Easter egg hunts in jeopardy as egg prices hit highs
Costs are coming down too slowly to make a difference for the coming weekend's holiday festivities.
While the great egg price hike of 2025 might not garner the same number of headlines as the great toilet paper shortage of 2020, it has nonetheless been a topic of conversation and cause for consternation across the country.
Egg prices have been sky-high for most of the last year; in January 2025, a dozen eggs cost around $4.90, almost double the cost from a year earlier. Just two months later, in March, the average price of a dozen eggs had jumped by 27% to $6.20, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.