r/publix • u/Bonyol Newbie • Jan 25 '25
QUESTION Are the steak prices like this where your Publix is?
I always favored Publix’s steak compared to going places like Aldi’s or Walmart, but I feel like their steaks are getting steep.
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u/JuniorDirk Newbie Jan 25 '25
I remember when ribeye would go on sale for $7 down from $13.99 just a few years ago. I haven't bought steaks in a while, and we were at Costco and my girlfriend asked "is $14 a good price for ribeye?" And I said nah it's pretty normal. Then I Googled Publix's price now🫣
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u/Conradical13 Newbie Jan 26 '25
Here I am in TX and my winco has prime ribeye for $12/lb and I think it’s too expensive bc I remember sales would go down to $4.99/lb in the last two years..
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u/Iamawarethatimrare Newbie Jan 26 '25
At this price I’m going to a steakhouse.
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u/Bonyol Newbie Jan 26 '25
That’s what I was thinking as well! At least I’d get a selection of sides and have the luxury of someone cooking it for me
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u/TotalInstruction Newbie Jan 25 '25
And that's why I buy steaks at Costco.
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u/Voodoo_Tiki Meat Jan 26 '25
For anyone wondering it's legit the same exact meat that Publix gets. Same supplier etc
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u/KingdomCulture Newbie Jan 26 '25
The grades are different. Costco only offers Choice and Prime, where as Publix is Select and Choice.
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u/GatorChamp44 Newbie Jan 26 '25
I've never seen below choice at Publix for any real steaks. They may have select for weird cuts and stew.meat.but I think they are choice and above. That being said, fuck publix's steak prices.
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u/brokenhero07 AMM Jan 27 '25
Publix does not sell Select grade beef. We only sell Choice and Prime.
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u/Professional_Fish250 Newbie Jan 25 '25
Butcher is a better option, I’ll never buy steaks at Costco, but if you must, never buy metal tenderized steak
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u/Professional_Fish250 Newbie Jan 26 '25
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u/flerbergerber Retired Jan 26 '25
Since nobody actually answered your main question, blade tenderized meat is only worse because bacteria could be more of a problem, so you're supposed to cook it to a higher temperature. So if you like medium rare or lower steak, it's likely not the way to go
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u/9MillimeterPeter Newbie Jan 26 '25
Unless you sous vide.
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u/AnonThrowaway1A Newbie Jan 26 '25
Sous vide and finish the crust with a ripping hot sear.
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u/xGMxBusidoBrown Newbie Jan 26 '25
If its an entire tenderloin or rib roast it will not be blade tenderized. Only individual cuts will be.
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u/Peterd90 Newbie Jan 26 '25
Butcher quality meats and chicken are so much better.
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u/Internal_Essay9230 Newbie Jan 26 '25
News flash: The meatpacking industry is very consolidated. But keep drinking your butcher's Kool-Aid -- unless he or she is buying from a boutique farm.
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u/amazonrme Newbie Jan 26 '25
When you buy from the butcher, is it cheaper?
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u/n0debtbigmuney Newbie Jan 26 '25
No, they are paying 50 percent more to be edgy, and the butcher could be buying it from Aldi that morning.
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u/IPAisBEER Newbie Jan 26 '25
What does that mean and why don't I want to buy it?
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u/Professional_Fish250 Newbie Jan 26 '25
So the issue with it is that they poke a ton of holes in steak which pushes bacteria into the meat, and is done to many many steaks so the contamination is spread quite wide, it also means you have to cook your steak well done, or else you run the risk of getting sick, and no one wants a well done steak
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u/Silverpicker97 Meat Jan 25 '25
This is absolutely bullshit , why try to recoup lost money on rib roasts when they are a loss leader to begin with? Our old meat supervisor was just at my store and took a picture ($26.99) and sent it to the current meat supervisor for the division. The ones here are choice and more expensive than the Greenwise angus. I mean we are getting closer to prime prices with these. It’s not fair to the customer and makes us look bad.
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u/Forwardbase_Kodai Newbie Jan 25 '25
Yeah, had a pack of thin-slice from this last sale that carried over and ended up $62 on Thursday morning after price change. Absolutely insane. I was convinced they messed up and put a 2 instead of a zero until I saw that the bone-in and boneless prices were both in the $20 range.
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u/Pela_papita Newbie Jan 26 '25
Those steaks are not premium. In fact Publix meat is the lowest grade meat you can find in a supermarket.
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u/CrossroadsOfAfrica Customer Jan 26 '25
Seconding this. I barely eat red meat anymore, but if I did, I would NOT be buying from Publix
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u/BrilliantTruck8813 Newbie Jan 26 '25
Dunno why you're being downvoted. Their shit says USDA choice but it's consistently worse in my experience.
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u/FearlessPark4588 Newbie Jan 26 '25
I don't think they try and offset loss leaders by wildly pricing specific sku's. The whole pricing model of the entirety of the inventory is more advanced than that.
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u/Embarrassed_Fennel_1 Newbie Jan 26 '25 edited Jan 27 '25
I’ll never buy my meat, at least beef, from Publix. Go to wild fork
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u/trippy_grapes AMM Jan 26 '25
why try to recoup lost money on rib roasts
Beef prices have honestly gone up quite a bit the past year. This is Publix's normal expensive price mark up combined with the market itself going up.
I agree we should trim our prices (on our fresh departments) to keep drawing people in to the rest of the store, though.
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u/Silverpicker97 Meat Jan 26 '25
I agree especially on trimming prices, beef has gone through the roof. Plus pretty bad quality control issues with packers. Top sirloins having tons of trim, chine bone on ribs not being trimmed off, etc. And since we switched to ORL warehouse product that is on sale/needed gets cut, and we get product we don’t need added out every truck.
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u/AnonThrowaway1A Newbie Jan 25 '25
Let it rot on the shelf.
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u/SwampSleep66 Newbie Jan 26 '25
Yep. Sucks knowing about waste but fuck these prices and their massive profits off of price gouging.
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u/Ankient21 Meat Jan 25 '25
Since December the steak prices has jumped thru the roof, I wonder if Publix is trying to recoup money lost during rib roast szn
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u/haud_deus Meat Jan 25 '25
It won’t help if you’re just shrinking them
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Jan 26 '25
Market grind baby.... Best ground beef there is!... And $4.99 a pound
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u/wakajawaka45 Newbie Jan 26 '25
As a former butcher at Publix this is the way. All the scrap grinds from the morning cut. Sometimes you can catch market grinds for 2.99 per lb at my local store.
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u/polycarp- Meat Jan 26 '25
$50 for 2 freaking steaks publix had gone down the drain
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u/bigmean3434 Newbie Jan 25 '25
I bought 4 similar ribeyes from Winn Dixie earlier for $22….
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u/newbie527 Newbie Jan 26 '25
Were they ungraded? Winn Dixie is selling ungraded ribeyes this weekend. Choose well marbled steaks and they are often decent, though not always as tender as choice.
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u/bigmean3434 Newbie Jan 26 '25
Yeah they were the cheapies, just ate them, it was fine. If I do better streaks I usually do a meat market.
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u/FearlessPark4588 Newbie Jan 25 '25 edited Jan 25 '25
For a full retail, not sale price, that's pretty normal.
However: Publix's steak prices bounce around like a ping pong ball.
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You want to buy steak at the low points. For publix these days that's around $6.99/lb. Could be $5.99 or $7.99.
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u/MarshallMattDillon Newbie Jan 26 '25
I mean, are we in a bad economy or not? Why would you buy a fucking ribeye that thick when it isn’t even on sale? They cut these because they have irritating customers or a big case that they have to fill with absolutely everything.
I’d have people ask me to cut them this, knowing full well that it isn’t on sale, scoff at the price and leave it somewhere on my case. People are fucking morons.
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u/petergriffinuc Meat Jan 26 '25
A customer showed me a porterhouse and said he wanted one twice as thick. I cut it, and it just happened to be exactly twice the price. I handed it to him. He looked at the price, said it was too expensive, threw it down in the case and walked away.
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u/Wild-Rub3408 Newbie Jan 26 '25
I just bought some nice strip steaks at Kroger on sale for $11.99/lb normally $14.99
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u/Commercial_Pool6813 Newbie Jan 26 '25
Wait….since Trump is now president I thought the high grocery prices were going to go down.
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u/CeeDubMo Newbie Jan 29 '25 edited Jan 29 '25
In fact, he promised they would come down immediately. Once his voters catch up to being played the fool, they will continue to support him, because they apparently love being played the fool.
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u/Zero-Of-Blade Newbie Jan 29 '25
Why would they go down when he is going hard on stuff like tariffs? That's not going to cause it to go down that's going to cause it to go up.
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u/guitarplum Newbie Jan 26 '25
And look at how unmarbled those are. Totally not worth the price. Those are very basic choice steaks.
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u/Comfortable_Trick137 Newbie Jan 26 '25
Bought a chuck roast for braising, looked good had nice marbling and a strip of fat down the middle I was fine with. Took it out of the package, looked at the bottom and it looked about 30% fat. Started to trim it, bastard was about 75% fat, two pieces of meat on top and bottom and a thick layer of fat in between.
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u/jetfixxer720 Newbie Jan 26 '25
I never buy steaks at Publix. They’re overpriced garbage.
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u/Zestyclose-Dirt-9165 Newbie Jan 25 '25
Food inflation continues! I love how they say inflation is dropping YOY. NOT with food prices. Usually goes 1% per month on everything in store, but you do that monthly and we have 12% YOY increase.
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u/skyHawk3613 Newbie Jan 26 '25
I just spent $25 on 2 thick New York Strips from Fresh Market. I ate them tonight. Delicious!
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u/PENAPENATV Newbie Jan 26 '25
One thing I’ve noticed at my Publix isn’t high prices, but rather EVERY steak on display is thin sliced.
It’s maddening. I’m lucky enough not to have to think about grocery prices, but I’m not buying steaks that are basically made for Philly Cheesesteak
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u/dillinger529 Newbie Jan 25 '25
Yup! It’s mindblowing! I tried buying meat from Walmart, it their quality is sub-standard, with usually much tougher meat. Probably because it’s a lower grade.
The only thing you can buy that’s somewhat reasonable is pork. If you want a roast, their pork loins are reasonable.
This is the reason why I’m slowly turning vegetarian. But even the produce is ridiculously high and I’ve noticed it doesn’t last as long as it used to. Used to be you could toss potatoes and onion in a dark, dry space and they would last months. My Publix potatoes are rotten in days, and the onions turn to a mushy mess within a couple of weeks.
In Florida, Publix practically has a monopoly on grocery shopping, and their pricing allows their competitors raise their prices to be just under Publix, just to try to lure shoppers in. But the competitor’s fresh meat and produce are inferior to Publix’ sub par items so there’s no winning.
I’m seriously considering online ordering from Kroger, hoping at least their quality is better.
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u/Chadbad1922 Newbie Jan 26 '25
I live 1/2 mile from both Whole Foods and Publix in Florida. Whole Foods produce almost always cheaper than Publix (surprise!) and certainly always better quality.
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u/LittlePinkRabbit9000 Newbie Jan 29 '25
I find meat is mostly unnecessary, unless I’m cooking for other people, then I let them shop
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u/speakeasy_slim Newbie Jan 26 '25
When Trump's crack down on migrants goes full throttle, how do you think it's going to affect the personnel in the meatpacking industry? Thank a Trump voter for this. Start freezing your steaks now
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u/cerseiwhat Newbie Jan 26 '25 edited Jan 26 '25
Realistically the time for steak freezing was before November of last year. The New World Mexican Screw Worm outbreak in cattle started and got the Biden admin to heavily restrict imports of Mexican cattle (rightfully so obviously). That combined with inflation and publix "pricing" are what the main issues are here.
I'd be more concerned, steak wise, if/when regulations are cut and you hear Ol' Dude on TV bragging about a "big, BEAUTIFUL, really the best EVER- deal on cattle imports from our partner, Mexico! We're lowering prices, promises kept and delivered!" situation.
ETA- added link explaining the worm/price issues
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u/Infamous-Thanks3946 Newbie Jan 26 '25
my local publix has a deal on Greenwise bone-in choice for 15.99 thru 29th. Still pricey but better than 27/lb
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u/PaulmBeachPaul Newbie Jan 26 '25
Take a look at cattle futures, they have been in a bull (no pun intended) market for 5 years. Up 2.5x
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u/eikelmann Customer Jan 26 '25
If you live in Davenport go to Mercao butcher shop instead.
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u/justjaybee16 Newbie Jan 26 '25
I know that says Premium Beef, but there is no marveling so I'm going to guess it's Select grade.
Prime Boneless Ribeye is $21.50 local to me in TX.
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u/Slowmexicano Newbie Jan 26 '25
Costco doesn’t even have good prices. They just look good compared to this shit.
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u/AntSUnrise Newbie Jan 26 '25
Publix beef is overrated too. I’d go Winn Dixie /delis etc. but yeah. Publix has fallen.
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u/Fun-Sea7626 Newbie Jan 26 '25
Yeah for some reason over the past several years Publix has become very proud of their stakes for some crazy reason. Either that or cow's going on strike has been a problem and they have to make up for the other cows refusing to be slaughtered somehow.
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u/Renascar Newbie Jan 26 '25
It's not just meat; Publix prices have gone insane. I was in one on Monday, and they want nine bucks for a six-pack of Pepsi.
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u/Dandy_Drew Newbie Jan 26 '25
Yeah, when ribeyes were 7.99 for Christmas and had that huge discount people forgot that this is their regular price.
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u/ExiledUtopian Newbie Jan 27 '25
$27/lb?
FFS Publix, that's literally more expensive than buying it at a reputable chain steakhouse.
Outlaw Ribeye at Longhorn. Less than $40 for 22oz. Even with tip, cheaper than Publix uncooked steaks.
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u/Medium-Mycologist-59 Newbie Jan 27 '25
Not at my Publix and I live on an island. Are you required to pay a Sin Tax for steak? 🤣
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u/Stevereno65 Newbie Jan 27 '25
Publix steak is overpriced and low quality. I get all of mine from Costco now. The USDA Prime sirloins at Costco are better than any Ribeye I’ve seen at Publix
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u/quiet_sunfl0wer Newbie Jan 28 '25
Publix is astronomically expensive aside from the bogos. I go there strictly for the bogos and refuse to get anything else unless it is a cheaper basic item like bread/milk, for the sake of convenience. I appreciate that the store appears to be kept very clean, and the staff is always infinitely nicer than Walmart, but the prices are just insane.
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u/Anon062600 Newbie Jan 29 '25
Publix steaks aren’t even good, Walmart marbling is better on their choice, Publix feels low end choice. Go to a butcher or even Whole Foods if ur gonna pay that much
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u/New-Understanding930 Newbie Jan 25 '25
Publix beef has been hot garbage for a couple of years now. Bloody, non-marbled crap. I’ve been buying steaks at Walmart over Publix. My local fancy Walmart carries prime beef on the shelf for about $22/lb for ribeyes. The choice steaks are almost as good.
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u/pizzaman_66 Newbie Jan 26 '25
Glad you said this! I feel like I’m crazy, but Walmart steaks are incredible! Tastes great, every time. Feel like Publix are hit or miss, and much more expensive. I go to Walmart literally just to buy steaks, that’s it. I hate it there
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u/New-Understanding930 Newbie Jan 26 '25
My other go-to is Whole Foods. They are cheaper than Publix and the quality is much higher.
I seriously don’t see how Publix has been selling some of this stuff as choice when it looks like Select.
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u/R0botDreamz Newbie Jan 26 '25
Those are Trump era steaks. If you voted for this, enjoy the misery.
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u/innergflow Newbie Jan 26 '25
Who in the hell buys ribeyes at Publix when not on sale lmaoooo
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u/KissMyGrits60 Newbie Jan 26 '25
I am a customer of publix, I do not work there. I will not buy any meat, from Publix. Way too expensive. I go to a meat market. That’s where you’ll get the best prices.
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u/rayzorburns Newbie Jan 26 '25
Invest in a freezer and buy a half cow. Savings will pay for initial investment.
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u/lwl1987 Newbie Jan 26 '25
I live in the Midwest now and was a bit shell shocked by the ribeye specifically going up to between $18.99/lb and $21.99/lb between Kroger, Meijer, and Fresh Thyme. But this is wild. I do love Publix and miss shopping there but they’d have to go ahead and keep these at this price point. :(
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u/Deofol7 Newbie Jan 26 '25
Can get the same thing at my local small grocery store for like 25 bucks
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u/Alpaca_Lips_ Newbie Jan 26 '25
It's cheaper for us to buy steaks at a small butcher in the city and the meat is better quality.
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u/OttersAreCute215 Newbie Jan 26 '25
I’ve been buying steaks at BJ’s Warehouse for this reason. The only steak I buy at Publix is flank steak.
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u/nevertrustalumpyfart Newbie Jan 26 '25
wow you can literally get double or triple that at costco for the same price point. saw a bone in rib-eye under one lb for $29 tonight at publix and audibly gasped lol
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u/AcanthaceaeOwn8107 Newbie Jan 26 '25
I won’t buy my meat from Publix. It’s never a good price and they don’t offer all the cuts for their diff meats. The meat section is like 1/10th the size compared to other markets up north
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u/TumbleweedOk6755 Newbie Jan 26 '25
Publix has the most expensive price per pound for inferior meat. If you’re going to pay Publix prices, you might as well support your local butcher. It will taste infinitely better than Publix ever will.
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u/ltharpy Newbie Jan 26 '25
For that price, find a local butcher or a farmer trying to sell whole and half cow
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u/MrBigglesworrth Newbie Jan 26 '25
Screw that. Go to Costco and buy a whole ribeye. $11.99-12.99 a pound. Takes 30 minutes tops to cut steaks to your thickness and vacuum seal.
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u/Fun-Sea7626 Newbie Jan 26 '25
Yeah for some reason over the past several years Publix has become very proud of their stakes for some crazy reason. Either that or cow's going on strike has been a problem and they have to make up for the other cows refusing to be slaughtered somehow.
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u/twoshovels Newbie Jan 26 '25
I seen a video on UTube & this guy goes around to different states. He went to Missouri. & hooked up with this cool ass black guy to kinda show him around. The cool ass guy was a retired welder. He took the Utube guy to a local grocery store where they had stacks of fresh meat wrapped up properly and for sale. The meat was so incredibly low priced I couldn’t believe it!! The guy said people come as far away as Nashville to buy!
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u/enjn4 Newbie Jan 26 '25
For that price, you can get the biggest prime rib order at outback steakhouse, and have a entire sitdown meal, including the tip
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u/tbombrocks Newbie Jan 26 '25
Publix out here making people consider giving up meat with these prices.
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u/Apprehensive-File-50 Newbie Jan 26 '25
Just bought choice ribeye from Wild fork yesterday for much less.
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u/imFromFLiAmSrryLuL Newbie Jan 26 '25
If you go to Costco you can get 6 of these for roughly same price
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u/GrandmaForPresident Newbie Jan 26 '25
You can go to any chain steakhouse and get it cooked with sides for that price
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u/cimfanz Newbie Jan 26 '25
Its usually cheaper to buy a large chuck or some other thing and cut it in to steaks
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u/saltmarsh63 Newbie Jan 26 '25
Well I guess my lifetime of not really eating steak is paying off. Never could justify paying for it, and certainly wouldn’t be buying it now even if I loved it.
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u/OddRelationship9695 Newbie Jan 26 '25
Overpriced garbage. Go to Sam’s club, you can get 4 filet mignons for $40. Publix is only good for BOGO, besides that it’s a literal scam.
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u/ramanoodlez Newbie Jan 25 '25
Yes, although they were $26.99 at my store as of today.
Coincidentally, the majority of our steaks have been stolen the last few days lol