- Wholesale egg prices, which retailers pay to suppliers, are falling quickly.
- They were at $1.22 a dozen on April 26, according to Urner Barry data. That’s down from a record $5.46 in December.
- Prices jumped when a historic and deadly outbreak of bird flu in the U.S. ran headlong into peak demand around the winter holidays.
- Supply and demand pressures have eased. But retailers have discretion to pass (or not pass) savings on to consumers.