How much do you pay for generic store-brand ground beef?

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1. $4.50 a pound in central Texas.

2. Wait, you’re paying $10 a pound? I just saw it at the grocery store today for like, 6.50.

3. $5-6 depending on the fat percentage. 85/15 will regularly be on sale for $3 a pound in the central US.

4. Safeway app in Seattle says $5.49 – $6.49 per pound for 80/20 ground beef, it depends on the size of the package. The 3lb package is cheaper per unit than the 1.3lb.

   Edit: there seems to be a short term sale on 93/7 ground beef, $3.99/lb for 1.25 lbs. Members only price through 2/14/2023. If there’s any left tomorrow maybe I’ll get some.

5. I just bought a family pack at the grocery store, a little over 4 lbs for about $8. Nw suburb bordering Chicago.

6. Tampa Bay Area of Florida, USDA Choice ground chuck is running $4.99 a pound here, ground round is about 75 cents cheaper.

7. I was just looking at some at Costco that was 85/15 grass fed. I’m pretty sure it was $20 for 4lbs.

8. Dear lord that’s crazy. I don’t pay for beef because I got a good thing going trading milk and other meat for beef, but the closest store is 3.80 a pound for the fatty 70/30 about 4 for 80/20

9. Regular price for 80/20 is $3.99/LB at the Albertsons here in Jackson Hole.

   $10 is insane.

10. $10/lb is ri-god-damn-diculous.

    I think the worst I saw it get around me was $6.99/lb

    I think now it’s back down to about $3.99/lb, which is still $1 more than it was in 2021, and is still bullshit.

11. You got ripped off. I paid $3.39/lb on sale at Meijer the other day. I also got boneless chuck steak for the same price.

12. Im in CA and it’s between $6-7 lbs here, less at Costco

13. I paid $5/lb for grass-fed ground beef at Costco 2 weeks ago. Meijer had regular ground beef for the same price.

14. You are paying double what I would.

15. $5-6.50 if I don’t go looking for a deal, but a local market has it at $3 for the next couple weeks.

    I don’t have enough storage to buy Costco levels of ground beef.

    At the farmers market, a pound of frozen ground beef is $8.50-10. We use the frozen stuff for goulash.

16. $3.99 for 80% ground chuck at my grocery store right now. I think it’s on sale though? I’m in CT, about an hour from you.

17. The market near me in NJ has it for $2.99 every Tuesday. Also boneless chicken breasts for the same price.

18. Ralph’s is showing it at $5.49 for 80/20 ground chuck. Los Angeles.

    EDIT: Dude, are you shopping at a bodega or what? CTown in Astoria (where I shopped when I lived there) is like $6.50 a pound. Whole Foods organic 85/15 is only 8 bucks.

19. Cheapest I see is about $3/lb if you get the 70/30 in the tube

20. $3.99 a pound in Tampa at Costco today

21. ~$5/IB

22. $4/lb at Costco for 85/15.

23. 8 dollars in Chicago, 5 in lower michigan (not new buffalo)

24. $3.97/lb in a 3 lb pack at Albertsons.

25. $2.99 lb

26. At Hannaford I don’t pay more than $3.99/lb. Sometimes it’s marked more but…I don’t pay that.

27. $3.99/lb at the Safeway around the corner from me here in San Francisco right now

28. What the fuck. 80/20 is like $3.50/lb down here in south Jersey. The grass fed organic is $6/lb.

    Sounds like you need a cooler and a little weekend trip lol.

29. About $5 unless I catch it on sale. Somewhere around there, anyway. I use turkey for most things I used to use ground beef for.

30. Current price at the local grocery store is $4.79/pound for 80/20 – it goes on sale for under $4 fairly often.

31. In the boonies where the farms are it’s $1.98 a pound. In town it’s $3.98.

32. Wow, that’s nuts. I’m in a DC suburb and food is pretty expensive here but I just checked and my local chain is selling it for $4-7.5/lb depending on fat content.

33. 80/20 is $3.49 / lb. at my neighborhood Albertsons in Orange County, CA. 90/10 is $4.99 / lb.