I heard a news blip a couple of months back that stopped me dead in my tracks for a instant.
It was something along the lines of
"major food and goods retailers are sitting on stock in their warehouses and DC's expecting major inflation"
This could be interpreted in two different ways.
Corporate greed?
Kroger & Walmart were mentioned along with a few others.
Once a beef is killed, you have a very limited time to hold onto it. Once it's frozen, or preserved in any way, it cannot be sold as "fresh beef".
