on April 29, 2020
COVID-19 plant closures begin to affect meat retail
Consumers are having a harder time locating some items.
Beef and chicken, the two largest proteins, saw the largest increases in terms of dollars during the week of April 19 versus the comparable week in 2019. In absolute dollars, beef sold an additional $126 million despite going up against the 2019 Easter sales bump, with ground beef generating 62%…