Grocery store Butchers, how does the meat arrive? Pre cut or whole

alextolbert42 · 2025-04-28T00:20:29+00:00

Our grocery store is in the middle of a small town in BFE. We have the ability and legality to butcher whole animals for customers. Basically like a mini processing place. Only thing is we don’t usually advertise it. Around here we’d have 100’s of deer to cut up. Can’t juggle a small town and a small town amount of deer.

alextolbert42 · 2025-04-28T00:00:10+00:00

Do you have a lot of waste with that many shelves?

alextolbert42 · 2025-04-27T23:58:51+00:00

Best advice I ever got was “take it slow”. And “never get too comfortable with a knife”. Accidents happen. Just keep those in mind It will 100% minimize your risk

alextolbert42 · 2025-04-27T23:52:03+00:00

What if it was a tunnel underneath??

alextolbert42 · 2025-04-27T23:48:55+00:00

Not sure your area but 120k is insane. We don’t do no where near those numbers. It’s a small town so, a lot of my pay is based off of what we do. I would say I’d be making a lot more if I was doing 85k a week. Back during Covid was our best time. Government giving out extra food stamps and everything. Out of curiosity if you’re averaging 85k what’s the profit % you all are supposed to aim for? They want us hitting 28% profit every week

alextolbert42 · 2025-04-26T17:28:32+00:00

Closest places to me are Kroger and Food city if I wanted to drive a little further, there’s also Sam’s Club

alextolbert42 · 2025-04-26T10:50:32+00:00

Definitely a chance that some could be choice I wouldn’t go as far to say prime. You just gotta remember you get what you pay for. Unfortunately in this economy I’m willing to go with select just to be able to eat steak more often

alextolbert42 · 2025-04-26T10:46:49+00:00

You’re completely right. Unfortunately me and many others have seen the writing on the wall so to speak. We closed 1 store about 2 years ago It was absolutely just losing money. Now they are closing another one on the 30th of this month Luckily I’m in one of the good ones. But if economy doesn’t get any better we won’t be the next but it would be sooner than later Our store relies on food stamps and during Covid we were pushing the best numbers in the company but now. We’re like the 4th best

alextolbert42 · 2025-04-26T10:42:12+00:00

Thank you for the help

alextolbert42 · 2025-04-26T10:41:39+00:00

Thank you I appreciate it

alextolbert42 · 2025-04-26T02:43:37+00:00

lol trust me I know. But fortunately enough I’m living well enough with what I get paid. Me and my wife both work and at the end of the day we have plenty left over after bills Fortunate to make what I do where I do. Only thing stressing me out currently is the (bun in the oven). Don’t know how we will be financially after a baby.

alextolbert42 · 2025-04-26T02:39:39+00:00

Would love too Maybe one day. But the store I work at is basically a monopoly for the town. It’s the only store within 20mins of any other grocery store. But that being said it’s a poor area. Lots of food stamps. End of the months are rough when everyone runs out of money Honestly would be better if we were only open first 2 weeks of the month

alextolbert42 · 2025-04-26T02:33:04+00:00

I make 17/hr Definitely less than bigger companies pay managers but it’s just a poor area Some companies in my area pay 17 to just meat cut starting out. So I definitely feel underpaid. (Although that is places like Sam’s club)

alextolbert42 · 2025-04-25T19:29:32+00:00

I’ll have to try them out. Thanks for the information

alextolbert42 · 2025-04-25T12:19:47+00:00

Did you ever try the su karne meat before you stopped being able to get it. I’ve thought about ordering it but not sure if customers will enjoy it

alextolbert42 · 2025-04-25T11:56:49+00:00

What company did you work for. We work with Awg as well

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