Re: Disguising Price Increases
Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2022 10:13 am
We ended up with great turkey bargains here in northern Virginia this year. Yesterday I bought a 14.6-lb "Nature's Promise" fresh turkey (just turkey, nothing added) from Giant for $3.83, or a little over $.26/lb. The official price was $1.29/lb, but you got 1500 "rewards points," redeemable for $15 off a future grocery purchase, so my $18.83 turkey cost me $3.83. Or instead of taking the $15 coupon, you can take a $1.50/gallon discount on a gas purchase up to 20 gallons. If I had a car with a bigger tank I could have gotten a turkey for negative dollars! 
The same rewards deal was available on Butterball fresh turkeys, though the price of them was $1.69, so a 14.6-lb turkey would have come out to $9.67 or a little more than $.66/lb. Giant also had another deal where if you spent $25, you could get a Shady Brooks Farms frozen turkey for $.37/lb. Lidl had Shady Brooks Farms frozen turkeys for $.49/lb with $25 minimum purchase. Amazon Fresh had Butterball frozen for $.49/lb. Safeway had a fall deal where you could get a free turkey if you spent $300 between 10/14 and 11/24 and clipped the digital coupon through their rewards program, but that was more effort than I wanted to mess with.
Aldi didn't compete on turkeys (best price in their ad was $1.07/lb for Butterball frozen), but they had Ocean Spray cranberries for $.99, celery for $.95, butter for $1.99/lb, eggs for $2.09, 10-lb bag of russet potatoes for $2.99, and pineapples for $1.49. Sweet potatoes for $.49/lb, but Giant beat them at $.39/lb. I also got my favorite chicken stock at Giant for $1.99 instead of the $3.09 they've been charging for the last six months.
Overall, the deals here this Thanksgiving were much better than last year, and everything was fully stocked up.

The same rewards deal was available on Butterball fresh turkeys, though the price of them was $1.69, so a 14.6-lb turkey would have come out to $9.67 or a little more than $.66/lb. Giant also had another deal where if you spent $25, you could get a Shady Brooks Farms frozen turkey for $.37/lb. Lidl had Shady Brooks Farms frozen turkeys for $.49/lb with $25 minimum purchase. Amazon Fresh had Butterball frozen for $.49/lb. Safeway had a fall deal where you could get a free turkey if you spent $300 between 10/14 and 11/24 and clipped the digital coupon through their rewards program, but that was more effort than I wanted to mess with.
Aldi didn't compete on turkeys (best price in their ad was $1.07/lb for Butterball frozen), but they had Ocean Spray cranberries for $.99, celery for $.95, butter for $1.99/lb, eggs for $2.09, 10-lb bag of russet potatoes for $2.99, and pineapples for $1.49. Sweet potatoes for $.49/lb, but Giant beat them at $.39/lb. I also got my favorite chicken stock at Giant for $1.99 instead of the $3.09 they've been charging for the last six months.
Overall, the deals here this Thanksgiving were much better than last year, and everything was fully stocked up.