Economy Rising Egg Prices in Thailand Strain Consumers and Businesses

[Jonathan Swift]

This is price fixing among the chicken cartel, who are deliberately laying smaller eggs to cause prices to rise

[Jonathan Swift]

9 hours ago, Jeff Simoneaux said:

Seems to me they don't have a good reason for the price increase except for they hear how the prices of eggs in America have gone up so much. That was due to someone making a scare out of bird flu and destroying so many chickens. 

That's actually not how economics work. Food and commodities are not the stock market, they don't rise and fall because someone scared somebody. Prices drop with less demand because they otherwise would have too much inventory and not enough buyers and they have to move their inventory by dropping prices. With increased demand prices will rise until buying drops off, and then prices and supply/demand bounce back and forth until they reach reach equilibrium. The simple law of supply and demand. That's your economic lesson for today. What happens in America is also more complicated than you think. Did you actually take some time to research this? It might be worth your while. But expect to spend more than 30 seconds skimming through clickbait headlines. Go back and look what happened to the supply chain during Covid. There were many complicated cause and effect events that overlapped and reinforced shortages and price rises. There were then opportunistic greedy distributors in the middle that gamed the system in their favor, but it still boiled down to supply and demand. That's your college education in economics. 

[Luuk Chaai]

On 4/22/2025 at 6:43 AM, KhunBENQ said:

The trays are 30 eggs.

Last price here was 120 Baht (medium size).

4 Baht, about 12 US cent per egg.

Tell our US fellows that this is an egg price crisis 

 

Pack of 10 and 30 is indeed styleless.

Traditionely it was 12 (dozen) and multiples.

30 per tray      Size "0" usually 145 baht

 Wife and I go thru 2 trays a week   I eat a min of 6 per day

[EVENKEEL]

On 4/22/2025 at 1:33 AM, KhunLA said:

Agree, as is ours, tho a wee bit further.

 

I just figure if someone is dumb enough to buy 10 eggs at a time (if eating a couple a day), then probably dumb enough to make a special trip 5-10 kms away for 10 more 

 

And on the inflation thing, someone mentioned, 25 yrs ago, eggs were 3 for 5 baht, and now about 5 baht each.  So 3X the cost ... BUT ... minimum wage as kept up with most basic food items prices.  As was 100+/-,  25 yrs ago, and no 300-350 baht a day.

 

Imported crap, yea, much higher, but has nothing to do with TH.

The difference between a No 1 10 pack at 7-11 vs a flat at a market is trivial. 

[KhunLA]

1 hour ago, EVENKEEL said:

The difference between a No 1 10 pack at 7-11 vs a flat at a market is trivial. 

I paid ฿120 for 30 #2 eggs, this week @ Makro.   What's 7-11 charge for 10 eggs of same size or smaller.   Not to mention, 7-11 would be a special trip for us, as we're at Makro once a week, at least.

 

10 #2 eggs cost ฿52 @ Makro  That 27% more, if buying 10 eggs at a time, which would last us 2 days, maybe.  27% is not trivial.

 

If my yearly budget cost 27% more, that's wouldn't be trivial.  7-11 is convenient, that's all, with some well priced items.

 

I could buy 30 #3-4 eggs for ฿99.   But then we would use 7 eggs a day, at least.

 

Imm requires 65k a month

27% more = 82k a month

 

Of course if I lived in a space limited box apartment or small condo, I might live out of 7-11, and ma/pa vendors.

[EVENKEEL]

30 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

I paid ฿120 for 30 #2 eggs, this week @ Makro.   What's 7-11 charge for 10 eggs of same size or smaller.   Not to mention, 7-11 would be a special trip for us, as we're at Makro once a week, at least.

 

10 #2 eggs cost ฿52 @ Makro  That 27% more, if buying 10 eggs at a time, which would last us 2 days, maybe.  27% is not trivial.

 

If my yearly budget cost 27% more, that's wouldn't be trivial.  7-11 is convenient, that's all, with some well priced items.

 

I could buy 30 #3-4 eggs for ฿99.   But then we would use 7 eggs a day, at least.

 

Imm requires 65k a month

27% more = 82k a month

 

Of course if I lived in a space limited box apartment or small condo, I might live out of 7-11, and ma/pa vendors.

This is one of the nice things about living in the mix in a small seaside village. Basically everything is a 30 second MB ride away.

[KhunLA]

1 minute ago, EVENKEEL said:

This is one of the nice things about living in the mix in a small seaside village. Basically everything is a 30 second MB ride away.

If you want to make multiple trips & pay more ... UP2U

 

I got better things to do, and can spend the extra on something else I want, instead of giving it away to a corporation.

 

Do agree, it's nice scooting somewhere 5 minutes away, when living surfside.  Wouldn't trade it for anywhere else.

[EVENKEEL]

13 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

If you want to make multiple trips & pay more ... UP2U

 

I got better things to do, and can spend the extra on something else I want, instead of giving it away to a corporation.

 

Do agree, it's nice scooting somewhere 5 minutes away, when living surfside.  Wouldn't trade it for anywhere else.

I just returned from a 5 week stay in the US. Spent a week in NYC, drove across to Ca. Just to go to top of Empire State Bldg was $90. each. 

 

Point being, egg prices are on the bottom of my thoughts.

[KhunLA]

10 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

I just returned from a 5 week stay in the US. Spent a week in NYC, drove across to Ca. Just to go to top of Empire State Bldg was $90. each. 

 

Point being, egg prices are on the bottom of my thoughts.

Empire State Bldg was $90 

 

That's one way to cut down the Q.  There ain't no view worth paying $90 for, especially NYC.  Not even sure I'd bother if it was free.

 

Get the part  about cost is irrelevant, but the special trip isn't, and 10 eggs don't last us more than 2 day, if that.  I eat 2 large eggs everyday, and the wife eats 3.   I'm at Makro every week, so I'm picking up eggs every time.  No need for a special trip to 7-11.

 

Actually, we rarely hit 7-11 locally for anything.  When O&A, it's everyday probably.