Beef price is getting stupid .

[voyager 663rd]

AND another store this week:

That's $18 USD/lb

 

[chef k-dude]

I'm impatiently waiting for the prime rib sale this year. Usually always in december and this year I intend to buy enough and get them cut into bone in rib eyes for the year. I'm nervous there won't be a sale this year. Always saw them at Kroger in december

I'm still trying to reduce my freezer population so I may not buy any, but like you I always look around Christmas. I never understood why stuff like this goes on sale at the time when people are most likely to buy it. Seems like a stupid strategy. You would think they would put rib roast on sale in the middle of summer when people arent as likely to want to buy it.

Cheapest rib roast I found around here is this.

Rest of their beef prices are still stupid high. That's OK, I vary our diet quite a bit anyway so beef is only a small portion of what we eat regularly.

I have a load of spiral ham slices in the freezer from earlier this year we will have for Christmas eve dinner (our traditional Christmas dinner gathering). They need to be "et" and almost no one hates ham! Less stress too...

 

[clifish]

I'm still trying to reduce my freezer population so I may not buy any, but like you I always look around Christmas. I never understood why stuff like this goes on sale at the time when people are most likely to buy it. Seems like a stupid strategy. You would think they would put rib roast on sale in the middle of summer when people arent as likely to want to buy it.

Cheapest rib roast I found around here is this.

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Rest of their beef prices are still stupid high. That's OK, I vary our diet quite a bit anyway so beef is only a small portion of what we eat regularly.

I have a load of spiral ham slices in the freezer from earlier this year we will have for Christmas eve dinner (our traditional Christmas dinner gathering). They need to be "et" and almost no one hates ham! Less stress too...

what is "et"? Agree Wegmans beef prices suck.

 

[Torch&Tone]

I never understood why stuff like this goes on sale at the time when people are most likely to buy it. Seems like a stupid strategy.

People are actively looking for a deal on the big centerpiece items - like turkeys at Thanksgiving - but stores are counting on them also buying all the rest of their (full price) groceries there, too, enough to turn an overall profit. Technical term is "loss leader"

Agree on the Christmas ham approach, always popular!

what is "et"?

The way some people say "eaten"

 

[chef k-dude]

what is "et"? Agree Wegmans beef prices suck.

What Torch&Tone said. My mom used to joke around with words all the time, I grew up with that and listening to Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, George Carlin, etc. . And in the metal shop I worked in years ago, we adopted the sort of silly ways some people say things. Like, we had a guy who couldn't pronounce stuff. He would say things like "Ambalance" and "Pacific" instead of specific. Some of us adopted the silliness and began purposely saying stuff like that...just a running joke or whatever.

So, my sense of humor is not always understood. I forget that sometimes, and say these purposely misspoken things around people who dont know me well. They all think I'm an idiot, I'm sure! But in fact, my 6th grade English teacher used Reader's Digest's "Towards more picturesque speech" for our spelling and word comprehension tests, so I knew that words like "Gobbledygook" was a real word and what it meant by the age of 12!

On one hand, some people think I actually dont know how to pronounce things, while all my life I've also been derided for "using dem big words" by the people who ACTUALLY cant pronounce stuff

 

[Gonna Smoke]

US Foods Chef Store has whole top round for $3.99/lb. right now...

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If it was good for grilling, it wouldn't be that cheap even though it wasn't too long ago it could be bought for $1.99/lb. Of course it could be ground, run through a cuber for cubed steak, or jerky...