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By George Nott2021-05-26T10:21:00+01:00
Foodservice wholesaler Turner Price has launched a third-party marketplace for suppliers, with the ambition of listing 50,000 SKUs within a year.
The family-owned business has worked with Mirakl – which powers marketplaces for Carrefour, Auchan and Kroger, among others – to quietly launch the platform earlier this month. Since launch, the range available through the wholesaler has risen from 4,500 products to 12,000.
“We’ve been up to now doing it the traditional way,” Turner Price sales and marketing director Julian Owen told The Grocer. “We’ve got four walls and stocked goods in our warehouses. We felt that was limiting the choice for our customers. We’re stocking the gravy we think they might want to buy, but the chef might be wanting something else.