alt Hacker NewsI'm also in the PNW. The egg thing seemed weird to me when the local organic eggs didn't budge at all. We had bird deaths in the wild from the flu as well, so I know it was out here.
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LorenPechtel • today at 8:22 PM
Not weird. In general egg demand is very inelastic. Businesses selling products containing eggs do not change their output based on egg prices.
However, specialty eggs sold to consumers rather than businesses will be much more elastic, and thus there will be much less price change with supply changes.
This reminds me of a big fraud in my country: a bunch of farmers sold normal eggs as organic. As you know the difference in price is big enough to make it worthwhile.