
(AP) – Not only are eggs expensive because of the ongoing bird flu outbreak. Now they are sometimes hard to find. And even when stores do have eggs, consumers might face limits on how many they can buy. Eggs have become such a hot commodity that there have even been a couple of heists where thieves seem to be treating the yolks as if they were made out of gold. The problem isn’t going away because the virus continues to infect more birds. The shortages do tend to be isolated. But there’s no way to predict when a massive farm with millions of birds might get hit, and just one of those cases can cause supply problems. (Photo: AP)