| Table 1. Comparison of average retail prices for selected meat cuts from BLS and supermarket scanner data, most recent month | Next update
October 8, 2008 |
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| Most recent month March, 2007 | ||
| Item1 | Feature-
weighted price ($/lb)2 |
BLS price
($/lb)3 |
| Beef prices | ||
| Ground chuck | $2.35 | $2.63 |
| Ground beef, 100-percent beef | $2.27 | $2.29 |
| Lean and extra lean ground beef | $3.14 | $3.05 |
| --All uncooked ground beef | $2.61 | $2.81 |
| Chuck roast, USDA Choice, boneless | $2.42 | $3.36 |
| Chuck roast, graded and ungraded but not choice or prime | $2.30 | $3.19 |
| Round roast, USDA Choice, boneless | $2.73 | $3.90 |
| Round roast, graded and ungraded but not choice or prime | $2.98 | $3.72 |
| --All uncooked beef roasts | $2.73 | $3.73 |
| Steak, T-bone, USDA Choice, bone-in | $7.63 | N/A |
| Steak, rib eye, USDA Choice, boneless | $9.11 | N/A |
| Steak, round, USDA choice | $3.19 | $4.21 |
| Steak, round, graded and ungraded but not choice or prime | $3.13 | $4.08 |
| Steak, sirloin, USDA Choice, boneless | $5.58 | $6.02 |
| Steak, sirloin, graded and ungraded but not choice or prime | $4.46 | $5.33 |
| --All uncooked beef steaks | $5.25 | $5.29 |
| Beef for stew, boneless | $3.43 | N/A |
| All uncooked other beef not veal | $2.34 | $2.99 |
| Pork prices | ||
| Bacon, sliced4 | $3.07 | $3.46 |
| Chops, center cut, bone-in | $3.01 | $3.27 |
| Chops, boneless | $3.35 | $3.55 |
| --All pork chops | $2.84 | $3.14 |
| Ham, boneless not canned | $3.08 | $3.19 |
| --All ham (not canned or sliced) | $2.07 | $2.33 |
| Sausage, fresh, loose4 | $2.64 | N/A |
| All other pork excluding canned and sliced | $1.73 | $2.01 |
| Poultry prices | ||
| Chicken, fresh whole | $0.96 | $1.06 |
| Chicken, breast, bone-in | $1.42 | $2.24 |
| Chicken, legs, bone-in | $1.09 | $1.29 |
| Turkey, frozen whole | $1.21 | $1.08 |
| For more information, contact: Erica Rosa, phone: 720-544-2941 | ||
| N/A = Not available. Occasionally, BLS is unable to find an adequate number of observations of a particular item's price to ensure statistical reliability.
1Random-weight items only. 2Average monthly price, weighted by sales volume, and accounting for featuring (discounts given to customers from regular shelf price). Compiled for USDA-ERS from retail supermarket scanner data. 3Prices reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). 4Random-weight items only; does not include prepackaged items. | ||