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| founder = Joyce Guan Adam Sah | defunct = | location_city = San Francisco, California | location_country = U.S. | locations = 3 retail shops (2014) | area_served = San Francisco Bay Area | key_people = Adam Sah, CEO and Founder Joyce Guan, VP Sales and Founder | industry = NAIC 42211: wholesale grocery | num_employees = 38 (2014) | homepage = (bbfdirect.com ) | intl = no }} Buyer's Best Friend (BBF) is a vertically integrated company specialising in consumer packaged goods, such as food. BBF uses its proprietary software platform to provide low cost solutions for artisan food producers, including a partnership with UNFI〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=UNFI )〕 to provide a scangun ordering solution for artisan brands that are not available through distributors.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Buyer's Best Friend levels playing field for small niche brands )〕 As a broker, BBF operates the largest catalog for the specialty and natural food trade〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Buyer’s Best Friend Tops 100,000 SKUs )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Gourmet Business )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Friend With Benefits )〕 with 2,600 food producers selling 155,000 products to 12,000 wholesale buyers〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=statistics from BBF homepage )〕 in the United States, including Whole Foods, The Fresh Market, JetBlue, Virgin America and the corporate kitchens at Google. Buyer's Best Friend is a member of the Specialty Food Association. As a distributor, BBF warehouses food for artisan producers and delivers snacks to offices in the San Francisco bay area, including technology companies such as Indiegogo, Greylock Partners and New Relic. As a retailer, ''Buyer's Best Friend'' owns and operates 3 San Francisco retail shops that sell products sourced from its online catalog, located in Haight-Ashbury, North Beach and the San Francisco Ferry Building. The shops are notable for allowing customers to taste nearly everything in the stores before purchase.〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=Christina Spittler )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=Tara Duggan )〕 ''Buyer's Best Friend'' retail shops were an early adopter of virtual currencies, by modifying its proprietary point of sale (POS) software to accept Bitcoin〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=Sarah E. Needleman )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=Kashmir Hill )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Wired )〕 in April, 2013. == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Buyer's Best Friend」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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