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Inside Scoop
July 8, 2010
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Hi, i am a previous employee of Iowa Steak co.. I worked there for 3+ years and know the inside scoop on how the wheels turn at that place. First of all the MOST a salesperson EVER pays for a case of meat is $117.oo. So when you are told they sell them online for 389.00 all day long that is a lie. The owner pays less than half that amount of which the salespeople pay. If you are looking to buy meat in bulk you should contact Stampede meat and pay the lowest prices. there are several "cold storage" places near you regardless of where you live that will sell you bulk meat for a fraction of what these salespeople will sell it to you for. Furthermore, the meat is thawed and refrozen several times, so by the time you get it there is no telling how fresh it is, if at all. The sales reps are encouraged by the manager, VP and Owner to sell the "bad meat" before they will be allowed to receive fresh inventory. There is a 100% satisfaction guarantee but there are so many loop holes to that its unreal and the funniest part is that when a customer service is made and a rep comes to pick up your bad meat to replace it with good meat, they turn around and resell the bad meat to yet another unsuspecting family. I have no idea how this company has been in business for so long. They view customers as stupid, slow people that they can get over on.. heres a couple "hooks" you might recognize.. " hey im the warehouse manager for IA steak we are so overstocked on inventory i am basically giving this stuff away" or " hey i was makin a delivery to your neighbor but they arent home my boss will kill me if i come back with this order on my truck, if i give it to you for half price would you guys eat it?" Let me break it down for everybody, there are no deliveries at iowa steak, its all cold call, there are no discounts for overstock, only poor meat that has been sittin in the freezer for so long that they cant get rid of it any other way. this company operates off scams and doesnt care who they scam.. i wont even start on how they treat their employees. they dont hire black people and that is an order which is given from the owner himself, they tell their current employees to file police reports and goto court against former employees and say they stole meat so that inventory which is lost due to going bad and etc can be recovered through the court systems. They use their money to throw their weight around and the only reason they can do this is because people buy the product. as long as people continue to buy their product this company will continue to treat customers, employess and anybody who crosses its path like second class citizens. The owner is a very abbrasive pompous ass who has sexually harassed female employees and doesnt care one bit about anybody but himself. He encourages his sales reps to tell whatever lie necessary to put $ in his pocket. Knowing what i know about the sanitary procedures (they throw meat on the floor, smoke cigs in the walk in freezer, thaw meat and refreeze it, etc). of this company i can honestly say i wouldnt advise ANYBODY to eat that product. I had a price of 99.00 per case thats 64 cuts of meat for 99.00 which breaks down to $1.54 PER cut of meat and i STILL shopped at my local grocery store after 6 mos of working there, once i really figured out how they handled the product. DISGUSTING !!! Take it from somebody who worked in and outside of the office in one of the 9 locations they have, the meat is no good and the customer service or compassion is even worse. They have an F- on the BBB, what does that tell you ??
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