Grocery & meat deals in Birmingham this week — the cheapest chicken, beef, pork, fish & dairy prices per pound from local flyers

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★ Standout This Week ★

Ground Beef57% below South avg
FoodCity · Food City$2.99/lb

ground beef

Chicken Breast52% below South avg
ALDI$1.99/lb

fresh family pack chicken breasts

Eggs32% below South avg
Kroger$1.49/dozen

12 ct kroger eggs

★ Store of the week

ALDI

cheapest in 6 of 16 meat, fish & dairy categories with deals this week

This week in Birmingham, Lowtein compared prices at 6 retailers — Kroger, ALDI, Sprouts Farmers Market, and 3 others. 61 deals priced and verified against the BLS South average. This week's standout: Ground Beef $2.99/lb at FoodCity — 57% below the South average. Against Lowtein's own price history, 3 of 48 tracked items are running well below their usual prices this week — the biggest drop is bacon at Kroger, 20% below its usual.

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PORK SHOULDER

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BACON

SALMON

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Birmingham price history

Every week since May 20, Lowtein has recorded the lowest advertised price for each cut in Birmingham's flyers — 23 weeks so far. Here is what a normal week costs here, and which store most often had it cheapest. This week 8 of 15 cuts are below their usual Birmingham price.

  • Chicken Breastusual $2.19/lb · now $1.99▼
    Most often cheapest: FoodCity (8 of 22 weeks)
  • Chicken Thighsusual $2.39/lb · now $2.99▲
    Most often cheapest: Publix (6 of 13 weeks)
  • Chicken Drumsticksusual $1.34/lb · now $0.89▼
    Most often cheapest: ALDI (6 of 12 weeks)
  • Chicken Wingsusual $2.29/lb · now —
    Most often cheapest: ALDI (8 of 15 weeks)
  • Ground Beefusual $4.89/lb · now $2.99▼
    Most often cheapest: ALDI (12 of 23 weeks)
  • Beef Steakusual $8.99/lb · now $12.99▲
    Most often cheapest: FoodCity (10 of 23 weeks)
  • Beef Roastusual $6.99/lb · now $5.99▼
    Most often cheapest: FoodCity (5 of 15 weeks)
  • Pork Chopsusual $3.99/lb · now $3.99
    Most often cheapest: FoodCity (8 of 17 weeks)
  • Pork Shoulderusual $1.99/lb · now $2.49▲
    Most often cheapest: FoodCity (7 of 18 weeks)
  • Pork Ribsusual $2.99/lb · now $2.49▼
    Most often cheapest: FoodCity (4 of 11 weeks)
  • Salmonusual $8.29/lb · now $6.99▼
    Most often cheapest: Publix (16 of 23 weeks)
  • Shrimpusual $7.99/lb · now $7.99
    Most often cheapest: FoodCity (9 of 23 weeks)
  • Whitefishusual $7.99/lb · now $6.99▼
    Most often cheapest: FoodCity (12 of 15 weeks)
  • Eggsusual $2.09/dozen · now $1.49▼
    Most often cheapest: Kroger (8 of 14 weeks)
  • Butterusual $2.99/lb · now $2.99
    Most often cheapest: Kroger (10 of 17 weeks)

“Usual” is Birmingham's own typical lowest advertised price (the median week) — not the government average the deal verdicts above use. ▼ this week is more than 5% below it, ▲ more than 5% above; — means no comparable deal this week.

Birmingham stores we track (6) ▾
  • ALDIweekly ad starts Wednesday · we also track it in 85 other cities
  • Food Cityweekly ad starts Wednesday · we also track it in 2 other cities
  • FoodCityweekly ad starts Wednesday · we also track it in 1 other city
  • Krogerweekly ad starts Wednesday · we also track it in 33 other cities
  • Publixweekly ad starts Wednesday · we also track it in 14 other cities
  • Sprouts Farmers Marketweekly ad starts Wednesday · we also track it in 36 other cities

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