Thanksgiving foods are now more expensive due to inflation and supply shortages.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (NCC News) – With inflation bringing prices up across the board, a traditional Thanksgiving dinner is set to cost more this year. Research firm IRI predicts that your Thanksgiving meal will cost about 13.5% more than last year, based on how retail prices in the four weeks through Oct. 16 compared to the same period in 2021.
Kevin Petrie, Director of Operations at Green Hills Farms, told NCC News customers are getting used to the higher prices, but the year over year spike is even larger for holiday items.
“With a lot of those everyday items, there’s some fluctuation, but when it comes to holiday items there’s an increase of about 30 percent in cost over last year,” Petrie said.
U.S. inflation is currently up 7.7% from this time last year, with prices expected to continue to rise.
Erin Inman, a customer at Green Hills Farms, said she’s working two jobs to make up for recent price hikes. Today, she was going around to several grocery stores with her mother just to find the cheapest prices for their Thanksgiving dinner.
“I just told my mom in the other store. I was like ‘how do they expect us to live?’ You know, I don’t know how much longer it can really go on,” Inman said.