Based upon a need to provide affordable groceries within a dim economy, salvage food retailers are coming to the rescue for many American families. Small stores are opening up in cities and towns near you, offering near-dated and distressed packaged name brand food at unheard of pricing. Those entrepreneurs looking to fill this need are [...]

What happens to those grocery items which are nearing an expiration date? How about those boxed grocery item that are somehow damaged in transit on their way to your local big-box grocery store? Most people never see behind the curtain of grocery retailing. Millions of dollars of grocery items are rounded up daily and shipped [...]

Similar in concept to the day old bread stores, salvage dented can stores are opening up nationwide offering incredible deals on the same name brand food items that we are all used to buying [at full price] from the dreaded big box grocery stores. Lower food costs found at salvage grocery stores offer budget minded [...]

The following interview took place back in July of 2008 where I sat down with a guy who operates a very successful salvage grocery store about forty minutes from my own home town here in Northern California. He wished to remain anonymous for fear of receiving too many requests for additional information. How did you [...]

Salvage food. The wording might invoke a sense of concern for some individuals who might be inclined to save money on their grocery spending, but rest assured, food dating is a misunderstood science. Salvage grocery stores are springing up across the country as the economy is in a state of decline. Those interested in opening [...]

Have you put thought into opening a salvage food discount store, sometimes referred to as a Banana Box or Scratch & Dent can store? These types of outlets are opening up all over the country due to the sagging economy. Sharp entrepreneurs are cashing in retailing name brand canned foods and dry consumables at unheard of pricing, [...]