Demand for online butchers fuelled by rise in petrol prices
Demand for online butchers fuelled by rise in petrol prices
The rising price of fuel is helping to boost demand for online butcher services in the US, new figures have suggested.
According to figures from MasterCard Advisors and the latest SpendingPulse survey published by the Financial Times, online shopping in the US grew at its fastest rate in almost four years last month as people struggle to keep their cars on the road.
The high price of fuel is seeing more and more Americans leave their cars on the drive and head to their computer to order products, an idea which could also be interesting to Brits also finding the price of petrol prohibitive to using their vehicles.
Last month, online shoppers in the US spent nearly $14 billion, which is a rise of 19.2% when compared to the same period in 2010.
Director of Industry Research for MasterCard Advisors Mike Berry said: “We’ve started to see demand distortion, with people pumping fewer gallons and driving less.”
The Daily Mail recently reported that one popular high street supermarket came under fire after it was claimed its online food delivery drivers would not carry bags of shopping any higher than the first floor of a building.
According to the newspaper, “online forums are peppered with comments” from disgruntled customers living in flats, who claim their shopping was “abandoned” on the ground floor of their building.
Such news could highlight the benefits of using an online butcher service for fresh meat delivery, and home cooks could also find that dealing with online butcher services allows them to make sure their meat delivery is exactly to their liking.
Online butchers can help reduce the amount of time home chefs spend preparing meat for cooking and customers can make special requests for meat to be boned or cut in a certain way, allowing them to get on with the most enjoyable aspects of preparing a meal.
