Food broker, grocery broker and merchandising, in one team.

Scope Shelf is a food broker alternative for emerging and growing food brands. We place your product in independent grocers and retail chains, book buyer meetings with your sell-through numbers in hand, and stay through merchandising and reorders. We charge a commission of 3% to 10% on sales, with monthly marketing fees for sampling and trade shows.

We get food and beverage brands into grocery stores. Start with our network of 500+ independent grocers, where owners decide store by store, then use the reorder numbers to reach chains and distributors. Our warehouse keeps inventory close to the stores.

Scope Shelf handles retail sales for consumer packaged goods brands: placement, buyer outreach, merchandising and reporting, in independent stores and chains. One team from first order to reorder.

Our merchandisers run shelf checks, facings, price tags, displays and resets, store by store, with photos and a weekly report. Available on its own or as part of a launch.

We own and run a distribution warehouse and a fulfillment center, and partner with Eagle Distributors and local distributors. Your inventory sits with us, and stores can order you the way they order everything else. For Spotlight Shelf brands, our distribution purchases the product and places it in the store.

We work with supplement, vitamin and wellness brands. Health and wellness is one of the most competitive categories on the shelf, so we start with stores that fit, put product in shoppers' hands with sampling, keep it findable with merchandising, and show buyers the reorder.

Functional foods, better-for-you snacks, wellness drinks and supplements. We place them in independent grocers and natural retailers, run sampling and merchandising, and report what sells.

We launch beverage brands: placement in the cold box and on shelf, sampling so shoppers taste it, merchandising, and buyer meetings with the reorder numbers. Our warehouse and distributor partners handle the cases.

We help international food brands test the U.S. market: ocean freight with trusted forwarders, licensed customs brokers, FDA paperwork and English labels, storage in our warehouse, then placement with real American shoppers.

We staff your booth, run sampling, book buyer meetings, film the show and follow up on every lead after it closes. Fancy Food, Expo West, the NRA Show and more.

We research the right buyers, write the outreach, send samples and follow up on a set cadence. You get meetings with people who can say yes.

We pass out samples where your product sits, run pop-up activations where shoppers already are, and bring back the feedback and sales.

Spotlight Shelf puts your product on a merchandiser shared by 8 to 12 brands, in 10+ stores for 90 days, plus 10 to 20 more stores on regular shelves, with media, sampling and an e-commerce listing. Brands pay for marketing, promotions and scan-back credits, with campaigns from $10,000. Brands that perform earn a permanent spot and exclusive distribution into 100+ doors.

We read the category, the buyers and the costs before you spend. Published reports cover retail media and merchandising costs and fresh food delivery; custom research covers your aisle.