{"id":69952,"date":"2025-11-26T00:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T00:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/69952\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T00:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T00:37:07","slug":"thanksgiving-shopping-frenzy-hits-bakersfield-amid-high-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/69952\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving shopping frenzy hits Bakersfield amid high prices"},"content":{"rendered":"

With Thanksgiving just around the corner, Bakersfield residents are flocking to stores for pies and other essentials, despite higher dinner prices compared to other parts of the nation.<\/p>\n

Delaney Michael, an Instacart worker, described the scene at local stores like Costco as “chaotic,” with people lining up early to grab last-minute items.<\/p>\n

“Oh, lots of pushing and shoving. Everyone forgets their manners today,” Michael said, noting that it took 20 minutes for her in-laws to enter the store.<\/p>\n

According to the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 40th annual Thanksgiving dinner survey<\/a>, prices in California are nearly $20 higher than the national average. However, in Bakersfield, prices have remained relatively stable compared to last year, with costs less than a dollar above the Western region average for a dinner serving 10 people.<\/p>\n

Aaron Hegde, executive director for the Grimm Family Center for Agriculture Business, expressed surprise at the modest price increase.<\/p>\n

“People had forecasted the prices to be about 40% higher,” Hegde said.<\/p>\n

He suggested that high grocery prices over the past three years due to inflation might have led stores to adjust their pricing strategies.<\/p>\n

Despite the price hikes, some shoppers, like Regina Pryor, are unfazed. “You know, I didn\u2019t even look because you have to get the things you need. You just buy. It\u2019s Thanksgiving,” Pryor said.<\/p>\n

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Hegde advised planning ahead and shopping at different stores to find the best deals, a strategy that may be more useful for Christmas shopping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Thanksgiving just around the corner, Bakersfield residents are flocking to stores for pies and other essentials, despite…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-69952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}