In Alaska, eggs are in short supply. An avian flu outbreak in Washington has prompted a major cull of chickens and ricocheting egg problems across the Northwest.
At the A Street Walmart in Anchorage on Friday afternoon, Jan. 6, 2023, eggs were sparse amid a statewide shortage caused by an outbreak of bird flu at a Washington egg supplier. Oakdell, a major egg supplier in Washington for retailers in the Pacific Northwest, including Alaska, is in the midst ofover a million chickens because of a bird flu outbreak, said Kyle Hill, president of the Alaska Commercial Company, which has 35 AC stores across rural Alaska.
The Three Bears Alaska grocery store chain, with locations in communities across the road system, is buying larger packs of eggs and then breaking them down into dozens, said Jim Kolb, the company’s marketing director. A sign within the A Street Walmart directed customers to only purchase one carton of eggs as supplies ran low Friday, Jan. 6, 2023.
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