation starts rising because of tariffs. Until now it's been mostly talk...tariffs are now transacting.

Rumors are that consumer spending is tapering. I think Q1 results could be very mixed, if not overall negative.

[disneysteve]

I predict soon like a lot of stories in Los Angeles you’ll be lucky if you can find eggs on your store’s shelves. Then what?

We happened to be in Whole Foods last week (we don't shop there) and their egg cases were empty with signs saying they haven't been able to secure a supply of eggs that meet their guidelines. The normal supermarkets are fully stocked though. Wegmans does have a sign up that there is a limit of 10 dozen per transaction which is irrelevant to most people I'm sure. I guess they just don't want restaurant owners coming and cleaning out the case.

[ua_guy]

Eggs were up something like another 10% over the last month.

Egg prices never weighed on our personal budget. We just don't eat that many of them. But egg prices do bump any food price in which they are an ingredient, and that's a lot of foods! I have not seen "egg surcharges" yet on menus locally (independent restaurants) but if prices keep going up, I wouldn't doubt that those are coming soon.

[myrdale]

Gasoline is now $0.40 cheaper per gallon that it was a year ago!

[ua_guy]

Gasoline is now $0.40 cheaper per gallon that it was a year ago!

Sadly, I've lost several years worth of annual gasoline purchases in the market and other assets in just 2 months. Not worth it.

at work!