I heard that the egg prices are out of control due to bird flu and greed. How did this situation impact the chicken meat prices?
It’s hard to google local prices actual people pay in other countries for commodity goods like chicken and bread :/
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Here are a couple of pics of this week’s ad at a grocery chain.
Thanks, believe it or not but I find it actually really interesting how prices differ and what products are sold.
If I travel I always try to go to markets where local people buy their groceries
Me too! I also love to go to hardware store on vacation, especially small, old independent ones.
Another good one is second hand shops. When I was in Helsinki I’ve found really cool stuff there.
Where?
Dallas, Texas
7.99/lb for Atlantic Salmon is a good price. I’ve only seen it go a dollar below that and not in a while.
I noticed meat prices jump at the start of covid. I used to shop at a store that was somewhere between a Whole Foods and a farmers market. They had all the prepackaged processed organic foods that will break the bank, but also cheap veggies that weren’t quite nice enough looking for mainstream groceries. They used to have some of the most affordable meat in town.
Now I just go straight to the local butcher (lucky to have one). Sure I pay 2-4 times as much, but it’s better meat, it’s a local business, and the grocery stores don’t get a cut! I just eat a bit less meat.
We have Sprouts and it’s kind of like that - lots of organic options, pricier than Kroger but not as high as whole foods. We also have a couple of great butchers. We use them as more of a splurge - holidays, parties, or those days when you really want a wagyu hotdog.
California Bay Area: Safeway store brand is $2.49/lb for whole chickens or whole legs, $5.99 for boneless, skinless breasts. Free range (Rocky) is $2.99 for whole/whole legs and $8.99 for breasts. Organic (Rosie) is $3.99 whole, $10.99 breast. It was cheaper pre pandemic, the bird flu hasn’t raised prices a second time.
Meat chickens are totally different from egg chickens. The meat ones are born to die and don’t live nearly as long, so the virus hasn’t affected the population as much.
I made myself sad
Chicken prices are going to skyrocket because the people who work the farms are all from central and south America. They’re already pulling their kids from school and are laying low. If ICE really starts cracking down Chick-fil-A is fucked.
You can go to grocery store sites and set your location to a specific store, and look up items.
Anyway I looked it up at my local Walmart (Arizona, US) and boneless breasts are $2.69 a lb, boneless skinless thighs, 3.49, and wings, $1.19 a lb. Ten lbs of chicken leg quarters, $6.50. So it doesn’t seem to have gone up a lot.
Unfortunately many US grocery stores geo block the EU :/
Probably because of privacy laws? I guess I could use a VPN but asking here was easier / more fun.
Oh, I see. Just an idea. I was wondering if maybe they’d block or redirect you.
These prices are confusing. The first two are about the same for me but somehow your wings are nearly a third the price.
The prices vary based on how much usable meat there is in the cut vs. bones, and how much work went into cutting it. Wings are mainly bones for instance. It can also be how fast it sells, so the risk the packages will spoil before they’re sold and what quantities they order or produce it in.
Between $3 and $4 per pound for chicken breasts here.
Where’s here? They’re $5-6 in Texas.
Whole Young Chicken: $1.69 / lb
Chicken breast: $2.99 / lb
That’s nuts. How do farmers live with those prices? Oh, wait, chicken farmers are taken advantage of and bankrupted by Tyson every day of the week so they can buy out their operations at pennies on the dollar after working 20 hours a day to keep their heads above water.
But supply-side management is communism.
Also the workers in the farms and meat packing plants are illegal immigrants and children that they can illegally pay less than min wage.
Egg prices are coming down. Chicken is up but just slightly.
