'Saturday lad' at Rushden butchers develops shopping app for his old firm during lockdown

A 'Saturday lad' who used to work at this butchers has developed a shopping app for his old firm during lockdown.

T.E. Brown butchers in Rushden High Street remained open throughout lockdown to provide fresh meats, cooked meats, home cooked meals and fruit and vegetables for the people of Rushden.

Tim Brown, owner of T.E. Brown, spoke to Rushden's town manager Julie Thorneycroft about ways to make shopping with them more convenient given the current circumstances.

It included trialling new ideas, feature days and special offers to working alongside their next door neighbours J&P Fruit and Veg, who also remained open throughout lockdown.

One significant and innovative idea that came to fruition was launching a web based shopping app.

Tim said: “The app was actually developed by a lad that worked in my shop many years ago as the Saturday lad."

Tim’s former Saturday employee had previously been living and working in London, but was put on furlough due to Covid-19.

He came back to Rushden and offered his old boss a nifty solution to some lockdown related problems.

The app allows the butcher to share new products with prices and allows shoppers to submit an order remotely in a streamlined manner.

Tim said the app has been a very successful tool and has contributed to them gaining new customers and also retaining the longstanding ones.

The new app has become a welcome part of T.E. Brown's future business model and they are set to continue using the app post pandemic.

To download the app click here

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