Associated Wholesale Grocers (AWG) knows its customers can't live on bread and milk alone. The second-largest retailer-owned cooperative in the US (behind Wakefern Food Corporation), AWG supplies more than  2,900 retail outlets in more than 30 states from nine distribution centers. In addition to its wholesale grocery operation, AWG offers a variety of business services to its members, including marketing and merchandising programs, shelf management, insurance, and store design. AWG was founded by a group of independent grocers in 1924.