Apparently, letter writer Mark Renz doesn’t buy eggs very often (“Lower food prices,” Jan. 7). This isn’t the first time that eggs have been priced at $6 a carton at Jewel.

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To simplify the numbers: If a dozen eggs cost $2.00 and they have a 100% increase in price, they are now $4.00. If a dozen eggs cost $4.00 and they are on sale for 50% off, they are now $2.00.

Presently the store my wife shops at sells eggs for $5.99 a dozen. Yikes! Now, I refuse to poach eggs, and I won’t give up eating chicken to offset the supply and demand of yolk makers.

Remember when the candidate stood in front of a few tables of food products and claimed the food and staples we live on were way overpriced and he'd bring the prices down? His quote, "When I win ...