> they also package customers' purchases in white 'butcher paper' like they us
 > to do
 > back when I was a kid.

Had that in Sasebo ;-)

 > I don't think anybody gives the bones away anymore, they take them out of th
 > discard pile/container and package them just like any other meat purchase -
 > complete with weight and price.

And freakily, sometimes more than the meat!  I kid you not!  I saw it here. 
They stuck a specail looking lables of 'roasting soup bones' on a package of
nothig special bones and tried to market them for 3.29lb
               xxcarol
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