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