How Bare Nut Butter saves 40+ hours per month
on fulfillment with Red Stag
With Red Stag, I spend about an hour each week on routine fufillment tasks. At my old 3PL, I was spending more than 10 hours a week dealing with fulfillment. Now I can focus on growing the business instead of babysitting fulfillment operations.
Sarah
Founder | Bare Nut Butter
Bare Nut Butter’s results at a glance
Weekly fulfillment management:
10+ hours → 1 hour
Order damage rate:
10-15% → Near-zero
Billing discrepancies:
10-12% overcharges → Zero
Time for growth initiatives:
None → 40+ hours monthly
From farmers’ markets to national distribution
Like many entrepreneurs, Sarah started small, with a passion and a simple idea.
Every weekend, she’d set up her booth at local farmers’ markets and supermarkets, carefully arranging her small jars of handcrafted nut butter and sharing her enthusiasm for clean, natural ingredients with anyone who stopped by.
But what began as a side project soon caught fire. Local juice shops and cafes, drawn to the quality of her products, started asking for something bigger—much bigger.
The requests shifted from individual jars to bulk orders, and soon Sarah found herself reimagining her entire business model around 15-pound pails of premium nut butter.
As orders grew, so did the complexity. Running the business essentially by herself—with just a co-packer for manufacturing—Sarah spent more and more time on fulfillment logistics rather than growing her business.
She knew something had to change, but finding the right fulfillment partner proved to be one of her biggest challenges yet.
Three 3PLs, one massive headache
Over the next few years, Sarah cycled through three different 3PLs, each promising everything an ecommerce founder dreams of: accurate fulfillment, careful handling, transparent inventory management, and responsive support.
The reality was far different. Sarah’s dream of scaling her business quickly turned into an unexpected side gig: 3PL babysitting.
“Every week, I spent over 10 hours just auditing orders and invoices to catch their mistakes. They would be 10-15 pails off at all times and refuse to tell us why. When I’d ask about the constant inventory discrepancies, they’d just brush me off. The lack of accountability was unbelievable.”
— Sarah
The problems multiplied daily. Support tickets disappeared into a black hole of “we’ll look into it.” Inventory reports looked more like creative writing than reality. And then came the concrete financial hit.
But the scariest part wasn’t the lost money or time—it was watching her customer relationships hang by a thread. When one business received eight damaged shipments in two months, Sarah was faced with the hard truth of B2B relationships:
“When you have steady B2B customers ordering dozens of times per year, losing one account isn’t like retail where you might lose a single sale. You’re losing years of future business. Add in $10,000+ in damages we didn’t get back and overbilling us 10-12% on everything from shipping to packing materials, and our 3PL’s mismanagement was becoming a serious threat to our business.” — Sarah
With her business and customer relationships on the line, Sarah couldn’t afford another 3PL mistake. Then she discovered Red Stag.
From chaos to control:
The Red Stag difference
After onboarding with Red Stag, Sarah suddenly found herself with time to breathe—and think about growth again.
Gone were the daily storms of customer complaints and inventory mysteries. Red Stag’s expertise with heavy, fragile products showed in every shipment.
The daily stress of inventory mysteries and endless email follow-ups disappeared. Instead of discovering problems through angry customer emails, Sarah got proactive notifications about potential issues.
Check this email she sent us
“With previous 3PLs, I had to check everything myself. With Red Stag, I get notifications if something needs attention, clear documentation of any stock adjustments, and immediate responses when I have questions. The transparency is incredible.” — Sarah
Most importantly, Sarah found herself with something she hadn’t seen in years: time to grow her business. The 10+ hours she used to spend managing fulfillment shrank to just one hour of routine tasks.
After years of 3PLs that treated her premium product like any other package, Sarah finally found a partner that matched her standards for quality and care. With Red Stag, fulfillment transformed from her biggest challenge into a competitive advantage.
When I was spending hours every week checking orders and trying to get responses from my 3PL, I couldn’t focus on growth. Now I can actually go out and prospect new customers, think about launching new items, and explore other channels. That’s what running a business should be about.
Sarah
Founder | Bare Nut Butter
What could you build with
40 extra hours each month?
Sarah’s story shows what’s possible when fulfillment works like it should. No more tracking down lost inventory. No more apologizing to customers. No more wasted hours managing logistics.
Just reliable fulfillment that lets you focus on what matters—growing your business.
Ready to change your fulfillment story?
