Meat Snacks Pricing and Costs

Know meat snacks pricing and costs to stay within your operating budget

By Michele Vrouvas
No one knows better than snack vendors just how much the beef jerky business has been booming in the last decade. So popular have these meat snacks become that they are now staples at every supermarket and convenience store and manufacturers are experimenting with specialty meats, like elk, and new flavor combinations, like New Mexico chipotle chili.

Fortunately for snack vendors, the price of beef jerky snacks has not risen in proportion to its popularity. In fact, beef jerky products remain among the most affordable meat snacks on the market. Popular solutions for learning about meat snacks pricing and costs include the following:

1. Pay the lowest prices for meat snacks when you bulk online in large quantities.

2. Add more flavors to your beef jerky vending machine with special blends that are available in prices within your budget.

3. Locate a gourmet beef jerky company that offers an organic product at attractive wholesale rates.

 

Buy wholesale beef jerky by the bag or by the case

Some wholesalers offer original and other flavors of beef jerky by the pound, usually around $12. Most allow you to choose between purchasing individual size bags or cases of about 24 packages.
Try: Bulk Beef Jerky offers prices ranging from $1.70 to $57, depending on the flavor and type of beef jerky. Buy whole steak nuggets at beef jerky company Werner Jerky for $4, individual 3.5-oz. packages, or $72, for cases of 20 bags. Beef jerky smoky sticks at beef jerky dehydrator Toxic Tommy range in price from $0.99 per stick to $98 per case. Cases of beef jerky at Jerky Direct range from $90 to $102.

Order special flavors of beef jerky online at affordable rates

Shopping for specialty beef jerky does not mean you're going to purchase above your budget. From mildly marinated to true hot crushed red chili, beef jerky now comes available in a wide range of flavors and all at affordable prices. Most flavored jerkys are sold in traditional beef slabs, but more manufacturers are experimenting with nuggets, sticks and "lightning rods" of high energy jerky.
Try: Walgreens offers two individual-sized bags of Teriyaki flavored meat snacks for about $9. Get lightning rods of high energy meat snacks from Choo Choo R Snacks that range in price from $2 to $16, depending upon whether you purchase them by the piece or by the case. The House of Jerky offers a ten-flavor variety pack of meat snacks at $185 or junior packs at $37. Go to Fatman's Beef Jerky to buy lemon pepper beef jerky ranging in price from $4 to $28.

Broaden customer appeal with gourmet beef jerky at prices that fall within your budget

Prices of gourmet beef jerky tend to be relatively higher due to the fact that the meat is organic, high-protein and gluten free.
Try: Go to beef jerky producer Climax Jerky to buy smoked elk gourmet beef jerky at prices of $12, for 4 oz. and $39, for 16 oz. Natural gourmet beef sticks at beef jerky maker American Grass Fed Beef cost between $16, for 8 oz., and $24, for combo packages. Prices of gourmet beef jerky at Local Harvest start at $17.50. Buy gourmet beef jerky in bulk at Mother Nature. Prices for eight 4-oz. packages start at $70.


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