Meat Prices

In our market,Sam's has the better comp cook products.

Variety and ability to order seems much better at the Fl Sam's.

Prices would be comparable.

Hey Cuz,
In our neck of the woods---"down the shore"--hands down for Quality in bulk on meats it is COSTCO --------prices seem to be comp to BJ and Sam.

The Costco here in Clearwater would not carry bone in butts, only boneless. Plus they would only carry flats and no packers. Then again, my Sam's does not carry packers either but at least the one that Tom goes to does.

With costco, I decided that since they did not have my bone-in butts, there was no reason for me to have a membership, especially at $45 annually when I was paying $30 annually for Sam's.

Like Tom said, for what they did have that was directly comparable, the prices were pretty close to the same.

I live in the south surburbs of chicago.The sams club and costco here only carry flat briskets.I found packer brisket at super walmart
$1.38 and spare ribs at super Kmart $1.28 lb

My response is, buy whatever works for you. If you are happy with the product it puts out, don't worry about the price. "Life is to short to eat cheap food" is the motto we live by.

Would you put cheap shingles on your roof, or a cheap smoker in your rig/home? Don't put cheap food in your stomach.

Good luck and enjoy! Roger

c'mon yall throw the prices up here on this thread, not recommenddations...
i am paying 1.38 for butts by the case. sams, or usfood same price. st luis ribs just went up to 3.29. not sure about the spares or babies
flats at sams here are 3 and change, (highway robbery for crap). whole briskets, sometimes are available to me at kroger, for 1.29-1.49
thats more like it!
catfish, which i have been using for four years, just went up the the sky,from 3plus per pound to nearly 5, so i am taking it off the menu. also, shrimp went throught the roof and is now gone, off the menu( 8 to 9 per pound).
i think every supplier is looking at what they can raise, to compensate for high fuel. we all will have to adjust our menu, to survive.

ok here's my prices on normal goods;
picnics .89 on sale and .99 when not.
packer brisket 1.18 on sale and 1.38 when not.
whole chicken .74 per pound.
just waiting for all prices to soar due to gas and utilities costs. florida power and light just hit us with a 50 buck add on the electric bill for fuel surcharge. i full well imagine they are hitting business users also.
per pound cost of beef will rise as usa farmers can now export beef to japan and the recent heat wave is killing 400 head of beef cattle a day in california so no relief there.
corn is rising in price not so much due to drought as much as bio fuel schemes which has the futures markets scrambling.
latest market predictions on fresh veg follows the above due to heat and fuel.
yep everything is up!!!! and going higher!!!
jack

coffeebluff,
almost forgot to say thanks for getting this pro thread back on track. the question was pricing not who is buying what for competition and for once i am not the bad guy---but you are!!!!
jack

I also take into account how far I have to go to pick up my product as well do to fuel prices. I may pay a little more for things that are closer to home then to drive a long distance for a better price. I live about 25 miles from Sam's and the closest Costco is about 50 miles. Sometime I can get decant prices from my local butcher for things but for the most part I go to the BJ'S. Living in the Pocono Mountains is about an hour and a half from NYC and I sometimes wonder if some of the food prices reflect that. I haven't had any luck with US Food's or Sysco because I am so small. There is a local food wholesale co. about 5 miles from me that I buy my beans, slaw mix and other prepared food items in bulk, but for the most part they are very high on the meat end, whole chickens are $1.48LB Pork shoulders are $1.58 and so on. I feel a little better knowing that I am not that far off from what others are paying for things.
Thanks for the input, Ken

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Originally posted by coffeebluffbbq/savannah:
c'mon yall throw the prices up here on this thread, not recommenddations...

We raise our own, so that's why I said to not use the cheap stuff, you get what you pay for.

When we run out of our own, we have access to Berkshire boneless butts for $1.71/# delivered.
We picked up 800# of Berkshire last week, to hold us over to our next butchering date.

Chicken, we raise that too. Raised 1200 this spring, get 400 broiler and 25 layer chicks tommorrow, then get 300 more cornish X pullets in 3 weeks that we raise for cornish game hens.
Have about 50 layers now, eggs sell for $3/dozen, and are raising the price to $5 next year because we sell out by 9am at the Farmers Market. Nice tall, orange yolks, full of flavor, need a 7# maul to crack the shells. They have the run of the farm, and roost in the rafters of a shed. If I knew how to post photo's I took a shot comparing ours to corn fed "free range" eggs (yellow, flat yolks, and no flavor).

The rest of our prices are at our site: www.prairiepridefarm.com