Re: Anyone tried James Whelan Butchers.com?
davyjones, I for one, don't and haven't bought meat locally for 6 months since I came across the aforementioned company. If I order before 11 a.m.I have delivery the next day before 4.30 to my nominated delivery address (Mon-Thurs) order Friday and its Tuesday delivery. The meat comes in a polystyrene box with ice packs in it and apparently the temp is maintained at 4 degrees. The meat has always arrived in excellent condition to me and it's delicious. Their meat is cheaper than Whelans as I checked both suppliers before. I think it's a great service and maybe the way your friend should go. Sulmeat use Interlink for their deliveries so he should start by contacting them for delivery rates etc, he would also need to source packaging and get costings in relation to this, plus he needs a good, easy to use website for people to order online. Hope it works out for him, the point of online is ordering to me is that the customer must be happy with the product they receive, if they don't get good quality meats delivered, it's back to the local butchers so online suppliers can't afford to send you rubbish IMO.