I did not know this. Thank you.
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I was at Macy’s and they wanted me to pay for a bag at check out. I told the cashier that they should pay me to carry their bag as advertisement for them. The cashier said, “I never thought of it that way.” She gave me a bag for free.
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now I have a way to justify those lululemon purchases! But honey, I needed more aldi bags! 
Just kidding! Sure I am! Yup that’s the reason for all those red bags, for the groceries!
Lululemon bags are the best! Athleta aren’t bad either 
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Plus one on the Athleta bags. Both Lulu and Athleta have opened stores next door to TJ’s here in my neck of the woods… very convenient. I can shop the former two, dump the loot in the trunk, and then go grocery shopping with the empty bags! 
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@Poochie–find your nearest TJs. I just paid less than half that for organic eggs at TJs, in New Jersey.
This is not necessary. The color of the egg is based on the kind of chicken that lays it…and that’s it. You can get farm fresh white eggs, and old been around for a long time brown eggs.
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Yes I’ve just found that out. But today Costco didn’t have white eggs, all gone, only brown eggs which is $3 more. There’s also a limit.
The brown eggs sold by Costco are organic or free range or whatever. The white ones are… just eggs. Yes, the browns are almost 50% more expensive.
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@BunsenBurner some people really think that brown eggs are somehow superior eggs to white. Maybe Costco doesn’t have free range, organic, white eggs…or whatever…but they do exist.
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That was our thinking, brown eggs are better than white. They normally do have lots of white eggs but not today.
Of course they do. I was just pointing out why there is a price difference. Not because of the color. 
In a regular store, you might see all sorts of permutations: white, brown, organic, humane, etc. and “any combination thereof.” Costco has a limited number of SKUs, about 1/10th of a typical Safeway. Hence, only 2 choices of eggs in 24-Ct packages.
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Here’s a decent breakdown of all the labels with eggs. It’s not 100%, but it’s decent and coming from Cleveland Clinic, isn’t biased. It just doesn’t talk about how vegetarian can be unhealthy for chickens.
Oh, and the color egg the chicken will lay depends upon the color of the ear lobe of the chicken (white/brown/blue, etc).
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When I went grocery shopping this past weekend I had a choice in eggs. I could spend $5.99 for 18 white store brand eggs or $2.99 for 12 brown eggs from a local farmer. Neither were free range or organic, just different colors. Either tastes fine.
The $2.99 brown eggs won out.
Also, the only chicken we generally eat is boneless, skinless chicken breast. I’ve been paying $5.99/lbs. for several months. It was down to $3.99/lbs. on Saturday. I about fell over.
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Has anyone ever had eggs from Easter Egg Chickens? My daughter’s friend has some of those chickens and every once in a blue moon she gives us the colorful eggs.
I will say eating eggs in my family is a rare thing. One daughter is allergic. My wife only likes them in baked goods. And I don’t eat a normal breakfast before work. I worry more often about our eggs going bad.
Even at current prices, eggs are still an economical value for families of any social economic status. A dozen eggs even at $3/dozen or more can go a long way.
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I used to have quite a few chickens and about half of them produced the blue/green eggs. They were a bit smaller than the brown eggs I got. All “colors” taste the same.
Edited to clarify color doesn’t matter.
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I know it is common wisdom that all eggs taste the same, but I really have found a huge difference with Happy Eggs Heritage Eggs. The yolks are a super deep beautiful orange and so incredibly rich. Massive difference in taste and texture…wonderful soft boiled or poached.
We use Happy Eggs Organic for baking, but the Heritage ones if making the eggs as themselves.
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We only eat egg whites, so we get the 5 dozen case of eggs at Walmart. The price has increased from $4 to $10, but that’s still a great value. I confess I generally don’t pay attention to specific grocery prices unless the increase is huge like this one.
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Oh, there’s certainly a difference in egg taste and quality depending on the diet and treatment of the chickens. Not because of the color of the egg though…
My free range, well fed hens made some of the tastiest eggs, a much better example than those available in the stores.
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I mindlessly grab the same eggs from Costco, but all this talk about eggs has me checking my fridge to see which ones those are. Organic, free-range brown eggs. I think they still cost $5.99/package but I’m not sure because I’m on autopilot in Costco, ticking items off the list.
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