The specialty grocers that will stock your products, and when to ask.
Oxpium builds the list of specialty grocers, delis and produce markets in your area, reads what each one puts on its shelves, tells you when one of them starts hiring, and runs the campaign.
- 14,000specialty food stores and produce markets with paid employees in the US
- 118,000people working in them
- 14%have their owner in classic professional databases
- < 8 minfrom the first sentence to a live campaign
The shops with room for your products, in one sentence.
Describe the store you're after: a gourmet grocer, an Italian deli, a produce market, a city, a rating. The agent searches public sources and professional databases, reads the websites when you need to know what's on the shelves, and hands you a clean list.
- Reading the request
- Public sources · 412 shops in Chicago
- Cross-checking and de-duplicating
81 shops, sorted by number of reviews.
A kind of shop
Gourmet grocer, Italian deli, cheese and provisions, produce market or bulk store: the agent sorts it out from each listing and website.
What they stock
Olive oil, loose-leaf tea, tinned fish, local honey: the agent reads each shop's website and keeps the ones that already carry that shelf.
A rating and reviews
A minimum rating and number of reviews, to target the shops with a real neighborhood following, sorted by number of reviews.
A profile
Hiring for the holidays, with or without an online store, one location or several: criteria you can combine in the same sentence.
The owner, their email, and what's already on the shelves.
In an independent specialty grocer, the owner picks what goes on the shelves, often alone, often after a tasting or a trade show. Before you call, you need their name, their email and a sense of what they already carry. The agent fills those columns row by row and verifies every email before adding it.
- Reading the request
- Reading websites · 81 shops
- Verifying emails
68 contact emails found and verified.
The website email
The agent reads each shop's website, finds the contact email published there and verifies it before adding it to the list.
The owner
The person who decides what goes on the shelves, with their email and cell when there is one. In most shops, there's nobody else to ask.
What they carry
The products and origins each shop features on its website, so you know whether your line fits before you pick up the phone.
Gift boxes and online store
A column shows whether each shop sells corporate gift boxes and runs an online store: two good hints about how much it sells.
Automations that spot the shops ready to take on a new line.
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 holiday job posting, a busy week of reviews, a rating going up, a gift catalog going live. Those are your signals, and they show up on their own.
- Job postings · 11 new in Chicago
- Matching postings to shops
- Updating the list
Latest runs
- Today+2
- Sat, Oct 10+1
- Fri, Oct 90
- Thu, Oct 8+2
2 shops posted a job since Saturday.
Holiday hiring
Every morning, an automation flags the shops that just posted a job, from a seasonal sales associate to a gift basket assembler.
Busy weeks
Every Monday, the shops that got more than ten new reviews in a week move up: customers are coming in, and it's a good week to pitch.
Ratings going up
Every month, the shops 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 holiday gift catalogs going live on the website: the agent reruns it every week.
A campaign that fits the shop's day and the holiday calendar.
Mornings go to deliveries and stocking, weekends to customers: email and call midweek, in the early afternoon. And holiday assortments are settled by early fall; by December it's too late. Email from your own mailbox, calls from your browser, an agent step that tailors every follow-up, and the campaign stops as soon as they reply.
Subject Samples for shop?
Each variable is a column of your list, filled in by the agent.
The midweek lull
Emails and calls go out Tuesday to Thursday between 2 and 4:30 pm, after deliveries and the lunch rush, when the owner can talk.
Calls from the browser
You call straight from your browser. Every call is recorded, transcribed and summarized right in the list, next to the shop.
Tailored messages
Every email is built from the list's columns, and an agent step reads the shop's website or reviews to write each follow-up.
Stops on reply
As soon as an owner replies, the campaign stops for them. You take it from there, and the next follow-up never goes out.
Frequently asked questions
Write “specialty grocers, delis and produce markets in Seattle rated 4.5 and above”. The agent searches public sources and professional databases, removes duplicates and closed shops, and hands you the list with each one's type, rating, number of reviews, phone and website.
Ask for a “featured products” column: the agent reads each shop's website and notes the shelves, origins or brands it shows. You can also filter from the start: “only the ones that sell loose-leaf tea”. A shop with no website keeps an empty cell rather than a guess.
Tell the agent once: “every morning, flag the shops on my list that post a job opening”. The automation runs on its own, and the shops that just posted land at the top of your list with a “Hiring” badge. A shop hiring seasonal staff is planning a big season.
A first email built on what the shop already features, with an offer of samples, a call two days later, a follow-up the agent writes from the website or the reviews, and a last message. Emails go out from your own mailbox, calls from your browser, and the sequence stops as soon as an owner replies.
For 400 shops with their website read, 260 emails and about 90 cell phones, count around €50 of data on top of the subscription. An agency typically charges €1,500 to €2,500 for a comparable list, delivered once and never updated.See pricing
From late summer to mid-October. That's when owners settle their holiday assortments and gift boxes; from November on, the shop runs flat out and nobody takes on a new supplier. For a spring or summer line, aim for January and February, when things quiet down after the holidays.
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