Judy Simon noticed something strange during her Thursday evening grocery trip in Redmond. The shelves held no chicken eggs, only a few cartons of quail eggs.
Limited and increasingly expensive egg options for grocery shoppers across the region and the nation are becoming common amid the ongoing avian influenza outbreak. The Consumer Price Index shows a roughly 45% increase from January to November 2024 in the U.S. city average price for a dozen large grade-A eggs.
In Seattle, a dozen eggs at the grocery store consistently cost shoppers upward of $6.99 and some grocers are now limiting customers to a maximum of two cartons…