I was at Costco yesterday and had been noticing a sharp price increase in my favorite cut of meat - Tri Tip. It started at $9.99/pound and went up sharply from there. Several weeks it was a buck more each week. Took a long time to come down too.
Yesterday, it was back to $9.99:
The whole sordid story can be found here, here, here, and here complete with photos.
Again, I had asked several times (both the butcher and the member services window) and nobody had any information - nothing from corporate. It was just an odd bubble in the price of beef.
And again, these are all the same SKU #33708 and the same store #662 - only variation is the price.
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