Oh, you can already imagine the smell of Thanksgiving dinner.

But retailers such as Rob Toy at Leon's Gourmet Grocer in Nebraska said, if you want to be carving a turkey in three weeks, you may want to start planning to get that bird in hand now.

 

"Get your orders in early and buy early if you're going to buy frozen, get the items that you want now. Buy them early because some availability as it gets further down may not be there," Toy said.

Toy said they've already taken about 60 orders for fresh birds.

He said they'll sell about 600.

"I think this is gonna probably be the first holiday everybody's going to get back together since all this the pandemic and I think that people are going to buy bigger, more. They're going to have a big holiday dinner," Toy said.

Last year, there was a shortage, especially of smaller birds.

It's unclear if that could occur again.

A spokesperson for the National Turkey Federation said the industry is working to provide turkeys.

"The turkey industry is working every day to mitigate any lingering effects of the pandemic on the supply chain," said Beth Breeding, of the National Turkey Federation.

 

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