They probably sell them to someone for dog food. I have never seen chicken bones and things for sale. They probably sell them to the retail for more than you can buy drumsticks and thighs at times. I don't know. I plan to get some more chicken parts and have on hand for broth.

Sue

Plenty in Asian stores (NYC) . $1.00 for two chickens.

Also pork bones, beef bones, fish bones ----.

dcarch

Grocery stores usually get their cuts prepacked. The processor does the filleting, and vacuum seals the meat, and sells the carcasses separately to other industrial sources. The butchers where I shop will debone a chicken for you gratis (if you're buying the whole chicken), if you ask, but they don't even have soup bones or dog bones (beef, veal, etc. bones), just very pricy marrow bones for osso bucco. Bones weigh a lot, are bulky, and people don't want to pay for them, most of the time, unless the meat is still attached. It saves the producers a lot just on shipping and labor.

The exception would be where either they're using a lot of chickens for house made boneless dishes or where the clientele, like at the Asian markets Dcarch mentioned, expect find them and buy in sufficient numbers to make it worthwhile for the store to carry them. They probably don't profit on the buck, but it's worth their handling and display space to keep their customers happy.

I buy whole chickens and freeze the carcass or bones until I'm ready to use them.

I am afraid the chicken carcasses go directly from Tyson to the dog food processors.
Buy your chickens whole...a few cuts with a sharp knife and you have Breast fillets, wings, hind quarters....and stuff for soup.