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Unified Grocers maintains a full sales, marketing, and purchasing staff in four regions where it serves independent grocers: (1) Pacific Northwest (2) Northern California (3) Southern California (4) Seattle Operations
Distribution facilities for grocery, frozen food, and delicatessen products are located in the California cities of Commerce, Santa Fe Springs, and Stockton, in Portland, Oregon, and in Seattle, Washington.
Unified maintains a full variety of branded and private label products under the Springfield, Special Value, Western Family, and Better Buy labels. The Procurement staff is dedicated to maintaining the highest possible service level to its retail customers. It utilizes a state of the art buying system, and best in class buying practices to accomplish this.
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Grocery, Frozen Food and Delicatessen Procurement offer the following programs and services:
- negotiates the lowest possible cost of goods from the manufacturer.
- negotiates promotional allowances from manufacturers and passes them on to the retailer based on performance requirements.
- provides monthly display programs.
- offers a program of temporary price reductions in hundreds of different categories.
- offers special prices on a group of key items available in pallet quantities.
- provides new items from the manufacturer on a timely basis.
- provides a product reclamation program for damaged and unsaleable products.
- reserves merchandise for retailers who give advance notice of advertised specials.
- offers weekly advertising programs and flyers for retailers.
- offers an in-store product demonstration program to retailers.
- produces buying shows where special products, deals, and services are offered.
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For more information, call (323) 264-5200 |