{"id":1050,"date":"2015-11-03T18:47:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T23:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smithreports.com\/eatshopgo\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2015-11-03T18:47:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T23:47:00","slug":"thankful-for-free-turkeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smithreports.com\/eatshopgo\/2015\/11\/03\/thankful-for-free-turkeys\/","title":{"rendered":"Thankful for free turkeys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years, we have debated which bird is best for our Thanksgiving table.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh? Frozen? Or free?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acmemarkets.com\">Acme<\/a> Markets has entered the debate with a delectable promotion: a free Shady Brook Farms Grade A Basted Frozen Turkey (average weight 10-22 pounds) when you spend $100 in a single transaction. Shoppers also can opt for a Pride of the Farm frozen turkey breast, topping out at about seven pounds.<\/p>\n<p>We expect more requests for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D0W1v0kOELA\">Free Bird<\/a> than at a Lynyrd Skynyrd\u00a0review.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/smithreports.com\/eatshopgo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/gty_turkey_dinner_thg_111118_wmain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1051\" src=\"http:\/\/smithreports.com\/eatshopgo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/gty_turkey_dinner_thg_111118_wmain-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"gty_turkey_dinner_thg_111118_wmain\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smithreports.com\/eatshopgo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/gty_turkey_dinner_thg_111118_wmain-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/smithreports.com\/eatshopgo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/gty_turkey_dinner_thg_111118_wmain-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/smithreports.com\/eatshopgo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/gty_turkey_dinner_thg_111118_wmain.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>So why give away turkeys to patrons who likely can afford to buy a bird? Let&#8217;s talk turkey.<\/p>\n<p>First and foremost, the turkey hunt gives shoppers a reason to choose one grocer over another at a time of year when consumers are laying in provisions at a rate rivaled only by the Blizzard of the Century and the Zombie Apocalypse. Gobble, gobble.<\/p>\n<p>We aren&#8217;t just buying a turkey. We are baking cookies and pies. We are hosting parties. And we are buying food to give to other people so that they can enjoy a sliver of the abundance the more fortunate among us take for granted.<\/p>\n<p>So, do you like Acme&#8217;s strategy of a quick reward to shoppers who part with a single Ben Franklin? Or do you prefer the game plan of ShopRite and other grocers, who don&#8217;t part with the turkey until shoppers have rung up $400 between now and Turkey Day? Or are you simply grateful to have a choice between great deals?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, we have debated which bird is best for our Thanksgiving table. Fresh? Frozen? Or free? Acme Markets has entered the debate with a delectable promotion: a free Shady Brook Farms Grade A Basted Frozen Turkey (average weight 10-22 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smithreports.com\/eatshopgo\/2015\/11\/03\/thankful-for-free-turkeys\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,32],"tags":[377,527,526,379],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eat","category-shop","tag-acme","tag-lynyrd-skynyrd","tag-thanksgiving","tag-turkey"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2zjZK-gW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smithreports.com\/eatshopgo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smithreports.com\/eatshopgo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smithreports.com\/eatshopgo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smithreports.com\/eatshopgo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smithreports.com\/eatshopgo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smithreports.com\/eatshopgo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1052,"href":"https:\/\/smithreports.com\/eatshopgo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions\/1052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smithreports.com\/eatshopgo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smithreports.com\/eatshopgo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smithreports.com\/eatshopgo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}