February 26, 2025 • 31 mins
Egg prices are skyrocketing right now due to the impact that the bird flu has had on the nation’s poultry population. The U.S. Department of Agriculture released a report this week saying the agency predicts that egg prices will increase 41% this year. The USDA also reported that retail egg prices increased 13.8% in January. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has laid out a plan to lower egg prices, in which we will discuss. What are you seeing for egg prices in your area and have you cut back on egg consumption?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
By the way, during our discussion of high energy prices
in Massachusetts, with the exception of one call from Canada,
we did not hear from any other states. So I'm
wondering if this is a problem that is limited to Massachusetts,
because frankly, on most nights we end up with a
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lot of callers from a lot of different states. So
we're going to kind of change topics here and go
to the price of eggs. The agricultural agriculture secretary the
Trump administration is a woman named Brooke Rawlins. I have
no idea what her background is. Obviously she's a supporter
of Donald Trump. She's the Secretary of Agriculture. So she
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in the Wall Street Journal today talked about this and
talked about what she would like to do. She said,
there's no silver. She talks about the Avian flu. Okay,
we can't blame anyone for the Avian flu, to the
best of my knowledge. Okay, but she makes out the
point that the price of eggs under Biden's presidency rose
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twenty percent, but the average price of eggs rose gross
like that strike that She says grocery prices rose by
twenty percent under President Biden. That's a lot. But the
average price of a dozen eggs went up two hundred
and thirty seven percent from one hundred from a dollar
forty seven in January twenty twenty one to four ninety
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five last month. That's a lot. Okay, there were some
places where people are paying six, seven or ten dollars. Now.
A part of this is avian flu, which has, according
to her, state of American poultry farmers and slash the
egg supply over the past two years. You can't blame
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Joe Biden for the avian flu. Okay. However, she said
the Biden aminonistration did little, So what is she going
to do. She's announcing a strategy to combat avian flu.
The Agriculture Department invest the billion dollars to currup the
crisis and make eggs affordable again. Here's the problem. Donald
(02:25):
Trump said that when he gets into office, he's going
to do this, this, and this. He's now been in
office for a month. Eventually these problems. The longer you're
in office, you basically assumed these problems. I'm not willing
to blame Donald Trump tonight for the price of eggs.
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But I want to watch what this Secretary of Agriculture
is gonna do. She says, we have a five prong strategy. First,
we'll dedicate up to five hundred million dollars helping US
poultry producers implement gold standard biosecurity measures. Okay, that's fine.
She says that she went to an egg production farm
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in Texas, stringent members to prevent contamination, vehicles hosed down
before entering the property. I've never really been to a
chicken farm as it were, but I've been to a
turkey farm. They're pretty dirty. Okay, so she said. Second,
we'll make up to well, we will make up to
four hundred million dollars of increased financial aid available to
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farmers whose flocks are affected by avian flu. I. Like,
you know, if you're going to spend some government money,
that's okay. Third, the USDA US Department of Agricultures exploring
the use of vaccines and therapeutics for laying chickens. While
vaccines on a standalone solution, We'll provide up to a
hundred million in research and development of a vaccines and
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therapeutics to improve their efficacy, and efficiency. I like that
this should help reduce the need to here's one of
those euphemisms depopular flocks that means killed chickens, which means
killing chickens on a farm with as an outbreak. Fourth,
in addition to tackling avian flud, will take other actions
to lower the price of eggs. For starters, we'll remove
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unnecessary regulatory burdens and egg producers where possible. This will
include examining the best way to protect farmers from overly
prescriptive state laws, such as California's Prop. Twelve, which established
minimum space requirements for egg laying hens. Well with the
number of eggs who have been depopulated, the hens probably
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have more space now than they've ever had before. But
in California, the average price of a dozen eggs nine
dollars and sixty eight cents. And finally, we'll consider temporary
import options to reduce egg costs in the short term.
Import eggs, okay, we will proceed with imports only if
the eggs meet string in US safety standards and if
we determine that doing so won't jeopardize American farmers' access
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to markets in the future. So that's a policy. That's
a plan. I like it. What are you paying for
eggs and what are you doing? I had I wanted
to have eggs this morning. We have eggs in the refrigerator.
But I had pancakes. I had blueberry pancakes this morning.
That was my action of the day. And you know
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I had tonight for dinner, I had a salad. It
took a little extra effort to make a salad. Then
it did just just do a can of soup. But
I feel better having had a salad. So we got
to start thinking when you go to the store. If
you look at those expensive cookie brands, don't buy them.
I see cookies now well known cookies that used to
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be two fifty package then now four bucks for what
I don't know. Don't buy them. Let them sit there,
let them go stale. That's all. We got to be
smarter as consumers. It's as simple as that. Let's go
to call. I'm going to go to Rick and Bill.
Rick or Rick, appreciate you calling in. You are first
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on the question of eggs, the price of eggs. How
are you Rick?
Speaker 3 (06:09):
I'm doing well and I love eggs and they're a
good source source of protein. Absolutely and yeah, and I
haven't purchased them in recent times because of the inflated
prices have the bill Rick and market Basket, but they
actually do a pretty good job of bringing pressure how much.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
If you remember how much of eggs? How much are eggs?
I'm going to go to market Basket some day later
this week because I always save money when I go
to market Basket.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Well, you do the qualities. The quality is fine, you know,
Shaws and Wegmans can be higher quality and sometimes better.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
But it's good.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
You're not really you're right.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I mean I've never had I've never bought a product
at uh at at Wegman's. Uh that that turned quickly.
I've bought products at most other supermarkets. Strawberries, I love strawberries,
and you know, they're in the refrigerator for a day
and a half and all of a sudden you realize
there's a couple of rotten strawberries in there. Are that
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are moldy. Never had that happen at market Basket.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Oh okay, I mean this is where I always went
as a kid when I grew up in Burlington, and
my father used to go there in the seventies, and
so I just I'm down the street from my house
is located down the street.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
So I go, what what an exit market basket?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
I think I haven't checked the exact price, but I
thought I thought a few weeks back or a month ago,
I was looking at prices at five or six dollars
something like that.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I would have dot that. I will doubt that, and
I'll tell you I'll doubt that.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
I'll tell you what because I'm not positive.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
No, no, no. I bought eggs at Shaw's the other day.
I think it was four ninety five, which again, you know,
you buy one dozen eggs, which you're going to hold
you for. You know, even with a family, you're going
to hold you for a couple of weeks. When the
price of gas line up, you were buying ten gallons
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at a time, it has cost you a three bucks
more per gallon. So that's it's really hitting you. I'll
pay four ninety five for eggs in the short term
because there they are, as you say, an important product.
If anybody out there has bought eggs and market basket
in the last week, I'll bet you it's less than
four ninety five.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
I hope, yeah, because I checked a little bit back. Yeah,
and I don't want to. I mean I wasn't checking everybody.
Oftentimes you they don't put them well, they do in
market basket, but you don't always see the price of things.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
It probably I haven't market I can go into market
basket and buy progressive soup two for five dollars and
so on a night. And I'm lazy and I want
to have and I'm just I don't want to cook
anything or make a salad team. I'll throw a can
of minister and soup.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
If you go into Shawls or something like that, that
same cana soup is going to be three ninety nine.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
It's going to be a lot more expensive. I wish
you could buy a stick of butter. You can't do
that anymore. It seems I went to market Basco. I
was trying to find a stick of butter. So I
made a deal with my brother. I said, buy a
four pack and I'll buy two from you today. That's sweet.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
But butter doesn't really good. But boy is that butter
doesn't really go bad? Right?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
No, it really doesn't. I mean you can leave butter out,
can I tell you?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Can I tell you? And awaken one any secret about butter.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Please, butter will.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Help you lose weight. Yes. I was stunned to find
that because when I first started with Awaken one eighty,
I said, well, you I used butter on sandwiches. Said
what's the problem with that? I said, well, I assume butter.
You know, I gotta eliminate butter. No, no, so I
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use butter in I and it hasn't put It hasn't
impacted my weight loss at all.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
No, you're in good shape.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
I me in better shape now than it was ten
years ago. I'll tell you that I was five to
eight one sixty eight at this point.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Well, you've been there for ten years. Don't don't lose
any more than that. But I got to lose about
fifteen or twenty pounds, get to one ninety five, that
would be good. I just thank you for that tidbit
on the waking money. I appreciate that a lot. I
just wanted to say, I know you're not talking about
the energy, but I just want to say thank you
for bringing all this stuff up about the ones that
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the heads of the it's the heads of the Department
of Energy that were elected.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Department of policies, the people basically governor Healy should going
and bowl them all out.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
So guess what, And I agree with you because you know,
if we if we could have brought them the price
I uh five instead of a we could have got
a reduction on a better deal at ten. That companies
will say, we'll give you a ten. And she says five.
That's a clear indication that they don't care about the
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American consumer.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
It would be like, you know, I don't know what
you I don't know what you do for a job.
Let me just assume your your work for a company
hypothetically and you you know, but I'm saying if you
work for company and you go into your boss and
you know, you say, you have been here a couple
of years, and uh, you know, I'd like to get
a little raise, and the boss says, well, what are
you looking for? And well, you know, I've been here
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for I haven't had a raisin. I'd like three percent
and he says three percent. And then you find out
from somebody, well the other people went in and asked
for eight percent and they gave eight percent. You're going
to say to yourself, the DPU said to the utilities
cut the rates in Marching April five, percent, big deal.
They came the companies came back a national grid and
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Everso's came back and said, we'll see you five percent
and we'll raise the cut to ten. The DPU was
totally out of.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Exactly, fire them.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Fire the three of them say thank you for your service.
We appreciate it, but we're moving on. That's not going
to happen, though. I call on the governor tonight to
fire the three of them. Boom, start from scratch.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
I agree, I agree. I clean a dealership and I
do some sing and I do I do a couple
other things as well. But that's uh. In terms of
the my my two favorite bosses of the dealership. They
give me a raise unless I make a really good
but they take care of me just fine.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Good Rick, I got to run them well into the newscast.
So I got you all right, thank you very much,
Thank you very much. You too. To the rest of
the call is you've only been there a few minutes,
so none of you are going to get the time.
Rick got. Let's pick up the pace. I got one
line open. I want to hear from ten people between
now and midnight. They're I'm going to be solely disappointed.
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The lines are packedful right now, which is the way
I like it. And I got Dallas in Ohio coming back.
We're going to find out what the price of eggs
are at Ohio. I'll bet you they're better than Massachusetts.
I just kind of think so because they have more
farms there. We'll see back on nights Side right after this. Dallas,
you hold on, I'm coming to get you.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on WBS Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Let's go to Dallas in Ohio. Hey, Dallas, welcome back.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Yeah, how you doing, Dan?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
I'm doing great? What the heck the eggs cost in Ohio?
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Okay? I bought a Baker's dozen about about two weeks ago,
and around that time there was shortage, you know, there
was talker shortages on the shelves, and local news was
showing the shelves and some of the stores and they
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had very little eggs on the shell. So I went
to the or in much of my surprise, the store
that I go to, the shelves are loaded and plenty
of eggs, you know, the regular the white eggs and
the brown eggs. So I picked up a Baker's dozen
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and they were less than seven bucks, which kind of surprised.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
That, isn't it. So you got thirty you got thirteen
eggs for seven.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Bucks, actually eighteen.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Oh, so you got eighteen for seven bucks. Okay, that's
a good deal. So you're that you were paying about
four eighty if you if you figured out that out, Yeah,
that's so that's about what I guess people are paying here.
I figured that in a frontal You guys have a
lot more farms and a lot more you know, chicken farms.
There were some cities here in Massachusetts where you can
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keep chickens in your backyard. Okay, now people want to
keep chicken in their backyard.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Well, you could have chickens in the county did I
live in? But you have to have a permit for
them in order to have them.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Yeah, how much did they charge you for the permit?
Speaker 4 (15:16):
I don't know, I really, I really don't know. Ye.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
But yeah, what's the what's the feeling out there towards uh,
what's going on in out of Washington? I mean, it's
been a tumultuous a month and well five weeks now
in Washington. And you know, we talked last night about
maybe some sort of a deal in terms of the
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Ukraine War. Uh, it's been tumultuous, but I guess we've
got to buckle up for the ride.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Yes, that's that's all we can do. Of course. You know,
Ohio as has always been a Republican state, and I
don't know, there's a lot going on. Some people that
you know, could say something, they're really not saying anything,
any kind of quiet. But yeah, I think here we're
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just sitting back and you have you.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Had the Vice President of the United States is from Ohio,
originally from Kentucky, but you know it was it was
your one of your two senators there for a while.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Oh I thought it was muss.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Yeah, well I see that his name wasn't on the ticket.
What are you doing, Ohio? You are you still working
or you retired?
Speaker 4 (16:37):
No, I'm retired.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
You tired?
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Did you do?
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Well? You know, I'm in Akron, Ohio, and Akron was
known as the rubber capital of the world. You know
we manufactured uh tires, Well we still do, but small operations.
But I worked for one of the major major corporations
here in my location.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Were you in the tire industry?
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Yes? Yes?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
And did you work You sound to me like you
probably were a white collar guy.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Yes, all of the material materials that go into uh
building a tire. Uh, the department that I worked worked in, Uh,
we tested all of the various materials and uh, you
know that go into manufacturing building a tire. Yeah, I
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you know, some synthetic rubber, natural rubber. You'd be surprised
what goes into attire.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I'll bet, I'll bet you know. I thought that at
one point met the mayor of Akron, Ohio here in
Boston around the time of the Democratic Convention. And I'm
looking at the list of your current mayor is a
guy named Shamas Malik.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
As understand, really nice guy. I'm mad him. He's very personal,
really nice guy.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Yeah, And I for some reason, the name of the
guy who was the mayor doesn't ring a bell. But
I'm pretty sure I had met the mayor of Akron, Ohio.
And I was trying to figure I was trying to
pull the name, but I can't of look at these
pictures and names and say to you, yeah, I met
that guy, was a younger guy, but I don't see
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him here. Don pasqually, he he was your mayor a
long time eighty seven to twenty fifteen, which would have
been around that time, but I don't remember remember him
as being a younger guy, but I know it was
around the time of the Democratic Convention here in Boston. Hey, Dallas,
is always great to hear your voice. I so much
appreciate you calling in, and please continue to do so. Okay, sure, Dan,
(19:03):
I will thank Okay, Bye bye, Ted and ever Ted,
you're next on the nights. I go right ahead, a
little closer to home, Ted, go ahead.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
Hey Dan, A long long time the last time we talked.
I'm a big fan of Reagan and Tip on the
out and that's what we need back.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
In this country.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
I worked my career in consumer goods for years, dealt
with all the major supermarkets. I own convenience stores, so
I get this whole thing from both sides. Uh. This
is the third election I did not vote for either
major candidate. Trump admitted right after he won that he
couldn't do the price of eggs. And then the thing
that you have to understand is I would encourage anybody.
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It was a great article with Times by Faris Stockman
right before the vote to say this is what the
Democrats need to do because the funms are all owned
by big agriculture and the farmers in the South that
were getting hurt the Biden administration actually tain't changed your
anti trust loss to help them that Trump was going
to roll back. But they don't see it that way
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because they can't do the messaging. And when you I
worked for a global Beholmes that when it was owned
by the original people were very good. They would listen
to us about price increases. We get sold out to
private equity and they killed it because they just want
more and more and more. And if you read last month,
read away their earnings were so bad for last year.
They're now doing this thing called value packages for lower prices.
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But gir also didn't get more air in the bag now.
I opened up a bag of popcorn last night and
I couldn't believe it. It was twenty five percent full.
Like literally, it looked like I already ate it before
I opened it. And everything you said is true. People
have to shop smart. Your guy at market Basket is
totally off. I paid four fifty nine last week for
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eighteen eggs, eighteen brown eggs. They had a special package.
So I just think that you know, it's depressing because
I don't think anybody's hearing us and going from what
you said on a state level to anywhere, because there
seems to be no accountability for anybody to do anything.
And people get so fed up because they see so
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much stuff that's wrong. When I was in my convenience stores,
you're forced to take EBT and all these programs when
the people aren't spending the money correctly, and that could
all be fixed immediately. That's all computer software. That's not
a hard thing. But nobody wants to take the bull
by the horns and look at stuff and say when
you know, I shop now, I'm a little handicapped, I
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don't use my phone, I don't shop hungry, and I
walk around and I buy what's needed. It's not like
everyone acts like it's the Blizzard of seventy eight, like
we're not going to go through times again. We're not
going to be able to get to the market in
a few days, and the supermarkets everywhere and this competition,
and I think also people should have looked at Kroger
and safe way we're going to merge. Last year, the
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Kroger CEO admitted to Congress that they price fixed through
COVID admitted it, and the merger did not go through
because they don't need to raise prices that much. And
I think the difference is the bling in their class.
Now there's not enough for them. It's you know, if
they if they were going to drop something to help them,
the stock fights might go on by a ten Okay,
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so maybe they're gonna make ninety million instead of one
hundred and ten millions. And I firmly believe I'm probably
a little younger than you. The generation you come from,
the Reagan tippo'neals of the world. They had shared sacrifice
because they went through stuff together, they could agree to
disagree or whatever that at the end of the day,
they try to do things and everything now it's I'm petrified.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
For the next year.
Speaker 6 (22:35):
I just think the Democrats plan seems to me is
that they just want everything to go as bad as
possible and then I hope they can do something in
the mid terms. It just doesn't seem that I don't
want to hear Liz warn and these people just ranting
and raving that that's not it's you know better than us,
you're an attorney. It's policy that matters. It's what are
you going to do well. It's not my attitude work.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
I want to give Trump a chance, just as they
gave a biden Field miserably on a number of points internationally.
I think that that I don't think he was in
charge about you. We'll see what happens, see what happens.
I got you in before the break, but I gotta
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I gotta scoot, and I got more calls coming in.
Thank you so much for joining us. Please continue to listen,
and I'd like you to call more off because you've
got a point of view. Thank you. Good night. We'll
be back on Nightside. I'm gonna get Jennifer, Matt and
Christine in, I promise, and that'll probably do it for
the night. But we're gonna end up strong. We'll be
right back.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Now, back to Dan Ray Live from the Window World
to Night Side Studios, IBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
All right, back we go. We gonna get everyone in.
Gonna start it off with Jennifer in Boston. Jennifer next
time nights, I go right ahead, Jennifer. Good, what's your
take on all of this price of eggs and things that?
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Well, I'm a pretty savage opera so yeah, I typically
I don't buy things unless it's on sale, Like I'm
that might stock a little bit too, like it depending
on the shelf life or whatever it is, or space
is a factor too. But anyway, with eggs, I typically
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get those at market Basket, and I got two or
three different brands, and I usually get the organic cage
free variety. Pet and berries is my uh yeah, but
I don't mind, so, you know. But it's not a
bad price either. So in market basket, I find there's
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Pet and Jerry's Medium and they're organic and a K
Tree and they're under four dollars for a dozen. Yeah, yeah,
and that price has not changed yet. There's another variety
I get that's no pride, I think, and they're like
an armorish farm from Pennsylvania. And that one is an
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eighteen pack. It was three point fifty and now that
did increase to only four dollars. No, yeah, not that
at all. I also shop at Stop and Shop and
I utilize like their gas points and whatever. I save
a lot of money there, and they are the shelves
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of bear. The prices were like nine to thirteen dollars,
I think, yeah, And I don't buy mints there. And
then then I shop at all these and traded Joe's occasionally,
like you know, if I'm in the neighborhood or whatever
in PJ. So you know, but you know, I have
a couple of tips, like you know for people that
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need to save money, and I kind of stressed out,
you know, like with turkeys this this year when it
was Thanksgiving season, like and there was sixty cents a pound,
we bought three turkeys.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
We bought.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
Yeah, like we had a turkey. I'm December. Yeah, we
didn't make one January because we all are sick, but
and we're gonna make one. It's thombin out. We're going
to cook that this weekend. So you know, we got
like a twenty pound turkey for ten dollars.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
You know.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Hey, talking all right, Jed, I keep rolling here. Thank
you for the shopping tips. I hope people take advantage
of those.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
Okay, Yeah, you're welcome.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Thanks Jennifer talking to you, so please call it again,
call a little earlier. You're an interesting personal like to
give you more time, but I got a couple of
more calls we want to get into. Okay, thanks, have
a great night. Let me go next to Matt. Matt,
you were next on Nightsiger. Right ahead, Matt.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
Heyden, I'm gonna be quick.
Speaker 7 (26:57):
Yeah, I mean the price, yahyeah, yeah, yeah, you got it.
Uh no, No, they're definitely gone up. One thing I
stay consistent with is I always get pastor raised eggs
from Wegmans, and there's consistently seven books for a dozen.
The only tid that I could say is that the
stuff cage free and pass raised have stayed consistent. As
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I called it before, just said that's where the food
wasn't affected. Pastor rays were affected seventy percent caged. So
that's all I could say is you know.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
That's interesting. I didn't realize that.
Speaker 7 (27:36):
Yeah, all right, yeah, yeah, well you have something in
a cage just living right on top of each other.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Yeah. Well that's the point when you think about it,
that's that's exactly the point.
Speaker 7 (27:48):
And that's why that's why I want to hit it.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7 (27:51):
And it's healthier to eat too. It's it's worth the
extra couple of books.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Yep. I would agree with them that as well. Thanks buddy,
the talk soon, Okay, great, great call, and we're going
to wrap it up with Christine. Christine, you were next
on Nightside. You're going to wrap the show for us.
Go right ahead, Christine.
Speaker 8 (28:07):
Okay, a couple of weeks ago, I paid the same
price at Stop and Chop eggs, same price like for
everybody's saying.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
So how much five dollars? You mean four fifty or
something like that.
Speaker 8 (28:19):
Yeah, yes, yep, it's crazy of theog eggs.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Really it is.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
But but how long did do a dozen eggs last
in your house?
Speaker 8 (28:33):
About? Maybe just past not even enough to pass a week?
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Really? Okay, so you're you're an egg either, Okay, So
so that's costed you Normally they would have cost what
maybe let's say a dollar ninety nine, It was costing
you two dollars and fifty cents per week extra extra.
Now when when you were when you were filling your
car up with gas, and gas was two dollars a
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gallon extra, and you were throwing ten gallons in your
in your guest tank every week, that was twenty dollars extra.
So you're going to keep it in perspective here as
far as I'm conscared.
Speaker 8 (29:12):
Yeah, And have you heard rooms that's Stop and Top's
going to go out on strike by the weekend. Have
you heard that?
Speaker 2 (29:18):
I know that that they've had some demonstrations over there,
and it sounds like they may have a they may
have a problem. But there are other other companies, you know,
I don't know what those what the factor is, uh,
the factors of that labor dispute are. But if they
do go, we will will let you know. I promise.
Speaker 8 (29:40):
Some of my neighbors in here and I live in
a fifty five and OVA and they were saying, the
one and data is pretty bare. The sounds are pretty bare.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Wow, Well that's interesting. That's that's that's not that's not good.
But it doesn't it doesn't surprise me. Christine is always
great to hear your voice. Thanks for checking in tonight,
and we will talk soon. Okay, thank you so much much.
Speaker 8 (30:03):
Thank you, christ all.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Right, we're done for the night. We spoke tonight basically
about the economics, the high energy kite prices in Massachusetts
for gas and electricity, and the high price of eggs.
We kind of make it made it our economics, uh,
one oh one. Tonight I would suggest find I find sales,
you know, don't pay big prices. The only way we're
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going to bring bring prices down is if we have
the ability to say I don't need that package of cookies.
I might like to have that package of cookies, but
it's too expensive. Done for the night, back tomorrow night, everybody.
All I'm remind you is always all dogs, all cats,
all pets go to heaven. That's for Mike Pell, Charlie Ray,
who's who passed fifteen years ago, this very month. That's
(30:47):
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Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
By the way, during our discussion of high energy prices
in Massachusetts, with the exception of one call from Canada,
we did not hear from any other states. So I'm
wondering if this is a problem that is limited to Massachusetts,
because frankly, on most nights we end up with a
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lot of callers from a lot of different states. So
we're going to kind of change topics here and go
to the price of eggs. The agricultural agriculture secretary the
Trump administration is a woman named Brooke Rawlins. I have
no idea what her background is. Obviously she's a supporter
of Donald Trump. She's the Secretary of Agriculture. So she
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in the Wall Street Journal today talked about this and
talked about what she would like to do. She said,
there's no silver. She talks about the Avian flu. Okay,
we can't blame anyone for the Avian flu, to the
best of my knowledge. Okay, but she makes out the
point that the price of eggs under Biden's presidency rose
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twenty percent, but the average price of eggs rose gross
like that strike that She says grocery prices rose by
twenty percent under President Biden. That's a lot. But the
average price of a dozen eggs went up two hundred
and thirty seven percent from one hundred from a dollar
forty seven in January twenty twenty one to four ninety
(01:43):
five last month. That's a lot. Okay, there were some
places where people are paying six, seven or ten dollars. Now.
A part of this is avian flu, which has, according
to her, state of American poultry farmers and slash the
egg supply over the past two years. You can't blame
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Joe Biden for the avian flu. Okay. However, she said
the Biden aminonistration did little, So what is she going
to do. She's announcing a strategy to combat avian flu.
The Agriculture Department invest the billion dollars to currup the
crisis and make eggs affordable again. Here's the problem. Donald
(02:25):
Trump said that when he gets into office, he's going
to do this, this, and this. He's now been in
office for a month. Eventually these problems. The longer you're
in office, you basically assumed these problems. I'm not willing
to blame Donald Trump tonight for the price of eggs.
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But I want to watch what this Secretary of Agriculture
is gonna do. She says, we have a five prong strategy. First,
we'll dedicate up to five hundred million dollars helping US
poultry producers implement gold standard biosecurity measures. Okay, that's fine.
She says that she went to an egg production farm
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in Texas, stringent members to prevent contamination, vehicles hosed down
before entering the property. I've never really been to a
chicken farm as it were, but I've been to a
turkey farm. They're pretty dirty. Okay, so she said. Second,
we'll make up to well, we will make up to
four hundred million dollars of increased financial aid available to
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farmers whose flocks are affected by avian flu. I. Like,
you know, if you're going to spend some government money,
that's okay. Third, the USDA US Department of Agricultures exploring
the use of vaccines and therapeutics for laying chickens. While
vaccines on a standalone solution, We'll provide up to a
hundred million in research and development of a vaccines and
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therapeutics to improve their efficacy, and efficiency. I like that
this should help reduce the need to here's one of
those euphemisms depopular flocks that means killed chickens, which means
killing chickens on a farm with as an outbreak. Fourth,
in addition to tackling avian flud, will take other actions
to lower the price of eggs. For starters, we'll remove
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unnecessary regulatory burdens and egg producers where possible. This will
include examining the best way to protect farmers from overly
prescriptive state laws, such as California's Prop. Twelve, which established
minimum space requirements for egg laying hens. Well with the
number of eggs who have been depopulated, the hens probably
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have more space now than they've ever had before. But
in California, the average price of a dozen eggs nine
dollars and sixty eight cents. And finally, we'll consider temporary
import options to reduce egg costs in the short term.
Import eggs, okay, we will proceed with imports only if
the eggs meet string in US safety standards and if
we determine that doing so won't jeopardize American farmers' access
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to markets in the future. So that's a policy. That's
a plan. I like it. What are you paying for
eggs and what are you doing? I had I wanted
to have eggs this morning. We have eggs in the refrigerator.
But I had pancakes. I had blueberry pancakes this morning.
That was my action of the day. And you know
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I had tonight for dinner, I had a salad. It
took a little extra effort to make a salad. Then
it did just just do a can of soup. But
I feel better having had a salad. So we got
to start thinking when you go to the store. If
you look at those expensive cookie brands, don't buy them.
I see cookies now well known cookies that used to
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be two fifty package then now four bucks for what
I don't know. Don't buy them. Let them sit there,
let them go stale. That's all. We got to be
smarter as consumers. It's as simple as that. Let's go
to call. I'm going to go to Rick and Bill.
Rick or Rick, appreciate you calling in. You are first
(06:04):
on the question of eggs, the price of eggs. How
are you Rick?
Speaker 3 (06:09):
I'm doing well and I love eggs and they're a
good source source of protein. Absolutely and yeah, and I
haven't purchased them in recent times because of the inflated
prices have the bill Rick and market Basket, but they
actually do a pretty good job of bringing pressure how much.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
If you remember how much of eggs? How much are eggs?
I'm going to go to market Basket some day later
this week because I always save money when I go
to market Basket.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Well, you do the qualities. The quality is fine, you know,
Shaws and Wegmans can be higher quality and sometimes better.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
But it's good.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
You're not really you're right.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
You know.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I mean I've never had I've never bought a product
at uh at at Wegman's. Uh that that turned quickly.
I've bought products at most other supermarkets. Strawberries, I love strawberries,
and you know, they're in the refrigerator for a day
and a half and all of a sudden you realize
there's a couple of rotten strawberries in there. Are that
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are moldy. Never had that happen at market Basket.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Oh okay, I mean this is where I always went
as a kid when I grew up in Burlington, and
my father used to go there in the seventies, and
so I just I'm down the street from my house
is located down the street.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
So I go, what what an exit market basket?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
I think I haven't checked the exact price, but I
thought I thought a few weeks back or a month ago,
I was looking at prices at five or six dollars
something like that.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I would have dot that. I will doubt that, and
I'll tell you I'll doubt that.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
I'll tell you what because I'm not positive.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
No, no, no. I bought eggs at Shaw's the other day.
I think it was four ninety five, which again, you know,
you buy one dozen eggs, which you're going to hold
you for. You know, even with a family, you're going
to hold you for a couple of weeks. When the
price of gas line up, you were buying ten gallons
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at a time, it has cost you a three bucks
more per gallon. So that's it's really hitting you. I'll
pay four ninety five for eggs in the short term
because there they are, as you say, an important product.
If anybody out there has bought eggs and market basket
in the last week, I'll bet you it's less than
four ninety five.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
I hope, yeah, because I checked a little bit back. Yeah,
and I don't want to. I mean I wasn't checking everybody.
Oftentimes you they don't put them well, they do in
market basket, but you don't always see the price of things.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
It probably I haven't market I can go into market
basket and buy progressive soup two for five dollars and
so on a night. And I'm lazy and I want
to have and I'm just I don't want to cook
anything or make a salad team. I'll throw a can
of minister and soup.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
If you go into Shawls or something like that, that
same cana soup is going to be three ninety nine.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
It's going to be a lot more expensive. I wish
you could buy a stick of butter. You can't do
that anymore. It seems I went to market Basco. I
was trying to find a stick of butter. So I
made a deal with my brother. I said, buy a
four pack and I'll buy two from you today. That's sweet.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
But butter doesn't really good. But boy is that butter
doesn't really go bad? Right?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
No, it really doesn't. I mean you can leave butter out,
can I tell you?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Can I tell you? And awaken one any secret about butter.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Please, butter will.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Help you lose weight. Yes. I was stunned to find
that because when I first started with Awaken one eighty,
I said, well, you I used butter on sandwiches. Said
what's the problem with that? I said, well, I assume butter.
You know, I gotta eliminate butter. No, no, so I
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use butter in I and it hasn't put It hasn't
impacted my weight loss at all.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
No, you're in good shape.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
I me in better shape now than it was ten
years ago. I'll tell you that I was five to
eight one sixty eight at this point.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Well, you've been there for ten years. Don't don't lose
any more than that. But I got to lose about
fifteen or twenty pounds, get to one ninety five, that
would be good. I just thank you for that tidbit
on the waking money. I appreciate that a lot. I
just wanted to say, I know you're not talking about
the energy, but I just want to say thank you
for bringing all this stuff up about the ones that
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the heads of the it's the heads of the Department
of Energy that were elected.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Department of policies, the people basically governor Healy should going
and bowl them all out.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
So guess what, And I agree with you because you know,
if we if we could have brought them the price
I uh five instead of a we could have got
a reduction on a better deal at ten. That companies
will say, we'll give you a ten. And she says five.
That's a clear indication that they don't care about the
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American consumer.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
It would be like, you know, I don't know what
you I don't know what you do for a job.
Let me just assume your your work for a company
hypothetically and you you know, but I'm saying if you
work for company and you go into your boss and
you know, you say, you have been here a couple
of years, and uh, you know, I'd like to get
a little raise, and the boss says, well, what are
you looking for? And well, you know, I've been here
(11:33):
for I haven't had a raisin. I'd like three percent
and he says three percent. And then you find out
from somebody, well the other people went in and asked
for eight percent and they gave eight percent. You're going
to say to yourself, the DPU said to the utilities
cut the rates in Marching April five, percent, big deal.
They came the companies came back a national grid and
(11:55):
Everso's came back and said, we'll see you five percent
and we'll raise the cut to ten. The DPU was
totally out of.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Exactly, fire them.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Fire the three of them say thank you for your service.
We appreciate it, but we're moving on. That's not going
to happen, though. I call on the governor tonight to
fire the three of them. Boom, start from scratch.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
I agree, I agree. I clean a dealership and I
do some sing and I do I do a couple
other things as well. But that's uh. In terms of
the my my two favorite bosses of the dealership. They
give me a raise unless I make a really good
but they take care of me just fine.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Good Rick, I got to run them well into the newscast.
So I got you all right, thank you very much,
Thank you very much. You too. To the rest of
the call is you've only been there a few minutes,
so none of you are going to get the time.
Rick got. Let's pick up the pace. I got one
line open. I want to hear from ten people between
now and midnight. They're I'm going to be solely disappointed.
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The lines are packedful right now, which is the way
I like it. And I got Dallas in Ohio coming back.
We're going to find out what the price of eggs
are at Ohio. I'll bet you they're better than Massachusetts.
I just kind of think so because they have more
farms there. We'll see back on nights Side right after this. Dallas,
you hold on, I'm coming to get you.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on WBS Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Let's go to Dallas in Ohio. Hey, Dallas, welcome back.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Yeah, how you doing, Dan?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
I'm doing great? What the heck the eggs cost in Ohio?
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Okay? I bought a Baker's dozen about about two weeks ago,
and around that time there was shortage, you know, there
was talker shortages on the shelves, and local news was
showing the shelves and some of the stores and they
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had very little eggs on the shell. So I went
to the or in much of my surprise, the store
that I go to, the shelves are loaded and plenty
of eggs, you know, the regular the white eggs and
the brown eggs. So I picked up a Baker's dozen
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and they were less than seven bucks, which kind of surprised.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
That, isn't it. So you got thirty you got thirteen
eggs for seven.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Bucks, actually eighteen.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Oh, so you got eighteen for seven bucks. Okay, that's
a good deal. So you're that you were paying about
four eighty if you if you figured out that out, Yeah,
that's so that's about what I guess people are paying here.
I figured that in a frontal You guys have a
lot more farms and a lot more you know, chicken farms.
There were some cities here in Massachusetts where you can
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keep chickens in your backyard. Okay, now people want to
keep chicken in their backyard.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Well, you could have chickens in the county did I
live in? But you have to have a permit for
them in order to have them.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Yeah, how much did they charge you for the permit?
Speaker 4 (15:16):
I don't know, I really, I really don't know. Ye.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
But yeah, what's the what's the feeling out there towards uh,
what's going on in out of Washington? I mean, it's
been a tumultuous a month and well five weeks now
in Washington. And you know, we talked last night about
maybe some sort of a deal in terms of the
(15:41):
Ukraine War. Uh, it's been tumultuous, but I guess we've
got to buckle up for the ride.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Yes, that's that's all we can do. Of course. You know,
Ohio as has always been a Republican state, and I
don't know, there's a lot going on. Some people that
you know, could say something, they're really not saying anything,
any kind of quiet. But yeah, I think here we're
(16:12):
just sitting back and you have you.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Had the Vice President of the United States is from Ohio,
originally from Kentucky, but you know it was it was
your one of your two senators there for a while.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Oh I thought it was muss.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Yeah, well I see that his name wasn't on the ticket.
What are you doing, Ohio? You are you still working
or you retired?
Speaker 4 (16:37):
No, I'm retired.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
You tired?
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Did you do?
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Well? You know, I'm in Akron, Ohio, and Akron was
known as the rubber capital of the world. You know
we manufactured uh tires, Well we still do, but small operations.
But I worked for one of the major major corporations
here in my location.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Were you in the tire industry?
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Yes? Yes?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
And did you work You sound to me like you
probably were a white collar guy.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Yes, all of the material materials that go into uh
building a tire. Uh, the department that I worked worked in, Uh,
we tested all of the various materials and uh, you
know that go into manufacturing building a tire. Yeah, I
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you know, some synthetic rubber, natural rubber. You'd be surprised
what goes into attire.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
I'll bet, I'll bet you know. I thought that at
one point met the mayor of Akron, Ohio here in
Boston around the time of the Democratic Convention. And I'm
looking at the list of your current mayor is a
guy named Shamas Malik.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
As understand, really nice guy. I'm mad him. He's very personal,
really nice guy.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Yeah, And I for some reason, the name of the
guy who was the mayor doesn't ring a bell. But
I'm pretty sure I had met the mayor of Akron, Ohio.
And I was trying to figure I was trying to
pull the name, but I can't of look at these
pictures and names and say to you, yeah, I met
that guy, was a younger guy, but I don't see
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him here. Don pasqually, he he was your mayor a
long time eighty seven to twenty fifteen, which would have
been around that time, but I don't remember remember him
as being a younger guy, but I know it was
around the time of the Democratic Convention here in Boston. Hey, Dallas,
is always great to hear your voice. I so much
appreciate you calling in, and please continue to do so. Okay, sure, Dan,
(19:03):
I will thank Okay, Bye bye, Ted and ever Ted,
you're next on the nights. I go right ahead, a
little closer to home, Ted, go ahead.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
Hey Dan, A long long time the last time we talked.
I'm a big fan of Reagan and Tip on the
out and that's what we need back.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
In this country.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
I worked my career in consumer goods for years, dealt
with all the major supermarkets. I own convenience stores, so
I get this whole thing from both sides. Uh. This
is the third election I did not vote for either
major candidate. Trump admitted right after he won that he
couldn't do the price of eggs. And then the thing
that you have to understand is I would encourage anybody.
(19:42):
It was a great article with Times by Faris Stockman
right before the vote to say this is what the
Democrats need to do because the funms are all owned
by big agriculture and the farmers in the South that
were getting hurt the Biden administration actually tain't changed your
anti trust loss to help them that Trump was going
to roll back. But they don't see it that way
(20:02):
because they can't do the messaging. And when you I
worked for a global Beholmes that when it was owned
by the original people were very good. They would listen
to us about price increases. We get sold out to
private equity and they killed it because they just want
more and more and more. And if you read last month,
read away their earnings were so bad for last year.
They're now doing this thing called value packages for lower prices.
(20:25):
But gir also didn't get more air in the bag now.
I opened up a bag of popcorn last night and
I couldn't believe it. It was twenty five percent full.
Like literally, it looked like I already ate it before
I opened it. And everything you said is true. People
have to shop smart. Your guy at market Basket is
totally off. I paid four fifty nine last week for
(20:47):
eighteen eggs, eighteen brown eggs. They had a special package.
So I just think that you know, it's depressing because
I don't think anybody's hearing us and going from what
you said on a state level to anywhere, because there
seems to be no accountability for anybody to do anything.
And people get so fed up because they see so
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much stuff that's wrong. When I was in my convenience stores,
you're forced to take EBT and all these programs when
the people aren't spending the money correctly, and that could
all be fixed immediately. That's all computer software. That's not
a hard thing. But nobody wants to take the bull
by the horns and look at stuff and say when
you know, I shop now, I'm a little handicapped, I
(21:31):
don't use my phone, I don't shop hungry, and I
walk around and I buy what's needed. It's not like
everyone acts like it's the Blizzard of seventy eight, like
we're not going to go through times again. We're not
going to be able to get to the market in
a few days, and the supermarkets everywhere and this competition,
and I think also people should have looked at Kroger
and safe way we're going to merge. Last year, the
(21:52):
Kroger CEO admitted to Congress that they price fixed through
COVID admitted it, and the merger did not go through
because they don't need to raise prices that much. And
I think the difference is the bling in their class.
Now there's not enough for them. It's you know, if
they if they were going to drop something to help them,
the stock fights might go on by a ten Okay,
(22:13):
so maybe they're gonna make ninety million instead of one
hundred and ten millions. And I firmly believe I'm probably
a little younger than you. The generation you come from,
the Reagan tippo'neals of the world. They had shared sacrifice
because they went through stuff together, they could agree to
disagree or whatever that at the end of the day,
they try to do things and everything now it's I'm petrified.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
For the next year.
Speaker 6 (22:35):
I just think the Democrats plan seems to me is
that they just want everything to go as bad as
possible and then I hope they can do something in
the mid terms. It just doesn't seem that I don't
want to hear Liz warn and these people just ranting
and raving that that's not it's you know better than us,
you're an attorney. It's policy that matters. It's what are
you going to do well. It's not my attitude work.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
I want to give Trump a chance, just as they
gave a biden Field miserably on a number of points internationally.
I think that that I don't think he was in
charge about you. We'll see what happens, see what happens.
I got you in before the break, but I gotta
(23:18):
I gotta scoot, and I got more calls coming in.
Thank you so much for joining us. Please continue to listen,
and I'd like you to call more off because you've
got a point of view. Thank you. Good night. We'll
be back on Nightside. I'm gonna get Jennifer, Matt and
Christine in, I promise, and that'll probably do it for
the night. But we're gonna end up strong. We'll be
right back.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Now, back to Dan Ray Live from the Window World
to Night Side Studios, IBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
All right, back we go. We gonna get everyone in.
Gonna start it off with Jennifer in Boston. Jennifer next
time nights, I go right ahead, Jennifer. Good, what's your
take on all of this price of eggs and things that?
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Well, I'm a pretty savage opera so yeah, I typically
I don't buy things unless it's on sale, Like I'm
that might stock a little bit too, like it depending
on the shelf life or whatever it is, or space
is a factor too. But anyway, with eggs, I typically
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get those at market Basket, and I got two or
three different brands, and I usually get the organic cage
free variety. Pet and berries is my uh yeah, but
I don't mind, so, you know. But it's not a
bad price either. So in market basket, I find there's
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Pet and Jerry's Medium and they're organic and a K
Tree and they're under four dollars for a dozen. Yeah, yeah,
and that price has not changed yet. There's another variety
I get that's no pride, I think, and they're like
an armorish farm from Pennsylvania. And that one is an
(25:12):
eighteen pack. It was three point fifty and now that
did increase to only four dollars. No, yeah, not that
at all. I also shop at Stop and Shop and
I utilize like their gas points and whatever. I save
a lot of money there, and they are the shelves
(25:36):
of bear. The prices were like nine to thirteen dollars,
I think, yeah, And I don't buy mints there. And
then then I shop at all these and traded Joe's occasionally,
like you know, if I'm in the neighborhood or whatever
in PJ. So you know, but you know, I have
a couple of tips, like you know for people that
(25:58):
need to save money, and I kind of stressed out,
you know, like with turkeys this this year when it
was Thanksgiving season, like and there was sixty cents a pound,
we bought three turkeys.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
We bought.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
Yeah, like we had a turkey. I'm December. Yeah, we
didn't make one January because we all are sick, but
and we're gonna make one. It's thombin out. We're going
to cook that this weekend. So you know, we got
like a twenty pound turkey for ten dollars.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
You know.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Hey, talking all right, Jed, I keep rolling here. Thank
you for the shopping tips. I hope people take advantage
of those.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
Okay, Yeah, you're welcome.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Thanks Jennifer talking to you, so please call it again,
call a little earlier. You're an interesting personal like to
give you more time, but I got a couple of
more calls we want to get into. Okay, thanks, have
a great night. Let me go next to Matt. Matt,
you were next on Nightsiger. Right ahead, Matt.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
Heyden, I'm gonna be quick.
Speaker 7 (26:57):
Yeah, I mean the price, yahyeah, yeah, yeah, you got it.
Uh no, No, they're definitely gone up. One thing I
stay consistent with is I always get pastor raised eggs
from Wegmans, and there's consistently seven books for a dozen.
The only tid that I could say is that the
stuff cage free and pass raised have stayed consistent. As
(27:21):
I called it before, just said that's where the food
wasn't affected. Pastor rays were affected seventy percent caged. So
that's all I could say is you know.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
That's interesting. I didn't realize that.
Speaker 7 (27:36):
Yeah, all right, yeah, yeah, well you have something in
a cage just living right on top of each other.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Yeah. Well that's the point when you think about it,
that's that's exactly the point.
Speaker 7 (27:48):
And that's why that's why I want to hit it.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7 (27:51):
And it's healthier to eat too. It's it's worth the
extra couple of books.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Yep. I would agree with them that as well. Thanks buddy,
the talk soon, Okay, great, great call, and we're going
to wrap it up with Christine. Christine, you were next
on Nightside. You're going to wrap the show for us.
Go right ahead, Christine.
Speaker 8 (28:07):
Okay, a couple of weeks ago, I paid the same
price at Stop and Chop eggs, same price like for
everybody's saying.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
So how much five dollars? You mean four fifty or
something like that.
Speaker 8 (28:19):
Yeah, yes, yep, it's crazy of theog eggs.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Really it is.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
But but how long did do a dozen eggs last
in your house?
Speaker 8 (28:33):
About? Maybe just past not even enough to pass a week?
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Really? Okay, so you're you're an egg either, Okay, So
so that's costed you Normally they would have cost what
maybe let's say a dollar ninety nine, It was costing
you two dollars and fifty cents per week extra extra.
Now when when you were when you were filling your
car up with gas, and gas was two dollars a
(28:58):
gallon extra, and you were throwing ten gallons in your
in your guest tank every week, that was twenty dollars extra.
So you're going to keep it in perspective here as
far as I'm conscared.
Speaker 8 (29:12):
Yeah, And have you heard rooms that's Stop and Top's
going to go out on strike by the weekend. Have
you heard that?
Speaker 2 (29:18):
I know that that they've had some demonstrations over there,
and it sounds like they may have a they may
have a problem. But there are other other companies, you know,
I don't know what those what the factor is, uh,
the factors of that labor dispute are. But if they
do go, we will will let you know. I promise.
Speaker 8 (29:40):
Some of my neighbors in here and I live in
a fifty five and OVA and they were saying, the
one and data is pretty bare. The sounds are pretty bare.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Wow, Well that's interesting. That's that's that's not that's not good.
But it doesn't it doesn't surprise me. Christine is always
great to hear your voice. Thanks for checking in tonight,
and we will talk soon. Okay, thank you so much much.
Speaker 8 (30:03):
Thank you, christ all.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Right, we're done for the night. We spoke tonight basically
about the economics, the high energy kite prices in Massachusetts
for gas and electricity, and the high price of eggs.
We kind of make it made it our economics, uh,
one oh one. Tonight I would suggest find I find sales,
you know, don't pay big prices. The only way we're
(30:26):
going to bring bring prices down is if we have
the ability to say I don't need that package of cookies.
I might like to have that package of cookies, but
it's too expensive. Done for the night, back tomorrow night, everybody.
All I'm remind you is always all dogs, all cats,
all pets go to heaven. That's for Mike Pell, Charlie Ray,
who's who passed fifteen years ago, this very month. That's
(30:47):
why your pets are who passed. They loved you and
you love them. I do believe you'll see them again.
Rob Brooks, thank you much, Marita, thank you much. I'll
be on Facebook on nights that with Dan Ray in
a couple of minutes. Join us there seeing themornw and
everyone have a great Thursday.
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