Posted on 12/21/2013 6:42:24 PM PST by lee martell
Today I went to a local supermarket in the Terra Linda area of Marin County, a little north of San Francisco. This large grocery store is but one of many belonging to a very popular grocery retailer. So, I bought six pounds, and eight ounces of chicken thighs at $1.79 per pound. After a little walk around comparison, I see most are within this price range. I end up paying $10.88, minus $1.21 with my Club Card, that equals a grand sum total of $9.67 out of pocket. The store is a great place to shop. The areas are clean. I even know some of the cashiers individually. The employees don't run away or openly sneer if you have questions about location. It's a huge store, and the less ambulatory or the tired have been known to shop from a golf cart. The store has a self check that I only use when in a big rush. I prefer not using the self-check, and let the paid cashier do the necessary thinking to get me through the line. So what am I complaining about? Well, the price. A few months ago, this same package of chicken thighs, wings or drums would have cost me much less. I am estimating, this pack of meat I just paid $9.67 for (with discount) would have cost me about $5.40 or so (with discount) only six months ago. What has changed? Maybe the gasoline for the trucks has gone up. They may be using diesel. The gas price has been somewhat stable at $3.45 to $3.90 up and down for the last year. Maybe the price has changed because people will keep buying it. Has there been a Chicken shortage in the states? That would be bad news for KFC.
Torrance CA Costco
12/19/13 Fresh Zachary Farms
Chicken $.99/lb
Chicken Thighs $1.19
Seems about right.
The .29 cents per pound chicken drumsticks and thighs, I guess they call them leg quarters was not that long ago. I can remember being amazed that they could sell them at that price.
My idea was just about everyone was selling chicken breast sandwiches, which were actually pretty good and chicken wings. The leg quarters was what was left over and they just wanted to get rid of them.
I remember my grandmother telling stories about going to the meat market and asking for chicken wings, as they were considered almost garbage. They made stock with them. She laughed when she heard we were going to a bar to get some wings.
FReegards
I always look for steaks which have been reduced because they are near their sell by date. I was talking to the butcher about them and he said he does the same thing. He said they were actually better.
Unfortunately they have begun marking them down only a small amount. They used to really cut the price even to half.
When the hot wings craze started, the cheap meat got expensive.
I heard that once upon a time the brisket was considered trash too.
Back in the 50s and 60s my Mother almost always could get fresh mullet for 9 cents a pound. Mullet which has been caught off the Florida Panhandle where the water is really clear, is one of the best tasting fish. You do have to deep fry them.
Can you over-night that?
Merry Christmas, Joe. :)
Ping to Joe’s picture, Darks. Worse than we thought on the zombie front.
I’m going to be on the lookout for the roasts. Time to put up some more. Thanks for the reminder!
I think I’ll print that out as post cards for leave behinds at the grocery check out. Oops...did I leave that?
Bacon under three dollars? It’s almost six dollars a pound for me and I’m in the midwest!
***Speaking of high prices, I saw Thomas English muffins for $4.39 a pack last night. ***
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100798699
Grupo Bimbo: Meet the Mexican CEO Who Made Your English Muffin
It may say Thomas’ English Muffins, but the company behind the iconic breakfast food is 100 percent Mexican.
Slowly but surely, through acquisitions and determination, Grupo Bimbo of Mexico is now the largest bakery company in the world—selling even more in the United States than they do in its home market Mexico. Listed on the Mexican stock exchange, Bimbo brought in $13 billion in revenue last year, $6 billion of which came from its U.S. operations.
These wings weren’t even hot wings, they were these garlicky -salt crusted deep fried things in the early-mid eighties. The bar still sells them, still love them.
I think the pepper-sauce hot-wings came from Buffalo in the 60’s? Were wings sold in bars without the buffalo sauce in bars first, or were the buffalo sauce wings the first version of wings to be regularly sold in bars?
Freegards
back when I worked at a grocery store the Manager got 2 Wing Stop franchises and quit...
probably made quite a bundle off those.
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Wings have always been the tastiest part of the chicken. The problem as everyone knows is there is little meat on them.
klaatu barada chikthi!
It’s called inflation… all grocery prices have gone up drastically. The government refuses to acknowledge this
The hoggoths and the three beaked eye!
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