how'd everyone do this thanksgiving? Any crazy turkey prices or funny stories? we ran ours at .28 cents/lb it was a little ridiculous, but i ended up keeping our meat dept. the only one with froz turkeys in the are, everyone else ran out haha!
I work for Save A Lot, we don't run turkeys on special, our honeysuckles were 89 lb we sold quite a few at that prices, Hams are my thing more or less at Thanksgiving and Xmas
I gotta put my two cents in haha. I work at Musser's Markets in and around quarryville, pa good ol lancaster county. We are part of an independent family owned markets group and second only to GIANT. I also am right in the middle of the transition into hams. Do you guys go through thousands of pounds of pork the few days before new years day?
This time of the year is so tough on us meat ppl , Turkeys , then Hams for Christmas , then the worst of it all is slicing 100 cases of hog jowls for New Years . Hears hoping all of you have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Be safe and may next year bring everyone great year.
We ran our turkeys reg. price but we had a $10 off coupon 10-16lb turkeys and $15 off !6 & up. didn't go too well we have a lot of turkeys left over, looks like we will be cutting them up after new years.. we ran Honeysuckle's for .79 the first week of November which I think hurt our thanksgiving sales we went through a lot more than we thought that week.
We ran a promotion where you spend a $100 in the store (which isn't hard when rich folk shop here), get a free turkey. The receipt printed a bar-code you could either use then or later. It was madness, even after thanksgiving. I got a chance to speak with the CEO and he was real casual about how well it did and that "we won't try to do that to you too often." I wanted to hit him with my limp arm. My left shoulder and elbow still hurts from having to weigh up every single substituted turkey. We gave away well over 5,000 cases worth.
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