Butchers are the latest industry feeling the pinch of inflation with some taking the hit in their pockets to remain affordable to their customers.
Cost of living has increased across the board with businesses also feeling the cost as overheads grow.
Cummins Meat Store owner Nicole Buddle said their meat prices to the end consumer had increased.
"We deal directly with the farmers for our beef, chicken and pork," she said.
"We have found in the last two months that the beef prices have risen, the farmers have put their prices up, so therefore, it is a snowball effect for us.
"As the farmers put it up, then we're going to put our prices up as well."
She said beef had increased by between $2 and $3 a kilogram.
"We try not to increase our prices because we still want the foot traffic coming through the door," she said.
"We, as a small butcher shop and as a small country town, we do want to get customers come through the door, so therefore we're not doing a huge jump up.
"We just do a small jump up every now and again or just sort of do maybe 50 cents or $1/kg.
"We're probably taking the hit more than our customers at the moment because we just do a gradual jump up rather than a big leap."
Mrs Buddle said if their prices increased as the market fluctuated then the stock would not get sold at all.
"We prefer that our stock is selling rather than having it just sit there and that no one was purchasing that stock," she said.
"Most of our customers are wanting a rump steak.
"Six months ago a rump steak would have cost the customer $30/kg where today, our price is $34.99/kg.
"They're not looking for that secondary cut - they know they are going to get a good steak.
"They probably would go to more to IGA if they're wanting something a little bit cheaper."
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She said the biggest issue they were facing was sourcing meat from local farmers.
"Farmers are getting out of the cattle side of things now that the price market is really good for them," she said.
"We're finding it harder and harder to find actually cattle for us to run through our shop."
Linke's Central Meat Store owner Graham Linke, Nuriootpa, said his prices had also gradually increased.
"It's the dearest it has ever been to buy meat products," he said.
"Our butcher is remaining profitable because we are offering a range of smallgoods which many customers want.
"Our rump steaks are $29.99/kg and were only $16/kg a few years ago.
"We've got the increase in overheads to contend with as well."