I will add that I try to only buy pasture raised eggs. Several years ago my son-in-law who works in Ag explained the different definitions between cage free and pasture or free range.
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YLE has a post about H5N1 flu and the egg shortage:
āan egg factory in Iowa killed 5.3 million chickens over a single case of avian influenza in the flock. This was the largest culling of commercial birds in the U.S.ā
Went to BJs today. They had eggsā¦but limit of two packages per customer. They were either 18 or 24 packsā¦so not an issue for most people. They also had 5 dozen packs of their eggsā¦maybe for someone doing small commercial baking?
Prices were about $4 a dozen regardless of the brand.
We didnāt need any but I checked anyway.
Thanks for bumping this thread.
A few days ago, when I went to the store to buy eggs, most brands were out of stock, except this one:
I never bought this brand before, until now.
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Ha ha. My friends all buy these. Most of my friends have 7-10 children though. They need a lot of eggs.
I dropped into Aldi today to buy milk, and checked their for the generic large white eggs.
4.99/dozen
Our Costco is used by a lot of small restaurants and other businesses. You can tell they arenāt shopping for their homes because they use the flatbed trolleys instead of carts and have huge quantities of things like eggs, vinegar, flour, sugar, napkins, condiments, etc. on the trolleys.
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Whatās causing the price of eggs to skyrocket nationwide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAwEXā¦
Wellā¦ā¦this happened today in my state soā¦.
Other coming shortages?
Those chickens should be made into catfood. Just saying. Boiling the heck out of them, feathers and all, will leave no trace of any flu virus. 
Went to Grocery Outlet yesterday near my home in the SF Bay Area, and the cheapest eggs I saw were $5.99 a dozen. Most eggs were priced around $8.49 a dozen, which is 50 cents more than last week.
I read that articleā¦they had a million laying hens or moreš
Interesting list of potential shortages:
Bread
Sunflower/Palm oil
Champagne
Canned beer, canned food, canned pet food (aluminum shortage)
Lettuce
Corn (frozen or canned?)
Oranges/Orange juice
Beef
Olive Oil
Infant Formula
I suppose most years there is some food item that there is a shortage of. But eggs is a pretty basic widely used for many purposes food so itās more keenly felt.
Looking at this listā¦I can make my own bread and grow lettuce part of the yearā¦I donāt need champagne or beer, we use dry pet food, as long as I can get fresh cornā¦less beef is ok by meā¦and infant formula shortage is already a thingā¦
Guess Iāll stock up on the jugs of olive oil I get at our middle east market! 
Coop now has a sign asking people to purchase only the eggs they need. Still have local eggs at $3.99/dozen. I did see a dry egg substitute at the supermarket on an end aisle but didnāt investigate closely.
Gosh, I guess Iāve never really used a dry egg product but I sure hope we donāt have to pivot to that! (reminds me of probably what they used in the dorm cafeteria for all those āscrambled eggsā!!!
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Guess Iāll start to stock up on canned food. Buy extra beef and bread to freeze. I love salads, though, so will miss lettuce if I canāt find it. As far as the rest (other than some occasional oranges and olive oil once in a while), no effect on me. I have no babies and no pets.
I buy these (from Costco) for my family of 3 (or 4 when the college kiddo is home). They usually last about a month. We eat a lot of eggs!
I havenāt noticed egg shortages in our stores (NJ), and Iāll be honest in that I donāt even pay attention to the price. Iām buying them regardless, and in our household eggs are still a very affordable source of protein. Iād happily cut down further on our meat consumption if it came down to needing to save money due to the rising price of eggs.