A supermarket chain reducing the price of everyday mince by 20 per cent has had sections of the media intent on a beat-up, and butchers reportedly mystified.
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However, the comment attributed to the supermarket giant that it had been done to "help lower the cost of the household staple at a time when many Australian families are doing it tough," is at best farcical.
We live in a growing climate of beat-ups, and supermarkets have long used cut-priced specials to induce shoppers through their doors. This time, it is mince for a couple of weeks. Then we are told the supermarkets may have an oversupply in their chillers and they "could" be trying to claw back customers from butchers who have benefited from recent panic buying.
So, butcher's sales went up and supermarket sales took a hit, however this would have been caused by an overstretched supply line with supermarket shelves empty. Butchers are known to have minced primal cuts to meet the feverish demand. Looks pretty good from a producer point of view, however my local butcher has temporarily closed. So it's rissole to you, a burger to you and bolognese to you.
GOOD GRIEF
Whatever celebrity television chef Pete Evans is on could be handy to assist with the relentless boredom of the current self-isolation.
Evans' recent claim that a quackery type of machine can help with curing coronavirus borders on a hallucination. He should leave our television screens, hitch up his wagon, and head out on a sideshow tour emanating the sideshows of days long gone.
