Buying Meat Off A Truck

[jeffrey]

Across the United States people are lining up to pluck 40-pound boxes of chicken, beef, fish and pork products directly from refrigerated tractor-trailers. Please, no jokes about hot deals that "fell off a truck" -- this is a legitimate business called Zaycon Foods, which delivers directly from the meat processor to consumers.

Of course, that "sketchy, perhaps even illicit" vibe could be part of the company's success, according to Brad Tuttle of Time magazine: "That you're in on some sneaky, quasi-black market operation."

Nothing that naughty. Buyers order and pay online and then head for predetermined pickup spots, usually the parking areas outside churches, bowling alleys and roller rinks. These meat "events," as Zaycon calls them, take place several times per year for each product (bacon, ground beef, et al.) in the 48 contiguous states...

http://money.msn.com/saving-money-tips/post.aspx?post=fb2cb8fb-d44b-4164-80f0-7cb8b5c07f48

[Joan.of.the.Arch]

I learned about this company from a poster here. I checked into it, but their prices did not beat what the local grocery stores offer. For a family of two, who usually doesn't eat individual servings of meat, that is an awful lot of meat to store all at once. But for larger families who eat more meat and don't have as much sales-hunting time as us, I can see it could be advantageous.