Kroger Limits Ground Beef, Fresh Pork Purchases
MONDAY, May 4, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Concerns about meat supplies in the United States have prompted Kroger to begin restricting the amount of ground beef and fresh pork that customers can buy in some stores.
The decision is due to a series of meat plant closures in a number of states after COVID-19 outbreaks among workers, the nation’s largest supermarket chain told CBS News.
Pork production fell by about a quarter and beef production by about 10% as more than 20 U.S. meatpacking plants closed at some point in the past two months, the United Food and Commercial Workers union says.
Data show that nearly 4,200 workers at 115 meatpacking plants have been infected with the coronavirus, and 20 of those workers have died, but the actual numbers could be higher, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday, CBS News reported.
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