| Table 1. Comparison of average retail prices for selected meat cuts from BLS and supermarket scanner data, most recent month | Next update
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| Most recent month Aug, 2005 | ||
| Item1 | Feature-
weighted price ($/lb)2 |
BLS price
($/lb)3 |
| Beef prices | ||
| Ground chuck | $2.21 | $2.50 |
| Ground beef, 100-percent beef | $2.17 | $2.42 |
| Lean and extra lean ground beef | $3.05 | $2.91 |
| --All uncooked ground beef | $2.51 | $2.72 |
| Chuck roast, USDA Choice, boneless | $2.43 | $3.13 |
| Chuck roast, graded and ungraded but not choice or prime | $2.27 | $3.03 |
| Round roast, USDA Choice, boneless | $2.63 | $3.63 |
| Round roast, graded and ungraded but not choice or prime | $2.90 | $3.76 |
| --All uncooked beef roasts | $2.74 | $3.62 |
| Steak, T-bone, USDA Choice, bone-in | $6.93 | N/A |
| Steak, rib eye, USDA Choice, boneless | $8.09 | N/A |
| Steak, round, USDA choice | $2.63 | $4.00 |
| Steak, round, graded and ungraded but not choice or prime | $2.62 | $3.81 |
| Steak, sirloin, USDA Choice, boneless | $4.84 | $5.81 |
| Steak, sirloin, graded and ungraded but not choice or prime | $4.39 | $5.21 |
| --All uncooked beef steaks | $4.77 | $4.99 |
| Beef for stew, boneless | $3.39 | N/A |
| All uncooked other beef not veal | $3.87 | $2.74 |
| Pork prices | ||
| Bacon, sliced4 | $2.60 | $3.44 |
| Chops, center cut, bone-in | $2.66 | $3.43 |
| Chops, boneless | $3.34 | $3.77 |
| --All pork chops | $2.79 | $3.28 |
| Ham, boneless not canned | $2.89 | $3.02 |
| --All ham (not canned or sliced) | $2.28 | $2.30 |
| Sausage, fresh, loose4 | $2.51 | N/A |
| All other pork excluding canned and sliced | $2.22 | $2.08 |
| Poultry prices | ||
| Chicken, fresh whole | $0.89 | $1.04 |
| Chicken, breast, bone-in | $1.49 | N/A |
| Chicken, legs, bone-in | $1.14 | $1.32 |
| Turkey, frozen whole | $1.19 | $1.06 |
| 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. | ||