For some reason chicken breasts (not legs, not whole chickens, not thighs) are not available in the city of Paducah, Kentucky.
The chicken breasts around my area are gigantic, bone in skin on.
Chicken, even at The Big Box store has been kind of iffy for a solid decade. I think it all started with an avian flu a while ago.
And a variety and the selection of cuts has also been off for years now. Go into a store and get you a pack of chicken backs nowadays... those are almost non-existent. Whole roasters are usually stocked. And for a while only boneless/skinless breasts, no legs, thighs, some wings.
Oh, no!
Isn’t the old adage, “As goes Paducah, so goes the Nation?” :)
I have been told that the reason for the chicken breasts selling out is because most younger people buy them. They have been stocking up. Older people will settle for whole chickens because they know how to cut them and they know recipes for whole chickens.