- Drove past on the way to the supermarket and saw a big billboard for beef steak mince (aka mince) for $8/kg and chicken drumsticks for $2.99/kg. Don't buy meat at the supermarket and stop in at the Mad Butcher on the way back. Find my way to the mince and it is in fact labelled at $10.99/kg with $10 stickers, ended up getting 1.018kg for $10 ($9.82/kg). Make my way over to the chicken and the drumsticks are indeed $2.99/kg - but smallest pack is about 2kg worth.
- I have noticed the Mad Butcher does this quite often - the "specials" are only available in giant packs. Last time I bought mince on special there the smallest was 1.5kg as well. I know places like Countdown specify "1kg+" when they do this, but the Mad Butcher does not.
- As I was driving home, looked back to double check and yes, $8/kg for beef steak mince sign is still up.
- The Mad Butcher stores are like dairies or Mobil. 1 staff member out front to restock the fridges and scurry over to the till when somebody is waiting to buy, then back to restocking. They use budget $2.50 price labels on a lot of stuff. The receipts are bare bones, again what you'd see at a dairy. No paywave, lol.
- Which makes the fact that the company that owns the Mad Butcher used to own Nosh. Two types of store at the complete opposite end of the spectrum. What were they thinking? From what I have read and certainly experienced, this company is a shambles.
Rant over :)