I was in the local Kroger today and noticed one of their sale signs. Single cryo-vaccumed bone in pork butts for $2.99 a pound "ON SALE". I thought that can't be right. So I looked over the display at the individual packages and yep, $2.99 a pound. No way!!!!
I did spot 2 that were marked $1.19 a pound and quickly scarffed them up into my cart. I need to make some breakfast sausage next weekend and that will work. I was going to thaw out some I had prepped when they had them for $0.99 a pound back in March. The sell by date was 2 weeks away and was the same sell by as all the more expensive butts, same brand, everything. I think somebody got click happy with the label maker and did not really look at what they were doing. The high around here is normally $1.99 to $2.29 a pound and Sams Club runs $1.69 a pound or less. Generally a good sale is in the $0.69 to $0.99 a pound range around here (usually we see that price twice a year and I stock the freezer - pre-trimmed for grinding into sausage and a couple kept whole for pulled pork)
What made it more insane was about 2 hours prior, I had read the Wall Street Journal story about how there is currently 2.5 Billion pounds of beef, pork and chicken backing up in USA processing and storage facilities since China started taxing the crap out of USA imports. At some point they will have to fire sale all that on the USA and other markets.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/meat-piles-up-as-production-grows-and-exports-slow-1532268000
I did spot 2 that were marked $1.19 a pound and quickly scarffed them up into my cart. I need to make some breakfast sausage next weekend and that will work. I was going to thaw out some I had prepped when they had them for $0.99 a pound back in March. The sell by date was 2 weeks away and was the same sell by as all the more expensive butts, same brand, everything. I think somebody got click happy with the label maker and did not really look at what they were doing. The high around here is normally $1.99 to $2.29 a pound and Sams Club runs $1.69 a pound or less. Generally a good sale is in the $0.69 to $0.99 a pound range around here (usually we see that price twice a year and I stock the freezer - pre-trimmed for grinding into sausage and a couple kept whole for pulled pork)
What made it more insane was about 2 hours prior, I had read the Wall Street Journal story about how there is currently 2.5 Billion pounds of beef, pork and chicken backing up in USA processing and storage facilities since China started taxing the crap out of USA imports. At some point they will have to fire sale all that on the USA and other markets.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/meat-piles-up-as-production-grows-and-exports-slow-1532268000
