My mother went to local grocery store yesterday to find couple of meat roasts,

[imanamerican63]

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she didn’t buy any! They were almost $20.00 for a 4 to 5 pound roast. She drove to couple of other stores and finally found a decent price for them, but not by much. She said for a 5 pound roast was almost $13.00 and the 4 pound roast was almost the same. I get why things are higher priced right, but really $5.00 a pound and this was at a store where they push cheaper prices for all their things they sell!

[Squinch]

1. Where are you? $5 for a pound of roast would be cheap here.

[imanamerican63]

4. The Omaha area.

I understand where you are coming from, but on a fixed income it steep.

[Squinch]

8. Ah. That makes sense. I wasn't meaning anything. Just curious.

[Submariner]

16. That's a sad situation

One would think that the home of the famous 'Omaha Steaks' is a community flooded with meats for processing and shipping, and maybe have discounts for locals, like we can get discount seafood down at the docks or local fish/lobster stores. Although, I haven't been to the fish stores in months, so maybe they are price gouging too.

[lagomorph777]

37. +1 I need to fly out to your area and load up on groceries.

Your prices would be cheap before the pandemic!

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

2. We have plenty of roast but no hamburger

And cube steak is 13.00 for four yikes

[PCIntern]

3. I'm sequestered at the Jersey Shore and

The cost of many items has gone way up. I paid almost $4 for a dozen eggs two days ago and some items have doubled. Some though are on sale; I got 10 cans of brand name tuna for $10.

This is like two months of snow days without the snow and the Grim Reaper hanging around the playground.

[bearsfootball516]

6. That's insnae.

I'm in North Central Indiana. The local Walmart's eggs are a dozen for about 80 cents.

[Ponietz]

5. I don't buy it because CO2 is at 415 parts per million

that’s too expensive.

[MyNameGoesHere]

7. Yeah but that animal isn't contributing

To that anymore. It's dead.

[Squinch]

27. You might be missing the point.

[MyNameGoesHere]

30. Pretty sure I got the point of the post

It's not a new idea.

[davekriss]

35. Vegan here

Partly because carbon is at 415 ppm. A typical meat and potato diet has about 6x the ecological footprint compared to a vegan diet. My individual action has no impact, when rounded for significance. But at least I don’t have to participate.

(The other two reasons I’m vegan: It’s healthier for me. And I do less harm to the sentient creatures around me.)

[Doremus]

40. $5+ per pound. And they say vegetarianism/veganism is expensive.

Beans, rice, oatmeal, fresh produce ... it's healthier, better for the planet, and LESS EXPENSIVE!

[Ohiogal]

9. In my area

A good round roast is always between 6 and 10 $ a lb.

I would think for a good quality roast, $20.00 for 5 lbs. is a very good price

[Hortensis]

10. $30 and $40 roasts were in our markets before the pandemic

for higher-quality meats. We never bought those.

For perspective, though, $13 for a 5-lb roast would have been a really good sale price for chuck roast here in Florida before all this. Even modest cuts have become expensive for retirees on fixed incomes. What she found was not price gouging.

[imanamerican63]

12. I hear you, but that same cut rate store was selling at $2.50 per pound get a few weeks ago.

We live in the Midwest and yes meat is cheaper, but for my mom who is on a fixed income it is expensive for her.

[Hortensis]

15. Interesting info. We need to put beef on the itinerary for any

road trip into the midwest.

COVID killed our plan for deep-immersion sightseeing in DC this spring, and early on we'd considered hitching up our travel trailer and "bunkering" on lonelier roads, but the probability that other states would follow California's lead in stay-at-home laws put that idea away. We had some fun with our kids making up lies for when we were stopped, but wouldn't want to try them out.

Another year.

[hlthe2b]

11. Good thing I essentially (albeit not totally) gave up red meat two years ago.

I am not about to scrounge for that.

Getting sick and tired of bean dishes and thankfully I can get dairy products and continue to make my own yogurt without difficulty, but obviously some are eating a hell of a lot better and with far more variety than I am. Good for them, I guess.

[Mariana]

13. Lamb is heavily marked down right now where I am.

We had a lovely lamb roast last night.

[Bayard]

39. I love lamb

As long as I don't think of what he used to look like. I've only found it here once, and it was about $12 lb.

We are lucky to have our own chickens and way too many ducks. We get over a dozen eggs a day. As long as we keep feeding them, we won't starve anyway.

[LisaL]

14. She is risking her life by going from store to store in the middle of the pandemic, to find

a good price on meat roast?

[imanamerican63]

17. She had to go those other stores for things she needed.

Walmart and she had a prescription at the other to pick up.

[cwydro]

22. No kidding.

I hadn’t been to the store in two weeks. Ventured out for fruit yesterday.

Amazed at how crowded the store was, and though I was wearing a mask, I felt very uncomfortable. Grabbed grapefruit quickly and was outta there.

No way in hell would I go to more than one store. I think I’ll do curbside if I need something in the future.

[LisaL]

24. Yep. Masks (unless you have an actual N95) only offer limited protection.

I used to enjoy shopping, now it's like going to a war.

[cwydro]

33. Exactly.

A lot of others were wearing masks, but many were not. People were wandering around, browsing, picking things up and putting them down.

I got out of there as quickly as I could. Not usually an easily frightened person, but I found myself really stressed by how close people were to me even in the short time I was in the store.

My state and county are not hot spots at this point, but I know there are at least 100 cases in the county. Probably double that considering the lack of testing. Scary times.

[obamanut2012]

31. ikr

[cwydro]

38. Especially if the OP's mother is elderly.

Given the average age on this site, I’m assuming she is.

[Mariana]

41. My parents keep going places every day for bullshit reasons.

Some people just will not take it seriously.

[cwydro]

43. I usually like shopping. I was just going in for the grapefruit, but thought I'd do a quick scan.

All the people swarming while I was in produce freaked me out.

I skedaddled without even looking anywhere else.

[NutmegYankee]

18. That's cheap.

Come visit the Northeast. It'll change your attitude on many prices.

[imanamerican63]

19. Understanding that you're in the northeast, she is on a fixed income.

Prices are all different around the country.

[NutmegYankee]

20. I'm fully aware prices are different around the country.

I, for instance, have the honor of paying the highest electric prices in the Continental USA.

[Squinch]

28. But remember the lobster prices last year? They were GIVING them away.

BC of the lack of demand from China.

[COLGATE4]

21. Here in the Tampa Bay area I paid $5.00/lb. for Hamburger! nt

[Sherman A1]

23. The stores have no incentive to have specials or sales at this point

and it seems everything is running at full retail price. Even with the extra expenses of cleaning, plexiglass at the check stands, gloves and masks, they are certainly making money.

[Totally Tunsie]

44. I found Sale prices at the grocery yesterday.

Unfortunately, yesterday's Sale prices were higher than regular pricing two weeks ago when I was out last. Price raise was most noticeable for produce, meat, fish and chicken.

The store looked like a war zone. Deli was shut down completely, and produce, meat, frozen items, paper and cleaning products were quite depleted. Had to make a lot of compromises in my shopping list.

[Sherman A1]

45. Grocery shopping is currently

A scavenger hunt.

[Totally Tunsie]

46. You're right. I now consider my shopping list

to be a suggestion list instead.

[Ilsa]

25. If you want cheap beef, you have to move to

Texas.

I lived there most of my life, so I'll use the puke emoji if I want to.

[Rver]

26. My brother lives in Omaha

He told me yesterday that some meatpacking plants are shut down due to covid19. My wife also saw some stories about other states with the same thing. $5 may be the lowest price we'll see for a while. Stay safe out there.

[Politicub]

29. Beef prices have been increasing for some time

I’ve stopped buying it because we can’t afford paying $10 for one steak.

My husband likes a recipe that uses skirt steak. This used to be considered a cheap cut of meat. Last time I bought it (for his birthday dinner last year), it cost $12 for a small piece.

[nolabear]

32. 7.99 a pound here in Seattle

EVERYTHING is high here. Well, produce is good but gas and meat and houses? Woof.

[sarisataka]

34. Picked up a nice roast yesterday

$3.99 a pound, pretty good price locally. I also grabbed an 11 pound ham for less than a dollar a pound.

[forkol]

36. I picked up a whole brisket about a week ago

That a local Kroger had for $1.99 a pound. It was marked down from $85.00 to $32.00. It has a sale-by date of Apr. 28th. It's huge. I'm going to cut it into two and smoke both parts next weekend.

[JCMach1]

42. Same was $7.99lb in Texas this week

All prices are now 10-30% higher on most things

[Totally Tunsie]

47. My daughter-in-law just placed a stock-up order through

Omaha Steaks. They're running some pretty good specials via both TV and their website. The initial payout may seem high, but you get a lot for what you're paying. All you need is the room in your freezer to store it all. That's where I run short - a very small freezer that's already stocked, otherwise I'd be ordering from Omaha Steaks also.

https://www.omahasteaks.com/shop/