An independent butcher selling meat to local customers.
many villages and small towns are losing family butchers
Example sentencesExamples
- I don't relish the thought of trying to piece together a varied and affordable diet from scattered family butchers, health food places and corner shops.
- Labels tell the public how to cook the food - this was once part of the of the family butcher's role.
- At one time, the farm had a lot of livestock, which helped supply the family butcher's shop in the village.
- He spotted smoke billowing from a first floor window in the family butcher shop on Main Street.
- New packaging technologies could finally do away with the family butcher.
- A leading chef welcomed the news that the small family butchers were staging a comeback.
- The Waterford public are being urged to support their local family butcher amid concerns over the fall-off in the number of traditional meat shops.
- He works at the family butcher's shop in Bolton.
- We go to the family butcher in the next village - his meat and poultry are locally grown and can be eaten with a clearer conscience.
- At one time there were five family butchers located in the town but one-by-one over the years they closed.