The natural food stores to get into, and who says yes.
Oxpium builds the list of natural food stores and co-ops in your area, finds who decides at each one, tells you when one of them hires a buyer or expands, and runs the campaign.
- 5,700independent natural food stores and co-ops in the US
- $12.6Bin sales across them in 2024
- 35%have their owner or general manager in classic professional databases
- < 8 minfrom the first sentence to a live campaign
Every natural food store in your area, co-ops included.
Natural food stores don't have a category of their own in most sources: they sit next to supermarkets and convenience stores. The agent starts from public sources and professional databases, reads each store's listing and website to keep only the real natural food stores, and hands you a clean list.
- Reading the request
- Public sources · 104 organic and natural stores
- Reading listings · natural food stores only
- Cross-checking and de-duplicating
38 stores, sorted by number of reviews.
An area
A city, a state or a radius around your warehouse. The agent covers the whole area and hands you one list, with no duplicates.
Co-op, independent or chain
The agent reads each store's listing and website and notes whether it's a member-owned co-op, an independent or part of a chain.
The departments
Bulk, wellness, produce, prepared foods: the agent reads each store's website and keeps the ones that show the department you sell to.
A rating and reviews
A minimum rating and number of reviews, to target the stores with a loyal local following, sorted by number of reviews.
The person who decides, and what to know before you call.
In an independent natural food store, the owner decides; in a co-op, the general manager and the department buyers do, and many co-ops post a page explaining how vendors should apply. The agent finds the right name, the email and the cell, reads the website for the vendor page and the local program, and verifies every email.
- Reading the request
- Reading websites · 38 stores
- Verifying emails
33 contact emails found and verified.
The website email
The agent reads each store's website, finds the contact email published there and verifies it before adding it to the list.
Owner, GM or buyer
The owner of an independent, or the general manager and department buyer of a co-op, with their email and cell when there is one.
The vendor page
Many stores publish how new vendors should apply. The agent finds that page and notes what it asks, so your first email follows the rules.
Local programs
A column shows whether each store runs a local vendor program and how many local producers it names, so you know who buys direct.
Automations that tell you which store to call this week.
Once the list is built, Oxpium keeps going without you. Each automation reruns its search on schedule and adds what just changed to the top of the list: a buyer job posted, shoppers complaining about empty shelves, a rating going up, an expansion announced. Those are your signals, and they show up on their own.
- Job postings · 8 new in the Twin Cities
- Matching postings to stores
- Updating the list
Latest runs
- Today+2
- Sat, Oct 100
- Fri, Oct 9+1
- Thu, Oct 80
2 stores posted a job since Saturday.
Hiring
Every morning, an automation flags the stores that just posted a job, from a grocery buyer to a wellness department manager.
Empty shelves
Every month, the stores whose recent reviews mention empty shelves or items out of stock move up: they may need another supplier.
Ratings going up
Every month, the stores whose rating is up by 0.2 or more move to the top of the list, marked with a badge so you call them first.
Your own watch
Any watch you can write in one sentence, like expansions or moves announced on the website: the agent reruns it every week for you.
A campaign that waits until the trucks are unloaded.
Mornings go to deliveries and stocking, evenings to the after-work rush: email and call midweek, in the early afternoon. When a store posts vendor rules, follow them. Email from your own mailbox, calls from your browser, an agent step that rereads the store's website for every follow-up, and the campaign stops as soon as they reply.
Subject A local line for store?
Each variable is a column of your list, filled in by the agent.
After deliveries
Emails and calls go out Tuesday to Thursday between 1:30 and 4 pm, once the shelves are stocked and the registers are quiet.
Calls from the browser
You call straight from your browser. Every call is recorded, transcribed and summarized right in the list, next to the store.
Tailored messages
Every email is built from the list's columns, and an agent step reads the store's website or reviews to write each follow-up.
Stops on reply
As soon as a buyer replies, the campaign stops for them. You take it from there, and the next follow-up never goes out.
Frequently asked questions
Write “natural food stores and co-ops in Austin, independents and chains”. The agent starts from public sources and professional databases, reads each listing to leave out supermarkets and convenience stores, removes duplicates, and hands you the list with each store's type, rating, number of reviews, phone and website.
Ask for a “vendor page” column: the agent looks for the page where the store explains how new vendors should apply and notes what it asks (a form, a pricing sheet, samples on a given day). Your first email then follows the store's own rules, which is the fastest way to get read by a buyer.
Tell the agent once: “every month, flag the stores whose recent reviews mention empty shelves or items out of stock”. The automation reads the month's reviews and adds those stores to the top of your list, with the shopper's own words.
A first email that follows the store's vendor page and mentions its local program, a call two days later to ask whether it buys direct, a follow-up the agent writes from the reviews, and a last message. Emails go out from your own mailbox, calls from your browser, and the sequence stops as soon as a buyer replies.
For 250 stores with their website read, 170 emails and about fifty cell phones, count around €35 of data on top of the subscription. An agency typically charges €1,000 to €2,000 for a comparable list, delivered once and never updated.See pricing
Both, in that order. Many independents and co-ops bring in local brands directly, then move them to their distributor once they sell. A store that names its local producers on its website usually buys direct; the agent notes it in a column, and the call summary keeps what the buyer told you.
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