One Whole Foods store had organic eggs at $12.99/dozen while its eggs at $11.99 sold out. Target was holding the line below the national average, pricing eggs at $5.59/dozen. Trader Joe’s also held the line, but quickly sold out.
At a Target store in the East Village an employee was filling the shelves with cartons of eggs on Palm Sunday [April 13] when a passerby noted that the store seemed to have plenty of eggs.
“For now,” the stock boy said. “Once word gets out, they will be gone by the end of the day,” he said, “especially...