Starting a grocery store...?

Question

I'm very interested in starting my own grocery store. I know it will be a lot of work, but I want it to be similar to a Whole Foods, Trader Joes, a Wegmans, and Metropolitan Market. Where do these companies find their foods to sell. Where can I find a business to help me start up a store and to find products to sell. I'd perfer them to have worked with chains like this before, but they don't have had to of. Is there anywhere that i can find lists from these stores of what all the items they sell are and where they get the products from? I'd like it to be a gourmet grocery, and to have a lot of organic and natural products, and to have different culture sections. It's not like I'm going to be a big competitor to those chains, but maybe in the future I could expand my stores from just the one local one I'd like to start. Thanks to any answers!

Answer 1

Look for food wholesalers. But if you want a lot of organic and natural products, you might have to buy them direct from the growers.