[herbie]

There were FOUR turkeys at one store in town. 0 at the other. $64 and up.
Went to Prince George, Costco had them $25 OFF each one. Seems the supply chain ends 100 miles from here.
Also bought myself a couple Tbones. $17/kg at one store, $44/kg at the Big Chainstore. Guess where I bought TWO....

and I just about shit, at the same Costco they had iMacs and Mac Minis in stock - the "new ones" that came out in 2020. First time I'd actually seen and touched one.

[DrCaleb]

herbie herbie:

First time I'd actually seen and touched one.

Did you wash your hands after?

[herbie]

I shall never wash them again! They have held the Holy Grail...

[Strutz]

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$12.99/kg? Holy shit. We were at our local Safeway today and I noticed there were at least 30 turkeys piled up in the freezer section in the meat dept. I thought it was rather hilarious considering there was all that hubbub about shortages. I didn't actually look at the prices on them but when I just checked their online flyer they are advertising them as being $5.49/kg.

[DrCaleb]

Strutz Strutz:

$12.99/kg? Holy shit. We were at our local Safeway today and I noticed there were at least 30 turkeys piled up in the freezer section in the meat dept. I thought it was rather hilarious considering there was all that hubbub about shortages. I didn't actually look at the prices on them but when I just checked their online flyer they are advertising them as being $5.49/kg.

The poultry industry in Alberta took it on the chin this year because of Avian flu. Hundreds of thousands of farmed foul had to be destroyed. So getting turkey for Christmas was tough. I ended up getting a single breast for $30.

I remember looking at a frozen turkey at an Organic store a few years ago, and it was $120, and I thought who would pay that much for a bird?

[Strutz]

Lots of issues here as well with the avian flu. Bad times for birdies.

I just looked at the pack of chicken legs we bought today and they were $9.90/kg so perhaps that turkey price you posted wasn't all that out of line. I think it was the overall price that shocked me for the size of the bird.

I'm thinking maybe safeway dropped the price this week because of having so many extra birds people weren't willing to pay more for last week. I didn't even look previously because we weren't part of a get together and for just us a chicken was more than enough.

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[DrCaleb]

[DrCaleb]

I noticed on my Costco run yesterday that the normal 2 cartons of 18 eggs has now become 30. Same low price though!

[herbie]

What I remember from living near a mushroom farm was that it was smelly because they used tons of manure.
Seeing the current high prices for mushrooms in the stores and using Sherlock Holmes powers of deduction, I can only conclude there is a world wide shit shortage.

[Strutz]

herbie herbie:

What I remember from living near a mushroom farm was that it was smelly because they used tons of manure.
Seeing the current high prices for mushrooms in the stores and using Sherlock Holmes powers of deduction, I can only conclude there is a world wide shit shortage.

All produce is expensive right now. We buy small amounts more frequently to make sure we use every bit of it up and mostly now buy all of it from a local farm market as their prices are much lower than Safeway's and the quality is better too.

[herbie]

Speaking of mushrooms what the hell's with the size of the ones in the stores now? Gone back to buying canned ones in the dollar store because when I want to use button mushrooms, I don't want ones the size of bar stools...

other stuff like those baby watermelons - $8 ea? I didn't see watermelons in Feb the first 50 years of my life so not buying them isn't such a loss. Same thing with $12.99 dragon fruits...

I didn't even see boxes of mandarins last Christmas? Anyone else notice that?

[Strutz]

herbie herbie:

Speaking of mushrooms what the hell's with the size of the ones in the stores now? Gone back to buying canned ones in the dollar store because when I want to use button mushrooms, I don't want ones the size of bar stools...

Yes, for sure the regular white mushrooms we've been buying lately (a couple of months maybe) are larger than I remember them being before. We usually only buy 6-8 at a time as for most things we make we only need a couple of them.

herbie herbie:

I didn't even see boxes of mandarins last Christmas? Anyone else notice that?

I did see some on display in Safeway well before Christmas but we didn't bother as past experience reminded us that there were always bad ones in the box and it was a waste of money. We did a few times buy small bags of them (about 12) and while they looked good from the outside half of them were good and half them were dried out on the inside. We got discouraged after a few bags and went back to regular old navel oranges, preferably the blue jay ones as they are sweeter.

[DrCaleb]

herbie herbie:

I didn't even see boxes of mandarins last Christmas? Anyone else notice that?

No, I saw plenty of them. But they were all from China or Malaysia, not Japan.

[stratos]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

I noticed on my Costco run yesterday that the normal 2 cartons of 18 eggs has now become 30. Same low price though!

Did they start using the previous 6 eggs to make the carton or something.