Safeway

[HawkerXP]

.99 lb pork butt!

[Spinaker]

Jackpot!!!! How many of those can you fit in the overhead bin?

[smokenoob]

score!

[Jerod Broussard]

Yeah. I need to get some butt to make sausage. Small store down the road goes below that, but they cut the butts in half and tray packs them and only allow 2 per household. Takes multiple trips from multiple family members to get enough.

[HouseHomey]

That's a lot of sausage, yum! Is that a jar of corks in your avatar??

[PJBowmaster]

Pellets Homes....just pellets.

[abandonedbrain]

If you're in in the Midwest and have Meijer stores, $1.39/lb. this week. Not as good, but meat prices have been higher this winter for us (especially beef).

[Mudkat]

I'd take both cheeks on that butt at that price! Smithfields is Va isn't it?

[Frozen Smoke]

Think I just read recently Safeway is closing 200 stores. Retail grocery shopping is changing rapidly. Amazon's acquisition of Whole Foods changed everything. Online grocery sales is what's trending. Wal Mart is gearing up for this big time. Stores like Aldi's and Lidil's are in my opinion dumbing down grocery shopping. I've been in the distribution grocery biz for a long time. About ready to retire and I'm thankful I made it this far.

Amazon is also forming their own distribution system cutting out Fed Ex and UPS. Jeff Bezos and Trump do not see eye to eye. I see some major anti trust suits coming from the government to Amazon which may allow the grocery biz to survive as we know it. The times they are a changin'!

[Troutman]

Spot on Smoke, built a lot of grocery stores (Kroger, Safeway, Walmart, Whole Foods) and seen the landscape change drastically. When you’re lucky to eck out a1% profit you look to get big, real big!!!

[HouseHomey]

A lousy margin business for sure! Due respect but safe way is an idiot, between Von's, break up and the merger with Albertsons formally "I forget the name" they've simply kept lowering the standard.

[HouseHomey]

Oh.. SuperValue as skip mentioned below. We bought Whole Foods a long while back when they had 24% margins. Sold outta that a long time ago.

[DWCowles]

Great score!

[Polarbear777]

It also comes down to the service. My Safeway is so slow to check out you can’t buy frozen food. I’ll go just about anywhere else first, second, third...

[HawkerXP]

Agree!

[Mudkat]

What is it with grocery stores? Always better to check yourself out even with the auto cashier yelling at you!

[Polarbear777]

The self checkout is also problematic because there is always one item that won’t scan. Or the person in front of you scans items at 1 per minute rate. Plus the self checkout lines are a dozen people deep (Because the main lines are too slow).

[Huskee]

That's a stellar deal, haven't seen that in my area in years, sales are maybe $1.49-1.99/lb here. Heck even $2/lb is cheap for such great food.

[PJBowmaster]

As noted above. Meijer has Pork Butt on sale this week for $1.39 lb.

[RonB]

Great deal. I scored a full plate of short ribs $1 per lb off this week.

[Mudkat]

Hope it does smell like butt. 🙄

[FireMan]

I wonder what it tastes like?

[HawkerXP]

Sad. MudKat

I have no idea FireMan not going to answer that one.

[Skip]

Our local Super Value Store has a "Meat Sale" on something everyday. It's fun to listen to the radio each morning to hear what the Sale of the Day is. We are a town of 3200 people in a very rural area. The next nearby town with a Grocery store of any size is 20 miles away. I hope the grocery business doesn't change so much that we lose our locally owned store. They do a good job. When I read posts like Frozen Smoke 's in this thread it makes me think, but we have to be ready for change too. Thanks for your comments Frozen Smoke .

[Hulagn1971]

That is a great find. We have a local Bi-Rite store in Stokesdale. Been open and family owned since 1965. They have the biggest and best meat selection I have ever seen and butchers are on site to cut whatever you need right then and there. Here is a link to the store. By far my favorite place to buy meat. http://www.stokesdalebirite.com/weekly_specials

[Frozen Smoke]

Our local Super Value Store has a "Meat Sale" on something everyday. It's fun to listen to the radio each morning to hear what the Sale of the Day is. We are a town of 3200 people in a very rural area. The next nearby town with a Grocery store of any size is 20 miles away. I hope the grocery business doesn't change so much that we lose our locally owned store. They do a good job. When I read posts like Frozen Smoke 's in this thread it makes me think, but we have to be ready for change too. Thanks for your comments Frozen Smoke .

Skip as with all things like this they start out in the metro areas and spread from there depending upon the success of the trend. Amazon and Wal Mart seem to surely think that online grocery purchasing is the new future. What I can say for certain is that individual distributors delivering product to stores is on it's way out. Guys who deliver products like Little Debbie, Pepperidge Farm, Snyders pretzels days are numbered.
The stores want these products delivered to the stores through their warehouse. What this means to the consumer is instead of 25 or 30 Little Debbie items to choose from you may only get 10 to 15 different items. Not to mention the people who lose their jobs.
I happen to believe online grocery shopping has a limited appeal. I think some of the elderly less mobile but who are computer literate will use the service but most folks I talk to still want to feel the lettuce, pick out their own pound of bacon etc.

I think your small town grocery is safe for quite a few years to come.

[Skip]

Thanks for your comments Frozen Smoke.

[Troutman]

Although that’s a killer price, I’ve had good and bad with the Smithfield brand. Hope your’s is better than mine of late.