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This is just a puff piece for yet another lifestyle/marketing-based luxury food service that you see advertised all over the place. They're trying to sell their
by yuliyp 2y ago
This is just a puff piece for yet another lifestyle/marketing-based luxury food service that you see advertised all over the place. They're trying to sell their meat as a luxury item at luxury prices, shipping it in small parcels across the country vs the economies of scale of the larger industry. Works for wealthy people, impractical to participate in for everyone else.
- everybodyknows 2y agoThe Times eats it up. Consider this: > In the next five years, Old Salt’s goal is to sell meat to 10,000 families around the country each year, up from around 800 now. It won’t be easy: Americans are used to purchasing ground chuck from the grocery store, not from a website. But of course only locals can buy ground beef from Old Salt's website, by picking it at the company's refrigerators, for obvious reasons. Though the web site nicely obfuscates this: https://www.oldsaltco-op.com/collections/fresh-cuts-ground/products/ground-beef https://www.oldsaltco-op.com/collections/fresh-cuts-ground/p...