goWholesale » Food http://www.gowholesale.com/content Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:27:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Goldmine Discovered Reselling Salvage Food http://www.gowholesale.com/content/2009/09/09/goldmine-discovered-reselling-salvage-food/ http://www.gowholesale.com/content/2009/09/09/goldmine-discovered-reselling-salvage-food/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:00:01 +0000 Robert Cyr http://www.gowholesale.com/content/?p=4379 Similar in concept to the day old bread stores, salvage dented can stores are opening up nationwide offering incredible deals on the same name brand food items that we are all used to buying [at full price] from the dreaded big box grocery stores.  Lower food costs found at salvage grocery stores offer budget minded shoppers the chance to save money in our tight economy, while salvage grocery resellers are experiencing tremendous growth in their business.

What is a Salvage Grocery Store?

A salvage food store is simply a smaller grocery store where the bulk of the inventory is sourced from a reclamation centers. A grocery reclamation center collects shipments of box-damaged, expiring or distressed food (and non-food) items from large grocery chains like Safeway, Raleys, Walmart, Krogers etc.  The job of the reclamation center is to try and recover as much capital as possible from distressed inventory.

  • Grocery items with major damage including large dents, opened inner packaging, leaking and no product labels are simply thrown away.
  • Grocery items with minor denting, damaged packaging, odd lots and near dating are placed onto pallets and resold at liquidation pricing to salvage food retailers.

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