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Can you ask your grocery store to stock stuff?
>From: Gary
>Being a small independent also gives you leeway to buy rare items from local
>growers and producers, which indirectly also helps their economy.
I am contacted daily by vendors. I don't buy by telephone. Send me samples,
I'll do testing with my employees and myself.
A couple months ago, I got one phone call from Boomi Bars. Told them to send me
a sample. They make 20 varieties of whole nut/seed food bars. They sent me one.
I shared the one cashew/almond bar with two of my employees. We now carry 5 of
their bars and I will re-order the almond protein bar in triplicate once a
month because I can't keep it in stock. The rest of the bars are moving half
the time, but are excellent products. When season picks up I expect them to
disappear. They are simply put, the finest nut/seed bars on the market today.
They are a small town op in NC. And I buy direct.
>Maybe, if you have *any* room at all in back, you could save those rare items
>that
>don't sell well, for when those few who do use them come in. When they ask,
>you
>could tell them you have them in the back.
I don't have storage at my location, but am fortunate that there are 4 other
locations in my mini chain...one being a 20K sf location I can transfrer in
special orders within 3 days.
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