Cooperative grocery wholesaler supplying independently owned supermarkets
AWG is a Kansas City-based grocery cooperative running warehousing and distribution for independent supermarket members. Its stack pairs Azure integration services (Logic Apps, API Management, Service Bus, Event Grid) with legacy IBM Integration Bus and DataPower, which matches repeated pain points around legacy system integration and stability. Hiring leans toward ops, sales and logistics, reflecting member-store support over pure engineering build-out.
Associated Wholesale Grocers is a privately held cooperative food wholesaler founded in 1924 and headquartered in Kansas City, KS. It supplies independently owned supermarkets across many U.S. states through a network of regional division support centers. Alongside wholesale distribution, subsidiaries handle real estate, supermarket development services and pharmaceutical products. The company employs between 1,001 and 5,000 people and hires within the United States.
AWG uses Azure (Logic Apps, API Management, Service Bus, Event Grid), AWS, Java with Spring Boot, React, Docker, Kubernetes, IBM Integration Bus, Power BI, Delta Lake, Vocollect, ServiceNow and Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM.
Yes, at a steady pace in the United States, with hiring concentrated in operations, sales and logistics, plus some engineering and support roles, mostly at junior and mid levels.
AWG is headquartered in Kansas City, Kansas, and has operated as a privately held grocery cooperative since 1924.
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