Kaylin Birdwell noticed something funny with turkey prices when she was scoping out a turkey breast in the frozen foods section at a grocery store in Cheyenne.

With just she and her husband this year for Thanksgiving, Birdwell didn’t feel like she needed an entire turkey. Reaching for a turkey breast roast instead seemed to make a little more sense, and she thought it might be a little cheaper than buying a whole bird.

That’s a time-honored savvy shoppers move for the holiday. But this year, shoppers in a rush might fail to notice that prices are doing a weird dance.

Birdwell’s turkey breast roast was going for $4.32 per pound, which made her roast $12.97. That was a head-scratcher, because the nearby Butterball whole birds weren’t too much more than that, selling for less than $1 per p

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