“I look at it and I was like, ‘Wait, what?’” Norma Rojas told KFOR.
Rojas is talking about two receipts from Walmart.
One receipt from April 14th shows the price for a 60-count carton of eggs as $4.74. Another receipt from April 20th shows the price for that same carton as $15.91.
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I don't buy my eggs but the other day I was in the Piggly Wiggly and saw eggs priced at $2.99 a dozen. When we first moved here and before I got my hens, they were priced at 99 cents a dozen. I remember that because I was thinking that with what I put out with the initial cost of the laying hens, the cost of a coop and what I put out in feed, it would be years before I recouped my money.
It got worse after that. About a year ago Lisa lost her taste for eggs so the only use we have for them is my occasional breakfast eggs and what Lisa uses for baking. The neighbors across the road now get a dozen fresh eggs every 5 days now so they don't go to waste and that put me on really good terms with them, so there's that.
