For weeks we have been reading news stories that beef prices are dropping as herds are thinned due to high corn prices.
But our local beef prices have not dropped a penny. If anything they are still going up.
Maybe the grocers haven’t read the same news stories.
My meat prices have dropped (NE Illinois), but not by much.
Here, our local beef prices have risen dramatically. They now sell bone-in beef short ribs at “sale price”....which used to be the normal price.
Me and another gal at work were laughing about it. We both agreed “thank goodness we have had our fair share of short ribs already”.
” But our local beef prices have not dropped a penny. If anything they are still going up. “
Not only have the meat prices at my local WalMart (so shoot me..) gone up, but for the past month, the meat department has been pathetic - last time I shopped (on a Saturday!!) the Beef section had a whole 6 packages.. (Not counting ground beef, but they were out of a number of the ‘grinds’ there, too...)
Pork and chicken weren’t much better - and there wasn’t a “Yellow Tag” markdown in sight....
Something bad is going on, here....