Seems as if the prices never settled back down after that big winter freeze and storm several years ago that caused the loss of a lot of cattle. Maybe exports have kept the price up, I don’t really know. What even a decent ribeye runs at a butcher shop now is what I recall paying for the same thing served to me cooked with a salad and a baked potato ten years ago. Generally speaking, other than those splurges a few times a year that I mentioned, I don’t eat steak anymore. They want too much money.
I dont eat steak more than once or twice a month, but more because my cardiologist told me to cut back on red meat.