CORPUS CHRISTI, Tx — The holidays are in full swing — and so is the price of meat!

Back in September, I introduced you to Peter Patel and how he's navigating the rising cost of his meat at his market. I went back to visit him to see if anything has changed for his customers.

"The holidays are going to get tough," Peter Patel, Meat Market Owner, said.

That's Peter Patel, he owns several meat markets in the city. In September, we talked about his customers opting for cheaper cuts of meat to help keep money in their pockets.

Two months later, he says:

"It went slight down. Not tremendous. Not that we saw last year," Patel said.

But not enough for customers to go back to their old spending habits.

"This year is record high price. We've never seen sales of ground beef at six or seven dol

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