Fifty percent of Americans’ food dollars are spent in grocery stores, yet few people think about the important role merchants play in building healthy food systems. With a rapidly evolving and consolidating retail landscape, it is imperative that grocers committed to stocking truly good food come together to support each other and the communities they serve.
Members of the Good Food Merchants Alliance at all levels – Supporter, Sustainer, and Collaborative – have both structured and informal opportunities to meet, connect and learn from each other. All members are recognized as sponsors of the Good Food Awards, receiving passes to the Awards Weekend events and the three annual Good Food Mercantiles. Sustainers and Collaborative members are also invited to be judges at the Good Food Awards Blind Tasting. In June 2019, the Good Food Foundation launched the annual Merchants Alliance Summit – a place to share best practices towards financial, environmental and social sustainability.
In the words of our Chairwoman Danielle Vogel, founder of Glen’s Garden Market in Washington, D.C., together great merchants can “displace demand for industrially produced food and replace it with sustainable, community enhancing alternatives.”
The Good Food Merchants Collaborative is a group of nearly two dozen of the country’s best independently-owned markets committed to supporting American craft food producers and each other. It exists to empower retailers that value taste, authenticity and responsible production to build symbiotic relationships both with each other and with the craft food producers they support.
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The Good Food Merchants Alliance is proud to announce the Sustainers membership level. This level was launched in direct response to inquiries from impactful merchants around the country, eager to uphold the work of the Good Food Foundation and connect with other merchants, but not yet able to support the time or financial commitment of the Collaborative.
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The Good Food Merchants Alliance is proud to announce the Supporters membership level. As with the Sustainers level, this level was launched as an entry level of engagement in direct response to inquiries from smaller and newer merchants around the country, eager to uphold the work of the Good Food Foundation, but not yet able to support the time or financial commitment of the Collaborative or Sustainers.
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