Consumers expected to spend big this Thanksgiving on travel, food, shopping

Fayetteville-based Field Agent surveyed prices in 48 stores from coast to coast run by the largest grocery retailers including Walmart, Kroger and Aldi. The results were analyzed by Field Agent to calculate the per-ounce cost of the entire basket of goods used to prepare the traditional Thanksgiving dinner. The items in the basket were a whole turkey, sweet potatoes, canned green beans, canned corn, cornbread mix, canned cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie filling. This survey did not include the cost of pie crust, beverages, butter or other ingredients used in the traditional cornbread dressing like celery, eggs, onion, chicken stock and sage.

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