Erin Roaler often orders grocery items from complete foods through his owner, Amazon.
But recently, eggs have been rare on the site, the West Loop resident said.
“It just states that they are all out of stock – every type of eggs,” Ruhaler said.
At lunch on Tuesday, Roaler entered the egg section of a complete food item on the North Helved Street and faced a sign posted at the glass door of the refrigerated egg section: “We currently have our strict animal welfare Eggs that meet the standards are experiencing difficulty in sourcing. , For now, we are limiting the purchase of customer (three) compartments per customer. ,
Avian Influenza has forced farmers to kill millions of chickens, which helps double the price of US eggs in summer of 2023. In December, a dozen nationwide average price was $ 4.15 hit, and USDA prediction prices are going to rise from 20 % this year.
In some parts of the country, shopkeepers are finding empty egg shelves in their local grocery stores. And some grocery stores are limiting how many coaches can buy shopkeepers.
Lots of eggs, prices available in Chicago stores are climbing.
Rohaler shops where a dozen additional large, organic, grade A eggs were going from important fields to $ 10.49 in Halster Hole Foods. In the West Loop Hole Foods on South Canal Street, a dozen large, important fields from grade A eggs cost $ 7.99.
On Tuesday, a dozen big grade A eggs from James Farm will set a shopkeeper back $ 7.29 from James Farm on a large -scale empty shelf in the South Loop Market on West Van Buren Street. Large jewel grade A eggs were on sale for a dozen in a Jewel-Osco in Wicker Park for $ 5.99.
In a Mariano in River North, where a dozen large grade A eggs from simple trousers are free from cage and grain cost $ 7.29, customers were not allowed to buy eggs of more than two coaches.
A posted indication stated, “Due to the lack of recent supply, the cost of the source eggs that meet our strict quality standards have increased significantly.”
This week, Mariano’s Revengewood Dutch Farms was offering a grade, laying a large egg on sale for $ 7.99 per dozen. The price of a cage-free, organic egg for a carton of 18 eggs was $ 10.99. The store was also limiting the purchase of two coaches per customer.
Jetty Bradeshaw, who was pushing a car around the North Maryano River at lunch, said that he buys eggs almost every time when he goes to a grocery store almost every time.
In the last month, Bradshow has some difficulty finding eggs. He said that he has gone to some grocery stores, which had no eggs. But he said that he did not fully realize about bird flu.
“I don’t think I knew it had to do it with the flu,” Bradshow said. “I have seen some news moving. But really, I really did not pay attention to it. I knew that something was going on. ,
Bradshaw said that the egg shelf Starc was seen in the store.
In Hole Foods on North Helved Street, Kevin Miao was getting some regular grocery purchases on Tuesday.
Miao, who lives near Hole Foods, said that the bird flu is on its radar since the end of the tail of 2024.
“We heard about it at the end of the last year around thanksgiving and Christmas,” he said. “But we did not really notice it locally until the beginning of this year.”
Now about half time Miyo goes to the grocery store, the egg shelf looks “like empty”, he said. One or two, the store is out of the egg.
“Never mind. We can leave one day. … It is not the end of the world,” said Miao.
A bird flu outbreak that began in 2022 is the main reason that is shot in egg prices. When the virus is found on a poultry farm, the entire herd is slaughtered to help limit the spread of the virus. And housing up to a million or more chickens with large -scale egg fields, simply some infections may lead to a lack of supply.
More than 145 million chickens, turkey and other birds have been slaughtered since the current outbreak has been launched, most of which are accompanied by egg laying chickens.
One of the country’s top egg growers confirmed on Tuesday that one of its fields had conducted positive tests for bird flu cases. Rose acres of fields, which say that it is the second largest egg producer in the US, issued a statement saying that he had discovered cases of avian influenza at a field in the border of Indiana.
More than five dozen people have become ill with bird flu and one person has died since March. Almost all of them worked around sick animals. Health officials have not found evidence of the disease that is spreading from someone to another.