date:May 06, 2014
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Looking at Nielsen 52-week data, pounds of fresh meat sold at retail were up a little over 1% on nearly 3% higher prices. However, if you look at the most recent four-week data for the period ending March 29, total pounds sold were about flat while dollars sales rose a little over 4%, driven by a 4.6% increase in pricing. Fresh beef volume is down nearly 7% on a 7% price increase, pork volume is down nearly 1% while prices have gone up 5.5%, and as expected chicken pounds were up 3.5% even t