hi everyone how are you in this video
I'm going to answer a question I get on
maps pretty often and that comes from
people who they like to cook they like
to make new foods and then they'll kind
of think like I should start to sell my
food and then so they ask how can I sell
my food you know in stores online and
I'll explain that in this video so let's
get started how to sell your food online
offline ok so you can approach stores
there are different kinds of stores
there are like the small stores which
you know depends really on the food that
you have if you have like a dessert item
you can approach local bakeries if you
have like a you know some kind of a
sauce that you make or some specialty
thing you can go to like a specialty
stores which may sell your food but of
course most people but those are small
stores right they're kind of small
stores what you want to do is consider
whether a big supermarket might carry
your food right so let's say that you
make you discover the new brand of sugar
whatever right and you know that your
supermarket your local supermarket has
this whole section of our sugar right
there's like a little aisle like a
little spot right different sugars and
you want to place yours there ah how do
you do it right you have to apply to the
store go to their program if your food
is good they'll probably consider you
for maybe the one local store or a
couple of local stores in the region and
if your food is really good and if it
sells you can start to sort of build
your relationship and grow out of it now
here's the trick there will be a retail
price at which they sell your food your
sugar and there will be a price at which
they buy your food right from you so
whatever they sell it for it doesn't
matter what you care about is whether
what they pay you per box or whatever
what per container now you're going to
have to make the food package it and
distribute it all in the price or the
cost that is significantly less than
what
it cost you to have it for what you sell
to them because you know you don't want
to make like a penny a jar or something
right you want to really make some good
amount per an item okay or unless they
really sell like if it's a like a
national long term deal than a fight you
can have a very low margin I mean you're
still probably going to be okay the the
challenge is that the store actually put
usually supermarkets they're smart right
because they know that there's so many
people who want to sell Fujin in their
stores because they know that they can
sell so much and so what they do is um
they kind of give you a terrible price
if you're not a known company they give
you a really terrible price and there's
almost no way that you can package your
food in a great beautiful container
deliver high quality product and you
know I'll cover your other costs at that
price it's almost no weight because
often the packaging is very expensive
and you don't think about packaging but
to be in a store they usually require
you to have certain requirements like
because because the store lights are
very bright your packaging must not fade
over time let's say it sits there for
like a month or something it must not
fade so there's certain like
requirements very strict requirements
for the box the jar whatever your food
comes in and the packaging and the
labeling the label must not fade ever
right
you've never you've never seen a label a
faded label in a store right but they're
constantly under light so um there's a
reason for that and it's because there's
a special like labeling all that so you
really have to be careful because your
packaging will often be much more
expensive than the actual food right so
be careful and and also the store will
require you to do a lot of promotions
like you might have like to do some
giveaways and some people trying your
food who are like in your store there's
sometimes have that sometimes and they
want you to pay for all that you also
have to pay for you know whatever
contracts you
you may have to pay for some things so
they put a lot of burden on the people
the person
now what happens also is you probably
end up losing money and it happens to
many people because to meet all their
requirements you end up losing money it
might be okay because you know you kind
of want to get exposure for your food
and people like it you can rework your
deal six months later or something with
the store but generally it's difficult
it's difficult now here's the thing you
can sell the food online right you can't
sell all foods I mean like if you sell
something that's very perishable you
can't but if you sell something that's
not perishable oh my god there's so many
options online and online you can do
whatever packaging you like you can you
can use that you don't have to use the
packaging as required by the store so
you packaging will be incredibly cheaper
that also means that you can tell your
product cheaper right and that means you
people will buy more it is cheaper
although you the price you can figure
out on your own and you have many places
from which we can sell your site you can
sell your food from amazon.com other big
sites but also you can sell it from your
own website so if you can get traffic to
your website or to your listing on
Amazon or to your listing in any other
stores you can just sell the foods and
then you'll have the orders come in
every morning you'll ship the orders and
just make the food and that would be
your business right so and that selling
online will have a much higher profit
margin for you and the supermarket's
will sell probably those have a bigger
volume but at a very little profit for
you or almost no profit for a long time
now if you're able to to kind of take
that and sort of stay and stay with that
you may build up your brand and people
will stop start asking for your product
so you know the store will sort of like
be more open to renegotiate it we see
the price with you but usually if you
are not a known brand they're usually
brutal with your product so make sure
that you understand that and you have a
strategy around it and you may
want to invest in your online marketing
now you can also sell your food in you
know like flea markets or again if it's
packaged and stuff you can sell it
you're on your own at the flea market
just by setting up a cart or on a busy
street things like that so there's many
ways you can sell your food you don't
have to go through the stores but the
store is again very high volume of sales
right so that's pretty much how I would
go about doing this kind of a business
of course you need various permits you
know to sell a food you need some
there's something other things you need
to take care of I mean I'm not a lawyer
so I'll let you figure that out on your
own but that's how you sort of sell the
food so I hope that's been helpful if it
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