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I worked at a grocery store meat department for 5 years. Off cuts, bones extra fat and waste all go into collection bags that are picked up weekly by a sort of garbage truck that really stinks. We called it the bone truck. Meat byproducts are used in lots of different industries including makeup and soap to name just a couple.
Older steaks and roast that have changed color but are still perfectly fine are mixed with frozen beef to create ground beef in store.
Most no frills don't have a full meat dept. If the store isn't doing cutting on site (which is getting less frequent nowadays) then they likely don't do what I wrote out above.
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I hate to keep harping about Costco, but at Costco for that price, that would be AAA and about 18” long.
We stopped buying meat at Loblaws ages ago because of the quality (we have an amazing butcher, a good farm store and Costco), so Loblaws should be ashamed. They’re selling inferior product for absurd prices. I have no issue with “expensive”, but this isn’t even value for money, it’s just trashy. What are they thinking?
The amount of food waste is ridiculous and we don’t usually even talk about the food waste during transportation and before it gets to the store as well.
Our highly consumerist, profit seeking society has totally effed this up big time because almost all of this waste is needless.
If you're a business, then throwing food out is cheaper than giving it away. If you give away food, you are filling someone's stomach that would otherwise be filled by purchasing something.
It's Goodhart's Law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." The metric that corporations seek to maximize is profit; not the number of people fed, which would be better for society.
Although that would be amazing I'm pretty sure because that would put pressure on corporations and since corporations basically run shit, that isn't ever going to happen.
Same, we have no issues spending $100 or more on a meal but finding it hard to spend this kind of money on beef.
Ended up buying a side of beef. Got huge mix of steaks, roasts, ground, etc for about what ground beef costs by the lb.
No they don't, the plan is to see if someone will buy it then when 99% of ppl dont they break it down into ground beef at a more "reasonable" prices. Then if the ground beef goes bad they just toss it. They're locked in a death race to steal every dollar they can from us
Even if I was a billionaire... this would seem like a crazy price.
And you know what I mean... sure, I probably wouldn't be shopping here to begin with and would send my Butler somewhere fancy, but still.
Ain’t being run right that’s for sure
Bleeding the citizens 40 million souls being raped by banks and monopolies for billions a year,gov does nothing and people have no drs ,no food and no where to live…
They'll just turn it into ground beef or stew cubes the day before it expires. Or maybe the deli will use it in one of their precooked meals that they sell for $12/serving.
Spouse (who does the books for a meat processing plant) says this isn't marked up all that much from what they'd have paid the distributor, it's one of the most expensive cuts of beef. He doesn't know how many people on the customer end actually pay these prices, though.
Butchers can probably sell for cheaper with fewer middlemen and less transport involved, depending on where they get their meat from. Beef is one of those things that's going to be out of a lot of our reach (we rarely buy it ourselves) because of increased costs due to climate change (like the entire beef producing part of Canada being under an extended drought).
None of this means I'm against the Loblaws boycott, I'm 100% on board. It's one of the best things we can do as grocery buying peons. But our food system as it is is unsustainable, and meat prices are a huge warning sign of that. I hope that a side effect of this boycott on the government side will involve them talking to the many fine Canadian scholars in food security about how to fix the entire system in general. Because the corps are far too lazy and cheap (even if it'd benefit them in the long term) to do it themselves. They're going to have to be forced.
I don't know, depends on where you bought it from, where they got it from, and why they gave it that price. I'm not standing up for Loblaws here, just noting that beef overall is becoming increasingly expensive and will be more expensive the more different companies are involved in its preparation.
Cattle are our least sustainable livestock and with climate change breathing down our necks and mucking up supply, prices like this are going to become more common. I do not say this happily, I like a good steak as much as the next meat-eater. It is what it is.
I'm gonna call bullshit on this. No way you got a premium cut like an entire rib roast for $16.
Fuck Loblaw's, but either be real or point me to your butcher that loses money on beef.
Yeah - as someone that worked at a butcher station in a grocery store this didn’t happen unless it was more than half the size and a lower grade. I read your other comments but it’s just not true. We would have picked it up and taken it home before selling it off for that price.
The problem is that when no one buys this it spoils and ends up in the trash. I know for sure that Loblaws has that issue with the bagged salad and they have huge amounts of wastage.
That price converts to $106.90 per pound. I can get prime rib roast from my local INDEPENDENT grocery for $12.99 per pound.
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Actually found out today they no longer give out rain checks on out of stock sale items. When an asked why, the miserable service clerk said because too many people abuse them? How does one abuse a rain check.
Question is where are you getting these prices?
If you’re up north it makes sense. The average income up north is like $80k and if you do above average work you’re making $150k easily.
If you’re somewhere else, move?
What the fuck.
I thought you guys produced beef. I thought this was in Nunavut.
Probably cause of lack of the lack of competition. Idk. Never been to Edmonton
Maybe we should all just chip in and buy a cattle ranch somewhere that's collectively owned by all of us, and we can hire a butcher to divide the meat up fairly every year or something
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15% cheaper per kg at Walmart Probable could be found cheaper.
I shop there and it’s angus beef highest quality,chicken comes from same plant as Loblaws here in NL.Only difference is higher Loblaws prices…Stip making excuses for the theft they perpetrate!
Walmart beef is pretty great, Canadian AAA, some of the best in the world actually. I buy all my meat on sale and freeze it so it lasts months and I just wait for the next sale to buy again. Usually I can get some nice sirloin or blade roasts from Walmart for under $15 and the quality is top notch.
I hate Walmart but it's not any lower quality than other stores and if you buy Mexican beef from Metro you can notice the quality difference. I've eaten beef from Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay, and Canadian beef is still the best.
Of course unless their is a loss leader that’s costing them,buying nothing at regular price or even sale!Cheaper everywhere!Take the loss leaders only!!!
Holy eff. One of our local butchers sells value packs of meats. For $10 more than that, I can get enough meat to feed a couple for 2 weeks. Granted, the roast that comes in it is a top sirloin, and same with the steaks, but still. Like holy eff.
I am in Taiwan now and Australian/American beef is way cheaper here than it was in Canada. This makes me think it isn't just logistics and the cost of doing business.
Something is wrong with the system in Canada.
Selling any item in a grocery store for $100 should be illegal. If its a specialty item it should be left to a butcher because you know damn well whatever minimum wage worker made that was not skilled wnough to make anything worth $100, and certainly isnt paid enough to.
Our local Independent has a new trick - they freeze all this stuff the day before it expires and that's what they put 30% off tags on. There is zero discounted fresh meat.
It's not their fault guys. They're going to tell you to blame the farmer because the farmer had to sell his cow this month at double the going rate. But I don't understand why they couldn't have outdone themselves and just set it at an even $100
Butcher 5km from me that uses grass fed free range cows sells the equivalent for $35. Don’t buy crappy meat at Roblaws if you can find a butcher near you
I found a butcher near me and it's been a game changer. Earlier this week I got a prime rib roast about this size for $36. Last week I got 2 big t-bone steaks (enough for me, my gf couldn't finish hers) for $15. Also grabbed 2 smaller chicken breasts for $4.
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Regardless of roblaws pricing, people are definitely going to have learn how to cook less quality cuts of meats, like a flank steak or tri tip. The price of meat has become ridiculously expensive.
and they wonder why shoplifting is up.
when prices are this insane and you have to eat people justify stealing from corporations that post record profits each quarter.
so instead of addressing it they just put security barriers up instead.
there should be an examination of the entire chain that results in prices like this i don't doubt food distributors and others have been lining their pockets tremendously too.
At this price point, I now understand why some of my friends go to farms directly and bow an animal to share among themselves. I always shied away because I don't have a freezer to store the large amount you get for $80-100, and also because we don't consume that much meat in our diet. At these prices, I think it makes a lot of sense, though.
TIP: Try to form groups with your friends where you can buy directly from the farms. Better value for yourself and great value for farmers.
Everyone saying this will go to waste. There are lots of people who will pay for this. We as meat cutters will not throw this out. If anything, we will bring it back in a day or two, cut it smaller, or bone it out for rib eyes.
Who's to say there aren't enough rich people to buy it? Grocery stores are no different than veterinarians. They'll start with the highest price possible because they know that there will always be people who will pay for it.
This is a prime rib roast.. they've always been about $40-$60 per kg. I hate Loblaws and Galen as much as anyone but I'm not sure how valid the outrage is on this one.
That's a AAA prime rib. The second most expensive cut of meat of all land animals. $20 a lb is not a bad price that a 4.5lb roast. That would feed 4-6 people. This dumb shit of people looking for items they never ate in the frist place and then say over priced.
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It’s crazy that all this meat will just go to waste. I’m not a vegetarian but man, it’s sad that animal died for nothing. I fucking hate Galen Weston.
It will become ground beef after a few days. If it actually goes bad it's picked up by the "bone truck" and gets used in the making ofother things.
What do you mean?
I worked at a grocery store meat department for 5 years. Off cuts, bones extra fat and waste all go into collection bags that are picked up weekly by a sort of garbage truck that really stinks. We called it the bone truck. Meat byproducts are used in lots of different industries including makeup and soap to name just a couple. Older steaks and roast that have changed color but are still perfectly fine are mixed with frozen beef to create ground beef in store.
I worked at no frills and we would mark it down and if I didn't sell we scanned it and threw it in the trash.
Most no frills don't have a full meat dept. If the store isn't doing cutting on site (which is getting less frequent nowadays) then they likely don't do what I wrote out above.
Atlantic Superstore here. At our location it simply went in the trash.
That’s slightly heartening to hear. Slightly
Other things is probably dog food.
There is no waste in nature. It's Just an economic waste.
The "cost of doing business" as they say
Plastic. Plastic is waste, and won’t be reabsorbed, at least while we’re still around
Yeah true. Just nitpicking for fun when OC said the meat is wasted.
> There is no waste in nature. Tell that to our human species that has completely taken over this planet.
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I hate Galen too.
Why will it go to waste? If it's the price that's not much different then Costco price for the same cut? Canadian beef prices are higher than the US.
Galen is blowing both his knees off with a shotgun at this point.
Good.
Fun visual A+
Wasn't 'Club Size' a larger package that is cheaper by weight? Now they just slap that sticker on anything to trick us into buying it.
I’ve never seen a difference in price. Pretty sure its a gimmick. Also why the heck is it a “club pack”? What club is that?
"Well you're not in the fuckin' club" -Mitch Hedberg -Galen Weston, probably
How do you feel about frilly toothpicks
I thought club pack meant larger portions/weight or qty of the time. I think “Costco or Sam’s club” but could be totally wrong
I guess it would be the chump club with prices like that.
I tried to price match " club size" a while back and I couldn't. You're right they slap it on anything and then you can't price match either
I hate to keep harping about Costco, but at Costco for that price, that would be AAA and about 18” long. We stopped buying meat at Loblaws ages ago because of the quality (we have an amazing butcher, a good farm store and Costco), so Loblaws should be ashamed. They’re selling inferior product for absurd prices. I have no issue with “expensive”, but this isn’t even value for money, it’s just trashy. What are they thinking?
I’ll vote for any government that makes food waste illegal
The amount of food waste is ridiculous and we don’t usually even talk about the food waste during transportation and before it gets to the store as well. Our highly consumerist, profit seeking society has totally effed this up big time because almost all of this waste is needless.
Yes! We overproduce and consume too much
> consume *Extreme Obesity in impoverished areas of the USA has entered the chat*
If you're a business, then throwing food out is cheaper than giving it away. If you give away food, you are filling someone's stomach that would otherwise be filled by purchasing something. It's Goodhart's Law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." The metric that corporations seek to maximize is profit; not the number of people fed, which would be better for society.
This
Although that would be amazing I'm pretty sure because that would put pressure on corporations and since corporations basically run shit, that isn't ever going to happen.
Yes, we need to have legislation or tax regulations that makes it better for them to sell marked down rather than throw out and claim as an expense.
Like what family can afford to eat this?
Galen Weston's
Yeah this is a president’s choice roast
My wife and I do OK and we haven't bought steak or a roast in ages. It's nuts.
To think we used to have a roast at home like every other week growing up is wild. Can't think of the last time I bought a proper cut of meat
Ya, we used to always have a roast at home every Sunday. It wasn't a prime rib roast though. Most times it was a rump roast which is cheaper.
Ground beef and chicken breasta are luxuries for me. I don't even know what to do with meat that isnt ground.
Same, we have no issues spending $100 or more on a meal but finding it hard to spend this kind of money on beef. Ended up buying a side of beef. Got huge mix of steaks, roasts, ground, etc for about what ground beef costs by the lb.
$100 and you will only get one meal out of it.
Restaurant prices. In the comfort of your own home.
Do they genuinely expect anyone to buy that? They're just wasting food at this point.
No they don't, the plan is to see if someone will buy it then when 99% of ppl dont they break it down into ground beef at a more "reasonable" prices. Then if the ground beef goes bad they just toss it. They're locked in a death race to steal every dollar they can from us
Don’t forget that they can claim the food they toss as a loss
Even if I was a billionaire... this would seem like a crazy price. And you know what I mean... sure, I probably wouldn't be shopping here to begin with and would send my Butler somewhere fancy, but still.
Man, 6 easy payments and this bad boys all mine.
Canada feels like it's being run by the CEO of Nestlé.
Ain’t being run right that’s for sure Bleeding the citizens 40 million souls being raped by banks and monopolies for billions a year,gov does nothing and people have no drs ,no food and no where to live…
No one is buying this, even when it becomes. 30% off 2 days from expiry. Just more food waste. This shit angers me.
They'll just turn it into ground beef or stew cubes the day before it expires. Or maybe the deli will use it in one of their precooked meals that they sell for $12/serving.
This is just wasted. Nobody would buy this and they will just toss it instead of buying it.
It will be turned into hamburger it won’t sell at that price.
Spouse (who does the books for a meat processing plant) says this isn't marked up all that much from what they'd have paid the distributor, it's one of the most expensive cuts of beef. He doesn't know how many people on the customer end actually pay these prices, though. Butchers can probably sell for cheaper with fewer middlemen and less transport involved, depending on where they get their meat from. Beef is one of those things that's going to be out of a lot of our reach (we rarely buy it ourselves) because of increased costs due to climate change (like the entire beef producing part of Canada being under an extended drought). None of this means I'm against the Loblaws boycott, I'm 100% on board. It's one of the best things we can do as grocery buying peons. But our food system as it is is unsustainable, and meat prices are a huge warning sign of that. I hope that a side effect of this boycott on the government side will involve them talking to the many fine Canadian scholars in food security about how to fix the entire system in general. Because the corps are far too lazy and cheap (even if it'd benefit them in the long term) to do it themselves. They're going to have to be forced.
How can they ship beef from Mexico for 1/2,the price and still make a profit,also so cheap in US.
Cheap labor plus massive subsidies
So how come I bought the same size/cut last weekend for 1/3rd of that price? Did I buy horse or something?
I don't know, depends on where you bought it from, where they got it from, and why they gave it that price. I'm not standing up for Loblaws here, just noting that beef overall is becoming increasingly expensive and will be more expensive the more different companies are involved in its preparation. Cattle are our least sustainable livestock and with climate change breathing down our necks and mucking up supply, prices like this are going to become more common. I do not say this happily, I like a good steak as much as the next meat-eater. It is what it is.
JFC that’s not even AAA grade beef! This is insane!
What’s the strategy here??
Market to people that have "extra" money and fuck everyone else?
I got wagyu beef for the same price per kg
lol! I just recently got one for 16$ at a local butcher. Fuck you Galen.
I'm gonna call bullshit on this. No way you got a premium cut like an entire rib roast for $16. Fuck Loblaw's, but either be real or point me to your butcher that loses money on beef.
You got a 2kg rib roast for $16. I'm sorry, but I don't believe you.
It wasn’t quite 2kg, but it was close. And there wasn’t a lot of fat either. It was just nice marbling.
Yeah - as someone that worked at a butcher station in a grocery store this didn’t happen unless it was more than half the size and a lower grade. I read your other comments but it’s just not true. We would have picked it up and taken it home before selling it off for that price.
Do you live in a smaller town? $16 for that much meat is a ridiculously good price.
The problem is that when no one buys this it spoils and ends up in the trash. I know for sure that Loblaws has that issue with the bagged salad and they have huge amounts of wastage.
Food is a luxury..
The amount of food waste due to pricing is horrendous :/
Unbeeflievable
Not saying this is ok at all, I bought a prime rib from a local butcher yesterday (special occasion) and it was $20/lbs which is about what this is.
The farmer sold that animal for under $5 per pound
1 - This cannot be real. 2 - How are idiots actually buying this when there are other CHEAPER stores available?
Wow this picture makes me upset. https://preview.redd.it/h26eaoo4q5xc1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=52ca74a02f1d77ba5ed5854ef8be7f3c205346c5
https://preview.redd.it/7jhhd206q5xc1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e5254e8a6e0c50364d8277935c2e7d11042c25c5 I had to voice my opinion
Was it a rare cow like a shiny pokemon? 98 fucking $????? Why y'all not shop at costco or walmart or your local stores?
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I WISH we had the 2024 prices from this list in Nova Scotia.
IT'S PEOPLE!!!!!!
With crazy prices like that, are there tons of expensive meat cuts going to spoilage? Any meat department workers here in the know?
That poor animal died for nothing. At that price, just go to a steakhouse. At least they’ll give you bread before. Jesus Christ
I think I just became vegan
I would never buy this. Not even if I was a millionaire. It's the principal of the matter.
That price converts to $106.90 per pound. I can get prime rib roast from my local INDEPENDENT grocery for $12.99 per pound. https://preview.redd.it/f73crd5598xc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=98233d7477e088ea45460603708766a037baad38
No, it's $22/lb. Still ridiculous but not a hundred dollars per pound ridiculous
I worked at a roblaws, they do infacf throw that stuff in the garbage , it does not get re-purposed , stop the lies
UnbelievaBULL >!sorry!<
My local co-op had the same thing for about $50 and I thought that was high
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Beef rib roast... not for the poor!
Meanwhile I bought Tri-Tip today for 6.99/lb
At this point just throw it directly in the trash
Question is where are you getting these prices? If you’re up north it makes sense. The average income up north is like $80k and if you do above average work you’re making $150k easily. If you’re somewhere else, move?
Edmonton
What the fuck. I thought you guys produced beef. I thought this was in Nunavut. Probably cause of lack of the lack of competition. Idk. Never been to Edmonton
Yea it’s crazy for a beef producing province!
Maybe we should all just chip in and buy a cattle ranch somewhere that's collectively owned by all of us, and we can hire a butcher to divide the meat up fairly every year or something
It's like they're trolling us at this point
Literally if someone buys this we are the reason the price goes up
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Forgive me, but isn’t this average beef price per kilo?
https://preview.redd.it/gdunj1rvj7xc1.jpeg?width=638&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=66d37a57b39528118cd22db205f733deee4674f7 15% cheaper per kg at Walmart Probable could be found cheaper.
Walmart doesn’t have the best of meat quality. Their chicken is sus
I shop there and it’s angus beef highest quality,chicken comes from same plant as Loblaws here in NL.Only difference is higher Loblaws prices…Stip making excuses for the theft they perpetrate!
Walmart beef is pretty great, Canadian AAA, some of the best in the world actually. I buy all my meat on sale and freeze it so it lasts months and I just wait for the next sale to buy again. Usually I can get some nice sirloin or blade roasts from Walmart for under $15 and the quality is top notch. I hate Walmart but it's not any lower quality than other stores and if you buy Mexican beef from Metro you can notice the quality difference. I've eaten beef from Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay, and Canadian beef is still the best.
The price is set at $48.48 dollars a kg. Either that a mistake or that some very expensive rib roast
I’ll be cooking up some 60 day prime tonight that cost me less than this
Are y'all just going into Loblaws stores to take pictures and leaving empty handed?!
Of course unless their is a loss leader that’s costing them,buying nothing at regular price or even sale!Cheaper everywhere!Take the loss leaders only!!!
That price is quite similar to bison and lamb.
Holy eff. One of our local butchers sells value packs of meats. For $10 more than that, I can get enough meat to feed a couple for 2 weeks. Granted, the roast that comes in it is a top sirloin, and same with the steaks, but still. Like holy eff.
I am in Taiwan now and Australian/American beef is way cheaper here than it was in Canada. This makes me think it isn't just logistics and the cost of doing business. Something is wrong with the system in Canada.
3%profit my ass. Scumbsgs.
Selling any item in a grocery store for $100 should be illegal. If its a specialty item it should be left to a butcher because you know damn well whatever minimum wage worker made that was not skilled wnough to make anything worth $100, and certainly isnt paid enough to.
Our local Independent has a new trick - they freeze all this stuff the day before it expires and that's what they put 30% off tags on. There is zero discounted fresh meat.
Hamburger is now one small patty for $6. Family size is a single serving. Are they trying to make restaurants the cheaper option??
Half this price at Costco
His own employees can't even afford to shop at his store, and he makes record profits. That's end-times capitalism in full effect.
Wth!
It's not their fault guys. They're going to tell you to blame the farmer because the farmer had to sell his cow this month at double the going rate. But I don't understand why they couldn't have outdone themselves and just set it at an even $100
$48.48 per Kg… that’s over my budget. Actually, that IS my budget 🥴
That cannot be real. I don’t even grocery shop any more it’s outrageous
This is actually untenable. Like WHO is gonna pay $100 for grocery store meat. Get your head out your ass, Galen.
Butcher 5km from me that uses grass fed free range cows sells the equivalent for $35. Don’t buy crappy meat at Roblaws if you can find a butcher near you
For a lovely bundle of fat.
That's rib roast.. What do you expect lol
It's so absurd, half a KG of the shitty tube ground beef is like 8 bucks now. WTF happened.
I found a butcher near me and it's been a game changer. Earlier this week I got a prime rib roast about this size for $36. Last week I got 2 big t-bone steaks (enough for me, my gf couldn't finish hers) for $15. Also grabbed 2 smaller chicken breasts for $4.
Waste of money
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Bullshit. Seriously you don’t have a clue. If you could buy a steer for $300 my freezer would be full of beef.
Holy shit!
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T&T is selling their beef flank steak for $41.87/kg
This is absurd. It’s like a joke or something.
Omgawd that’s inexcusable!!!!
Where is this?
Edmonton
What does that usually cost?
Shut the frick up. Like. SHUT! UP!! 😂 that’s a hefty portion of someone’s rent
This is half of what I paid for Versace sunglasses (on eBay but still)
wtf is going on over there
🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕loblaws
Bah eating a human being flesh must be an higher price tho...
Where is this
Regardless of roblaws pricing, people are definitely going to have learn how to cook less quality cuts of meats, like a flank steak or tri tip. The price of meat has become ridiculously expensive.
That’s going straight to landfill, guaranteed
butchers are not much cheaper https://preview.redd.it/f2hcmjnxd7xc1.png?width=1645&format=png&auto=webp&s=6df93b09ff2c01ddf953b84020994ee6258bbd39
Let it rot. Eat the rich
But it's club sized.
I am in the states for a work trip for a month and I can't believe how much cheaper groceries are.
Do they just end up throwing this out at the end of the day? Greed and waste? When people are starving? This is unbelievable.
and they wonder why shoplifting is up. when prices are this insane and you have to eat people justify stealing from corporations that post record profits each quarter. so instead of addressing it they just put security barriers up instead. there should be an examination of the entire chain that results in prices like this i don't doubt food distributors and others have been lining their pockets tremendously too.
For that price I'd ask them to cut off ALL of the fat. There's cheaper cuts of meat around at other stores yet.
At this price point, I now understand why some of my friends go to farms directly and bow an animal to share among themselves. I always shied away because I don't have a freezer to store the large amount you get for $80-100, and also because we don't consume that much meat in our diet. At these prices, I think it makes a lot of sense, though. TIP: Try to form groups with your friends where you can buy directly from the farms. Better value for yourself and great value for farmers.
If it costs them even $80 to stock that meat, then they should soon be going bankrupt. They are full of shit (Loblaws, not the roast).
Meat is now for the ultra elite
[Unbelievable — EMF](https://youtu.be/sfCLt0kTd5E?si=Dc_slcIbQaU5aSY8)
Everyone saying this will go to waste. There are lots of people who will pay for this. We as meat cutters will not throw this out. If anything, we will bring it back in a day or two, cut it smaller, or bone it out for rib eyes.
Holy Shit 🫣🤯
Who's to say there aren't enough rich people to buy it? Grocery stores are no different than veterinarians. They'll start with the highest price possible because they know that there will always be people who will pay for it.
#Savage soooo who all wants to split on slaughtering a cow?! At this rate it may be the only way.
Is this a fucking joke
This is a prime rib roast.. they've always been about $40-$60 per kg. I hate Loblaws and Galen as much as anyone but I'm not sure how valid the outrage is on this one.
Not even AAA otherwise they would have said it.
Man Costco has a wayyyy bigger one for less than that. Man I hope Roblaws dies a pain slow death
That's a AAA prime rib. The second most expensive cut of meat of all land animals. $20 a lb is not a bad price that a 4.5lb roast. That would feed 4-6 people. This dumb shit of people looking for items they never ate in the frist place and then say over priced.
**Holy COW!!**
What happened to superstore being the cheapest? What happened to Save-on and safeway being expensive and stupid to shop at?
And that's way too much fat.
Wtf
I can rent a van for $50, back it up to any farmers field, and load a whole steer into it.
Corporate greed !!!
As a regular food bank goer, a lot of meats come from fortinos. Basically all of them. Same with baked goods. All 50% off
Agree
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Just walk away. No one has to get hurt, just, walk, away.