Award-Winning Private Brands
Set your store apart with quality and value.
Retailer Owned. Retailer Focused.
Member Retailers
AWG is 100% owned by the more than 1,100 independent member retailers across small towns and big cities in AWG’s footprint. All AWG profits are delivered back to member retailers, helping them feed families and support their communities.
Vendor Partners
In both products and services, AWG’s vendor partners make up a critical piece of the AWG ecosystem. AWG’s scale helps vendor partners deliver the best cost of goods possible to member retailers while enabling marketplace innovation and relevance.
Teammates
Experienced. Dedicated. Results Driven. Those attributes and more encapsulate the mindset of the professionals who help member retailers succeed each day. AWG’s supply chain excels due to the expertise exhibited at every link of that chain.
AWG MEMBERSHIP
Where Members Come First
Retailers are the lifeblood of AWG. Throughout most of the central and southeast United States these successful independent retailers feed communities and invigorate communities with their businesses.
Our Membership Model
We are extremely proud of our low cost cooperative model and competitive marketing strategies. We have a proven track record with our members including offering the lowest overall cost of goods every day and improving their bottom line. At AWG all of our profits are returned to our members.
Learn moreDistribution Footprint
Associated Wholesale Grocers supplies stores in more than half the states in the country. We have 9 modern and efficient distribution centers, totaling more than 9 million square feet.
Learn moreMember Support
From day-to-day operations to building a new store, AWG provides a full complement of Retail Support, Marketing Services, Real Estate and Store Engineering services to assist our member-retailers with everything they need to compete in today’s highly competitive environment.
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AWG VENDORS
Vendor Partners
Become a Vendor Partner
Looking to partner with AWG to offer your products to AWG retailers? Learn more about all the different types of products available to AWG retailers.
Explore the Product OfferingSupport Services and Tools
Have a service to support AWG member retailers? AWG is always looking to expand the tools and services offered to retailers.
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AWG TEAMMATES
Coming Together to Deliver Success
Careers
As part of the AWG family, you'll enjoy a comprehensive benefits package. In addition to vacation and holiday pay, we provide a number of extras, which include promoting overall wellness. From accountants to sales teammates and everything in between, talented teammates from all different professions make AWG tick.
Want to join the team?An Inclusive Workplace
AWG prides itself on building a diverse and inclusive workforce and fostering an inclusive work environment. From front-line teammates through the leadership team, AWG’s diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives are a focus for AWG.
Learn moreAWG Cares
AWG retailers impact their communities daily but so do AWG teammates. AWG Cares is AWG’s employee charitable foundation and relief fund that allows teammates to give back to charities, community organizations and fellow teammates in need.
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in the news
The grocery business moves quickly.
Find all the news related to AWG, AWG member retailers, and AWG vendor partners below:
ALS Association Receives AWG Cares Award Grant
Recently, AWG Cares provided a grant in the amount of $3,000 to the ALS Association. The grant request was submitted by Bonnie Gail Ebben, AWG Great Lakes Division Support Center
AWG Brands Revamps Salt, Seasoning and Spice Category with Exciting New Assortment
Innovative flavors, updated packaging and competitive pricing to drive sales. Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc. (AWG) announced a comprehensive refresh of its private brand offerings in the Salt, Seasoning and
Mission Tiger™ Collaborates with AWG to Expand Middle School Sports Opportunities
The $55,000 donation to DonorsChoose, of which $10,000 was donated to Northeast Middle School in Kansas City, MO, marks the partnership’s commitment to help school sports thrive in the 33