I looked for fresh salmon yesterday at a supermarket. It was $16.99 a pound!
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“I looked for fresh salmon yesterday at a supermarket. It was $16.99 a pound!”
Yeah they forgot to tell the retailers the price was supposed to come down. The wholesalers and retailers are price gouging like crazy. The retailers are probably making 100% or more mark up.
Never buy fish at a supermarket as a rule - they heavily mark up the price to make up for dead loss due to routinely mishandling fish.
How do you know?
Smell, if you smell anything its rotting. Ice on fish is should be 28 deg and places on TOP of the fish; that not only keeps the fish at the right temp, but also hydrated.
Ice on the bottom does nothing to keep the fish and allows the meat to dehydrate and begin to rot.
After closing the fish is shoved into coolers which may or may not be at the right temps and the fish may or may not be covered by 28 deg ice. Eventually, it rots and can no longer be sold as “fresh”. Grocers then spice it up selling the rotting fish as some sort of specialty delicacy.
Basically grocers treat fish as the do beef, pork, chicken. Which leads to a lot of loss. So they buy it wholesale for $2 lb, and they need a profit so it goes to $4, but because of dead loss on “fresh”, the mark it up further to $8.
Buy your fish directly from the fisherman, shipped airfreight directly to you - online searches will turn up numerous sources. Your fish will actually be fresh, with only a days or two, at most, from landing, not weeks or months.
As usual, the commercial fisherman is the one getting the shaft. I am one. The price of fish goes down every year so the buyer and retailer can make more money. They are starving the fisherman right out of business.
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