Why buying meat online?
People getting more and more open minded to buying food and beverages online but what makes it so special to buy meat online? Basically there are 8 reasons why you should buy meat online:
1. Behind an online butcher shop is in most of the cases a local butchery. So you buy your meat from a local resource. I know it's not the case if you buy meat online at amazon.com but a quick look at the 'about us' page will show you who is behind the online butcher shop.
2. Local butchers - even when they are selling their meats online - offer high quality meat with local sourcing. So you don't have to worry about the quality of the meat. The meat you can buy at the supermarket has usually not such a high quality.
3. Some online butchers deliver the meat for free or for a small delivery fee. Sometimes online butchers have special offers like 'spend 50 USD/EUR and you will get the delivery for free', so don't hesitate and compare the offers. Actually you can save a lot of money with comparisons, because the prices vary significantly from time to time.
4. Depending on the online butcher and the size of the country the delivery can take place within 2 business days. In Ireland e.g. it's possible to get the meat delivered by the next day.
5. Local butchers are using the very best traditional techniques to prepare the meat. This goes hand in hand with the traditional maturation methods.
6. All the meats are specially selected and expertly hand-prepared and trimmed by master butchers using very traditional maturation methods. The maturation method is responsible for the incredible tender with a well-developed rounded and rich flavour.
7. Make sure that your online butcher shop has an excellent customer service. Just in the case you have questions about the delivery, the meat itself or something else you should always have the possibility to contact one of them. Furthermore, it's very important to have various contact opportunities - an email address is not enough!
8. Check if the meat has a seal of quality. You can't see the meat, so you need the guarantee that the meat meets your expectations. One word of advice for you: The seal should be well known and approved. Some companies invent their own seal of quality to make a trustworthy impression, but they aren't trustworthy at all.
1. Behind an online butcher shop is in most of the cases a local butchery. So you buy your meat from a local resource. I know it's not the case if you buy meat online at amazon.com but a quick look at the 'about us' page will show you who is behind the online butcher shop.
2. Local butchers - even when they are selling their meats online - offer high quality meat with local sourcing. So you don't have to worry about the quality of the meat. The meat you can buy at the supermarket has usually not such a high quality.
3. Some online butchers deliver the meat for free or for a small delivery fee. Sometimes online butchers have special offers like 'spend 50 USD/EUR and you will get the delivery for free', so don't hesitate and compare the offers. Actually you can save a lot of money with comparisons, because the prices vary significantly from time to time.
4. Depending on the online butcher and the size of the country the delivery can take place within 2 business days. In Ireland e.g. it's possible to get the meat delivered by the next day.
5. Local butchers are using the very best traditional techniques to prepare the meat. This goes hand in hand with the traditional maturation methods.
6. All the meats are specially selected and expertly hand-prepared and trimmed by master butchers using very traditional maturation methods. The maturation method is responsible for the incredible tender with a well-developed rounded and rich flavour.
7. Make sure that your online butcher shop has an excellent customer service. Just in the case you have questions about the delivery, the meat itself or something else you should always have the possibility to contact one of them. Furthermore, it's very important to have various contact opportunities - an email address is not enough!
8. Check if the meat has a seal of quality. You can't see the meat, so you need the guarantee that the meat meets your expectations. One word of advice for you: The seal should be well known and approved. Some companies invent their own seal of quality to make a trustworthy impression, but they aren't trustworthy at all.
Buy meat at Amazon.com
Beside your local butchery you can also buy meat at Amazon.
How trustworthy is an online butcher shop?
It's not very easy to find out if a butcher shop is trustworthy or not but I've a few words of advice for you.1. Ask your family and friends if they have already bought meat online. Ask them some questions about their favourite online butchers. In other words, they should share their experience with you.
2. For how long does the online shop exist? Is the shop brand new or well established? I won't say that brand new online butchers are not trustworthy but well known and old online butcher shops have usually a higher trust. Moreover, there is more information about older online butchers on the Internet. So it makes it easier for you to get the information you want.
3. Find negative news about a specific online butcher on the Internet. An online butcher shop shows you only the very best. You have to find out what he hides. Search for 'delivery + name of the online butcher', 'quality + name of the online butcher', 'problem + name of the online butcher' and so on and so forth. If you find something negative, don't switch to the next online butcher. Confront the online butcher with the negative information you found. He should have the possibility to defend himself. The reason behind this thought is simple. Each online butcher has of course competitors and they maybe post negative information in some forums, blogs and so on, just to destroy his business. So confront the online butcher with what you found and give him a chance to defend.
4. Take a look if the meats of the online shop have received a seal of quality. The seal should be well known and approved, because some businesses invented their own seal of quality to deceive their potential customers.
5. Find a telephone number and call them. See if there are real people behind this shop! It's very annoying to transfer money to a swindler. It shows also how much effort they put in their online presence. Ask them some questions about the delivery. After a while a friend of yours should also call the online butcher and ask pretty much the same questions. Compare and check if they are using exactly the same words. This shows you, whether they have a catalogue with answers which refers normally to a fraud and makes it easy for you to expose the swindler.
6. How does the online presence - the website - look like? Is it very professional and trustworthy or could a child make this website? This shows you whether they really care about their online customers. Furthermore, a very well designed website costs a lot of money and swindler usually don't put in that much effort, because the website exists only for a few months until the fraud is exposed.
7. Is the checkout of the online shop secured with SSL? It is highly recommended that the online shop uses a secure line for the online checkout. Take a look at your address bar: there should be https:// instead of http:// during the checkout. This guarantees you that the payment is secure and trustworthy.
So to get this information it's very important that each user interacts and shares its experiences with others. Find your favourite online butcher and share it with your friends by placing a link to them. This is beside forum and blog posts the only possibility to give them (the online butcher shop and its potential customers) positive and negative feedback.
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