How to Start a WIC Store
Are you someone who wants to become an authorized vendor for the government's Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)?
Prepare and apply to become a store owner where WIC customers can redeem their food vouchers. Learn from our guide the basics of how to start a WIC store.
To improve the health of women, infants, and children from low-income families, the U.S. government created a Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). Under the program, participants are given vouchers that they can use to get nutritious food items such as milk, cheese, and cereal. These vouchers can only be redeemed at WIC stores. If you want to serve this market, you can start a WIC store.
The basics of starting a WIC store are much like starting a regular grocery or retail store. The difference is you have to make sure you are selling WIC-approved items. Then you have to apply and pass the requirements for operating a WIC store to be authorized as a WIC vendor. Here are some steps you will have to take to open a WIC store:
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- Look for the Web site of your health services department or your state WIC program and read all pertinent information on how to apply and get authorized as a WIC vendor.
- Download the application package and pay particular attention to what basic items WIC stores are required to have in order to be authorized.
- Find a suitable location for the store, suppliers with which you can source your inventory for WIC-authorized food, and businesses that sell or rent out grocery store fixtures.
- Incorporate your business or register it. Get the necessary permits and licenses to operate a grocery store.
- Enter into a lease agreement for store space and contract with suppliers.
- Refit the store and furnish it with fixtures (cash registers, computers, telephone, security system, refrigerators, display racks, and shelves) and goods you will sell. Correctly display your business permits and licenses.
- Open your store and start operation. Make sure to comply with all retailing laws and ordinances and maintain a clean record in preparation for your application to become a WIC-authorized vendor.
- Come up with all the requirements specified in the application package and send your application to your state’s WIC office.
- Wait while the office reviews your application and schedules you for background checks (integrity check), training, testing, and on-site inspection.
- If all goes well, you will receive a signed, executed vendor agreement allowing you to entertain WIC food vouchers.
To be approved as a WIC vendor, send a properly filled and completed application to avoid delays in approval, which usually takes at least three months.
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