Why do butchers all close on Sundays? I find it completely bizarre. It's like a church closing on a Sunday. They must miss out on so much trade. Why not close on a Monday instead? Why close on the day of the week that your product is used most?
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Are there any butchers in mid Sussex open on a Sunday?
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Not the same though, is it? The Butchers moan they are losing out to supermarkets, perhaps if they opened on what would surely be their busiest (or second busiest, anyway) day of the week, they might have more of a chance.
Option 1 refrigerate
Option 2 supermarket meat
Option 3 Find a farm shop
Option 2 supermarket meat
Option 3 Find a farm shop
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Option4 open a butcher's shop on Sunday's and make a killing
Maybe they're at home knocking up a pukka roast?
gregbrighton
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Malpass Hollingdean Meat Maeket 
Assuming the busiest meat day, is down to the traditional Sunday roast and that most folks traditionally eat this Sunday lunchtime. It leaves a window of 1-2 hours in the morning, where they can sell cuts of meat, after that the joint needs to be in the oven. You need a good couple of hours, to thoroughly clean a butchers shop, at the end of a day. How much extra business will this really bring in ?
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Surely more than a Monday, when they are open all day? They were all open on Sundays when I lived in London, and seemed to be busy all day.
The Maharajah of Sydney
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The butcher in West Chiltington is open till 4 on Sundays.
Not sure whether you'd class that as mid-Sussex though.
Not sure whether you'd class that as mid-Sussex though.
Norman Potting
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You're right! 10:00 - 14:00. Don't recall having ever been in the shop despite living within 5' walk of it for 30 years and mum and dad still living there!
http://www.david-lovett-butchers.co.uk/products_and_services.html
GT49er
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If I'm going to have a Sunday roast, I don't wait until Sunday morning to dash out and buy it. Back in the day (1950s, 1960s), when nearly every family routinely had a Sunday roast, NO shops were open on Sundays, butchers or otherwise.
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Nor would I, usually. Today I woke up and thought I fancied one, so the supermarket will get my money instead. I can't be the only person in that situation, and I cannot imagine a butcher would make more money on a Monday or a Tuesday than they would on a Sunday.
In the 1950s yes, but this is my point, it's not the 1950s anymore. Perhaps it is in Sussex.
BensGrandad
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Butchers and fish mongers used to only open half day Mondays in the 50s & 60s pre fridges and freezers but nk the need now.
Option 5: Make a killing, THEN open a butcher's shop on a Sunday
Colossal Squid
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To be fair I've long wondered this myself. I'm all for supporting local traders and not giving my hard earned cash to the supermarkets BUT if they're never open at a time convenient to me I'm left with little choice.
There's a cracking butchers down the road from me in Kemptown but the only window within which I can ever use it is Saturday morning before they shut in the afternoon. There's always a queue snaking down the street and if I've had a particularly heavy one the night before meaning I don't get up as early as I might have liked, I've missed my chance.
Presumably they're doing well enough they don't need the Saturday afternoon or Sunday to be open BUT they'd certainly get more business from me if they did
There's a cracking butchers down the road from me in Kemptown but the only window within which I can ever use it is Saturday morning before they shut in the afternoon. There's always a queue snaking down the street and if I've had a particularly heavy one the night before meaning I don't get up as early as I might have liked, I've missed my chance.
Presumably they're doing well enough they don't need the Saturday afternoon or Sunday to be open BUT they'd certainly get more business from me if they did
drew
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Out of interest, why aren't you at work today?
Cowfold Seagull
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Option 5, simply open butchers shop.
The old style butcher, of which you would find several on every good high street, has largely become a thing of the past. Replaced of course with good old supermarket pre-packaged meat, and the farm shop.
The quality of meat on offer at farm shops is normally excellent, and better than many butchers, and wins it for me hands down. Many of them are open on a Sunday morning too. .
GT49er
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Yes, I had noticed it's not the 1950s any more - and far fewer families routinely have Sunday roasts, so even less demand for Sunday morning butchers than back then (even if the Sunday trading laws been less stringent back then).
Perhaps you should consider a freezer.