Beefing up your protein by cutting out the meat middle-man
Consumers are ditching the butchery aisle and turning to bulk meat-buying to save money, noting if they didn’t, they would ‘need a loan the following day’
More consumers are ditching the butchery aisle in retail stores‚ cutting out the middle man and turning to bulk meat-buying to save money.Pieter Prinsloo of SA’s Red Meat Producers Organisation said last year’s drought had contributed greatly to the increase in meat prices this year but essentially meat was more expensive at retailers because "it is convenient shopping"."If you take lamb‚ for example‚ you can buy it wholesale for about R70/kg‚ excluding VAT‚ and the cheapest at a retailer will be plus-minus R99! So work out the saving yourself‚" he said. "Beef you can buy wholesale from a farmer for R48/kg and that will give you a 30% saving [in comparison to the retailer].""If I were to buy the same amount of meat at retail stores‚ I would need a loan the following day‚ that’s how much I feel meat is expensive‚" says Bongane Qansane from Germiston‚ who spends R1,500 monthly on his favourite protein.In an informal comparison of prices‚ TimesLIVE found that a kilogram of stewing beef...
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