The objective of this project is to facilitate greater visibility into the independent retail market. You will find the sales templates here as well as a button to add a document. This is where you will provide your communication and sales reporting quarterly.
This portal will be used to easily keep track of progress as we move forward with the introduction of the product and company to the network.
Hi Team,
To let you know, we have planned a trip to attend as a visitor to Expo West in March 2023. Does Mr Checkout have a presence there? Or would this be a good place to arrange face to face meetings with, hopefully our new customers. We would love to hear your feedback on this.
Kind Regards
Jenny
Hello Jenny,
Thank you for reaching out with this update. At this time Mr. Checkout will not have a presence at this expo however I would agree that advising the retail contacts whom respond to the blast about your upcoming attendance will be a good talking point to include in your conversations.
Thank you again and have a wonderful rest of your day.
Hello Michelle and team,
Do you know of the Soho expo / trade show – Natural Products in Orlando, happening over the next couple of days? Do you attend?
Talking with one of the customers from Plam beach that we have sent samples out to from our introduction. He mentioned this has the major distribution companies in the natural sector that attend this show. Would be great to have your knowledge and feedback on these. While we can deliver direct. The feedback we are getting is, if we can move to a distributor sooner then later. It does make it easier for retailers to order in one place.
Look forward to your update or any information you may be able to share.
Hello Jenny,
Thank you for reaching out. Unfortunatley the Mr. checkout team will not be attending this upcoming show however I’m happy to hear of the feedback and conversations you’ve been having thus far. In regards to the retailer who had mentioned getting on board with a distributor to make ordering easier, did they specify which distributor you should work with? if they did, please let me know so that we can connect with them on your behalf.
Thank you and I look forward to your reply.
HI
The retailer was Jay @ Country Corner Health Foods- Palm Springs Fl. He did not mention a distributors name. However, we I do my follow up call after samples arrive to him. I will ask and let you know.
We hope you are having a good day so far. These are some of the people that have shown interest by clicking to receive a sample of the line through the eblast, however they did not enter their information in the lead form once they landed on the sell sheet. I am able to pull the emails associated with the accounts from my end. Please keep detailed communication notes while you are reaching out as they may not all be a good fit for your product line. As we discussed on our Product Education Call, we are going to need reporting from your end, which you can upload directly to your dashboard. Please note that the contacts were contacted through the retail association and are not familiar with our company Mr. Checkout.
Murphy’s Market- Lbi- lbi@murphysmarkets.com– (609) 492-5100- 9 S Bay Ave Beach Haven NJ
Lawrence Brothers Grocery -Boyd- boyd@lawrencebrothers.com– (806) 271-4372 – 601 Burlington Ave Spur TX
Walker’s Grocery Store – info@walkermedical.net– (410) 482-8995- Marydel MD
King Supermarket- Hussen Mohammad- hussein.mohammad@kingsupermarket.com– (773) 268-2222 -400 E 41st St Chicago IL
Atkins Farms Mkt- Maryellen- maryellen@atkinsfarms.com– (413) 253-9528- 1150 WEST ST Amherst MA
Greer’s Ellisville Family Food – greers33@greers.com– 615 Hill St Ellisville MS
Sickles Market- Diane- sickelsmarket@sicklesmarket.com-(732) 741-9563- Little Silver NJ
Quillins Quality Inc-Mike- mike.quillin@quillinsfoods.com– (608) 785-1424 -La Crosse WI
Murphy’s Markets- John- hosthq@murphysmarkets.com -(609) 654-8422 -666 Stokes Rd Medford NJ
Lees Super Market- manager@leesmarket.com-(508) 636-3348- PO Box 3329 Westport MA
Harvest Market- Sue, Dan & Erin -moneyroom10808@agne.com– (603) 569-8944- 36 Center St Wolfeboro NH
Fiddleheads Food Coop -Stephanie- grocery@fiddleheadsfood.coop -(860) 701-9123- 13 Broad St ALEXANDRIA MN
We try to make this as easy as possible with templates you can find here: https://mrcheckout.net/sales-report-templates/
Please let me know if you have any trouble reaching them, Keep us updated on your progress.
HI
Thank you so much for these. I will definately use the templates and contact them ASAP.
HI a question on bar codes. At present we use GS1 barcodes and we see alot of USA refer to the UPC bar codes. While GS1 is international. Is it necessary to have UPS barcodes? Or is this justed used as a common referal to the type that is used.
Hello Jenny,
I would suggest having the UPC bar codes on the labels to ensure our smaller independently owned retailers will not have any issues. If needed, you can add this to your topics of discussion with each retailer to see if its something that may be needed moving forward.
Thank you and have a wonderful rest of your week.
Hi
I have just been on the phone to a few of the retailers, following up the samples we sent out. Interesting conversation, that they can not get hold of any Manuka Honey UMF15+ or Manuka Honey UMF20+ through distributors at the moment. Would it be possible to do a mail out / sales sheet drop informing the retailers we have these in stock ready to ship out
Hi,
With following up with the samples been received by the retailers. So far the feedback is that they would prefer to wait to get supply through a distributor as it is easier to do their “bulk”on line order with one. Do you have any suggestions?
HI
I have just uploaded updated Sales report for you to have a look. I will keep trying to contact people. Please touch base to what time frames and what next steps will be.
Kind Regards
Jenny
Hello Jenny,
Thank you for the updates. I see you’re doing the right thing and I look forward to seeing the feedback you receive.
In regards to the retailer who mentioned that he’d be interested in working together once you’re being distributed, did he happen to mention which distributor you should pursue? If so, we can have our team reach out to them on your behalf and see if we can move that conversation forward.
Thank you and I look forward to your reply.
HI
The retailer was Country Corner Health foods and he mentioned Kehe as the distributor that he deals with. This also was the case with Covington Supermarket. Who mentioned that they are unable to get Manuka Honey UMF15+ and 20+ with Kehe at the moment
Hello Jenny,
Thank you for this information. I will send it to our team and see if we can assist with introductions to Kehe using this feedback.
Thank you and if any interest should come from our conversations, I will reach out with the feedback and information.
Hello Team.
Some exciting news about New Zealand Manuka Honey and the backing of UMFHA organisation on improving the education and information around the grading of New Zealand Manuka Honey
January USA/UK Campaign
The UMFHA team will be making some noise to start 2023. CEO John Rawcliffe and Marketing Manager Campbell Naish will be in the UK and US in mid-January to work with media to push message that, “Mānuka honey only comes from New Zealand, look for the UMF™ quality mark and rating on products to be sure you are buying the real deal.” Supporting information can be found in the Licence Holder Shared Files or here.The campaign is part of a programme to regularly inform trade and media that there is only one trusted source of mānuka honey, New Zealand. Also, how they can easily identify quality New Zealand mānuka honey and why it is important. The programme integrates with the UMFHA strategy of building a globally recognised quality mark and rating that is unique to New Zealand and easily recognised by target trade and consumer audiences.In the campaign, the UMFHA will be working with print, digital, television, and radio media in the UK and US to reinforce the message that UMF™ leads the way independently validating the origin, authenticity and quality of real mānuka honey. In early January UMFHA will be providing members in with promotional kits to support the campaign including:
Press releases will be available to download and distribute
Information booklets
Whitepapers
Social media tiles
Linkedin campaign
A website landing page
In addition video and audio and print media clips from the campaign will be available to members as soon as they come to hand.Contact Analiese with any questions analiese@umf.org.nz
Hello
We have received our first order from one of the retailers that reached out for Samples. Are you able to confirm the invoice process for tracking sales etc through yourselves. Or do we, BeeNZ invoice and advise of sales.
Thanks
Hello Jenny,
Congratulations on your first sale! Please process and track the sale using your preferred methods and please be sure to add the details of your sale to our reporting templates. you can add these details to the “field sales” tab for our team to review.
Thank you for the information on your upcoming press release regarding the recent backing of UMFHA. I will share this with the team.
Have a wonderful rest of your day and I look forward to your continued updates.
Hello
Thanks for your reply. Is it standard practice that the retailers would expect a credit application from us.? As our goal with you would be to eventually go to a large distributor. Do we require the retailer to fill in any credit applicaiton? Or do we just supply ?
Hello Jenny,
It is typical, especially for intial orders, that the retailer will be paying for the order prior to the product being shipped. If after a relationship is established with the retailer, it may be beneficial to allow the retailer to open a credit line.
Please let me know if you have any other questions and I hope you have a wonderful rest of your week.
Hello.
Happy New Year. I see from Mr Goldsteins mail out, Distributors have shown interset in healther options. I would love for Mr Checkout to take us to distributor, or we could have a catch up to next stage moving forward with our products.
Kind Regards
Jenny Steward
Hello Jenny,
I hope you’re doing well today. We are going to be looking for 15-25 retailers from within our association to be onboarded before moving forward with introductions to our distributors and wholesalers. Our network of distributors look for products that preform well within our retail program to then bring on.
Thank you and have a wonderful rest of your day.
Hi
Thanks for your reply.
So we are still chasing sales, obviously. We only have one sale as of today. What is the next stage for Mr Checkout and BeeNZ? What do you suggest for getting other sales? What other support do you give to promote or get infront of your association?
Your expertise in this woudl be appreciated.
Hello Jenny,
I hope you’re doing well today and I see from the latest report that there seems to be some additional follow up notated. I see you had some phone follow up to conduct and I wanted to see if you have completed this follow up or it is still being conducted.
Once we see this update or the follow up completed, we can begin moving forward with more introductions.
Thank you and I look forward to your reply.
Hello Team
I have uploaded an updated report sheet. We are not having any more luck with these people. Could we please move onto another avenue, to explore?
Where do you suggest to now?Kind Regards
Jenny
Hello Jenny,
I hope you’re doing well today and thank you for reaching out. I am happy to see you’ve had your first sale and look forward to seeing how that relationship progresses.
I wanted to see if you’ve been able to determine which distributor Country Corner Health Foods would like you to be working with in order to purchase. We can have our team work on these introductions to see if we can move the relationship forward.
In the meantime, I will ask our team to continue their introductions to more of our retailers and post the results here for you as we’ve done previously.
Please continue to monitor this page for these results as well as any other updates that may come from our team.
Thank you and I look forward to your reply.
Hello
Country Corner Health foods would prefer us to be with keHe. Along with the Covington Supermarket that has placed an order. They are both strong with wanting us to be listed with KeHe.
It woudl be great if you could assist in a further way to introduce our company/ products.
We look forward to your advise and hearing about your team reaching out to the next lot of potential customers. We would really like to get into a distributor as well.
On another note. Myself and Julie Hayes, our managing director are coming up to Expo West. While I realise you do not have a presense at the expo. It would be great if we could visit your Anehiem office while we are there. Even meet to discuss further in person would be fabulous.
Hello Jenny,
Thank you for this information. I will ask our team to reach out to Kehe to see if we can continue the introductions and any interest or instructions we receive I will post here for you.
In regards to our Anahiem office and other sattelite offices, these are not utilized full time by our employees however our main office, where the team working on your account is located, is in Oviedo FL.
Thank you again for reaching out and I will be back in touch here for you with updates from our team’s outreach.
HI Team
Oh, that is a pity about Anehiem. It would have been great to meet some of the team in person.
We are only in LA and Anehiem for this visit.
