A butcher may be employed by supermarkets, grocery stores, butcher shops and fish markets
I can see that. My father in law was a butcher at a major chain grocery store and at a butcher shop later in life.
Grocery stores often offer bakeries, butchers, delis, and fresh produce.
I am glad to see that butchers are making a come back at grocery stores. For to many years meat was precut and not as personal.
Yes, butchers formed guilds in England as far back as 1272.
Cool. I did not know that. Seems like a trade tradition that has been around since forever. It must take a lot of knowlege to be a butcher.
Yes,  Some areas expect a three-year apprenticeship
I can see why. Learning to butcher animals correctly seems easy to a layman, but I can see a lot of studying being needed to do it correctly.
skinning (removing the hide or pelt) or scalding and dehairing (pork), evisceration (removing the viscera) and splitting (dividing the carcass in half longitudinally).
After the carcasses are chilled (unless "hot-boned"), primary butchery consists of selecting carcasses, sides, or quarters from which primal cuts can be produced with the minimum of wastage; separating the primal cuts from the carcass; trimming primal cuts and preparing them for secondary butchery or sale; and storing cut meats. Secondary butchery involves
Butcher
A butcher is a person who may slaughter animals, dress their flesh, sell their meat, or participate within any combination of these three tasks. They may prepare standard cuts of meat and poultry for sale in retail or wholesale food establishments. A butcher may be employed by supermarkets, grocery stores, butcher shops and fish markets, slaughter houses, or may be self-employed.
Butchery is an ancient trade, whose duties may date back to the domestication of livestock; its practitioners formed guilds in England as