Merchandise Food has a passion for growing profits in farm stores, road-side stands & fresh local markets. We help agritourism businesses grow concessions and unique gift, souvenir, and food sales not only in the fall but year-round. Whether you’re multi-generational century farm or a new Greenhorn’s general store, we can help!
- Design & retail advisory new food / farm market stores.
- Review historic seasoned markets for new sales & merchandising opportunities
- Struggling at-risk farm stores
Who We Serve
- Orchard Stores
- Destination Agritourism Venues
- U-Pick
- Farm & Roadside Stands
- Farmers' Market Stall Vendor
- Public Market Tenant
- Fresh Produce Retailer
- Country / General Store
- Mobile Produce Market
- Winery / Cidery Retail
- Specialty Local Food Stores
- Destination Fruit Store
Review Case Study: Johnson’s Corner Farms
Farm Store Advisory
Merchandise Food Cultivates Business:
- Farm Retail Strategy: Build strategy, efficiency and cost-savings into your retail plan.
- Improve Displays: Our visual merchandising advice can help you build compelling displays which "show up" and promote impulse business.
- Optimize Use of Space: Merchandise Food can help you think about your store differently to make every area perform more successfully.
Farm Store Retail Operations Consulting
Grow your farm store profits with Merchandise Food’s professional merchandising & retail strategy consulting. Often, farmers prefer to focus on field production and miss opportunities in selling fresh commodities or fully optimizing on-farm activities, events, or stores with merchandising and products to significantly increase sales. Merchandise Food can assess current efforts via a store visit and pinpoint specific areas limiting your potential in a special report.
- Standard Operating & Merchandising Procedure Development
- Staff Retail & Service Training
- Product Specifications & Vendor Guidelines
- Consulting for Display in Mobile Environments
- Business Monitoring & Reporting Advice
- Strategic Farm Business & Store Planning
- Adding new market locations
- Ask about your specific needs!
Get Customized Solutions for your store today!
Everyday Retail Challenges Limit Market Sales
- Shrink & Freshness Concerns
- Limited Vendor Base
- Industry & Company Paradigms
- Speed of Service
- Ineffective Food Menus & Queuing Methods
- Weak product presentation
- Outdated operational methods increase labor
- Under-performing space utilization
- Basic buying strategies
Farm Store Consultations & Advisory Reports
Invite Merchandise Food onsite to your store and gain new perspectives. Our detailed review of your front of house and back of house space identifies operational, merchandising, and strategic opportunities. Often, farm leadership teams benefit from a third-party perspective in environments historically family run in patterned ways across generations.
- Interacting with farm / family leadership in a respectful and sensitive manner.
- Review of product offering to identify gaps
- Fresh produce & prepared foods merchandisng review
- A close look at store merchandising, fixturing and equipment.
- Critique & feedback of display techniques
- As comfortable, a look at past sales, vendors, goals, and organizational . team member dynamics.
- Real-time / Written Feedback
Store Merchandising & Resets & Project Management
Merchandise Food helps retailers plan & remerchandise their store, elevate their product offerings and tackle an extensive list of special projects. Let us help you integrate strategic ideas better faster through our network, experience, and hands-on visual merchandising support.
- In-store Merchandising & Display Creation
- Product Mix Development Research, Vendor Negotiations, & Sample Requests, & Suggested Initial Purchase Orders
- Onsite or Online Retail Staff Trainings
- Retail Operational Best Practice / Procedure Development
- Shrink Management
- Monthly Retail Coaching
Farm Market Display Fixtures, Refrigeration & Freezers
Beyond the orchard bin, Merchandise Food can suggest fresh produce, bakery, grocery type, and specialty fixtures to create a unique inviting store environment. While DIY bins can work, chosing the right tools to display your job can significantly optimize your selling space, elevate presentation to command higher prices, and fill your customers views to promote impulse buying. Inviet Merchandise Food into your next store design, layout, or fixturing project.
- Fixture Suppliers: Merchandise Food has a strong supplier base of commodity specific fixtures.
- New / Used: We can accommodate your budget in our advice. Whether it's high efficiency new coolers, or used/demo models we can help you locate fitting solutions.
- Refrigeration & Kitchen Equipment : Advice & quotes for equipment to elevate your operations & merchandising.
Farm Value-Added Products
Merchandise Food can help you identify, create, optimize, and display your value-added farm products through co-packers, private labelers, distributors. Our network & resources can help you find fitting suppliers in your region, or unique ones outside to give your store a competitive advantage. Don’t let a long list of jarred canned goods “box” you in to what every other farm is doing. Let’s work together to build a store offering you’re proud of.
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Vendor Sourcing: Whether it's Local food hubs, wholesalers, distributors, importers, or co-pack manufacturers merchandise food can help you cultivate an offering your customers will love.
- Bakery: Whether it's scratch, thaw & sell, heat & sell, or third-party baked goods we can help you identify savory or sweet bakery items shoppers will come back to buy again.
- Branded Custom Food & Gift Products: We can help you build a unique program under your custom brand: ( Candy, Healthy / Dried Fruits & Nuts, Spice Blends, Baking Mixes, etc.) Whether it's a value or upscale approach we have resources to create something special.
Learn More: download Merchandise Foods Farm Market & Agritainment Services Brochure
