SERVE MARKETS OTHERS MAY OVERLOOK
Build a Grocery Business Around Markets With a Need for Convenience
Small communities. Destination markets. Local opportunities.
Some markets don't need another traditional grocery store. They need better ways to access the products they already want.
Co-Op Shopper helps independent operators build grocery and retail businesses around online ordering, pickup, delivery, pre-arrival stocking, and other services appropriate for their market.
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Use Flexible Product Sourcing
Combine Costco products, everyday groceries, curated bundles, and local products.
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Serve a Defined Market
Build around the needs of a specific community or destination.
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Choose How You Operate
Use an existing business, pickup location, mobile operation, or another model that fits your market.
LOOK BEYOND THE TRADITIONAL MARKET
Different Markets Create Different Grocery Needs
Small & Outlying Communities
Provide additional grocery access in communities where shopping choices or convenient services may be more limited.
Recreation & Seasonal Markets
Build around ski areas, lake communities, outdoor recreation destinations, and markets with changing seasonal demand.
Vacation & Resort Destinations
Serve visitors, vacation rentals, hospitality businesses, and residents who value convenient grocery and arrival services.
Growing Communities
Explore developing areas where population and customer demand may be expanding faster than traditional retail options.
The opportunity isn't about competing with every grocery store. It's about identifying a customer need you can serve well.
A POWERFUL SOURCING OPTION
Costco Can Be Part of the Opportunity—Without Being the Whole Business
Rural and outlying communities are often overlooked by traditional delivery services—but that creates opportunity.
Operators can use Costco as one sourcing option while building a broader assortment appropriate for their own customers.
Costco Retail Ready
Offer complete Costco products in their original retail configuration.
Costco Smart Portions
Create smaller purchase options from eligible Costco multipacks while keeping individual units factory sealed and unopened.
Grocery Bundles
Combine products into useful collections for arrivals, meals, activities, celebrations, or other customer needs.
Everyday Market
Add everyday grocery and household categories that aren't dependent on Costco sourcing.
Use Costco where it makes sense. Add other products where your market needs them.
DESTINATION OPPORTUNITY
Vacation Markets Create Their Own Grocery Needs
Visitors arriving in destination communities often need groceries, beverages, household essentials, snacks, meals, and other supplies soon after arrival.
That creates opportunities beyond traditional grocery shopping.
Pre-Arrival Groceries
Prepare requested groceries before guests reach their accommodations.
Vacation Essentials
Provide food, beverages, household supplies, and other useful arrival products.
Hospitality Partnerships
Work with vacation rentals, property managers, lodging businesses, and other local hospitality providers.
Group & Extended-Stay Orders
Serve families, groups, events, and longer stays that may require larger grocery purchases.
BUILD ON WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE
Turn an Existing Location Into More Than One Business Opportunity
If you already operate a business in the community, grocery and convenience services may become an additional way to serve customers without turning your location into a traditional supermarket.
If people are already coming to you, adding grocery access is a natural extension.
Local Markets & Specialty Shops
Add products, ordering, pickup, or curated grocery collections.
Coffee Shops & Cafés
Use an established location and customer base to introduce complementary grocery or pickup services.
Hospitality Businesses
Add guest groceries, arrival essentials, local products, or provisioning services.
Other Local Businesses
Explore whether your existing location, customers, and operating capabilities could support an additional retail service.
START WITH THE OPPORTUNITY
See a Grocery Opportunity in Your Market?
You don't need to copy a traditional grocery store or follow someone else's business model.
Start with the customers, location, and opportunity you already understand. Co-Op Shopper can help you identify the Platform, Product Assets, and next steps that fit the business you want to build.