Ok, so you want a website. Do you know why?
Every expense you make has to do one (or more) of these three things:
Every expense you make has to do one (or more) of these three things:
Independent food retailers -delis, farm shop, grocery stores, convenience stores – we all need new revenue and we need it now.
Forward orders are opportunities to order and pay for something in advance on your website. There are so many reasons a Farm Shop or Delicatessen should enable forward orders - here are just a selection of what the better shops are doing:
Convenience stores have a very different feel to Farm Shops and Delicatessens. The differences can be small, but the impact is significant. When looking to expand into the premium food market
Hider Foods is a third generation Food Wholesaler based in Hull. Duncan Hider is the current boss, a new(-ish) broom in an old warehouse. Hider Foods has had a number of challenges recently, as have every wholesaler in the last few years. The most significant was bringing on a new stock system to replace one that dated back to green screens.
A few years ago a wine wholesale business which specialised in working with independent wine shops decided to offer its wine to consumers direct. Unfortunately, most of their wholesale customers dropped them like they were a hot brick. The wine wholesaler went bust. Everyone said going online B2C was a genius modern banking certainty until it broke that business.
The new eCommerce service by Hider Foods is as cost effective as it is revolutionary. Hider Foods are one of the biggest wholesalers in the independent food sector, selling over 100 brands from their premises in Hull. They have a turnover of over £20m. Maybe you already use them, they are a one-business Speciality & Fine Food Fair.
We’ve all heard it said that staying as we are is going backwards: expand or die. But with Covid and Brexit and declining High Streets and the costs of employing people rising steadily, many of us don’t have the stomach for another shop.
Topics: Business Growth, eCommerce
We need to be thinking about ways to improve our green footprints. It is not easy. Every green thing we do seems to be more expensive, and we need to protect your margins.
Topics: Environment, Sales & Marketing