Industries Served

National chains are stores which feature a sales floor which averages 45,000 – 60,000 square feet and can be found in states across the country such as Albertsons, Safeway and SuperValu. These stores will offer a large selection of products within each category. L&R works to provide these customer with category management services including product selection, improved turns, no warehouse inventory, low store inventory, reduced out of stocks and planograms to meet their demographic needs.

Regional chains are sized like the national chains, however they are traditionally located in regional U.S. markets such as Giant Eagle, Wegmans, ShopRite and Hannaford which are located in the northeastern U.S., Publix which is located in the Southeastern U.S., Raley’s located on the west coast and Harris Teeter, a division of Kroger which is located primarily in the Carolina’s.

Independent Stores are typically smaller in size (10,000 – 25,000 square feet) and offer a more limited selection of products within each category. Independent chains are typically regional in either urban or suburban markets. Since they are smaller they have a limited management staff so they rely on L&R to provide them with custom services for things such as customer made racking to order, product selection, low in store inventory, reduced operating costs and planograms designed to meet their specific demographic needs. We also assist with any B to B website needs.

• Urban Independent Stores including Western Beef, Morton Williams, C-Town, Fine Fare, Met Foods, Associated, Food Universe, Pioneer, Bravo, Compare and more.
• Suburban Independent Stores including Key Foods, North Shore Farms, Supremo Food Markets, DeCicco’s and more.

Regional Drug Chains are full service drug stores with pharmacy departments and with large health and beauty care departments. These stores have large cosmetic departments and carry a large assortment of cosmetic brands in the premium, mid-tier and value brands. These chains are typically regional to a select market area and can have anywhere from 10 to 100+ stores.

Regional drug chains benefit from such services as regular deliveries direct to store, demographic planogram designing, low in store inventory, improved turns, reduced out of stocks and overall reduced operating costs. Examples of such retailers are Bartell Drug, Kinney Drug and Lewis Drug.       

Independent Drug Stores are full service drug stores with pharmacy departments that also offer a selection of health and beauty care categories including cosmetics. These stores are typically single stores or a small group of 10 or less stores and not part of a larger family of chain of stores. The independent class of trade is comprised of stores that are serviced by L&R sales representatives or L&R Telesales and further supported by our B2B eCommerce website: www.lrdist.com. For these customers L&R becomes their office support team by assisting with product selection, category management, space planning and retail price management. L&R also supports these customers with promotional programs designed to drive sales in key categories though out the year as well as during the various seasonal selling time periods.

• Serviced Stores – these store locations are serviced by an L&R sales representative who presents new items, places orders and assists the store with item selections to meet their demographic needs. These are retailers such as Raindew Family Centers, Save on Fifth and Value Drug to name just a few.       




• Telesales Stores – these are stores located in remote outlying areas and rely on calling or emailing into our telesales team to place orders, learn about new items and solicit assistance with their category management needs. These are retailers such as Purdy Cost Less Pharmacy, One Stoppe Shoppe, Sandpoint Super Drug, Western Drug and Ray’s Pharmacy to name just a few.        More Clients

Once the customer has made a sale, they can choose to pick up orders from our L&R site or have them delivered daily. This option offers an up-to-date inventory while eliminating the existence of outdated inventory in their own warehouse.

The Bulk Buyer makes large-scale order, weekly or even less frequently. They use our Master Catalogue to fill their warehouses with inventory to deliver to their own clients.

The Extended Aisle (often referred to as the “Endless Aisle”) enables an online or omni-channel retailer to make a sale on their e-commerce site, without having that exact product in stock. Instead, while the sale is made on that specific e-commerce site, the transaction is processed through L&R’s inventory. L&R will ship this product directly to the consumer, all while maintaining the integrity of the retailer site that it was purchased from. This enables our customers to expand their product catalog and provide rapid B2C order fulfillment powered by L&R’s vast inventory and distribution network.

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