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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
If Arizona is like Cali, the answer is no.
Beef at Costco is garbage in Cali. Actually, all the beef is garbage unless you go to a butcher shop or Harris Ranch at the Fairfax Farmer's Market. A good NY Strip runs $20 a pound and even then, the quality varies.
Yet when I've visited my parents in the KC area, my mom will get cheap steaks at Costco and they're great.
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I am still confused as to why this good sized niche market hasn't been filled. When I came out of college it was primed and ready to go and at least 3 of the grad students were contemplating taking a stab at it... yet no one seems to have taken full advantage of it on any decent sized scale. Small Midwest farmer raised grain fed & properly aged small butcher processed beef will knock the socks off most anything you guys can buy on the left coast while sliding into what many of the regions people would consider "organic" and/or "all natural". There is a substantial USDA hoop to jump through, but it should easily be offset by the premium collected.
