This is a design mockup. The business shown here is invented, and the phone number, the prices and the opening hours on it are placeholders.

Counter open until 6 Closes two hours before the store does, every day 816 555 0165

Third Row Grocery · the counter

Cut to order, which mostly means say a number and we will do it.

Prices move with the market and these are this week's. The board behind the counter is the one that counts, and if it disagrees with this page the board wins.

Ground beef, 80/20

$4.79 / lb

Ground here every morning out of chuck. Five pound packs are twenty cents a pound cheaper and we will split them into ones for you at no charge.

Ground chuck, 85/15

$5.49 / lb

What to use if it is going in a skillet rather than on a grill.

Ribeye

$16.95 / lb

Cut to whatever thickness you say. Most people say an inch and most people should say an inch and a quarter.

Sirloin

$9.25 / lb

The one we would actually buy on a Tuesday.

Pork chops, bone in

$4.15 / lb

Cut from the loin here. Ask for them thick, because thin ones are why people think they do not like pork chops.

Whole chicken

$2.29 / lb

We will cut it into eight for you while you finish the rest of your list.

Chicken breast

$3.99 / lb

Trimmed. If you want them butterflied say so and it costs nothing.

Bacon, sliced here

$6.75 / lb

Off the slab, and you pick the thickness. This is the single thing people come from out of town for.

Bratwurst and breakfast sausage

$5.60 / lb

Made in the back on Wednesdays. When it is gone it is gone until the next Wednesday.

Lunch meat, sliced to order

from $6.20 / lb

Ham, turkey, roast beef, salami, and two cheeses. Thin, medium or shaved, and we do mean shaved.

The freezer bundle

First Saturday of the month, forty pounds, one price. It is the only thing here we do not haggle on and it is genuinely cheaper than the sum of the parts.

Forty pound mixed bundle

$219

Ten pounds ground beef, four ribeyes, four sirloins, eight pork chops, two whole chickens, five pounds chicken breast, three pounds bacon, three pounds sausage. Packed and frozen flat so it stacks.

Twenty pound half bundle

$115

For one or two people, or a chest freezer that is already half full of somebody's garden.

Reserve it

by Thursday

Ring the store. We make what is reserved plus four, and the four go by nine in the morning.

Three things worth knowing

The counter shuts two hours before the store does, because whoever is behind it also has to break down and clean the saw. After that the case is still there and still priced, you just cannot have anything cut.

We do not process deer and never have. There are two places within fifteen miles that do it properly and we will give you both numbers rather than have a go with the wrong equipment.

If you want a whole or half beef, that is a different conversation and a longer one. Ring and ask for whoever is on the saw.

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