Customers react to Hy-Vee limiting meat purchases

Customers react to Hy-Vee limiting meat purchases

Highs: low 60s winds: n ?10 if you haven't been filling your freezer with a supply of meat?

You likely won't be able to.

H?vee announced it will be limiting the amount of meat each customer can purchase.

Kimt news three's kaleb gillock?

Joins us?

With what this means for shoppers.

Katie and george... first people were hoarding toilet paper?

Then cleaning supplies and now the meat.

Even though we're seen it coming for a few weeks now?

It doesn't mean that everyone is happy about it./// i know that they are only letting like a limited amount of meat just before noon today h?vee released the following statement.

It reads at h?

Vee, we have product available at our stores but due to worker shortages at plants as well as an increase in meat sales, customers may not find the specific items they are looking for.

Because of this, we are going to put a limit on custoemr purchases in the meat dsepartment.

Effective wednesday, may 6th, each customer will be limited to a comination of fresh beef ground beef?

Pork?

And chicken.

Facebook users were quick to respond voicing their concerns.

Rochester resident?

Andrew barclay?

Says he sees both sides.

Yeah, i understand what h?vee is trying to do.

They're trying to cut down on people stockpiling meats.

I see it from both their perspective but i also see it from the perspective of the parent or the family member?

They might not be able to go to the grocery store all the time.

Andrew says that his biggest concern is just for the families that are out there.

For example, a package of meat would be just fine for a family of two but if you take that same package of meat for a family of four or five... well it's just simply not going to be enough.

For couples, a limit of four it's going to be a lot easier.

I mean a limit of four means we can get basically a weeks worth of groceries.

But for a family of four to five, that means they can probably get a night if everybody has meat that night ben thayer is making changes to his diet?

And says he isn't concerned about hyvee's new policy.

I decided to try to go vegan so i'm just trying to avoid meat at all costs anyways i called h?

Vee's corporate offices today and they declined an interviewed... but did tell me that as far as the enforcement of limiting customers to four packages... it will all be done on the honor system.

Thank you kaleb.

H?vee also said that even though the new policy doesn't officially go into effect until tomorrow... some stores began enforcing