The Meat Department's professional team of buyers, inside sales personnel and sales specialists are focused on meeting and exceeding the needs of our retail customers. Unified's meat buying strength is created by leveraging meat buys through an array of local and national producers. Our team is dedicated to providing a complete line of meat products, (beef, pork, poultry, lamb, veal, seafood and smoked meats) for the best possible value.

We are committed to providing superior customer service and ensuring complete satisfaction. In order to achieve these goals, we solicit input from retailers regarding the department's direction and performance. It is our goal to save the customer time, money, and labor by being the best single source of meat product.

If you would like more information about any of the following programs and services, please e-mail Meat & Seafood, or call: 1-800-262-6727.

Merchandising & Sales Support
Sales specialists will work with your store personnel to increase sales and improve store operations. They are available to help with ad writing efforts for either individual or specific ad group formats, and are a source for special ad pricing in support of unique sales events.

Buying Support
Working collaboratively with their retail counterparts, our buyers are always seeking to provide customers with quality items at the best cost.

Inside Sales
We hope that retailers will think of our sales staff as an extension of their marketing team. Our sales professionals are always ready with information on special buys and upcoming ads, along with "prompt and push" items. We know you are busy, and we want to earn all of your business. Customer orders, deliveries and product concerns are our top priority.

Program Commitment
We want retailers to place orders with full confidence that their request will be filled in full. Should for any reason the product is short, customers will receive a personal call offering a suitable substitution of equal or higher quality or grade.

Meat Programs

Washington/IBP Beef
•	Choice & Select Grades
•	Premium Angus
•	Prime
•	Best Buy Beef

Interstate Grinds
•	Coarse & fine grinds
•	Case ready product line

Southern Poultry
•	Fresh 4/10 bulk parts
•	Frozen jumbo tray pack fryer parts

Natural Pork
•	Bone in & boneless natural pork
•	Seaboard

Best Buy Pork Commodity
•	Bone in and boneless pork

Natural, USDA Choice Veal

USDA American, Natural Lamb

Frozen Turkeys and Turkey Parts

Full line smoked meat and frozen product

Fletcher's Fresh Sausage

Cross-Stock Commitment
Stores will receive regular telemarketing/sales calls requesting orders. Orders will be processed and shipped fresh in the quantities required. Cross-Stock Programs include:

Foster Farms
•	Fresh Washington whole fryer & tray pack fryer parts

Draper Valley
•	Fresh Washington whole fryers & tray pack fryer parts
•	Free range poultry

Southern Grown
•	Fresh fryer parts

Oregon Country Beef
•	Natural beef primal

Isernio Fresh Sausage
•	Fresh tray pack link or bulk sausage

Turkey Store

Best Buy Program
We seek exceptional value in all "Best Buy" program categories. Product will be ordered, priced and sold as a non-branded item and will come with the same assurances of quality as our branded product line.

Special Buy Programs

In & Out Items
•	Beef, pork and poultry items priced at a value for special events. Quantities are limited.

Prompt Items
•	Special buys on beef and pork items with the savings passed on to the customer. Quantities are limited.

Push Items
•	Close dated items sold at a reduced cost

Monthly Special Purchase Quantity Items
•	Monthly sales items used for special sales events

Special Event Items
•	We will look for special items and quotes for all special need items

Order Guide
Retailers will find Unified's Meat Order Guide a valuable resource. The guide contains information related to ordering procedures, ad commits, pallet buys and our credit policy, along with a roster of key customer service contacts.

Promotional Packet
Unified's Meat Department offers a number of ways to maximize retailers' merchandising efforts. Our weekly promotional packet provides customers with market information, special buys, monthly hot sheet items, prompts, perishable quantity discount allowances, special ad pricing, merchandising ideas, new and discontinued item, and price change information.