Five Burdens for Butchers

Haitham Abdel Basit, head of the Butchers’ Division at the Cairo Chamber of Commerce, said that butchers in Egypt face five major burdens: rising rents, labor costs, utility bills, the cost of supplies needed for sales, and declining purchasing power, which is reducing sales. He said rents for some shops had risen from 400 or 500 pounds to around 3,000 pounds, and estimated that about 70% of shops do not sell half a calf per week. He added that some butchers had been forced to sell or rent out their shops because their revenues no longer covered their expenses, warning that continued financial pressure threatens the survival of a number of shops.

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