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PRICE OF EGGS ON JANUARY 20, 2021 AND PRICE OF EGGS ON NOVEMBER 8, 2025
Executive Summary
The claim asks for the price of a dozen eggs on January 20, 2021 and on November 8, 2025; available, dated data allow a confident figure for January 2021 but do not support a single, definitive price for November 8, 2025. January 20, 2021 is credibly reported at about $1.47 per dozen, based on a January 2025 retrospective chart [1]. No single source in the assembled evidence reports a precise November 8, 2025 retail price; the closest contemporaneous data show a range of wholesale and retail prices around early November 2025—roughly $1.53–$2.09 wholesale and an $1.86 entry for November 7, 2025—while other series report higher retail benchmarks during 2025 [2] [3] [4].
1. Why January 20, 2021 Is Verifiable and Where That Number Comes From
The clearest, directly dated figure across the collected materials is $1.47 per dozen for January 2021, reported in a Visual Capitalist chart that traces U.S. food-price movements starting in 2021 [1]. That number aligns with other historical-series reporting that places 2021 egg prices in the low-to-mid dollar range, and it is presented explicitly for January rather than as an annual average [5]. This establishes a reliable benchmark for the early-2021 price level and explains why the January 20, 2021 value is the easier of the two dates to substantiate from the available evidence. The data source is retrospective and comparative, and its date of publication (February 17, 2025) indicates it was assembled after subsequent price volatility, but the January 2021 datapoint itself is historical and consistent with other annual listings [1] [5].
2. Why November 8, 2025 Cannot Be Given as a Single, Definitive Price
No assembled source provides a price specifically dated November 8, 2025; the closest datapoints are November 7, 2025 wholesale/market snapshots and late‑October 2025 regional wholesale ranges. One dataset lists $1.86 per dozen on November 7, 2025, while market overviews dated October 31–November 7, 2025 show wholesale Large white shell eggs ranging about $1.53–$2.09 per dozen depending on region and contract type [3] [2]. Other 2025 series report different benchmarks—national retail averages, New York bulk forecasts, and September retail prices—that point to substantial within-year volatility and differing measures (retail versus wholesale, cage type) [4] [6]. Because the sources mix wholesale and retail measures and provide close-but-not-exact dates, the evidence does not support a single, authoritative November 8 retail price.
3. Conflicting Benchmarks: Wholesale vs. Retail and Peak 2025 Volatility
The assembled data show divergent price series in 2025: wholesale market reports and regional daily quotes in late October/early November clustered around the $1.50–$2.10 range, while retail and benchmark series reported higher values at other points in 2025—September national retail averages around $3.49 per dozen, New York bulk projections at 404 cents ($4.04) for 2025, and a reported March 2025 peak of $8.17 in one historical series [6] [4] [3]. These differences reflect distinct market layers (farm/wholesale vs. retail) and dramatic supply shocks in 2025, which produced short-term spikes and regional variation; conflating these series without specifying which measure is being quoted causes apparent contradictions.
4. What Explains the Wide 2025 Spread — Supply shocks and measurement choices
The large spread among reported 2025 numbers is consistent with supply disruptions and differences in what is being measured. One source notes an all-time high of $8.17 in March 2025—an extreme farm-level monthly series figure—while other sources show much lower contemporary wholesale quotes in November 2025 [3] [2]. Retail averages reported for September 2025 are higher than wholesale quotes because retail pricing includes distribution, retail margins, packaging, and product-type segmentation (caged, cage-free, organic), which one source enumerates [4] [6]. Short-term outbreaks and market adjustments in 2025 created volatility that makes a single-day retail price difficult to pinpoint without a directly dated retail series.
5. Practical Answer and Best-Available Ranges for the Two Dates
On January 20, 2021 the best-supported figure from the collected evidence is about $1.47 per dozen [1]. For November 8, 2025 there is no direct, dated retail price in the materials; the best practical statement is that contemporaneous wholesale quotes clustered roughly $1.53–$2.09 per dozen, with one explicit nearby daily quote at $1.86 per dozen on November 7, 2025, and other series reporting higher retail benchmarks earlier in 2025 [2] [3] [6]. If you need a single authoritative November 8 retail number, obtain a dated retail series (BLS city-average retail or a specific supermarket chain price on that date); otherwise, report a range and state whether wholesale or retail is meant.
6. Sources, Limitations, and Recommended Next Steps
The conclusions above rely on the assembled source analyses: Visual Capitalist historical charting, market summaries around November 2025, and industry/USDA-style benchmark and retail averages [1] [3] [2] [4] [6]. Limitations include mixing wholesale and retail series, absent exact November 8 retail quotes, and regional variation. To close the gap, request a specific series: national retail city‑average (BLS) or a named retailer's price on November 8, 2025; alternatively, specify whether you want farm/wholesale, bulk benchmark, or retail shelf prices and I will extract the most directly dated figure from available databases.