If you haven’t noticed, eggs are incredibly expensive right now, a phenomenon being experienced across the United States.
The consequences of bird flu in 2022 and the continued inflationary costs affecting food and fuel have been blamed of prices that increased by 135% on average in December, although there have also been price collusion accusations.
If you’ve been shopping recently, you may have experienced a surprise for your dozen eggs, so we’ve been to the Twin Cities’ top grocery stores to track down how much each charges for eggs.
Here are some of the key themes we encountered:
- Organic eggs are in many cases cheaper than caged and cage-free varieties.
- You’ll find a dozen eggs cheaper at upscale grocery stores than at some of the generally cheaper national chains like Target and Walmart.
- Buying in packs of 18, 24, 30 or more is unsurprisingly the most cost-effective.
Here’s a price breakdown:
Aldi
Price(s) 6310 Penn Ave. S., Richfield, Jan. 31.
- Large Golden Chicken Eggs: $4.99/dozen
Cooperative
Taken from Linden Hills Co-op, January 31.
- Phil’s Medium Cage-Free: $3.99/dozen.
- Schultz Farms Organic Large: $4.99/dozen.
- St. Croix Valley Free Range Large: $5.99/dozen.
- Large locally placed pasture-raised: $5.99/dozen.
- Locally Placed Grass Raised X-Large: $6.49/dozen.
- Organic Valley Organic Free Range: $6.49/dozen.
- Vital Farms Pasture Raised: $7.99/dozen.
- Vital Farms Pasture Raised Organic: $8.99/dozen.
puppy food
Taken from York Avenue, Edina, January 29.
- Large White Puppy: $3.99/dozen.
- Cub White X-Large: $4.29/dozen.
- Wild Harvest Organic Large: $4.99/dozen.
- Wild Harvest Large Cage Free: $5.79/dozen.
- Wild Harvest Omega-3 Large: $5.79/dozen.
- Nellie’s Free Range: $5.99/dozen.
- Egg-Land’s Best Organic: $5.99/dozen.
- Egg-Land’s Best Cage-Free: $5.99/dozen.
- Pete & Gerry’s Organic Large: $7.69/dozen.
- Egg-Land’s Best Cage-Free: $7.99/18.
Egg-Land’s Best Farm Fresh: $7.99/18. - Nellie’s Free Field: $9.19/18
fresh thyme
Fresh Thyme, St. Louis Park, January 31.
- Large Cageless Fresh Thyme: $4.49/dozen.
- Born Free Free-Range Large: $5.49/dozen.
- Happy Egg Co. Free Range Large: $5.49/dozen (down from $6.49)
- Schultz Farms X-Large Organic: $5.99/dozen.
- Large Organic Fresh Thyme: $5.99/dozen.
- Handsome Brook Farms Organic Pasture-Raised Large: $5.99/dozen (down from $6.49)
- Vital Farms Pasture-Raised: $6.49/dozen (down from $8.99)
- Egg-Land’s Best Organic: $6.99/dozen.
- Happy Egg Co. Organic Free Range Large: $6.99/dozen.
- Happy Egg Co. Heritage Blue & Brown: $7.49/dozen (was $8.99)
- Vital Farms Pasture-Raised Organic: $7.49/dozen (down from $9.99)
- Happy Egg Co. Free Range Large: $7.99/18
hy-vee
Hy-Vee Robbinsdale, January 31
- That’s smart! Large: $3.89/dozen.
- Large Hy-Vee: $3.99/dozen.
- Hy-Vee Free Range Large: $3.99/dozen.
- Hy-Vee X-Large: $4.29/dozen.
- Hy-Vee Jumbo: $4.49/dozen.
- Egg-Land’s Best Large: $4.99/dozen.
- Farmers Hen House Free-Range: $4.99/dozen.
- One Step Large Brown: $4.99/dozen.
- Cage-Free Hy-Vee: $5.98/18
- Large Hy-Vee: $5.98/18.
- Extra Large Hy-Vee: $6.43/18
Kowalski’s
chicago avenue, minneapolis On January 31.
- Kowalski’s Organic Large: $4.29/dozen.
- Kowalski’s Organic X-Large: $4.49/dozen.
- Egg-Land’s Best 12 Large: $4.49/dozen.
- Large locally placed pasture-raised: $4.89/dozen.
- Country Lane X-Large: $5.29/dozen.
- Kowalski’s Organic Pasture: $6.49/dozen.
- Large Country Lane: $7.29/18
- Farmers Hen House Free Range Organic: $7.89/dozen.
Lunds and Byerlys
50 and France, Edina, on January 31.
- Farmers Hen House Cage-Free Large white: $3.99/dozen.
- Lunds & Byerlys Organic Large: $4.39/dozen.
- Lunds & Byerlys Organic X-Large: $4.49/dozen.
- Egg-Land’s Best Large: $4.99/dozen.
- Country Lane Large: $5.39/dozen.
- Country Lane X-Large: $5.49/dozen.
- Useful Hens Organic Free Range Large: $5.99/dozen.
- Farmers Hen House Organic Large: $6.29/dozen.
- Egg-Land’s Best Large Organic: $6.49/dozen.
- Helpful Large Pasture-Raised Organic Chickens: $6.99/dozen.
- Large Country Lane: $7.99/18.
Aim
Outside 66th St., Richfield on January 30.
- Egg-Land’s Best Large: $4.99/dozen.
- Egg-Land’s Best Cage-Free Large: $5.69/dozen.
- Good & Gather Large Fresh: $5.89/dozen.
- Good & Gather Large Cage Free: $6.29/dozen.
- Good & Gather Organic Large: $6.89/dozen.
- Egg-Land’s Best Organic: $6.99/dozen.
- Egg-Land’s Best Large: $7.29/18
- Vital Farms Pasture-Raised Large: $7.39/dozen.
- Good & Gather Large Fresh: $8.59/18
- Egg-Land’s Best Large: $9.19/24
- Good & Gather Large Fresh: $13.99/30
Trader Joe
Washington Ave., Minneapolis on January 30.
- Cage-Free Large Brown: $3.29/dozen
- Extra Large Cage-Free Brown: $3.49/dozen
- Organic Omega-3 Large Brown: $4.49/dozen
- Grade A Large: $4.49/dozen
- Large Brown: $4.99/dozen
- Chino Valley Pasture-Raised Large Brown: $4.99/dozen
- Organic Jumbo Brown: $4.99/dozen
- Pasture-Raised Organic Big Brown: $6.49/dozen
walmart
W. American Blvd, Bloomington on January 30.
- Marketside Large Organic: $5.14/dozen.
- Egg-Land’s Best Cage-Free: $5.48/dozen.
- Great Value Large White: $5.80/dozen.
- Marketside without Large Cage: $7.24/18
- Great Value White Jumbo: $7.26/dozen.
- Great Value Large White: $8.57/18
- Great Value Cage-Free White: $12.02/18
- Great Value Large White: $17.06/36
- Grade A Large White Eggs: $19.98/60.
Whole-grain foods
Hennepin Ave. and Washington Ave., Minneapolis on Jan. 30.
- Largest Cageless 365: $3.39/dozen
- Schultz Organic Farm Large: $4.29/dozen
- 365 Organic Cage-Free Plus Omega-3 Large: $4.39/dozen
- Schultz Organic Farm Jumbo: $4.69/dozen
- Organic Valley Free Range: $5.49/dozen
- 365 Large Pasture-Raised Brown: $5.69/dozen
- Pete & Gerry’s Organic Free Range: $6.49/dozen
- Farmers Free Range Organic: $6.69/dozen
- Vital Farms Pasture-Raised: $6.79/dozen
- Valley Organic Grass Raised: $6.99/dozen
- Pete & Gerry’s Large: $7.69/dozen
- Vital Farms Organic Large: $7.99/dozen
- Vital Farms Organic Pasture-Raised: $8.49/dozen
- Farmers Jumbo Hen House Free Range Organic: $8.69/dozen
- Vital Farms Restorative: $9.99/dozen
- Vital Farms Raised Organic: $11.49/18
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