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Supermarket prices are no longer skyrocketing – except, of course, if you’re buying eggs.
Egg prices spiked by 28.1% in August from 12 months ago, easily the biggest increase out of any food item tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The sticker shock in the egg aisle comes even as overall grocery prices are barely budging (up less than 1% in August from last year) and inflation cools across the US economy.
The main culprit for rising egg prices is a familiar one: bird flu.
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