Canada, 12th January 2021: How the animals are slaughtered and processed is crucial as it is pastured or grass-fed. So, here are a few points that will help a person know that they might save one or two dollars in a supermarket and know that they will get fresher, a higher standard of meat at the local butcher shop.
Quality: Meat at the butcher’s shop is generally sourced from the local farms. It makes the meat fresher, and the journey from the farm to the plate is considered a short journey. Now the meat sold in the supermarket is packed in a factory and will be shelved in the supermarket till someone buys it, or the date of the package expires. In the meat shop, it is been observed that a person is most likely to wait for the cut he or she wants or the meat has been cut in that morning itself. The freshness level of the meat is hard to find in the packed meat that you will get in the supermarkets.
Cost: It is obvious that you need to pay more to a butcher compared to what you will have to pay in the supermarket. But it is for assured that he or she is buying a higher quality of meat from the meat shop. Since it been mentioned previously, the butchers are providing fresher live stocks from the local sources. It is observed that the meat shops are continuously competing on the price, so a person might expect a reasonable price range depending on the quality and the type of meat he will select.
For example, an Indian meat shop in Surrey will have a fresher and wider range of meat cuts and the price will be high compared to supermarkets. The meat sold in the supermarkets is not always grass-fed; they are genetically grown for commercial purposes.
Customer service: Supermarkets have friendly customer service from the trained butchers, but the service’s standardized measures can’t be personal. But at the butcher shop, it is seen that they retain the core values of the butchers with the staffs who have a passion for the food they are selling, the employees at the butcher shop help the customer to choose the best cuts of meat and they also provide an expertise view on how to cook the cut of the meat. This is simply a side job of the people working in the butcher shop and a person doesn’t need to pay anything for the knowledge they are sharing.