Christmas at Camillo's Sloan Super Market
Customers line up at Camillo's Sloan Super Market before it opens Dec. 22, waiting to pick up their holiday meat orders.
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Customers go straight to the meat counter and wait for their number to be called.
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Patricia Drake waits for her order.
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Customers go straight to the meat counter and wait for their number to be called as workers fill orders.
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Gerald Scott hands his order to one of the workers.
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Worker Michelle Weaver sports a unique elf hat.
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Pork Florentine is prepared and ready to be packaged for a customer. It is filled with provolone, spinach and red peppers.
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Camillo's Sloan Super Market does a large meat business, especially around the holidays. Here, Phil Tracoli cuts top round steaks. The market's seven butchers have a combined 250 years of experience.
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Ken French makes pork brasciole.
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Rich Regdos operates the power meat saw to cut beef shank for soups.
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Eric Wojcik fills an order for sliced roast beef.
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Shauna Retzer fills an order for a customer.
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Sean Barbour makes cheese and parsley sausage. The market has 41 kinds of chicken, beef, pork, seasonal and special order sausage.
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Scott Reedu2019s number is called.
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Clockwise from left are Scott Powell, Rich Regdos, Sean Barbour, Ken French and Phil Tricoli.
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Sean Barbour prepares to fill the casings of cheese and parsley sausage.
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Sean Barbour prepares to fill the casings of cheese and parsley sausage.
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Sean Barbour fills the casings of cheese and parsley sausage.
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Sean Barbour makes cheese and parsley sausage.
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Sean Barbour makes cheese and parsley sausage.
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Phil Tricoli cuts a beef prime rib.
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Phil Tricoli makes beef rollups.
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Christine Pyzikiewicz wraps a turducken u2014 a turkey with duck, chicken and stuffing inside.
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Ken French sharpens his steak knife.
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An employee opens the doors at 9 a.m. sharp.
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Butcher Ken French breads the chicken cordon bleu.
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Mary Tedesco heads over to cash out her heavy order. Behind her to help is her sister Peggy Thompson.
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Pete Scanio, who does security during the holiday rush, holds the door for customer Carrie Thomas.
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Scott Powell brings out smoked Polish sausage to put into the case.
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Michelle Schultz, left, helps Richard Siedlikowski with an order.
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Owners Gaeton Camillo, left, and his father in the office. David Camillo founded the business 20 years ago.
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Meats in the display case.
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In the foreground are ground turkey, left, ground pork and ground beef and pork.
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Camillo's Sloan Super Market has 41 kinds of chicken, beef, pork, seasonal and special-order sausage.
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Al Armstrong of Orchard Park, receives his order.
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Customers line up at Camillo's Sloan Super Market before it opens.
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Matt Bartel brings bone-in prime rib into the meat room for the butchers to cut.
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Customers go straight to the meat counter.
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Customers arrive at Camillo's Sloan Super Market.
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Jim Reger, left, and Tracy Traufler are the first ones in line Dec. 22.
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Inside the market, Jim Reger recieves his order.
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Workers busily fill orders.
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Workers fill orders.
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Customers wait for their numbers to be called.
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Gaeton Camillo shows preorders ready to go in the cooler.
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Customers wait for their number to be called.
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Wednesday, January 10, 2018
The Christmas season is the busy season for Camillo's Sloan Super Market, where it's the same story as for any other independent butchers this time of year: customers lined up from the cash register to the door, buying prime rib, sirloin and sausage for the holiday.
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