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Coalcracker · Coalcracker

I guess I need to put my two cents in and I am only speaking from my plant experiences. There are side-pullers, and up-pullers and down pullers and every packer has them. They cost a fortune to install and just as much to training the operators. That being said man has been skinning cattle since Moses...

Coalcracker · Coalcracker

Now remember I have been out of it for 10 Years. So don't you all gang up on me. However, if you will give me some constructive feedback about this comparison. Give me your honest pros and cons. Thanks. 2 primal rounds weight 173.5 lbs. (I am going to guess at the price to a store) $2.29 per lb. or $397.32 cos...

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apcowboy · apcowboy

Club member Roy Jensen, Associate Meat Coordinator/Whole Foods Market. South Region, Has them ready for a grand opening in German town TN.

apcowboy · apcowboy

A&P Wants to Sell Off All Stores Judge tells grocer, unions to settle dispute http://www.progressivegrocer.com/August 18, 2015, 04:05 pm The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. (A&P) has revealed what many have widely speculated since the grocer filed for Ch...

Coalcracker · Coalcracker

By now I'm sure that some of you young whipper-snappers know that I'm an old-timer. If not, just know that I am. > A lot of things changed since I left the retail business but something never change (the basics). I met Lander McCoy Bacon (not slab bacon) Coy Bacon for short. He was a lineman for the Red...

Coalcracker · Coalcracker

Anybody out there doing cutting test or do we leave that up to somebody else??

apcowboy · apcowboy

Irish butchers producing green sausages for St. Patrick's Day,

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True story. When I first started in the business I worked for a local butcher shop. Father and two sons. My title was "lifting engineer". Anything delivered to the store I lifted it in and then lifted it out. The closest the brothers would let me to cutting meat was slicing baloney on the week...

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Kroger revises structure; creates Dallas, Houston divisions By Coral Beach August 18, 2015 | The Kroger Co. is pulling Dallas and Houston out of its Southwest division and creating new divisions for each of the Texas cities.Two current executives are in line to lead the new divisions, according t...

apcowboy · apcowboy

A little color from Club member Nada Bompadre a Italian butcher Worth 1st place to me

Coalcracker · Coalcracker

Us meat guys are trained to add value to just about everything we handle at retail. Its apart of our jobs and we always want to do a good job and make lots of money for "the man". Unfortunately there is some thing else we should be adding value to and that is ourselves. If your dream is someday ad...

apcowboy · apcowboy

How many of you remember boning these out and tying them?

apcowboy · apcowboy

A GOOD READ !! http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/stagnito/pg_201112/index.php?startid=41

apcowboy · apcowboy

How many of you remember the name of this roast back in the day?

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Do you still cut whole rounds? If so i think some of the younger cutters in here might be interested to see what that involves. Maybe you could make us a video and show them what Rolled Rump Roast is. We stopped seeing them in so much in the mid 90s and I can't seem to find youtube video on them.

apcowboy · apcowboy

Which department has the greatest sales per labor hour industrywide? Answer: Meat department has the greatest sales per labor hour in the supermarket industry With $211.30, according to FMI's Speaks 2011 report, meat has the highest sales, with produce a close second, at $209.33. Get mor...

Would you like to be a member of a · apcowboy

Would you like to be a member of a team of six to take on these butchers 2015 Tri-Nations Butchers' Challenge2015 is shaping up to be a big year - we are delighted to announce that we will be hosting the 2015 Tri-Nations Butchers' Challenge. The event will be combined with the Alto Young Butcher & Com...

Coalcracker · Coalcracker

The only thing I know about transparency is when we used over head projectors during a meat seminar. Now it is in the vocabulary of every politician running for office. They use it in association with letting the citizens see through every thing that they do. Yea right! Ok now, stay with me to se...

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