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Swift and Armour started this whole thing when they built their first processing plants in Chicago. Livetsock came in by rail, got slaughtered, and sides of beef went east by rail in Swift-owned refers. At first, this practice wasn't accepted, as butchers and consumers wanted fresh meat, so Swift started up a series of wholesalers in smaller eastern cities. In the larger cities these wholesalers operated out of the central city food markets. This worked until the western population started to expand, then the business went regional(Omaha, IBP, etc.). <br /> <br />The wholsale markets still exist and restaurants and smaller independent butchers still deal with them, but the large grocery chains are able to deal direct with the packing houses and have their own distribution centers. From these centers, a lot more than just meat goes out to the stores by truck. Also, it's doubtful a small local butcher would be interested in frozen packaged meat, but the chains seem to be selling more and more of it.
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