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HerMoney with Jean Chatzky

How Inflation Is Changing The Cost of Groceries And What You Can Do About It

HerMoney with Jean Chatzky

Jean Chatzky Her Money

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Scrambled, poached, or over-easy — Americans love their eggs. But lately, buying a carton at the grocery store has been an exercise in sticker shock. Why have egg prices skyrocketed? What role does bird flu play? And is relief on the way? In this episode, Jean sits down with Jadrian Wooten, Associate Professor of Economics at Virginia Tech, and Phil Lempert, the Supermarket Guru, to crack open the real reasons behind soaring egg prices. They break down supply chain disruptions, grocery store pricing strategies, and what this all means for your wallet.  📚 Resources & Links Mentioned: 🔹 Jadrian’s article about why egg prices have outpaced chicken. 🔹 Phil’s writing about planning for the bird flu epidemic. Looking for more financial confidence? 🚀 FinanceFixx – Our 4 or 8-week coaching program to get your finances on track! Our next 4-week session starts April 2nd, use code WHM for a $100 discount. 📈 InvestingFixx – A club for women ready to grow their wealth. Your first month is completely free. Have a question for us? Write to us (or send us a voice note!) at [email protected]. While you’re at it, join the HerMoney community! For the latest episode drops and financial news-you-can-use, subscribe to our newsletter at Hermoney.com/subscribe! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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slash UK slash AI for people. So if grocery prices are going up and again, sticking

0:36.1

back just right to eggs, if that's going up an extra $20 when we buy three dozen eggs for a family, that's $20 we can't spend somewhere else.

0:44.1

That's $20 we can't spend at the movies.

0:45.8

That's $20 we can't spend the Target.

0:48.1

And when you kind of multiply that across lots of families that are not spending even $20 more somewhere else.

0:58.3

That tends to hurt the economy sort of broadly rather than just at the grocery store.

1:01.6

Hey, everyone.

1:04.5

Thanks so much for joining us today on Her Money.

1:05.8

I'm Gene Chatsky.

1:07.2

Scrambled.

1:08.5

Poached.

1:11.9

Over easy, fried, deviled, the list goes on.

1:16.1

It is no secret that Americans love eggs.

1:23.7

And the increasingly high price of a carton of eggs, well, it's been all over the news for the past few years, actually.

1:28.6

Some people have even gone so far as to say that the price of eggs was one of the deciding factors in the presidential election. Yet despite promises that have been made to bring

1:35.7

down the price of eggs, we are still finding ourselves shell-shocked every time we hit the grocery

1:42.0

store and dealing with supply issues due to bird

1:46.0

flu. It's impacting restaurants as much as individual consumers. Denny's recently went as far as to

1:53.5

implement an egg tax, a surcharge on every meal with eggs. I actually don't think I've ever had a Denny's meal without eggs,

2:03.0

but by the same token, Cracker Barrel countered that they wouldn't raise prices because

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