NORFOLK, VA — You may have looked at your grocery store receipt recently only to see that prices for a dozen eggs are a few dollars more than normal.
An extra dollar here and an extra dollar there might not make a difference for some people, but for businesses like Eggs Up Grill, it can add up to big bucks.
"Right now, it's hard to raise the menu every couple of months when the eggs go up," said a manager who asked not to be named. "Our menus and customers are going to be complaining."
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The manager said 90 percent of their entrees require eggs, which means stocking up with 4,500 eggs a week.
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Over the last year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has tracked the price hike of commercial products like eggs and poultry, which has increased each month since January 2022.
Now, shoppers in Norfolk said that finally starting to notice it. This means that like businesses, shoppers are also out of luck.
"I went to Food Lion for the organic ones, the cage-free, it's more than $5 for a dozen of eggs," a shopper told News 3.
"When I first started coming here eggs were 93 cents, now they're $4.19. That's why I came to this other store today thinking they'd be less than Costco, but they're not," adds another shopper.
Other locals say they have no choice but to conserve and pay the price.
