The meat counter at my local store keeps shifting more and more to the pre-packaged stuff. Most of the meat counter stuff is various brat flavors or marinated chicken breasts. Anytime I request something at the meat counter, there is about a 70% chance they direct me to the pre-packaged section.
They used to hold a lot of value but eventually the market got flooded with MBA programs of widely varying quality. It became a whole lot easier to get into MBA programs for people who would've never gotten in years/decades earlier, schools were willing to take all comers because it just meant more tuition revenue. Then you had offshoots like executive MBA programs, 3+2 MBA programs, part-time online MBA programs, etc., and everything has gotten completely watered down.
That could be because if people are not asking for what is in the service case the wrapped meat has a longer life. Meat in a service case only has a short time to be really fresh. It must be sold quickly.
That's a option for sure, especially given the demand off today's job postings.
At least you have something. They fired butchers that had been working there over 40 years
Income prospects in business are solid, especially areas like finance and the tech space, which is why getting an MS in engineering management can be a really smart move for those who have an engineering/tech background. All those companies/organizations need C-suite leaders who can bridge business/management with a solid understanding of technology.
It most certainly will. But you don't necessarily have to knock attendance out of the park when you're not paying millions to book artists.
And it sounds like ticket prices are going to go way way down, making it an option for a lot of people who before maybe couldn't swing it with the higher ticket prices.
For sure. Back at the earlier iterations of the Iowa IndyCar race, kids 12 & under were free (which is relatively common in motorsport). You could take the entire family for $100.
Hy-Vee has been doing this a lot longer than just recently although I am sure they probably have done even more than I am aware of. You'll be surprised just how much in the actual meat counter is not prepared in-store anymore too. I worked part time in the Hy-Vee store just down the street from their corporate offices when it opened in 1998 and into the early 2000's while in college. They used to cut everything in store that was in the self service coolers then sometime around 2000 I think most of it all came pre-packed. The quality of cuts IMO really suffered because at least when you are cutting things in store you can quality control what gets put out. The pre-packed stuff you are stuck with whatever they send you and some of the stuff we'd get in looked like someone just threw whatever mangled piece of meat they cut into the package. We used to make things like the marinated chicken, chicken grillers, and kabobs in store too and eventually all that came premade too. I think the "fresh" brats in the case now also are not made in store, they come frozen as I have bought some in a pinch that looked like they just came out of the freezer. They used to make their own grind in store, add seasoning and then run it through casing from the grinder as I remember having to make links from a long rope of it they just made.
Which store is that?
Had the wife pickup a whole pork loin from Costco for $20 yesterday, cut it up into Pork Chops - ended up getting 20 or so of them and couldn't have been happier with how they looked. Even my FiL said "thats some good looking pork"
It's other departments too. Mrs. Velo worked through HS and college at a Hy-Vee in the bakery. Now pretty much everything is prepackaged and (maybe) thrown in the oven but there isn't a lot of making things fresh. We stopped getting the breakfast pizzas when they went from fresh made on site to a pie in the box. We bought them a couple of times but got tired of getting a pie with all the toppings over on one side of it. I talked to the manager about it once and showed him how pretty much every pie they had - probably 30 or more boxes - had the same problem.
