The largest supermarket chain in Texas, San Antonio based H-E-B, is asking its customers to limit egg purchases due to an outbreak of avian flu in the Midwest that has crimped egg supplies nationwide, an official said on Thursday.
"H-E-B has put up signs on our egg shelves throughout all of our stores, asking our customers to limit their purchases to three cartons of eggs per purchase," said spokeswoman Dya Campos. The company operates 350 supermarkets in Texas and in northern Mexico.
She says the avian flu outbreak has led to a "constriction in the supply" of eggs available to the food industry and the company does not want restaurants and commercial institutions coming in and stripping its shelves of eggs.
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