EL PASO, Texas (KVIA)– As Thanksgiving approaches, some shoppers said they felt a slight break at the grocery store this year \u2014 at least on certain staples.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like maybe things are a tad less expensive,\u201d one shopper said.<\/p>\n
Another shopper noted prices seemed steady overall, though packaging changes were noticeable. \u201cI thought it was about the same from last year. Really wasn\u2019t too bad,\u201d he said. \u201cA few of the things come in smaller packaging. You can tell I noticed that yesterday with my wife. But the turkeys, everything else, it\u2019s all about the same. You’re buying them by the pound.\u201d<\/p>\n
The American Farm Bureau Federation\u2019s annual Thanksgiving dinner survey found that some key holiday items including turkey, stuffing mix and dinner rolls are down in price from last year. But other staples such as sweet potatoes, veggie trays and whipping cream are expected to cost more.<\/p>\n
Gordan Merfa, manager at Vista Market on Doniphan, said the best strategy is to shop the sales.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a lot of items that are specifically for Thanksgiving,\u201d Murfa said. \u201cTurkey, stuffing. And then we have some produce items, baked goods for baking, marshmallows, pineapple, evaporated milk.\u201d<\/p>\n
Merfa said the night before Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving Day itself are typically the store\u2019s busiest times. His advice for last-minute shoppers: \u201cCome early, as early as you can.\u201d<\/p>\n
Most shoppers said they\u2019ve developed a system to navigate holiday grocery trips.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have our stores of preference, and we also have our staple list,\u201d one shopper said. \u201cSo we just go for what is on our list.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KVIA)– As Thanksgiving approaches, some shoppers said they felt a slight break at the grocery…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-66755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}