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Anyone frequenting more than one grocery store can quickly see its not a supply and demand issue setting prices. A few grocery stores never budged setting prices and charged the same and then the frantic news cycle caused people to buy 4x the amount of eggs they need, causing inventory shortages.

And then there are other stores that saw this as an opportunity to raise egg prices to like $13 a dozen. Those eggs basically go unsold.

I think at this point the biggest factor in the egg supply crunch is that its so publicized and making people act poorly. As a result we see the effective number of available eggs crash as some of these are marked up and go unsold and some linger in someones fridge for a month before consumption. If everyone just bought their usual load of eggs maybe there wouldn’t even be a supply issue.