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Lobster Online w/ Free Shipping vs Supermarket Lobster

One major misconception that seafood lovers have is that lobster at the supermarket is fresher than it is when purchased online. It’s the idea of shipping that turns most people off—putting seafood in a box can’t be good for its flavor and texture… can it?

Unfortunately, supermarket lobster (and most seafood, for that matter) is rarely as fresh as we’d all really prefer. Grocery-grade lobster is rarely shipped in daily like it ought to be. Live lobster tanks are typically overcrowded with aging lobsters, the water often has mold or green algae, and there’s almost always evidence of dead or mutilated lobster, which is a health risk.

Buying lobster online—as long as you’re working with a reputable seller who partners with lobstermen daily and directly—is actually a much fresher, higher-quality experience.

• Caught-daily lobsters shipped, not meat or live lobsters from weeks ago
• You can read verified reviews from real customers
• You can check the receipts on sustainability to see if it’s all lip service

In the lobster industry, we strongly recommend going to supermarkets only as a last resort. Your best option for getting the most out of your money is to get your lobster from a respected seller who gets you as close to the sea with as few steps in between as possible.

The Magic Behind Our Lobster, Shipped for Free!

At LobsterAnywhere, we like to think of ourselves as your slightly elitist foodie friends who you know would never, ever be caught serving you sub-par seafood. Exceptional seafood is what we live and breathe up here in Maine, and we want to extend that opportunity to anywhere in the country. Here’s how:

• Wildly Caught and Sustainably Sourced — Our lobstermen are committed to using environmentally-friendly traps in the wild so we can protect our oceans for our lobster friends and ourselves.
• Exclusively Top-Tier Maine Lobster — We’re fanatics about Maine Lobster (also known as Canadian, Northern, and Atlantic Lobster). These are the quintessential, big-clawed beasts that are full of juicy, buttery flavor—the apex of the lobster culinary experience.
• Lightning-Fast, Overnight, FREE Shipping — All our seafood, fresh, frozen, or live, is shipped overnight in specially-designed packaging that preserves the lobster’s freshness and flavor from the day it was caught—and much of it ships for FREE, thanks to shipping partnerships.

Simply put, we’re a value-driven company, not a drop shipper or giant catalog. Our mission is to source and share the world’s best lobster.

Do We Offer Live Maine Lobster with Free Shipping?

We source some of the world’s most flavorful live lobsters from lobstermen and ship them out daily. When we say these guys are fresh, we mean really really fresh! Grocery-grade live lobsters (called “b-liners” in the industry) typically haven’t seen the sea for weeks—not good.

While we do not offer free shipping on live lobster, we do take extra care to make sure they arrive in perfect, hyper-fresh condition. Here’s how:

• Packed comfortably in seawater-soaked newspaper or rock seaweed
• Sealed in a reusable styrofoam cooler with ice gel packs
• Overnight shipping—they arrive basically still fresh out of the sea

You can see our big-clawed live Maine lobster here.