Back in the day,every town had to own a meat market. They were a necessity, says Ryan Schmidt, or owner of Schmidt's Meat Market in Nicollet. "Meat markets,butcher shops in small towns used to service a 10-mile area of the farmers that surrounded that," Schmidt said. "They didn't own a cold storage, or so they would rent lockers from butcher shops and meat markets." Nowadays,only some towns are lucky enough to still own one.
Source: cbslocal.com