| Comment | The town I live in has a butcher. I understand that what he sells is of good quality, but I went in to price it up. The meat was 2-3 times what I could buy it for in the Tesco down the road. Now, you can obviously argue that it's possible that extra quality is worthwhile - it's probably not injected with water, the chickens might well have been raised somewhat more humanely, etc. etc. But it's still 2-3x the price. My town has some patches of quite well off people, but a lot of deprived areas too. If that Tesco goes, I don't think Bob Smith is going to see much in the way of new footfall because I don't think that many people can realistically afford to pay those prices. In my case, I reckon I could swing it, but I'd rather just try to go completely veggie/vegan. But I doubt that driving more people towards giving up meat completely would be the intention of splitting supermarkets back up to being butchers, grocers, etc. again. |
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