Your local grocery store.
Open beyond staffed hours.
Rural Grocery Solutions helps independent grocers and communities create hybrid stores—combining friendly, staffed service with secure, 24-hour member access. We bring together self-checkout, access control, membership management, training, and ongoing support.
How a Hybrid Grocery Store Works
Keep the personal service your community values, with more opportunities to shop beyond staffed hours.
Staffed service
During staffed hours, customers shop with help from your team. Staff handle checkout, stocking, and the everyday work of running the store.
After-hours shopping
Approved members use secure access to enter outside staffed hours, shop independently, and pay at self-checkout.
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Management with Talvik
Owners and managers use Talvik to manage memberships, review access activity, and stay connected to their store.
Our Story in the News
Explore coverage of Main Street Market and the hybrid grocery model that helped shape Rural Grocery Solutions
Minnesota Public Radio
Grocery Dive
Retail Retold Podcast
Rural Grocery Initiative
About
Rural Grocery Solutions
Rural Grocery Solutions grew out of our experience operating Main Street Market in Evansville, Minnesota. We understand the challenge of keeping groceries close to home while balancing staffing, operating costs, and the needs of a small community.
That experience led us to develop a hybrid shopping model and Talvik, our membership and store-management software. Today, we help independent grocers and communities plan and implement their own hybrid stores, with practical guidance, technology, training, and ongoing support.
Our goal is simple: help rural communities keep local grocery access.
Contact Us
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Get in Touch
Rural Grocery Solutions
PO Box 344
Evansville, Minnesota 56326
RuralGrocerySolutions@outlook.com