BANGOR DAILY NEWS • October 12, 2022
Whether you favor your eggs fried, boiled or poached, those golden yolks are looking more like precious metal. Thanks to a national shortage, some Maine grocery stores are seeing the prices of eggs rise. It’s just one more in a long list of items to experience scarcity, beginning when COVID-19 struck in 2020 and panic buying emptied toilet paper and bread from store shelves. Two years of supply chain delays are compounded by another disease: bird flu.