I am happy to meat anywhere..

If I could afford the prices it would be local butcher all the way. Unfortunately I can't. They are just too expensive. The meat is great quality, no question, but the budget only goes so far.

Seems like butchers win. Looking back I think why I gave up shopping at butcheries is because where I was living in a suburb of Sydney there were certain things that they just did not sell such as pork and bacon, because of cultural reasons. It is time now to remedy that situation.

I don’t eat red meat, just chicken and fish from the fishmonger.Edited 23-Feb-23 23:52pm

The butcher I use has a loyalty card that accumulates dollar points everytime I purchase meat from them. Compared with supermarket meat the quality is much better and the price very competitive. Just before Christmas I buy bulk meats and receive up to a $50 or more discount off my bill from my loyalty card. So I get quality, my annual bonus, and for a few dollars more I am helping the small guys.

I have never tried a butcher. After reading this, I believe that I will.

I buy from a supermarket simply because i like to know what I am paying upfront.

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shop from both . big shop from butcher - into the freezer, top up shop from supermarket if necessary.

my supermarket has a butchery department & have good selections

Mostly from the supermarket

I used to buy my meat from the butcher but I had to decide what to buy, how much then worry about the cost. Yes, it was better quality but did cost more, but if I buy from the cold section it's all laid out, I can see what I'm getting and I know the price straight away. It's easier.

Supermarkets as they have forced the loal butchers out in most places.

My local butcher cuts big bones to small pieces for my dog; sells liver for my dog; good, quality shop. I have to buy chicken neck from the supermarket. For myself...I don’t buy meat.

As a vegetarian,butchershops are a shop of horrors, happy not to see them in a supermarket, bad aenough to see meat packaged but at least it doesnt look like an animal anymore. Be kind,bechome vegetarian.

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Far prefer the custom service of a butcher shop but they're becoming harder to find in this area.

Well here in Australia meat from Butchers is a lot more than a "tad" more expensive. I think they are getting laid off because the Supermarkets are starting to buy more pre-packed meat and that is when I will be going to the local butcher.

Butchers have better quality for sure but supermarkets are cheaper.

Butcher, our butcher sells through the fruiterer, great system.

All depends on prices

Vegan .. they can all close down for all I care ..

I only buy meat for the dog. I find the pet shop pretty good…

Im a vegetarian...i only eat lamb

I use the supermarkets for convivence and the butcher for the better cuts

Sadly all the local butchers around here closed many years ago. Closest is a 40 min trip. With nothing else I need around there, it's not worth the trip for me. I Have developed a good rapor w the grocery store butchers, and can get good quality cuts when needed.

Butcher - better service and cuts

I cannot afford the butcher.....

due to the high cost of meat, I don't buy it often, but when I do, I buy at a supermarket. Why? There are no butchers in our city.

depends on use .butcher or supermarket

I prefer going to the butcher because they have a wider selection and I want to support local businesses.

I don’t have any butcher close by

Here we find the large Butcher Specialist has much better quality meat, is cheaper or the same price for the lower quality meet found in the supermarkets and far more friendly. So it's a No Brainer we go there get great meat and have a laugh with the guy behind the counter who is not trying to list the weight to the gram they just a Kilo is so much and you hsve whatever number of KG's it is.

Butcher for sure. I highly recommend the one in East Ringwood...

We mostly buy meat from Costco or B.J.s because the prices are lower and when we did go to the local butcher they didn't have the particular cut my husband was looking for. They closed a couple of months ago.Edited 23-Feb-23 13:57pm

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Vegetarian myself but prefer to buy the other family meat from Aldi, good quality and the best price.

SUPERMARKET

I have supported my local butcher for over 20 years. The price difference is negligible because you don't get rubbish tucked beneath what nice cut you can see on the surface of the pack in the supermarket. I am keeping a local shop open with three butchers employed and I get good service, a lovely chat because they know me and my family and they often go out of their way to give me the best. Give me a genuine butcher anyday.

We buy our meat from both depending what is available and sometimes the price

Butcher mainly depending on what I'm looking for and price

butcher so you get good quality meats in the amount you need and support local small business.

I prefer the butcher he makes lovely sausages

I prefer the butcher but it's hard to find one

I buy my meat from a local farm and it tastes fabulous!

It’s hard to find a butcher shop in rural areas. I have to shop from local grocery stores unless I travel to a larger town.

Butcher as l can get the meat of my choice, thickness and size/weight. The prepacked meat is thin, fatty and or the age of the meat is.Edited 23-Feb-23 11:54am

Butcher is better, but usually end up using supermarket because there aren't any butchers nearby plus I quite often have supermarket vouchers

From both local but her has fantastic meat and homemade sausages

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Butcher you are getting much better quality but you pay a little more so it depends on finances. I don't buy meat often though.

Unfortunately many butchers have closed especially the ones in country towns where you would expect there to be more. The costs involved in running a shop like this are enormous, power to run fridges, rent, equipment, knife sharpening, etc. Supermarkets can run many forms of shops in one building now, bakery, butcher, groceries, gardening products. Lets support the local butcher, you get quality and know what you are getting, as well as a smile.

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I buy from supermarkets, probably because you know what you are actually spending from the price tag. we used to have really good Aussie butchers in our local shops but they have all been sold to foreigners and I am loathe to shop there

Would like any if it good

I buy from both. Butchers for quality, supermarket for convenience and price.

guess , many never had a decent education. YOU ALWAYS GET BETTER DIRECT ..... NEVER FROM SUPERMARKT, I bet many buy supposed food in packets and NEVER read the label if you buy chicken kiev and it has more than 5 ingredients, you are not buy food.

I love Publix.

Absolutely the butchers, much cheaper as you don't pay for the wrapping. When supermarkets weigh the meat it's already in the tray and wrapped in plastic, that adds to the price. The butcher will cut meat to your needs and weighs it before wrapping it. The supermarkets tell you that they weigh their meat after it packed so they are open about the fact they are charging more.Edited 23-Feb-23 10:08am

A man walked into the butchers and said do you have any brains? Butcher replied if I did I wouldn't have become a butcher in the first place.

We go to IGA and they have their own butcher and he isn't full time but their meat is very good and quite often at a reduced price. We buy lovely pieces of lamb rump I have never seen any where else and quite often they are big enough to get 2 meals out of them. Other meat like a leg of lamb we do buy those from Aldi. We occasionally buy some meat from the butcher. Brisket bones, lamb necks, ox tail (all pet food.) Not into any offal type meats like brains, livers, kidneys and I thought oh the cat would like them but then there is no way I am cutting them up for her Gross. I don't think I could eat kangaroo or camel or horse meat but would if I really really had too but I'd have to be desperate for protein.

i buy meat at the supermarket

I buy direct from the farmer at their farm gate

I trust my local butcher,

For quality it's the butcher. However for those on very limited income I go to the supermarket for the economy meats such as sausages and mince.I'm sure the butcher has a stiff job these days to compete against the big supermarkets.

Plant based diet is the way of the future.

Butcher, better quality. Supermarkets have also been known to wipe down their whole chickens with paper towels etc to stop the slimey stuff as they get older, instead of chucking them out! Many other untold horrors I get told by my Supermarket 'Deli' worker friend!!! EWwwww

I buy from both. Better meat quality at a Butcher shop but also a lot more expensive.

I buy from both

Butcher. They will put your meat into containers you bring with you, the NZ co Sistema make brilliant ones with rack so that the meat gets the air around it and any fluid drains below, With Supermarkets they use untold quantities of Plastic, plastic tray, plastic thingy which absorbs fluid then the tray is enveloped in miles of Plastic such as Glad or Cling Wrap.

i only buy from the butcher, supermarkets do not stock HALLAL meats.

Dear Elizabeth the butcher for sure

I go to both - butcher is a bit further away so it depends on what time I have but I must admit though slightly dearer the meat from the butcher is much nicer and seems to have more flavour.

Buy your meat from a butcher, we go to Dandenong Market fortnightly and its saves a lot of money in these times.

I mostly buy it from the supermarkets but for special occasions I do go to a butcher for certain meats.

I buy most of my meat from the local supper market and they get there meat from our local butcher so they are both doing ok

We have a fruit market near home and they have a meat shop. The meat is top notch and reasonably priced. We think that we are spoilt.

Supermarket as my local butcher isn't that great. Not much of a range of meat and quite high prices. I pop into the butcher about once a month to see if they have anything worth buying and I'd definitely go more often if their range improves

Butcher can choose size and weight I can afford! Taste delicious.

I buy from supermarket but my husband will buy from butchery as he say taste better. End of the day its up to persons where to buy from

LOL! My neighbor, Mike, who moved recently, was a Meat Cutter at a Pay Less grocery store here on Whidbey Island! He made good money, and was obviously a Butcher, but that sounds gross, so now they are called meat cutters instead. He did a fine job, and knew cuts of meat very well!

I prefer to buy my meat from a supermarket based on price.

The supermarkets have been keeping there meat longer so it is not as fresh. One of the supermarkets was caught washing there meat and turned over so as not to show the mold, I like butchers as you have cuts you can not but as the supermarkets. The supermarkets seem to have what they want to sell and not what you want. Some supermarkets make the ground meat with a lot of red coloring in it. The red dye has been outlawed it some places for causing cancer. Where I live it does not matter if the meat has dye in it or not as meat is to expensive to buy. Not to many people can buy a package of ground meat for $25.00 or more. Butchers have fresher meat and it is better for you, you know were your meat it coming from and you know it is fresh.Edited 23-Feb-23 06:35am

Local butchers are good, although a little more expensive than supermarket, and these day’s new world has their own fresh meat products alongside packed meats. My preference is organic where ever I buy from,

I have become a vegetarian for financial reasons and am glad we have, but always bought meat when we did from a butcher,

The paddock (field) next door is my supermarket/butcher.

IWOULD IF THERE WAS ONE HERE BUT I HAVE TO BUY AT THE STORE

Butcher as often as we can...we are lucky to have 3 in a 5 minute drive to us including one direct from their own farm to people!

We have a butcher shop in town owned & run by a father & daughter and they are great!

I try where ever possible to support small local businesses. sometimes the price dictates. usually the butcher is competitive and as you say often better flavour

I haven't eaten meat in over forty years. I am a vegetarian.

I have found that supermarkets are more convenient, however Butchers are usually a bit cheaper and have better quality.

My ex husband was a butcher from a meat works and a production manager for an export meat works! Fresh is best but there is not a lot of true butchers around anymore I don’t eat a lot of meat these days

I prefer the meat from the butchers but I buy the mince from Coles. I feel it is less fat from Coles than the butchers.

butcher, and my hunting license and knives,, Edited 23-Feb-23 06:28am

TO ME AND HAVE USED A BUTCHER FOR MANY YEARS BUT ALL WENT OUT OF BUSNES /SO I WILL STICK WITH SUPERMARKET .I THINK IF YOU GET TO KNOW THE BUTCHER YOU WILL BE THE BEST FO YOY .BUT THANTS ME MIKE

I buy very little meat as I don't eat it and just buy small amounts at the supermarket as it is easier.

Supermarkets have 'meat cutters' not butchers. Butchers start with thr whole animal. There aren't alot of true butchers around anymore

The extra cost is justified for several reasons. They sell in smaller quantities, therefore, they need to make more of a profit. Also, there is no middle man to cut into the profit, but the farmers are the ones who deserve the biggest profit. It takes an incredible amount of work to raise cattle, and it takes a professional butcher to do a good job. Butchery does require knowledge and skill. My dad used to butcher our own meat, and he knew exactly how to cut it so it wouldn't be stringy and would be tender. He looked for those points when he shopped in the supermarket after we quit farming. One reason, I never liked going to the butcher shop was the smell. I have kind of a weak stomach for raw meat. I could never be a butcher! I have no one to cook for so I buy very little meat, but the butcher shop is probably fresher. Some people insist on aging beef, but Dad was adamant about getting it processed as soon as possible and cooking it till it was well done. That's how most people in this area do. This is a farming community from way back!