Let's Create a Retail Strategy Aimed @ Results.
Merchandise Food helps grocery, natural, health & specialty food stores improve profitability, compelling food merchandising, shopper experience, and retail operations.
- New store planning
- Existing stores seeking retail refinement
- Advancing under-performing marketplace locations
Pinpoint Missed Opportunities.
Merchandise Food has expertise to see your existing or future store plans from a different perspective and identify how your layout, merchandising techniques, offering might be limiting your own potential. Ask yourself?
- Is my concept & store layout optimized for success?
- Do visual factors limit food presentation & impulse sales?
- Does my product mix & pricing = desired financial results?
- Are we losing the battle to fresh product shrinkage?
Retailers knowingly struggle or even worse may be entirely blind to factors limiting their own success.
Who We Serve
- Local Artisan Food Stores
- Grab & Go
- Independent & "Green" Grocers
- Destination Food Halls
- Ethnic Food Retailers
- Convenience Retailers
- Metro Markets
- Specialty & Gourmet Markets
- Health & Natural Food Stores
- Developers & Architects
Get food retail advice you need for your entire stores or a specific department:
- Specialty & Local Food Sections
- Grab & Go & Made-to-Order Stations
- Juice & Smoothie Bars
- Prepared Food Bars
- Chocolate & Confections
- Artisan Meats & Butchery
- Sweet & Salty Snacks
- Fresh Produce Departments
- Fresh Produce Departments
- Stores Within A Store
- Bakery
- Ice Cream & Gelaterias
- Cheese, Dairy & Charcuterie
- Unique New Concepts
Merchandise Food can help advise, innovate & coach your team as well with a strong line-up of services custom tailored for single location to food retailers with a national presence. Here’s how we helped others:
Common Retail Challenges can be Solved.
- Ineffective display techniques
- Food displays lack compelling elements
- Queuing delays and guest bottlenecks
- Shrink & freshness issues
- Food & beverage product offering gaps
- Primitive Signage Programs
- Inventory Storage Limitations
- Poor use of store & display space
- Limited internal store leadership skillsets
Retail Food Management Consulting: Store Assessments
Overcome internal blind spots. Merchandise Food provides onsite strategic store reviews: fresh insights into your goals, identifying food sales obstacles and opportunities. We analyze strategy, environment, merchandising, and assortment, offering real-time feedback or a visual, actionable report. Retained implementation support is available.
- Store Assessment Services: Onsite store evaluations and remote visual store reviews (photos/videos).
- New Store Layout Design Review: Expert analysis of retail and food market layouts.
- Merchandising Technique Feedback: A deep dive into how shoppers might "see" your store and how to improve it.
- Operational Best Practices Audit: We'll offer feedback on observed operational inefficiencies
Get Customized Solutions for your store today!
Driving Implementation & Managing Projects
Let’s identify your highest priorities and get to work. Our team can help you execute ideas faster whether it’s planning a store layout, adding queue merchandising, updating technology tools, or
- Adding New Store Sections or Departments
- Food Retail Training
- Building S.O.Ps
- Improving Fresh Procurement
- Building Efficient Systems
- Signage & Labeling
- Your Top Priority
Choose the Right Tools to Sell More Food: Equipment & Fixtures
Merchandise Food has extensive relationships with commercial kitchen, refrigeration, & fixture manufacturers & distributors. Functional and high impact visuals of your food offering require consideration of many factors including energy efficiency, type of unit, lighting, etc. We’ll bring furnishings, decor, and container suppliers to accent your merchandising with risers, baskets, vessels and tools to make compelling displays. Merchandise Food regularly suggests:
- Shelf-management Tools: Pushers, spring-loads, shelf guides, POP marketing tools
- Self-contained Coolers for grab & go, meat, prepared foods and produce
- Built-in Refrigeration suppliers with remote compressors
- Cutting edge heated merchandisers (Limiting shrink & extending product life & quality)
- Countertop & specialty freezers & refrigerators
Sell New Products & Programs in Underutilized Space
Merchandise Food can you locate new selling spaces within your existing store and consider what food, beverage or non-food lines could make sense with your specific store concept. Our team has strong relationships with leading distributors & marketing groups for natural, farm, grocery, specialty, local, and foodservice products. Our regular cross segment work and trade presence & internaional network bring significant awareness to “what’s out there.” Merchandise Food believes there are significant opportunities to sell non-food, gift, kitchen & home lines in traditional and non-traditional retail food outlets. We connect clients with new wholesale partners including:
- Foodservice Broadliners
- Packaging Manufacturers
- Specialty & Natural Distributors & Importers
- Traditional Grocery Wholesalers
- Group Purchasing Organizations Opportunities
- Private Labeler & Co-packer Resources
Learn More: Download Merchandise Food's Free Guide: How to Open a Grab & Go Food Market
