WEST SPRINGFIELD, MA (WGGB/WSHM) – If you’ve been to the grocery store lately, you may have noticed there aren’t a lot of eggs on the shelves in some areas. A supply shortage caused by the bird flu is limiting supply and driving prices up. “It’s a big circle. When prices go up drastically, it hits the average consumer [because] Chicopee is full of middle class and low income people, so it affects their budget,” said Rajesh Sanghvi, owner of Shell Food Mart and Cookie Haven in Chicopee.
When you think of the avian flu, you often think of eggs, but eggs go into many things like cookies and we’re getting answers on how a local business that sells baked goods is being impacted. “So making the dough, we need eggs and the prices of eggs are rising day-by-day, so the cost of cookies has gone up,” Sanghvi explained.
Sanghvi and his wife own convenience stores across Chicopee, including one on Grove Street, where they sell their homemade cookies, but with the egg shortage from the avian flu, he told Western Mass News that they’re taking a pretty big hit on their profit margins and he added that one state law isn’t helping. “Massachusetts has this law to only sell [cage-free] eggs, so that is in short supply,” he noted…