Cage-free share of egg listings at Latvian retailers

Online catalogue snapshot by SKU. Latest data: 2026-06-22 (updated daily).

Latvia's large online grocers list almost only cage-free eggs by stock-keeping unit (SKU) count: Rimi 93%, Barbora (Maxima) 100%, Lidl 100%. That is well above the national cage-free production share (about 47% of laying-hen places; Eglitis and Kanepajs 2026). This is a shelf-presence indicator, not a sales-volume share.

Cage-free share of egg listings at Latvian retailers — EU production-code mix by retailer (0 organic, 1 free-range, 2 barn, 3 caged). Dashed line: national cage-free production share, about 47%.

Retailer	SKUs (n)	Organic	Free-range	Barn	Caged	Cage-free %	Median €/egg
Rimi	15	1	4	9	1	93%	0.33
Barbora	9	2	1	6	0	100%	0.29
Lidl	2	0	0	2	0	100%	0.18

Price per egg

Price per egg (pack price divided by the number of eggs per pack, so 6- and 10-egg packs compare fairly). Organic eggs are the dearest; Lidl's barn eggs are the cheapest overall. Medians: Rimi 0.33 EUR/egg, Barbora 0.29 EUR/egg, Lidl 0.18 EUR/egg.

Egg price by retailer and production system — Each point is one product; color = production system (same as the chart above). Grey dash: retailer median.

Method

Every chicken shell-egg listing in each retailer's online catalogue was read and classified by EU production code (0 organic, 1 free-range, 2 barn, 3 caged), using the egg-marking code in the name (Nr.0/1/2/3) and/or production keywords (kuti detas = barn, sprostos = caged, brivas turesanas = free-range, eko/bio = organic). Quail eggs and egg products (egg white, etc.) were excluded. Cage-free % = codes 0/1/2 over all chicken shell-egg listings. Every listing carried a production label (0 unknowns), so the national-anchor adjustment leaves the figure unchanged.

Coverage

Of six large chains, three have a machine-readable online egg catalogue (Rimi, Barbora/Maxima, and Lidl; Lidl carries a small egg range). The others:

top!: top! (etop.lv) is TOP's own-brand (TIP TOP) showcase, not a full online grocery: the eggs section has only one own-brand product (TIP TOP barn eggs, EU code 2, about 0.30 EUR/egg), so it is not comparable to a full assortment and is excluded.
Mego: Mego (mego.lv) has no online store (informational site only); no egg catalogue.
Elvi: Elvi (elvi.lv) eggs page lists no shoppable products (WordPress promo/catalogue site); no listing-level data.

Limitations

Shelf presence by SKU count, not sales volume. A retailer with 90% cage-free SKUs could still sell many caged eggs if the cheap, high-volume lines are caged.
The 47% reference is production capacity (laying-hen places), not retail volume.
Price is the listed price (may include promotions) divided by egg count; not weighted by sales volume.

Sources

Scraped online catalogues: Rimi, Barbora, Lidl.
Eglitis and Kanepajs (2026), Economic analysis of a laying-hen cage ban in Latvia (national cage-free share).
European Commission, egg marketing standards (codes 0/1/2/3).
Code and data: https://github.com/akanepajs/olas.

History

The dataset is refreshed automatically each day. The table below is a summary (cage-free % and median price per egg for each date). The full product-level data behind every snapshot (shop, price, egg type for each listing) is downloadable as JSON on GitHub.

Date	Rimi			Barbora			Lidl
Date	n	Cage-free %	€/egg	n	Cage-free %	€/egg	n	Cage-free %	€/egg
2026-06-22	15	93%	0.33	9	100%	0.29	2	100%	0.18
2026-06-16	15	93%	0.33	9	100%	0.29	-	-	-

Claude Code used for analysis and drafting.