The job title of "butcher" has been mostly replaced in corporate storefronts in the last two decades after customer trends showed that modern (particularly urban) customers increasingly associated the term with animal slaughter and unsanitary conditions (regardless of the condition of the store). With the advent of off-premises pre-packaged supermarket meat, many supermarkets now avoid mention of either cutting or butchering and simply call their meat cutters "Meat Department Associates" or similar. In the UK the term butcher is still used to describe a person, who offers for retail sale, meat ready for cooking by the customer. They will also prepare cuts, joints etc, for the customer. Most corporate retailers still use the term butcher for their meat department operatives.