Originally Posted by
corky
Wow--for the exact same fish to be that different of a price is shocking to me. I think I would ask at the supermarket the next time I am there. And none of this has anything to do with frozen or fresh....grocery stores and Costco both carry frozen and fresh.
I believe the supermarket used the “local” word and I forgot to mention it; my overall preference is wild and not farmed.
although Costco uses “fresh” word, I read enough in this thread to believe that all fish is frozen on the boat before it ends up in the supermarket or Costco. Just with JIT logistics it still makes sense that the fish arrives frozen at the retailer.
The supermarket sometimes has cod fish on sale at $8.99/lb; even at $12.99/lb, I was usually buying maximum 1 pound of fish. At Costco of course it’s minimum 2-1/2 pound purchase.
anyway I’ve frozen 2/3-ish of the package - big yay for the advice.