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About that turkey shortage....

gardenman — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 14:25:43 GMT

Yeah, the forecast turkey shortage doesn't seem to exist. At least not here in South Jersey. I just got back from three stores and all three were very heavily stocked with turkeys at $0.99/pound. I'll be buying mine on Sunday, but I took a look around today and there were turkeys everywhere. If there's a shortage, they're hiding it very, very well.

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On It — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 14:36:21 GMT

No shortage here in West Texas either. Finding a turkey last year was much more difficult.

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Buffalogal47 — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 14:36:26 GMT

Same here in central NC. All the grocery stores have plenty of turkeys.

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Caaareful Shopper — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 14:55:30 GMT

My area has large turkeys and turkey breasts galore, but no smaller (under 16 pounds) turkeys. Hoping that will change over this weekend.

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catter70 — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 15:03:27 GMT

I always have trouble finding just a turkey breast so when I saw they had them at Walmart a month or so ago, I grabbed one. Not sure they've had them since.

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haddon9 — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 15:06:21 GMT

@gardenman I buy my turkey at a local farm market so no problems. However I'm about an hour away from you and here I have not seen any shortages in any store locally....keeping fingers crossed!

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CelticCrafter — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 15:08:57 GMT

No shortage in Central NJ either.

All three stores we go to have all had them.

I do know some of them were tremendous, I commented to my husband about how big they were. I didn't notice if they had small ones.

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Carmie — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 15:14:02 GMT

There is no Turkey shortage here in PA either. I was in Wegmans last weekend and Turkey was .59 a pound, one to a customer. Of course, they had more expensive ones too.

i never saw that there was going to be a shortage of turkeys, just a shortage of smaller turkeys. The larger ones are in abundance as expected.

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beckyb1012 — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 15:19:52 GMT

No shortage here in East Texas.

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proudlyfromNJ — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 15:21:19 GMT

Purchased two in Wegmans. Didn't seem to be any shortage.

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deepwaterdotter — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 15:32:39 GMT

Plenty of former gobblers for sale here in Wisconsin. Almost every cart at Costco had one in it. Pumpkin pies were also a popular purchase.

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wagirl — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 16:02:13 GMT

lots of turkeys here is western WA state-----all kinds and sizes---not sure about prices--I cook turkey pieces and not a whole bird anymore-

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dancingwoman — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 16:01:55 GMT

Plenty of Butterballs at the grocery store Monday...98¢ lb. there was another brand...Jennie-O that were 89¢ lb...DW

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eadu4 — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 16:07:45 GMT

Northern VA is good with turkeys as well. Have seen some REALLY big ones but still have some smaller ones as well

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AuntG — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 16:11:56 GMT

The offer here is buy $100 in groceries, get a free 15 to 20 pound turkey.

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meallen616 — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 16:48:31 GMT

Plenty of turkeys in New Jersey at three different supermarkets!

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Meowingkitty — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 17:08:25 GMT

There's no shortage in Arizona either. I got a 16 pound Norbest for .79 a pound yesterday. Walmart had Jenny O for .89.

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Rockycoast — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 17:47:21 GMT

No shortage of turkeys or any other Thanksgiving fixin's in my area either. So much hype over nothing. Our local firemen were having a turkey donation for the food bank at the grocery store in town this past weekend. We purchased 4 turkeys and donated them. We paid 79 cents lb. My husband just looked at the weekly flyer, turkeys are now 49 cents lb. Plenty to go around.

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icezeus — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 17:52:38 GMT

@AuntG wrote:
The offer here is buy $100 in groceries, get a free 15 to 20 pound turkey.

@AuntG

It's not hard to pass the $100 threshold for groceries nowadays.

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ECBG — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 17:53:14 GMT

In western NC we have a good offering of turkey in all sizes.