M. A. Produce Solutions

A Produce Advisory Firm to

Help you Achieve

Retail Excellence in your Produce Department

Bringing Both Practical and Professional Guidance through Experienced Advising & Improved Buying Methods for all of Your Fresh Produce Needs

Experience the advantage of tailored solutions which leads you to Improvements and greater efficiency in every area of your produce department

Let’s discuss a New Produce Strategy that will Scale Your Business

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Decades of Quality Focused Leadership Working for Independents who want to Compete and Win.

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Who We Service & Partner with…

Independent Retailers who are Growing and those that want to Grow

Quality Produce Distributors who want more good retail operators to service

Quality Growers who want to expand their product reach into more Independent Retail Groups

We Provide Independent Retailers with Executive-level produce strategy, buying oversight, improved margin , shrink reduction, and sourcing improvement

We will work with your current produce executive seamlessly to extend their capabilities and reach.

If you are an Independent store or group, we can act and guide you as your Produce Director if you do not have one…and do it for a fraction of the cost of a full-time executive

‍True Understanding of Retail

  • Decades of Produce Experience & Know-How

  • Proven Vendor Relationships & negotiation skills

  • Margin-First Decision Making

  • Product Sourcing Optimization

  • Working with Owners and Produce Managers for Impact on your Bottom Line


Performance Advisory

Let us help you to Improve Your

Bottom Line in Produce!

Retail Turnaround

We Will Improve …

  • The Look of your Produce Department

  • Your Sales Planning & Pricing Strategy

  • Your Branding & Marketing Support

  • Your Long-Term Business Plan for Growth

PERSPECTIVE MATTERS

Experience with hundreds of stores makes the difference; so can a Different Perspective

We take a Strategic and Methodical Approach for lasting Improvements

M.A. Produce Solutions

Will Make a Meaningful Impact in your stores

We Help Enhance the Shopping Experience Throughout Your

Produce Department

We provide training for your Produce personnel for lasting improvement

  • Do Organics Right

  • Locally Grown Program

  • Improve your Floral business

  • In- Store Special Displays

  • Dried Goods / Nuts

       The Need For a        

Great Merchandising Plan

Is More Important than Ever Before!

Create more than just wow displays that captures their Imagination…and

Make them

Remember Your Store! 

When it comes to Merchandising

Our Mentality is…

   “Impress Always”    

      Without it      

You’re just another store!

3 Retail Case Studies (Below)

Do any of these case studies sound similar to issues in your Produce Departments?

Case Study #2

4-Store Ind. Group (Margins)

First weeks diagnostic focus

·  Vendor pricing differences store to store

·   Inconsistent buying methods

·   Promotional math and vendor support

·   Execution differences by manager

What we found…

·   Each store buys its own way

·   Vendor overlap and cost inconsistency

·   Inconsistent signage and pricing cadence

Solution Oriented Approach

Improved GP with thorough reorganization of what was a lack of

consistency and improves produce sales as well

Case Study #1

Single High-Volume Store (Shrink)

First weeks diagnostic focus

·  Overbuy and markdown patterns

·   Berry handling and cold chain issues

·   Display depth vs sell-through

·   Labor routines (double-handling)

What we found…

·   Overbuilt displays creating markdowns

·   Product staged outside cooler too long

·   No item-level shrink review

Solution Oriented Approach

Improved efficiencies throughout

the produce department that have had

Long lasting effects; and improved produce sales as well

Case Study #3

9-Store Ind. Group (Consistency & Control Issues)

First weeks diagnostic focus

·  Variance by store (margin / shrink)

·   Central vs local buying authority

·   Lack of trust in vendors (too many)

·   Execution differences by manager

What we found…

·   Wide spread performance store to store

·   Too many “exceptions” to standards

·   Vendor roles not clear or consistent from store to store

Solution Oriented Approach

Worked with each department and each supplier to maximize and adapt more consistency which brought better margins, quality, and improved produce sales as well

Produce Departments

Can make more profit…

We Can Help

Buying Agent

Let’s Improve

How Well You Buy…

  • Buy Better & More Efficiently from your existing distributors

  • We Can Buy Directly from Growers for You

  • Supply-chain management

  • Commodity Sourcing

Working with….

  • Growers

  • Manufacturers

  • Specialty Categories

  • New Product-Line Launches

  • Dry-Goods (produce -related…nuts, dried fruits etc…)

Break Through & Grow your Product Line

Let M.A. Produce Solutions bring Your Products to Retailers in the Northeast Market

Product Representation

Matching up

Great Products with Great Retailers

INQUIRE - We want to help…

Tell us a little about your business

Are you a Retailer, Grower / Processor, Distributor?

mark@maproducesolutions.com

(973)-703-2862

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M.A. Produce Solutions

Passionate about Fresh Produce

Passionate about People