levelwave > wrote in message >...
> Dave K. wrote:
>
> > If all SuperTargets are doing this, I bet Target Corp. will lose a lot in
> > sales from people who go back to using traditional grocery stores to buy
> > their meats.
>
>
> It's nothing new... Walmarts been doing it for years with their Thomas
> E. Wilson brand of variety horse meat... get used to it... It's the
> direction we're all inevitably heading in with the hordes of useless
> people in this world who demand their individually wrapped prepackaged
> single-serving foods... blame it on the people who eat Poptarts for
> breakfast...
>
> ~john!

Agree with you John-most big stores get their meat already
cut/packaged/priced and case ready. However am seeing real "butcher"
shops doing well. Have a couple around me that slaughter their own
also. Yeah the prices are higher but paying $2.70 or so for a whole
fresh ham that is not 20%+ salt and sugar water is not a bad thing
even though the latter is only $1.12/#. My local slaughter
house/butcher just completed a major renovation so business is very
good-apparently a lot of people like the idea of buying their meat
from a butcher shop vs buying something that was factory prepared 500
miles away.

Am a bit prejudiced-worked my way through school as a butcher.

But must admit those crayovac wrapped briskets in Walmart are darn
good.