Depends on where you are. Shows "Currently unavailable." for me.
Also, +$9.95 for delivery. Who knows if Amazon is willing to deliver to you because of that and empty the store shelves instead? So again, unless you see them with your eyeballs or get them at $3.79 all in in your hands, I am not sure what this means.
I was every bit as skeptical (and agree there's nothing particularly meaningful about a bargain on a product that's unavailable), half expecting the available eggs to cost $6-7 or more as they do just about everywhere I shop in California. (Which is not at high-end markets like Whole Foods, either — we're talking places like Grocery Outlet, Smart 'n Final, etc., that are just barely a step up from a 99¢ store.) On the rare occasion that there's a shelf advertising eggs under five bucks, they're gone, of course. Folks are buying chickens left and right. At my local Costco there've been actual fistfights within 2-3 minutes of the doors opening as people scramble (ha) over giant palettes of eggs. It's absolutely crazy.
So color me shocked that I could buy these dudes for a mere $3.29 from Amazon Fresh and have them delivered this afternoon, if I want:
Sure, there's the delivery fee which at $10 isn't cheep (last egg pun, I swear). But to see Whole Foods selling 'em for less than half of what a bargain reseller is charging down the street is surprising to say the least.
So are eggs replacing flat-screen TVs the new doorbuster? Sell 'em at wholesale prices just to get people in the door, where they're sure find plenty of questionable "deals" to more than make up for the paltry ~$3 opportunity cost of charging less than market price? The $10 delivery fee practically guarantees people will be filling up their online carts with plenty of other stuff besides eggs.
My Hill Country Fare Grade A Large Eggs (36 ct) from HEB cost $11.59 on Sunday. But that's from Instacart; maybe they tack on extra to each item? Same item on July 16 was $11.18, but that was 2x18ct at $5.59 each.
Amazon Fresh heavily utilizes dynamic pricing, so that price is subject to change at any time. You can definitely get good deals there though. I once got like 10 16oz containers of deli meat there for just $2/each
I go to Whole Foods all the time, and yes their own brand of eggs really is that price.
The egg inflation scare is being largely exaggerated. IMO what is different now vs a few years ago is there's a lot more high end organic pasture raised options. These are $6-$10, but that's not the price of standard conventional eggs.
Whole Foods is a very large grocer with contractual obligations to buy a certain quantity of eggs. They also have declining foot traffic and price-sensitive customers.
At the moment, eggs are probably a loss-leader for them and they're encouraged to still move on volume.
If you look at the data in this app as a whole, the stores with the highest egg prices are small chains with low buying-power.
Also, +$9.95 for delivery. Who knows if Amazon is willing to deliver to you because of that and empty the store shelves instead? So again, unless you see them with your eyeballs or get them at $3.79 all in in your hands, I am not sure what this means.