Canned meat prices getting extremely expensive

Yep, prepared meats are going up.

A perfect example is my local job lot discount chain, called 99 Cent Store.

Before Covid I could always grab one of those 1/2 pound lunchmeat clamshells that Oscar Meyer, Hormel, or Hillshire Farm sells for about $4 at the regular stores, but the discount store would get job lots of close to expiration and sell for a buck. Great to take home and freeze.

That store hasn't seen those job lots since April. Meat doesn't sit unsold until expiration anymore.

At the big chains the selection and quantity on the canned meat aisle has grown a lot thinner too.

Even the stores where I can find the occasional markdown on deli case offerings never have them anymore.

Lunch meat is a hot item now.

I'm guessing that all those people that hate to cook and used to eat out all the time are buying all the prepared meat up. Add in the problems at the processing plants and supplies are tight all over.

But for all the scary noises about meat in general there really hasn't been nearly as much of a squeeze on fresh meat.

I bought some NY strips for $5/lb and boneless breasts for $1.20/lb recently. If you are willing to do the preparation of stabilized meats yourself then the fresh meat is still in roughly the same price window as before.

Right now wanting lazy and easy has become expensive.

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Canned meat prices getting extremely expensive