About the numbers
This site answers one question without making you read a chart: what does a dozen eggs cost right now, and is that high?
What you're looking at is what groceries actually cost, taken from the government's own price surveys — eggs first, because eggs are the price people ask about, then ground beef, milk, butter, and bacon. Nothing here is a number we made up: every price is an average of real prices recorded in real stores. The one thing this site adds is context, by holding today's price up against the same survey's own last five years and saying plainly whether it's high. Retail prices run through July 2026, and this week's wholesale egg report covers the week ending August 15, 2026.
Where the numbers come from
Shelf prices: the Bureau of Labor Statistics' average price survey
Every retail price on this site comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' average price survey. The bureau's staff collect prices in stores across the country every month, and the national average is published in the middle of the following month — so there's always a few weeks between the register and the number. On this site the retail survey runs through July 2026.
Wholesale eggs: USDA's weekly shell egg report
Once a week, on Fridays, USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service publishes a national shell egg market report — report AMS_2848 — covering what large buyers paid for eggs by the case that week. It's the fastest honest read on eggs anyone has: wholesale prices move every week while the retail survey moves once a month, so when something is happening in the egg market, the wholesale report shows it first. The week on the site right now ended August 15, 2026.
Both sets of numbers get refreshed and the site rebuilt when they change — weekly for wholesale, monthly on the bureau's release day. Every price on every page prints the month or the week it belongs to, so you never have to guess how old a number is.
What we will never do
- Predict prices. Not for next week, not for the holidays, not ever. Where the site says shelf prices have usually followed wholesale within a few weeks, that's a description of what already happened in past egg cycles — history, not a promise about the next one.
- Treat eggs as an investment. No futures quotes, no candlesticks, no talk of positions or plays. This is a grocery site for people buying groceries, and the only decision it's meant to help with is whether to buy the eggs this week or wait.
- Dress up a normal price. Most of the time eggs cost roughly what eggs cost, and in those months the site says exactly that. Saying "prices are normal right now" in the quiet years is what makes it worth trusting in the loud ones.
When a survey goes quiet
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has been shrinking its average price survey, and its 2025 round of cuts finished off the regional egg series: Northeast egg prices stop at October 2024, and Midwest egg prices stop at September 2025. Nothing has replaced them, and no one has said when or whether they'll come back.
We handle that the boring way. Those numbers stay on the site with their real month printed next to them and a plain sentence saying the survey is paused — never quietly passed off as today's price. For a live regional read, the regional pages lean on USDA's weekly wholesale report, which still covers every part of the country. An old number with its date attached is useful; an old number pretending to be current is not.
Independent of both agencies
This is an independent site. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the U.S. Department of Agriculture or the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Both agencies publish these numbers for free and anyone can go read the originals — the links above go straight to them. All this site does is put them in one place, in plain words, with the date attached.