While Dollar Tree used to sell everything in its stores for a dollar, inflation has made it hard to maintain that price point. The stores now sell most products for $1.25 and a small selection of items for $3 or $5.

However, eggs don't fit into any of those categories, at least not profitably. As average egg prices hit $4.21 a dozen in February, retailers continued raising prices.

(And that's just for regular eggs, not even those cage-free, organic types.)

Dollar Tree doesn't have that kind of flexibility in its business model, so they have pulled eggs off their shelves.

"Our primary price point at Dollar Tree is $1.25. The cost of eggs is currently very high," said company spokesperson Randy Guiler. Dollar Tree. The company will bring back eggs when "costs are more in line with historical levels."

While egg prices have declined somewhat over the past couple of weeks, Dollar Tree does not expect eggs will be in their price range in time for Easter, the largest egg purchasing season of the year, especially since wholesale prices are already on the rise again in anticipation of the event.

Experts say the shortage of eggs is due to the H5N1 bird flu, which has spread through global flocks causing over 50 million birds to be culled in the U.S. alone.

H5N1 is a Chinese variant (because of course) that first appeared in 1996.

The last major outbreak was in 2014 and 2015, though we've already killed more birds than that outbreak and the risk of avian flu hasn't abated.

Since some of these egg laying operations have over a million hens, one farm getting culled can drastically reduce supply in eggs, causing prices to soar.

My guess is that until the threat of Avian flu is under control, we won't see eggs at Dollar Tree any time soon.

Maybe we should have a new Easter tradition?

How about a festive cricketburger?