Inflation & Prices
Eggs Soar 15% in a Month With US Grocery Shelves Empty
- Surging egg prices helped drive higher-than-expected inflation
- Egg shelves at a Chicago Whole Foods were empty on Tuesday
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The great American egg shortage is getting worse.
With bird flu killing millions of egg-laying chickens, prices surged more than 15% in January from a month earlier — the biggest advance since 2015 — and 55% from a year before, according to a US Bureau of Labor Statistics report on Wednesday. The jump helped push overall US inflation up by the most since August 2023.