” 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....
Our supermarkets here in Arlington VA have plenty of all cuts of meat. No shortages.
It's been that way here for a couple years. They'll put out a couple of packages of whatever cut and that's it. It's like doing a drug deal to get more. You have to find "the guy" and he'll hemhaw around and finally go to the back only to bring out one little package and tell you that's all he has. The usual story is the truck didn't have whatever it is you want. I haven't seen a markdown on fresh produce in a year either. Who knows what they're doing with it all.
Meat is going up due to fuel costs and the feed shortage. High fuel costs affect everything in your budget.
Pray for America