BUILD IT YOUR WAY
Build the Business. Make It Your Own.
Co-Op Shopper gives independent operators practical ways to build a grocery or retail business around their market, customers, and goals.
Start with a business direction, build a catalog with Product Assets, add a website Platform when needed, and customize the operation around how you want to serve customers.
A PRACTICAL PATH FORWARD
Start With What You Need. Build From There.
There is no single Co-Op Shopper business model you have to follow. The tools are designed to support different markets, service levels, and stages of growth.
Choose Your Direction
Decide how you want to serve customers—from local grocery delivery and hospitality provisioning to pickup, workplace service, specialty retail, or another focused market.
Build Your Catalog
Use Co-Op Shopper Product Assets to reduce the work involved in creating products for your online store. Start with the products that fit your business and expand as demand develops.
Set Up Your Website
Use a Co-Op Shopper Platform when you need a website starting point, or use Product Assets with another compatible website or ecommerce setup.
Customize & Operate Your Business
Choose your products, pricing, availability, service area, fulfillment methods, and customer experience. Then manage orders and build direct relationships with the customers your business serves.
TWO WAYS WE HELP
Use the Resources That Fit Your Business
Product Assets and Platforms solve different parts of the setup process. Use either one independently or combine them.
Build the Catalog
Product Assets provide ready-to-use product resources designed to help reduce the time required to create an online grocery or retail catalog.
Costco Smart Portions
Costco Retail Ready
Everyday Market
Grocery Bundles
Build the Customer Experience
Co-Op Shopper Platforms provide website starting points for specific grocery and retail business directions and customer markets.
Current Platform directions include hospitality, local grocery, senior living, workplace service, specialty retail, and mobile pickup.
INDEPENDENT BY DESIGN
You Control How Your Business Operates
Co-Op Shopper provides resources for building the business. The day-to-day operation remains in the hands of the independent operator.
Your Pricing
Set the prices and margins appropriate for your business and market.
Your Catalog
Decide which products you offer and when they are available.
Your Operations
Choose how you handle sourcing, ordering, pickup, delivery, fulfillment, and customer service.
Your Customers
Build direct relationships with the customers and markets your business serves.
Your store. Your customers. Your pricing. Your decisions. Your business.
START SIMPLE. EXPAND WITH PURPOSE.
Your First Version Does Not Need to Be Your Final Version.
A business can begin with a focused catalog, a defined customer group, and a straightforward fulfillment model.
As demand develops, you can add products, expand services, reach additional customer groups, or move into a more capable Platform.
The goal is not to build everything on day one. It is to establish a practical business you can operate and improve.
START
Focused products + defined customers
BUILD
Repeat orders + expanded catalog
GROW
Additional services + broader capabilities
Ready to Choose Your Starting Point?
Explore Product Assets if you are ready to begin building your catalog, explore Platforms if you are deciding how your grocery or retail business could take shape online, or schedule a Discovery Call if you would like help choosing the right starting point.