
If you hadn’t noticed, eggs are very expensive right now, a phenomenon that is rampant in the United States.
The fallout from bird flu in 2022 and ongoing inflationary costs affecting feed and fuel were responsible for prices soaring by an average of 135% in December, although there were also allegations of collusion on prices.
If you’ve been shopping lately, you may have suffered sticker shock for your dozen eggs, so we hit up the major grocery stores in the Twin Cities to find out how much each charges for eggs.
Here are some of the key themes we found:
- Organic eggs are in many cases less expensive than non-caged and caged varieties.
- You’ll find a dozen eggs cheaper at high-end 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 is a breakdown of the prices:
Aldi
Price(s) from 6310 Penn Ave. S., Richfield, January 31st.
- Large Goldhen Eggs: $4.99/dozen
Cooperative
From Linden Hills Co-op, January 31.
- Phil’s Medium Cage-Free: $3.99/dozen.
- Schultz Farms Large Organic: $4.99/dozen.
- St. Croix Valley Free Rangeed Large: $5.99/dozen.
- Large locally laid pasture-raised: $5.99/dozen.
- X-Large locally raised on pasture: $6.49/dozen.
- Organic Valley Organic Free Range: $6.49/dozen.
- Vital Farms high pasture: $7.99/dozen.
- Vital Farms Pasture Raised Organic: $8.99/dozen.
Food for Cubs
Taken from York Avenue, Edina, on January 29th.
- Cub White Large: $3.99/dozen.
- Cub White X-Large: $4.29/dozen.
- Wild Harvest Organic Large: $4.99/dozen.
- Wild Harvest Cage-Free Large: $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 cageless: $7.99/18.
Egg-Land’s Best Farm Fresh: $7.99/18. - Nellie’s Free Range: $9.19/18
Fresh thyme
Fresh thyme, Saint-Louis park, January 31.
- Fresh thyme without cage large: $4.49/dozen.
- Born Free Free-Range Large: $5.49/dozen.
- Happy Egg Co. Free Range Large: $5.49/dozen (was $6.49)
- Schultz Farms X-Large Organic: $5.99/dozen.
- Fresh large organic thyme: $5.99/dozen.
- Handsome Brook Farms Large Organic Pasture Raised: $5.99/dozen (was $6.49)
- Vital Farms Pasture-Raised: $6.49/dozen (was $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 Organic Pasture Raised: $7.49/dozen (was $9.99)
- Happy Egg Co. Free Range Large: $7.99/18
Hy Vee
Hy-Vee Robbinsdale, Jan 31
- Clever ! Large: $3.89/dozen.
- Hy-Vee Large: $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.
- Hy-Vee without cage: $5.98/18
- Hy-Vee Large: $5.98/18.
- Hy-Vee X-Large: $6.43/18
At Kowalski’s
Chicago Ave., Minneapolis on Jan. 31.
- Kowalski Organic Large: $4.29/dozen.
- Kowalski’s Organic X-Large: $4.49/dozen.
- Egg-Land’s Best 12 Large: $4.49/dozen.
- Large locally laid pasture-raised: $4.89/dozen.
- Country Lane X-Large: $5.29/dozen.
- Kowalski Organic Pasture: $6.49/dozen.
- Large country road: $7.29/18
- Farmers Hen House Free Range Organic: $7.89/dozen.
Lunds & Byerlys
50th and France, Edina, 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.
- Helpful Hens Organic Free Range Large: $5.99/dozen.
- Farmers Hen House Organic Large: $6.29/dozen.
- Egg-Land’s Best Organic Large: $6.49/dozen.
- Useful large organic pasture-raised hens: $6.99/dozen.
- Large Country Road: $7.99/18.
Target
Off 66th Street, Richfield on January 30.
- Egg-Land’s Best Large: $4.99/dozen.
- Egg-Land’s Best Non-Cage Large: $5.69/dozen.
- Good & Gather Large Fresh: $5.89/dozen.
- Good & Gather Cage-Free Large: $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 Large High Pasture: $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’s
Washington Ave., Minneapolis on Jan. 30.
- Large brown without cage: $3.29/dozen
- Extra large brown without cage: $3.49/dozen
- Large organic brown omega-3: $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 Large Brown: $6.49/dozen
walmart
American Blvd. W., Bloomington Jan. 30.
- Marketside Large Organic: $5.14/dozen.
- Egg-Land’s Best Cage Free: $5.48/dozen.
- Great Value Large White: $5.80/dozen.
- Marketside Cage-Free Large: $7.24/18
- Great value jumbo white: $7.26/dozen.
- Great Value Large White: $8.57/18
- Great Value Uncaged White: $12.02/18
- Great Value Large White: $17.06/36
- Grade A large white eggs: $19.98/60.
whole foods
Hennepin Ave. and Washington Ave., Minneapolis on Jan. 30.
- 365 Cage-Free Larger: $3.39/dozen
- Large Schultz Organic Farm: $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 Pasture Raised Large Brown: $5.69/dozen
- Pete & Gerry Organic Free Range: $6.49/dozen
- Farmers Free Range Organic: $6.69/dozen
- Vital Farms Pasture: $6.79/dozen
- Organic Valley Pasture: $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 Restorer: $9.99/dozen
- Vital Farms Organic: $11.49/18