“Kroger Ribeye usda choice 6.99 a pound today, Midlothian Va....battle of the shifting loss leaders and supply and demand adjustments probably.”
Low steak prices are mostly because of Fathers Day and they are loss leaders for the week.
Similar price cuts always happen before a big holiday weekend. Prices for turkey, ham, a rack of ribeyes go down during the week before Thanksgiving and the week before Christmas. Likewise you can get great buys on steaks, ground beef, hot dogs and picnic snacks just prior to Memorial Day, Independence Day and Labor Day. Same thing with seasonal produce during the same weeks.
Don’t forget to stock up on corned beef around st. Patricks day.
Covid has completely done away with holiday sales in my area of TX. We had previous bought and frozen chicken for Thanksgiving. Had a previously bought frozen ham for Christmas. The freezer is getting bare. No such thing as reduced expiration date meat sales anymore. We still have limited items. No sales for Father’s Day. Doubt they’ll even lower hot dogs for the 4th.
Yes and no...around here we see slow price build ups for things just before the Holidays you mention...then oh my goodness “big sales”/sarc...1.25 for a package of oscar Meyer hotdogs (if you buy 6.) Koger has a kind of predictable cycle for steak sales of the average kinds put in the styrofoam family packs...rib-eyes one week...chuck the next for sale...then t-bones for sale the next week and so on with the previous on sale meats going back up to 8 to 10 dollars a pound. Wait a few weeks for your favorite grilling meat to drop to a price you want to pay at Koger....it eventually cycles around. Now you won’t get an argument from me that over-all prices for everything has gone up in the aggregate over the past few years.
Yes and no...around here we see slow price build ups for things just before the Holidays you mention...then oh my goodness “big sales”/sarc...1.25 for a package of oscar Meyer hotdogs (if you buy 6.) Koger has a kind of predictable cycle for steak sales of the average kinds put in the styrofoam family packs...rib-eyes one week...chuck the next for sale...then t-bones for sale the next week and so on with the previous on sale meats going back up to 8 to 10 dollars a pound. Wait a few weeks for your favorite grilling meat to drop to a price you want to pay at Koger....it eventually cycles around. Now you won’t get an argument from me that over-all prices for everything has gone up in the aggregate over the past few years.