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Booker releases Added Value Services guide to support c-stores

Booker's Added Value Services guide

Booker releases Added Value Services guide

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In its aim to support independent retailers, wholesaler giant Booker has unveiled a new guide, pulling together a range of in-store -services to help retailers ‘make more and save more’.

The guide, known as Added Value Services (AVS) Guide, contains over 25 Booker exclusive deals across a range of services, including parcel collection with InPost, drinks machines with Costa and Calippo Burst and home delivery solutions.


Retailers could save over £50,000. The guide is available to all Booker’s symbol group retailers. It is also now accessible online via the wholesaler’s website.

Colm Johnson, Booker’s Retail Managing Director, said, “As part of our ongoing commitment to help retailers save more and make more, we are pleased to bring our retailers a new Added Value Services Guide.

"We have brought together a range of recommended suppliers to support all their in-store needs, and negotiated a number of preferential exclusive rates for Booker retailers, including how they can utilise the benefits of being part of a Group.”

Booker's AVS guide comes close in heels with another New Product Development Guide, showcasing Booker’s new group exclusives and first-to-market offerings.

Released earlier this month, Booker's NPD Guide covers over 125 new products. It also contains all activities available to the symbol group retailers, including a range of food, drinks and household essentials; Easter ranges; and low/no alcohol products which continue to remain popular with consumers.

Booker's NPD guide aims to help retailers to differentiate themselves from their competitors and prepare for the Spring season ahead.

Booker has been creating buzz in the retail side. Recently, the wholesaler announced the launch of a brand-new ordering platform Scoot, exclusively for its symbol group retailers to help them deliver local groceries to their customers’ doors, in as little as 30 minutes.

Scoot facilitates the processes of ordering, payment, and picking processes, leaving the retailers solely responsible for organising the delivery, whether they handle it in-house or use third party.

The new platform is currently piloting in Budgens Abridge with the aim to pilot another three stores in February and March. The platform will be phased out more widely to Booker symbol group retailers – across Budgens, Premier, Londis and Family Shopper from April 2025.

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