The Butcher’s Blade
Full website revamp, launch and online store
How did MCG bring The Butcher’s Blade online?
MCG Growth Marketing delivered a full website revamp, launch and online store for The Butcher’s Blade, an independent butcher in Sandbach, Cheshire. The new website brings Lee’s counter online through clear product collections, his story and practical collection and local delivery information, while keeping the business’s personal service at the centre.
At a glance
- Client
- The Butcher’s Blade
- Sector
- Independent retail / eCommerce · Launch
- Engagement
- Full website revamp, launch and online store
- Location
- Sandbach Market Hall, Cheshire
- Range
- Beef, lamb, pork and sausages, poultry, oven-ready meals
What was actually in the way
Every engagement starts with a commercial problem rather than a channel problem.
Challenge
Bring an independent Sandbach butcher’s counter online without losing the personal service behind it. The brief was a full website revamp and launch, with an online store that makes the range easier to explore beyond a visit to Sandbach Market Hall.
Approach
Rebuilt the website around Lee, the counter and the food customers want to cook. The online store organises beef, lamb, pork and sausages, poultry and oven-ready meals into clear collections, with collection and local delivery information alongside the range. The launch brings the shop’s craft and practical buying information into one joined-up website.
What changed commercially
Published client facts and agreed scope markers, read as marketing outcomes. No modelled or estimated figures.
- a new digital shopfront for a Sandbach butcher
- Full revampa new digital shopfront for a Sandbach butcherWebsite redesign and launch for The Butcher’s Blade.
- the counter’s range brought online
- Online storethe counter’s range brought onlineProduct collections with collection and local delivery information.
- clear routes into the product range
- 5 collectionsclear routes into the product rangeBeef, lamb, pork and sausages, poultry and oven-ready meals.
A revamped website launched at thebutchersblade.co.uk, with an online store and dedicated product collections. Customers can explore the counter online, get to know Lee and check collection and local delivery information before planning an order. The result is a new digital shopfront, not a claimed sales or conversion uplift.
The calls that changed the outcome
Not a task list — the small number of decisions the rest of the work followed from.
Keep the person behind the counter visible
Lee and his Sandbach counter lead the website. His story and the actual product range give the digital shopfront the same identity as the physical shop, rather than making an independent butcher look like an anonymous online retailer.
Make the range easy to browse
The store groups the counter into beef, lamb, pork and sausages, poultry and oven-ready meals. Customers can start with a familiar category and explore products, with recipes and cooking guides supporting the choice rather than replacing the shop.
Connect the online store to the local shop
Collection, local delivery information and directions to Sandbach Market Hall sit alongside the range. The website supports a local retail business: it helps customers plan a purchase and understand how it reaches their table, without implying nationwide fulfilment.
A local retailer’s website should make buying easier without removing the people and expertise that make the shop worth choosing.
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