Advantages of Membership

Overall Advantages

  • Collective Buying Power of a $12.3 billion dollar company
  • Economies of Scale
  • Diverse Product Selection
  • Shared Costs and Resources
  • Independent Ownership and Control
  • Support and Networking
  • Focus on Local Markets
  • Lowest expense ratio in the Industry
  • Lowest mark-up policy in the industry
  • One of the largest customers of most of the major CPG companies, which positively impacts trade fund accruals.
  • One of the largest customers of many of the major producers, packers and growers in the industry.
  • AWG Brands: best-in-class private brands program
    • 2022 AWG Brands sales exceeded $1.59 billion
    • AWG owns and manages all AWG Brands
Advantages_Overall2

Financial Advantages

  • Patronage
    • Paid on AWG qualifying purchases
    • 2022 payout was 2.72%
    • 60% in cash and 40% in patronage certificate
    • Certificates are historically redeemed in 4.75 years (based on Board of Director approval)
  • Concentrated Purchase Allowances – volume incentives paid quarterly
  • Central Bill Discount – paid each period
  • Multiple rebate programs
  • Stock
    • Investment 15 Shares of A-Capital Stock
    • Currently valued at $23,250 or $1,550 per share
  • Buying programs
  • Sales growth
    • AWG’s 50 year sales trend has a compounded annual growth rate of 7.8%

Products

  • Grocery, Dairy & Frozen
  • Meat & Seafood
  • Produce
  • Floral
  • Deli
  • Bakery
  • Food Service
  • Health, Beauty, Wellness
  • General Merchandise
  • Natural, Organic & Specialty
  • More For Your Dollar
  • Hispanic & International
  • Pharmacy
Advantages_ServiceSupport

Service & Support

  • AWG offers an extensive assortment numbering over 127,000 SKUs across all categories throughout ten distribution centers.
  • Our AWG Support Center merchandising teams maintain over 4,000 planograms and support category resets throughout the year.
  • Comprehensive Advertising and In-Store Marketing Department
  • Training Programs
  • Real Estate and Store Engineering
  • Retail Support and Perishable Specialists are provided for all departments.

Interested In Membership? Contact Us!

For more information about AWG’s services or how to become a member please send us a message.