By Mike Thayer

Looking to save a few bucks on that Christmas meal/party/shindig?

Don’t put off buying the meat for the main course until a week before December 25th, look for the sales at your local grocery store just after the Thanksgiving holiday.

Here’s why:

  • Grocery stores typically over-order what they truly need for Thanksgiving sales and a surplus at the meat displays is NOT a good thing for the store.
  • Grocery stores will discount hams, whole turkeys, turkey breasts, pork loins and even beef roasts in the days just past Thanksgiving.  They need to move product to make room for incoming shipments. 
  • Prices for hams, turkeys, pork roasts, beef roasts, etc., in the days leading up to Christmas will go up.  Stores WILL manipulate your procrastination.

Look for the sales at your favorite local store, but don’t be too anxious!  Exercise a little patience.  Most stores will typically reduce prices by 10 – 25 percent in the first few days after Thanksgiving.  But that won’t eliminate all the Thanksgiving surplus meats.  Stores will then reduce prices even further, 40 percent, 50 percent off, perhaps even more going into the first 10 days or so of December.  But if you don’t take advantage of that, watch, as the prices for those main course meats start to go back UP in price for Christmas and New Years!

Don’t procrastinate, save yourself a few bucks and get your Christmas ham, turkey or whatever, on sale after Thanksgiving!

$pend Wisely My Friends…

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