Increase seen in meat prices before the holidays

Increase seen in meat prices before the holidays

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As people prepare up for holiday festivities... you may notice some grocery store meats are a little bit more expensive than in the past.... waay-31s alexis scott learned it's because more people are eating at home.

Now stores are trying to keep up with the demand.

This week many people are going out and shopping for their holiday meals but they're not picking up and taking it home just yet.

They're trying to see what the prices are looking like and many people say you just have to shop around.

John bradford, shopper i'm evaluating the turkeys right now.

We're going to try and have that for thanksgiving.

We don't know if we want to get one now or wait a little closer to where it'll be thawed out around the house," john bradford like many other shoppers at hometown market came out to shop for regular groceries on wednesday, but he also was checking out items for a thanksgiving meal.

But you didn't see a lot of holiday staples like turkey and dressing in baskets on wednesday.

Lots of folks were surveying how much bang for your buck can you get... because across the u-s the price of meat is going up.

Mos says "leg quarters on sale, hams... different places, different stores, i just left one store here," the store manager told me at one point they had a surplus of meat and everything was selling fine... but it's now 8 months later... and he's nervous he won't be able to sell as much as he tries to keep up with the pricing to get the meat from the butcher to the store.

To accomodate... he has to up the prices a bit.

Take gfx across the u-s, thanksgiving meals are up nearly 10% higher than they were last year.

At the market turkey being the highest... with an increase of about 5-dollars at the store.

Chicken and some pork selections have gone up nearly 2 or 3 dollars and beef essentially has no change with thanksgiving just a few days away, people say they're doing the best with what they have.

Mos says "just being thankful.

We can't be with our families like we want to and i k now personally, myself, i love all my family but we can't get together like we used to," butt with john bradford, shopper "of course this year we're not going to be able to do that due to the covid situation but it's a big deal.

I put it right up there with christmas," already shot the store manager told me if you're looking to buy your thanksgivig turkey today..

Your best bet may be to go with the frozen goods as those are selling really well right now.

Reportig in decatur, alexis scott waay-31 news