I live and shop in the Chicago near suburbs, and for some reason eggs
have suddenly gone up about 50% in about 10 days.

I was shopping in an Aldi discount supermarket today and noticed that
the price of a dozen large eggs was $1.35. Two weeks ago the same eggs
were 95 cents a dozen. And last week a large drug chain had large eggs
at 79 cents a dozen (admittedly a sale price).

As I continued shopping I found that large eggs ranged from $1.35 to
$1.69 at the several stores I visited. Even Sam's Club, which is
pretty competitive had large eggs at $2.54 for a dozen-and-a-half, or
$1.69 a dozen.

Does anyone know the reason?

-Len