PROGRAMS

CENTER STORE | FRESH | PHARMACY | INDIRECT SPEND | FUEL 
 

Topco uses a customer centric, data driven approach throughout the offering of exclusive brands, products and services. Topco's product and service offerings are broken down into 10 programs with highly specialized resources designed to support each of these key areas.

CENTER STORE

Topco's Center Store includes the Dairy/Bakery, Frozen, Grocery, Health & Beauty Care and General Merchandise programs. Together, these areas represent more than $4.3 billion in annual volume and purchase more than 4,600 items on behalf of Topco's membership. Approximately 20,000 orders are processed through these programs each month, which procure product from more than 500 suppliers. More than 42 members participate in the Topco's Center Store Private Label sector of business.

Topco members sell over 1.5 million cases of peanut butter, over 40 million Tippy Toes diapers, 20 million pounds of dry dog food and 78% of the total U.S. exports of Fluid Milk to Mexico.*

FRESH

Utilizing Topco's aggregate volume, superior market knowledge, on-site inspection process, and national procurement coverage, members are able to serve as the dominant perishable merchant in their respective marketplaces in our Produce & Floral, Deli-Bakery-Foodservice, and Meat & Seafood programs.

Topco’s Fresh Programs purchase the largest amount of Certified Angus Beef 18 years running (38% of all National Retail Volume) along with 11 million three-pound bags of clementines.*

By fully utilizing Topco's market intelligence, category expertise, buying power, and creative services, members are able to deliver superior value to their customers and remain competitive in the marketplace.

 

PHARMACY

Topco’s Pharmacy program is the sixth-largest retail purchaser in the nation. Collectively, Topco harnesses the power of 19 member companies to achieve significant scale and savings on prescription drug purchases. Topco’s Pharmacy program also innovates and secures a wide variety of services such as electronic prescription switching, inventory control, managed care initiatives and accreditation.

Topco’s Pharmacy Program represent over 2,000 pharmacies across the U.S.*

INDIRECT SPEND

When Topco members need to procure anything they need to operate, Indirect Spend Solutions is the highly engaged sourcing program they leverage. The not-for-resale offerings encompass hundreds of categories, including: construction, store equipment, distribution, IT/telecom, HR benefits, hired services, logistics, marketing, merchandising, office products, packaging, consumables, travel, utilities and waste solutions.

The Indirect Spend program increased savings across more than 850 best-in-class supplier partnerships  providing an average savings of 9% for participating members *

FUEL

The Topco Fuel program operates a dynamic fuel supply and distribution network to meet the low-cost supply needs of Topco members throughout the United States. We supply refined products via multiple pipelines, rail and truck options out of the Gulf Coast, Chicago, Group 3 and New York Harbor spot markets to over 50 terminals across 23 states.

Participating members purchased over 415 million gallons of fuel through Topco last year.*

 

* All statistics gathered from Topco Annual Report 2016.