Four Augusta shoppers described Thanksgiving grocery budgets ranging from an expected total near $150 to a reported $617 spend. Their figures, shared in interviews on Nov. 13, cover meals for different-sized groups and include both plans and completed spending.
Lorrelle Cummings expects to spend close to $150 to feed her family of eight. She plans to leave ham off the menu and buy more turkey instead, and hopes to share food with people outside her family.
A shopper preparing dinner for four reported spending about $263 and described grocery prices as outrageous. Another said $617 went toward groceries for a gathering of seven, including the shopper’s family and a friend.
Cindy Schults expects to spend $150 to $200 to feed four adults and two children, but has not finished shopping. She said Walmart offers lower-cost Thanksgiving meal options. The Walmart meal and turkey prices she recalled were not independently verified.
By News Now Georgia
Victoria Sterling
News Now Georgia
