Attorneys for Pitman Family Farms filed court papers on Tuesday in which they claimed that bankrupt Zacky Farms has sped up the sale and delivery of more than $1 million worth of whole turkey inventory to Stater Bros. Markets, a private grocery retailer based in Southern California, Reuters reported yesterday. The sale of the inventory originally had been scheduled from Jan. 30 through March 8. Instead, according to Pitman's attorneys, "Zacky revised the delivery schedules to deliver five or six loads a day" so all of the meat would be delivered to the retailer weeks before the bankruptcy court's expected approval of the sale of Zacky Farms. The agreement to buy Zacky Farms out of chapter 11 was based on Pitman having access to that inventory of frozen birds "to help offset losses that will be incurred after the approved sale," according to the court papers.
