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<blockquote data-quote="RobGMN" data-source="post: 8914471" data-attributes="member: 683408">The article says the increased cost of turkey is being absorbed by the retailer, in order to increase the lagging sales of turkey. That doesn&#039;t mean turkey is cheaper, it means the profits have decreased. And now they knocked it down even further to unload all the turkey that no one bought.If the price of oil goes up, but gas stations reduce their profit from $.02 a gallon to $.005 a gallon, that doesn&#039;t make oil (or the gas it is refined into) cheaper. The pump price may be cheaper, but then money is lost for the retailer. The ripple effect will ensue.And the article specifically mentions that people are making the switch to ham or alternatives. Apparently doing so in enough quantity that turkey sales are lagging at Thanksgiving, and in enough quantity that retailers are seeing the numbers change. For the people who have switched, their dinner is actually more expensive this year than last year.The very proof that Slapper provided to make his point shows that.3&quot;The <a href="https://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/ams_2867.pdf" target="_blank">Nov. 21 USDA report</a> on retail activity found mixed results, with frozen turkeys priced slightly higher than last year and fresh turkeys priced slightly lower.&quot; - Politifact</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RobGMN, post: 8914471, member: 683408"] The article says the increased cost of turkey is being absorbed by the retailer, in order to increase the lagging sales of turkey. That doesn't mean turkey is cheaper, it means the profits have decreased. And now they knocked it down even further to unload all the turkey that no one bought. If the price of oil goes up, but gas stations reduce their profit from $.02 a gallon to $.005 a gallon, that doesn't make oil (or the gas it is refined into) cheaper. The pump price may be cheaper, but then money is lost for the retailer. The ripple effect will ensue. And the article specifically mentions that people are making the switch to ham or alternatives. Apparently doing so in enough quantity that turkey sales are lagging at Thanksgiving, and in enough quantity that retailers are seeing the numbers change. For the people who have switched, their dinner is actually more expensive this year than last year. The very proof that Slapper provided to make his point shows that.3 "The [URL='https://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/ams_2867.pdf']Nov. 21 USDA report[/URL] on retail activity found mixed results, with frozen turkeys priced slightly higher than last year and fresh turkeys priced slightly lower." - Politifact [/QUOTE]

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