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The best grocery brokers can have a profound impact upon their clients’ success. They can help food vendors navigate industry trends and keep them on the path to greater profitability. Here are two examples: Expansion of Grocery Delivery Services This is probably no secret, but the internet is rapidly changing how consumers buy their groceries. A good food broker can help vendors stay on top of those changes and leverage them to their advantage.     Recently, Walmart announced that it would expand its 100 metropolitan areas by the end of 2018. According to a March 14 article in Supermarket News , customers will be able to choose between same-day or scheduled deliveries. Walmart also stated that it would hire thousands of in-store pickers to gather the items in customer orders. Once these pickers collect an order, it will be delivered to the customer’s address via providers like Uber. Thearticle notes that Walmart is making this big expansion as reta...

A natural food broker or fresh food broker can open doors for natural and fresh food brands. And the possibilities waiting behind those doors are greater than ever before. Eating healthy is an especially big concern for people nowadays. In 2015, Fortune published a feature titled “Special Report: The war on big food.” The piece examines what it calls “Big Food’s multibillion-dollar problem.” What is this problem? A growing wariness of—and disdain for—processed foods and preservatives. As Fortune contributor Beth Kowitt writes, “The idea of ‘processing’—from ancient techniques of salting and curing to the modern arsenal of artificial preservatives—arose to make sure the food we ate didn’t make us sick. Today, many fear that it’s the processed food itself that’s making us unhealthy.” This fear has put a serious hurt on the profitability of major brands: The feature cites an analysis by Credit Suisse, which found that the 25 largest food and beverage companies had lost...