New York City shoppers call price of eggs 'ridiculous' amid rising prices
Grocery stores posted notices on the doors of where customers can grab eggs, saying the bird flu is to blame.
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As bird flu outbreaks continue to impact the supply of eggs, shoppers say prices are skyrocketing. They are questioning whether they're being taken advantage of.
Recent detections of bird flu in live poultry markets forced Gov. Kathy Hochul to order temporary shutdowns across New York.
Shoppers now tell News 12 they feel that every week that egg prices continue to rise.
Grocery stores recognize the price increase, even posting notices on the doors where customers can grab eggs. The stores say that the bird flu is to blame.
The Adli's in Soundview is one of the stores setting limits on how many cartons of eggs customers can buy.
Some people tell News 12 that they feel companies are price gouging or overcharging on top of the increase of supply costs.
But an economics professor at Fordham University says he doesn't think that's the case. He says this is about supply and demand.
"The thing you have to remember is if a bird contracts the bird flu, they apparently stop giving eggs. Those birds are killed. So now we have to wait for new birds and we have to wait for them to grow up and be old enough to start laying eggs," said Giacomo Santangelo, senior economics lecturer at Fordham University. "I think we are actually seeing them passing the increase in their costs onto the consumer."
Anyone who believes a store is price gouging is encouraged to report it to the New York state Attorney General's Office.
