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Amazon sold ground beef for $1.99 a pound — then shoppers cleaned it out

The unusually cheap price spread quickly online as shoppers searched for relief from historically high beef prices

Sep. 3, 2026 By Kyle James

Amazon dropped ground beef to $1.99 a pound: The deal was about 71% below the July national average of $6.89 per pound.

Shoppers quickly jumped on it: The bargain spread on deal sites including Slickdeals, and some shoppers were already reporting it unavailable in their areas by Aug. 28.

It could come back: Amazon also sold tens of thousands of packages at $1.99 in July, suggesting the late-August promotion may not have been a one-time deal.

At a time when a pound of ground...

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