Grocery chains vie for a place on Thanksgiving tables with turkey dinner deals

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-19 14:46:02 | Updated at 2024-11-24 03:42:52 4 days ago

Grocery chains vie for a place on Thanksgiving tables with turkey dinner deals
Channel 3000 News/CNN ^ | November 19, 2024 | CNN Staff

Posted on 11/19/2024 6:45:54 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin

With Thanksgiving less than two weeks away, Walmart, Target, Aldi and other grocers are competing for a place on holiday tables with turkey dinner deals and other promotions to tempt Americans who haven't recovered from recent food price inflation.

Walmart, the nation's largest food retailer, first bundled the makings of a traditional turkey feast into a meal deal three years ago. This year, the 29-item offer, which includes a frozen turkey and ingredients for side dishes, costs less than $55 and is intended to serve eight. That calculates to less than $7 per person.

Target's version for four people costs $20, $5 less than the company's 2023 Thanksgiving meal, and includes a frozen turkey, stuffing mix and canned green beans and canned jellied cranberry sauce. Aldi's offers a frozen Butterball turkey with gravy mix as well as pumpkin ingredients for pumpkin pie and ingredients for side dishes like sweet potato casserole. The German-owned supermarket chain priced it for $47 and said that was less than it charged for the same items in 2019.

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TOPICS: Agriculture; Business/Economy; Food
KEYWORDS: business; food; groceries; thanksgiving

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NOTE: A 15-item Thanksgiving meal costs an average of $65.51 this year, down nearly 3% from last year but 42% higher overall than in 2019, market research firm Datasembly said. For example, a 12-ounce can of jellied cranberry sauce averaged $2.89, which is 1% lower than a year ago but still 90% higher compared with 2019.

Inflation? WHAT inflation? Right, Kamala? LOL! And you thought we were dolts.

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