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Old 08-21-2021, 04:37 AM
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Last time I looked, Winn Dixie at Sumter Landing had live lobsters. A bit pricy as I recall.

Just got back from the Boston area. Two years ago , the price was about $6 a pound. This year it was around $12 a pound. They blamed it on COVID saying that the unemployment payments were discouraging many of the lobster pickers from their jobs.
Really? $6 a lb in the Boston area a year ago?
In the late 1980s I used to take my kids to Bar Harbor, and we paid $5/lb at the wharf then. And it was a bargain.