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Oskar 8 points ago +8 / -0

Eggs packaged for restaurants come in a big box with layers of loose eggs separated by cardboard.

Eggs packaged for retail sale come in the same sized box but the eggs are packaged into dozens.

I know this because sometimes my company gets the restaurant eggs by mistake and they have to be sent back as we have zero use for loose eggs.

Multiply this sort of problem across the entire food supply chain and you can see how you have consumer end shortages and producer surplus.

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panic86 4 points ago +4 / -0

Also, much of the restaurant egg supply is liquid eggs. Suppliers of liquid eggs aren't prepared to package eggs by the dozen.

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side_o_beef 4 points ago +4 / -0

once people are hungry they won't care