Our Story, from Redhill to Indianapolis
Choose a year2025
The iWrap Hand System was launched as Acopia expanded into the US market, with operations based in Indianapolis.
Retail ConsumablesSimplified & Streamlined
Helping multi-site retailers gain control of operational consumables, reducing cost, complexity and waste across every store.
The Challenges Retailers Face
All retail challenges
Process Improvement
Back-of-house inefficiencies can quietly impact store productivity and operational costs.
Cost Control
Without visibility and governance, consumables spend can quietly erode retail margins.
Supply Chain Resilience
Multiple suppliers and unreliable deliveries create operational disruption.
Sustainability Goals
Retailers must reduce waste, plastics and environmental impact while staying compliant.
Operational consumables are essential to everyday store operations
...but they are rarely managed strategically
Across many retail businesses this category of GNFR becomes fragmented and reactive, with multiple suppliers, inconsistent ordering processes and limited visibility of spend across stores.
The result is unnecessary cost, operational inefficiencies and sustainability challenges. For retailers operating across multiple locations, even small inefficiencies can multiply quickly.
Key pain points
- Limited visibility of consumables spend across stores
- Too many suppliers and inconsistent product standards
- Store teams wasting time sourcing everyday supplies
- Sustainability targets without operational control
Doing More with Less
Acopia's More with Less Methodology helps retailers streamline operational consumables across their store networks.
Discover the More with Less ApproachLess AdminMore Time
Less AdminRemove manual ordering, fragmented purchasing and supplier management.
More TimeFree store teams to focus on customers and running great stores.
Core Pillars of our More with Less Methodology
How Retailers Deliver More With Less
Acopia combines strategic insight, operational expertise and technology to help retailers simplify GNFR and operational consumables across their store networks.
Consumables Health Check
Identify hidden spend, fragmented suppliers and opportunities to simplify procurement.
Back-of-House Process Review
Improve stockroom organisation, ordering processes and store efficiency.
MyAcopia Platform
Centralise ordering and gain full visibility of consumables spend across every location.
One Supplier. One Portal. One Invoice.
MyAcopia is a custom-built, online ordering platform that gives you complete visibility and control over your consumables procurement.
Discover MyAcopia- 25%Of running costs can be everyday consumables
- £50What every traditional transaction can cost in time and resource
- Same dayDespatch, with next-day UK delivery and courier tracking
- £0MyAcopia is free to use across your entire team
Trusted by Leading Retailers
For over 50 years, Acopia has supported retailers, charities and hospitality businesses with the everyday consumables that keep stores running.
Working in partnership with our customers, we take away the pain of sourcing and managing their GNFR so that they can focus on what's important: their customers.
- A third generation family business
- 1976A third generation family business
- Square foot warehouse in Bognor Regis
- 50,000Square foot warehouse in Bognor Regis
- SKUs serving thousands of businesses
- 5,000+SKUs serving thousands of businesses
Retail Consumables Insights
All resources
Why Retail Consumables are an overlooked management problem
Reframe consumables as a management issue and move from reactive problem-solving to structured, scalable improvement.
Single-Source Procurement vs. Multiple Suppliers
Retailers often overestimate the risks of single source procurement and underestimate the cost of supplier complexity.
5 Strategies for greater GNFR visibility across your retail estate
Getting your GNFR strategies for procurement on track can help to drive cost savings right across your retail estate.
Five strategies for controlling retail procurement costs
Discover new ways to control retail procurement costs and make the most of supplier relationships.
Ready to Achieve More With Less?
Discover how Acopia helps retailers simplify operational consumables and improve control across their store networks.