Be glad you don't put eggs in your car

Supermarkets have always marked up certain items in order to make up for the bare margins, or even the losses, they make on other items. I've been told by people who worked for supermarkets that milk and eggs both fall into that category, whereas meat is an item whose margin is bare, or even a loser.

For the same reason (buyer psychology) supermarkets are laid out in such a way that the things you want most frequently are generally placed on opposite sides of the store, forcing you to walk across all these other neat-o items that, hopefully, you'll want to buy.

With increased transportation costs and significant competition, the supermarkets may be trying to load a disproportionate amount of their costs onto eggs.

Now watch: someone who works in supermarkets is going to come here and tell me that I've got everything backwards. :-)

Do the price of corn and ethanol production figure into this, too?

That could have something to do with it since chickens eat corn.

You could direct link to the article with the stats you know...

You are assuming, Caleb, that I read it on the web ... in fact it was an insert to a snail mailing. (Snail mail mailing?) No clue if it's online and I am not inclined to search for it.