Waffle House buys 300 million eggs a year — so far they’re just eating the impact of higher costs, haven’t raised prices to offset the egg move:
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H‑E‑B, an absolute Texas legend of a store, is similar:
“Costs have now gone to over $4 for a dozen large eggs, but we have priced them [to consumers] below $4, which means we are losing millions of dollars a month selling eggs.”
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If every fluctuation in food prices got politicized we’d never eat. What did eggs do to get this treatment.
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I thought your tweet said “White House” and first and was quite confused. Thinking “does the government subsidize eggs? Is it possible the President and his team eat 300 million eggs a year?”
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Have you been to Waffle House lately… they are not eating the cost of anything.
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Procter & Gamble raised prices 10 percent last quarter from a year earlier, up from a 9 percent price increase in the previous quarter.
nytimes.com/2023/01/19/bus.
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