Thanksgiving dinner gobbles up NYC wallets as holiday feast prices soar 15%
Thanksgiving dinner is going to gobble up more of New Yorkers’ money this year as the cost of a holiday feast has surged 15% to $184.43 from last year, according to The Post’s survey of holiday staples at grocery chains across the five boroughs. A year-over-year price comparison of 18 items at six popular supermarkets found a cornucopia of sticker shock, including the star of the Thanksgiving table — turkey — which jumped 17% to $79.80 for a 20-pound Bell & Evans young bird at popular chain Morton Williams. “The meat is outrageous,” said Carole Miller, 89, while shopping at Morton Williams on Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village. “There’s almost so much pork you can eat.” Shopper Carole Miller browses Key Food on Avenue A in the East Village of New York, Helayne Seidman for the NY Post The biggest price increase this year is for the turkey table favorite apple cider, which has rocketed 75% from $3.99 last year to $6.99. Costco Thanksgiving staple recalled over cleaning chemical contamination fears The spike comes after a spring freeze devastated the apple harvest in upstate and western New York, with growers suffering an estimated $30 million in losses so far in
