Is this the death of the traditional butcher shop?
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telegraph.co.ukAnd he’s an endangered species. A little over 30 years ago, there were 15,000 independent butcher shops in the UK. By 2015, the number had fallen by 60 per cent to around 6,000.
According to the Agriculture & Horticulture Development Board, today there are just 5,490 – one for every eight population centres (hamlet, village, town, city) in the UK.
Supermarkets, Brexit, vegans, climatarians, the fact our daily meat consumption has dropped 17 per cent in a decade… Threats have come from all angles, but despite some speckles of hope, the trajectory for traditional butchers is grim.
When you consider that their average age is well over 50 and climbing, it’s even grimmer. Bob Preston’s shop, Lambournes, is in the chocolate-box market town of.
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