Get Used to Expensive Meat With Supply Woes Lasting All Year

  • Americans pay 13% more for T-bone steaks, and sausage is up
  • ‘We are seeing the supply dwindle pretty quickly’: retailer
Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg
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U.S. shoppers are paying 13% more for T-bone steaks than last year, at $7.47 a pound. Ground chuck is up 28%. Prices for pork-sausage breakfast links and patties climbed 13%.

This is the new reality for American meat eaters in the coronavirus pandemic.