Gotta spend that $15 an hour somewhere...
Want to save money on meat, purchase direct from the farmer. With the price increases in the grocery stores it is becoming cheaper to buy local.
Google Buy a cow with your home city name.
You can buy chickens at the tractor store. It takes about four hens to produce a dozen eggs a week. You can also buy eggs from a local egg source; you will see them advertised on the side of the road. I have to small home operations near me.
Buy local and learn how to grow your own food.
Let's say a meat cutter makes $10.00/hour and produces 30 cuts up chickens per hour. The labor cost at that rate is 10/30 = 33 cents per chicken. The chicken sells for $7.00 retail so the cost of labor to cut it up into pieces is 5% of retail.
For comparison let's raise their salary by 50% to $15.00 hour. What is the cost of labor per chicken at retail? 15/33 = 45 cents per chicken. So now labor cost to cut it up to 6.4%. Wow! < sarc > the cost of the chicken went up 1.4% HORRORS!!!
It's a joke that labor cost are soaring. Nobody cares if the $7.00 cut up chicken cost 12 cents more or $7.12. No one.