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35 sats \ 0 replies \ @justin_shocknet 20 Feb \ on: Stop blaming rising egg prices on market power econ
Eggs are a loss leader for grocery stores, and most of the supply chain is sized to volume, so the example of stores selling out of eggs instead of raising prices isn't counter-indicative of market power
Strays from the point regardless, the centralized force of government demanded millions of birds be (needlessly) destroyed toward the end of last / early this year and it takes the supply side a year to recover from that because you can't just manifest laying birds instantly