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Wondering where to get the best turkey prices and what’s the best price per pound? Here’s a breakdown by store to help get the best deal!
Best Turkey Prices for 2026!
Looking for the Best Turkey Prices for the holidays this year? It can vary quite a bit from store to store, and we want you to grab the best price that you can find.
Don’t pay full price when you’re in a hurry – know what a GOOD price is so when you see it go on sale you’ll be able to buy confidently. The gift of getting a frozen turkey early is being able to store it until Thanksgiving or Christmas gets closer. One thing checked off the list!
If you’re looking to make planning your Thanksgiving meal SUPER easy this year, check out our Celebration Meal Plan. Thanksgiving is one of the main sections – it provides all of your recipes AND grocery list for the whole meal – dessert too!
Turkey Prices By Store
Here are the best turkey prices we saw for 2025 – we will update these for 2026 as sales start in stores (usually early October!).
- Amazon (Amazon Fresh only)
- Aldi
- Jennie-O Whole Turkey – $0.77 / lb
- Butterball Whole Turkey – $0.97 / lb
- Kroger
- Kroger brand Turkey – $0.59 / lb *Limit 1 with $25 additional purchase, digital coupon and Kroger card*
- Walmart
- Shady Brook Farms – $0.84 / lb
- Butterball Whole Turkey – $0.97 / lb
- Meijer
- Meijer brand Turkey – $0.32 / lb *with mPerks coupon – limit 1*
- Butterball Whole Turkey – $0.99 / lb
- Target
- Butterball Whole Turkey – $0.99 / lb
- Good & Gather Whole Turkey – $0.79 / lb *Also $10/$40 and $10/$50 Target Circle Coupons available!*
- Publix
- Publix Young Turkey – $0.49 / lb *limit 2 at sale price*
- Butterball Whole Turkey – $1.19 / lb
*Note that prices may vary depending on where you live in the country. Let us know if you spot a great deal at your stores!*
The WINNER for Best Turkey Prices from 2025:
The BEST price we saw in 2025 was at MEIJER with a $0.32 per pound store brand turkey (with mPerks coupon)!
Target also frequently offers $10 off $50 grocery purchase coupons in November, so that’s certainly something to watch for each year.
And if you’d like to know when to thaw that frozen turkey out, here are a few tips on that too to bookmark for later!
How Long to Thaw a Frozen Turkey By Pound:
In refrigerator…
5-10 pounds: 2 days to thaw
10-15 pounds: 3 days to thaw
15-20 pounds: 4 days to thaw
20-25 pounds: 5 days to thaw
25-30 pounds: 6 days to thaw
*No time to thaw in fridge? Scrub down your sink and thaw for 30 minutes in cold water per pound of turkey, changing water every 30 minutes!
It’s interesting the cost of turkey through the years. We’ve been doing this best turkey prices for a bit now, so we took a look back. Here are the best turkey prices over the past few years:
- 2018 – Food Lion – $0.27 / lb (with $25 purchase)
- 2019 – Food Lion – $0.27 / lb (with $25 purchase)
- 2020 – Albertsons, ACME, BJ’s, Fareway, HEB, Hy-Vee, Safeway, ShopRite, Winco – FREE with promotion (WOW!)
- 2021 – Meijer – $0.33 / lb
- 2022 – Meijer – $0.33/lb
- 2023 – Kroger – $0.49 / lb
- 2024 – Publix – $0.39 / lb
- 2025 – Meijer – $0.32 / lb
What do you think the best price per pound will be that we see for 2026?!
If you don’t want to fuss a lot in the kitchen this year, and you want to make dinner SUPER quick, check out these Instant pot Thanksgiving recipes too.
Once you’ve gotten your best turkey price and are looking to make your Thanksgiving Planning INCREDIBLY easy, check out our Celebration Menu Planning Made Easy Set.
We have a full section for your Thanksgiving Meal – complete with a grocery list for the whole meal! You’ll also get access to a Birthday Meal, Cinco de Mayo, Christmas Goodies, Easter and more 🙂
If you are near a Lidl, you can get 25 cents a lb! You have to have a Lidl account (free) and clip the coupon.
https://www.lidl.com/products/7189536
does anyone know who has organic turkey? or even just organic turkey breast? thanks 🙂
Hi Jen! Depending on the area you live in, I would check Whole Foods, Trader Joes, Sprouts, or local farms. Aldi also typically carries organic and antibiotic free meat for a great price. I hope that helps! 🙂
Lidl
Shady Brook Farms
Shady Brook Farms® frozen whole young turkey
$0.390 DOLLARS AND 39 CENTS/LB.
Valid Nov 6th- Nov 12th 2024
That’s a great deal~thanks for sharing! 🙂
Costco is not advertising prices for Turkey as you have shown here. Please add a link to their sales page where this is listed.
Thanks
Hi Kay-Marie! These were the prices they had advertised at thir store. Hope that helps! 🙂
Kroger has Frozen Turkeys for Free, with a $100 minimum purchase, and use their card. I picked up a 16.5 lb turkey this afternoon. I’m in Houston, but I think this promotion is nationwide.
That’s a great deal, George – Thanks for letting us know!
Food Lion has young turkeys for .49 per lb this week. Nov. 10th-Nov. 13th
Top’s in NY Top’s brand turkey is $ .58 a lb.
Wegman’s in NY, Shady Brook turkey is $ .58 a lb.
Meijer had them for sale for $0.31 a pound here in Indianapolis.
That’s a great deal Sarah- thank you for sharing!
Went to the Boost Mobile store that was participating in the Free Turkey voucher on Nov. 21, 2020 and the date was for Nov. 20, 2020 they showed me their flyer.
Thank you so much for letting us know Victoria!
Our Save mart has them this week for 55 a pound in Marysvill Calif
In Houston, TX; .39 cents per lb. with $25.00 purchase Young turkey
That’s an amazing price!
What store?
This has the price listed for multiple stores. 🙂
What store
This is a list of multiple stores. 🙂
Hanaford 37cents a pound
WRAL in Raleigh NC , just reported you could get turkeys for as low as .29 cent a lb, but failed to say what store, if I had to guess it would be aldi.
They are .29 cents a pound at Food Lion.
.29 a pound at Food Lion.
Butterball $1.48 per pound at Walmart Brea California.
The stores I shop at Stop & Shop and Shaws New England Looking for turkey prices
Grocery Outlet has 14-16lb Jennie-O Turkeys for $7.99 when you purchase $30 or more and use their digital coupon
Best price for me was Food Lion 29 cents/lb (turkeys over 10lbs) with $35 minimum order. I coupled that with the ongoing promo of 6 trips of $50 or more in the 6 week period for $20 off your whole order coupon. Got 2 turkeys and I’m only 1 trip from getting my coupon, just in time for TG!
What’s the best price I should watch for for a Butterball turkey breast (second choice would be a Publix or Sam’s one). Thank you!!!
Costco has $0.99 per pound fresh turkeys. I just got one today.