Bird flu is impacting the price of eggs across the country, with costs skyrocketing at some stores in the city.

“It’s completely frustrating, it’s very disheartening and disappointing,” Elisa Figueroa said.

Egg shelves were empty at some grocery stores in the city. NY1 went to six different stores on the Upper East Side Saturday to compare prices.

A dozen large white eggs were $5.49 at Fairway, Target and roughly the same at Morton Williams. However, the price was more than twice that at Key Food and CTown at $12.49.

“It’s absurd, it’s absurd,” Lloyd Goldstein said as he left a CTown location. “Sticker shock, yeah, I didn’t buy it the first time I saw it. I just walked past it, and I said, I’ll do without it, but that’s the price you are paying today, gasoline, eggs.”

“I have to resort to going out of state to Connecticut, to go grab some eggs at Walmart, which has about 60 eggs for $22, and even that’s kind of expensive because that went up in price like $4 or $5 within the past 3 months,” Figueroa said. “$12 for a dozen in certain markets? It’s completely ridiculous.”

Other New Yorkers said they’re more worried about the long-term impact of inflation.

“The problem is things aren’t gonna go back down, you know, once people get used to paying if there’s inflation. Then, even if the price goes down, the prices for the store goes down, but doesn’t go down for the consumer,” Nina Caplin said.

State Attorney General Letitia James has promised to prosecute anyone believed to be price gouging the cost of eggs.