Last week we told you about the supersized Butterball turkeys that were giving shoppers sticker stock because of the price, and scale shock because of the weight! Well, Quality Poultry which is the main importer of turkeys this year told us that they brought in a large shipment of small turkeys on Friday and in one day all of them sold out!
Today when we spoke to the manager of Quality Poultry in Belize City Albert Hoy, he told us people were actually fighting over the turkeys.
Albert Hoy, Manager - Quality Poultry
"Approximately we received 200 cases of turkey last week Friday - small turkey and everything sold out in day. It was very chaotic in the store. Actually people were grabbing turkey from each other hands. It was almost like a fight in the store to get small turkeys. We have been getting a few more small turkeys over the past few days, but it's a limited amount and I don't think we will have much more left. We should be 
getting another shipment of small turkeys. But they won't be arriving until the 28th December, in time for the New Year. I don't think it will be as hectic now as it was last week Friday and Saturday. But when we do get in a small amount, we try to inform people. But I am sure that we will not have enough. Some place have been buying big turkey from us and cutting it in half and it has been working. Some people have been buying half turkey. We still have turkey, but large ones only same Butterball."
Hoy told us that another shipment of turkeys will arrive until December 28th. So if you haven't bought your turkey as yet - you will have to settle for the expensive oversized butterball turkeys or just wait until new years to get a small one.
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