Check a local forum... even like a "penny saver's club". Like if you're in San Diego, see if there's a city-wide coupon clipper's forum (or even a meet-up).

Here, but we're not so active. Reddit (ugh) is probably still good for crowd sourcing. GLP (if you trust them). LOP might work, but... it's not filled with the biggest brains. ATS is a possibility -- especially the forums. Local forums might be a good bet. Edit to add: local news is often more accurate than national news -- like Paulides says "Local news for local consumption" -- it's up to us to articulate it. And sadly, our internet is being used to distract us.

Thanks for the report. Mostly, at this point, you can only hope to collect anecdotes on forums and follow commodity prices. Learning about the butchering cycle will explain a lot of sales. (Also, when pork bellies get too cheap, the McRib mysteriously reappears.) It might be pent-up demand -- but it might not. When are deliveries made? Most regions live under rather strict USDA control with weekly deliveries from the same slaughterhouse. (Ah, the illusion of choice...) One thing about market systems is that we usually see wild price fluctuations before shortages. In other systems, that's not so.

But thanks for the notice!

sounds like a local distributor fucked up

What part of the country are you in?

Around here we just had our first two suitable grilling days just the day before yesterday. Might be some connection.