Supplier for Independent Grocery Stores — Toronto & Canada-Wide

A starter shelf-plan for a new aisle

Stores opening a Levantine aisle from nothing generally weight it toward the fastest-moving lines first: a coffee block gets the most facings of anything on the shelf, packaged sweets take the next-largest block, and pantry staples fill in the remaining bay. That's a starting ratio to adjust against your own customers' habits, not a fixed formula — a store near a large Arabic-speaking community will likely sell through coffee faster than a general independent testing the category for the first time.

Whichever ratio you start with, ordering the opening set as one inquiry rather than testing single SKUs one at a time gets you a fuller shelf on day one and a single quotation to reorder against once you see what actually moves.

Coffee and sweets: the two fastest-moving lines

Ground Coffee (With Cardamom) ships in three case sizes — 100 g (x30), 200 g (x20) and 400 g (x10) — so a store can match pack size to how fast the shelf actually turns. See how long ground coffee stays fresh before committing to the largest case size on a first order.

Ma'amoul Ajweh Sweets is packed 12 x 400 g to the case and is one of the more recognizable packaged-sweet formats on the shelf for customers who grew up with it — a reliable second facing next to coffee for a store's opening sweets block.

Rounding out the pantry-staples shelf

Beyond coffee and sweets, the pantry staples category carries smaller-volume shelf items — almonds, a natural mastic chewing gum, and instant soup sachets among them — that round out a Levantine aisle without needing their own dedicated bay. The wider sweets & bakery range runs sixteen lines beyond the maamoul above, from breadsticks to barazek, if your shelf has room to grow past the starter set.

One category we don't currently have visible in the catalogue is jams and spreads — that range is being finalized. If a customer specifically asks, raise it in your inquiry and we'll flag when it's available, or source a specific line through our supplier network in the meantime.

Reordering as one grocery account

Once an opening shelf is in and selling, most independent grocery accounts settle into a standing reorder cycle against the same written quotation rather than renegotiating each time — see our notes for anyone opening a Middle Eastern grocery store for how that first supplier relationship and reorder rhythm typically comes together.