Organic Garage (TSX-V:OG) Ltd has announced that its plant-based food company, Future of Cheese Inc, is preparing to launch its own e-commerce store within the first quarter of 2022, where its complete line of dairy alternative products will be offered for sale across Canada.
The Toronto-based company said Future of Cheese’s recent plant-based product launches in physical retail locations were met with tremendous demand and positive reviews from consumers, critics, chefs and the media. Its Ripened Brie was named the “World’s most realistic vegan brie” by US-based VegNews, it added.
“Since our launch, we have been inundated with requests for orders from customers across Canada and the US, asking if they can buy direct,” Future of Cheese president Jen Wojtaszek said in a statement.
“The plant-based food trend combined with the necessity of online grocery shopping has accelerated our plans to launch our e-commerce retail platform in order to meet the growing demand from the click-to-table digital shopper,” she added.
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With online grocery sales in the US reaching nearly $100 billion in 2021 and over 70% of households having placed at least one online grocery order during the year, the company said it strongly believes that accelerating the plans to roll out its online shopping platform will quickly expand its reach to new customers and add direct-to-consumer sales.
Future of Cheese also plans to highly curate the shopping experience, providing customers with a detailed walk-through of each product from its nutritional values to the unique processes used to produce each item, something that is challenging to do through traditional retail, it added.
“We want the customer to be educated and inspired when they choose to purchase our products, the same way I visit a table in my restaurants to personally walk a diner through the process of creating the food that they will experience, and leave them with the satisfaction that we care deeply about the food and products we are providing,” Craig Harding, co-founder and culinary director of Future of Cheese concluded.
Organic Garage (TSX-V:OG) is one of Canada’s leading independent organic grocers and is committed to offering its customers a wide selection of healthy and natural products at everyday affordable prices. The company’s stores are in prime retail locations designed to give customers an inclusive, unique and value-focused grocery shopping experience.
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