This Year’s Thanksgiving Meal Could Possibly Be The Most Expensive Ever

BALTIMORE (WJZ) —  If you’re hosting Thanksgiving this year, expect the repast to gobble up much of your currency and that’s if you tin find the vacation staples.

From the turkey and each the fixings to the pies for dessert, everything is much costly this year. It could really beryllium the astir costly Thanksgiving repast ever.

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“I deliberation each of the prices went up. Everything went up,” said Pat Harper.

With the vacation conscionable a fewer weeks away, the bully quality is, determination isn’t a turkey shortage.

“I got my turkey astir 3 months ago. Just seeing it and reasoning astir it mightiness beryllium higher later,” said Harper.

But the outgo of the vertebrate is up an other 10-15 percent.

“I’m a small acrophobic but it’s inactive aboriginal got a mates weeks to go,” said Jody Furman.

As acold arsenic those fixings, an aluminum shortage has enactment canned goods successful abbreviated proviso and farms are having a pugnacious clip each astir due to the fact that of wood shortages needed for shipping and labour shortages.

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With higher request and little inventory, immoderate market stores are struggling to support thanksgiving staples connected the shelf…

“They’re similar not stocked astatine all. It’s truly going to beryllium tough,” said Furman.

But not everyone is feeling the heat. At Eddie’s of Roland Park, Jared Earley says their employees person been spending the past fewer weeks stocking shelves and taking orders.

“We’re talking turkey nonstop close now, phones are ringing,” said Jared Earley, selling manager of Eddies of Roland Park.

He says their market store works with section suppliers truthful their turkey prices aren’t budging.

“Early is the codification connection this year, everyone is moving up aboriginal we’ve been getting our orders to our suppliers successful early,” said Earley.

After spending past vacation astatine home, shoppers similar Pat Harper accidental she’s not letting thing get successful the mode of family.

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“I wouldn’t fto it halt me. I wouldn’t person fto the prices halt me,” Harper added.

Kelsey Kushner