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Re:How Goya brought ethnic food to white America by giardini on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @11:39PM (#6287897)
I asked for directions from a fellow who was restocking in a local market. He deferred, explaining that he worked for Goya, not for the store. He was responsible for all the Goya products in the store (and other stores) and that the aisle we were in was dedicated solely to Goya products.

I worked for a supermarket when in high school and only store employees handled goods inside the building. Here the store allowed control of an entire aisle to Goya. And believe me, shelf space is at the very core of retail sales.

Re:How Goya brought ethnic food to white America by mbell on Wednesday August 28, 2013 @12:22AM (#6288010)
Currently hacking away on the food industry:

It's common practice for a distributor to handle stocking of product in some/many locations, it's referred to as 'merchandising' in the industry, it's often limited to speciality products. Given the comment I think the interesting thing is that either Goya is doing their own distribution or has subcontracted that out or has a special distributor relationship in some way. It's relatively uncommon for products which are in the supermarket 'core' (true for Goya at least of my local stores) to get this treatment, so that seems to say something about Goya.

This is also very common in the alcohol industry, e.g. the huge Bud Light displays you'll see in stores are usually setup by distributors, not the store owner.

Re:How Goya brought ethnic food to white America by astrogirl on Wednesday August 28, 2013 @09:22AM (#6289748)
Kellogg and Nabisco often stock the shelves themselves as well. And the Asian/International aisle is stocked by the vendor sometimes as well.
Re:How Goya brought ethnic food to white America by saryant on Wednesday August 28, 2013 @12:27AM (#6288026)
A number of brands do this. Blue Bell is famous for it in Texas.