Chilled & frozen clearance, moved on the cold chain.
Dairy, ready meals, meat and poultry, and frozen vegetables at clearance prices, with the cold chain intact from our seller's store to your dock. The one stream where the calendar does the pricing: frozen buys you room, chilled rewards a buyer who can answer the same day.
- Use-by dates declared up front
- Cold chain documented
- Frozen depth, chilled speed
The clearance stream that runs on the clock.
Chilled and frozen surplus exists for the same reasons as ambient: forecasts overshoot, promotions end, ranges reset and depots consolidate. What changes is the tempo. A frozen load can wait for the right buyer the way a pallet of tins can; a chilled load is on a window measured in days, so offers in this stream carry the date position in the first line and reward the buyer who reads it fast.
One line never moves: use-by is a safety date and a hard legal stop, and the desk does not trade past it. What you're offered is stock inside its window, priced on how much of that window is left. Cold-chain records and storage temperatures travel with the load, so what reaches your dock is stock you can receive, log and sell with the paperwork already in order.
The two halves of the stream suit different buyers. Frozen lands as planned, full-pallet buys with months of runway, the closest thing to ambient this side of the freezer door. Chilled lands as part-loads offered to registered buyers the day they surface, where the price reflects the window and the margin rewards the operator whose cabinets can take stock at short notice.
What lands in chilled & frozen
Both temperature bands, declared line by line:
Dairy
Milk drinks, yogurts, desserts and cheese from range resets and depot surplus. Short windows, sharp prices, brands shoppers already trust.
Ready meals
Chilled and frozen meal ranges from delistings and forecast misses. Case counts and use-by positions stated per line.
Meat & poultry
Chilled primals and frozen packs with full traceability. The paperwork travels with the load, from source to your goods-in.
Frozen vegetables
Bagged veg, chips and fruit, the calmest buy in the stream: long-coded, steady demand and easy to hold.
Frozen full loads
The planned buy: full pallets and trailer lots with months on the code, offered with time to work out the sums.
Chilled part-loads
The fast buy: short-window stock offered to matched buyers the day it lands, priced for a same-day answer.
Who buys chilled & frozen clearance
A stream for buyers with cold capacity at their end:
Discounters with chilled cabinets
Value chains running chilled and frozen bays, where a branded dairy line at clearance cost anchors the aisle.
Caterers & commercial kitchens
Kitchens buying frozen depth on a plan and chilled opportunistically, at prices that protect the plate cost.
Food-service wholesale
Frozen and chilled distributors adding clearance lines to their own delivered lists.
Manufacturers & processors
Operators taking chilled and frozen inputs where the specification fits, with dates and records to satisfy their own audits.
Independent grocers & farm shops
Smaller buyers with cabinet space, taking mixed chilled pallets sized for a single site.
Export & Ireland trade
Buyers on established cold-chain routes, where frozen runway makes the crossing comfortably.
Buying chilled & frozen in three steps
Same list, colder lorries, faster answers.
Set your cold remit.
Categories, volumes and what your receiving end can take: chilled, frozen or both, and how much notice you need.
Windows stated, first reply reserves.
Every offer opens with the use-by position, the storage temperature and the collection window. Chilled offers reward the same-day answer.
Cold chain, door to door.
Refrigerated haulage booked through our logistics partners, with temperature records and full cold-chain paperwork travelling with the load.
Asked about
this category.
The practical questions buyers in this sector send before their first order, answered straight.
Do you ever sell stock past its use-by date?
Never. Use-by is a safety date and a legal hard stop, and the desk does not trade past it, at any price. What we offer is stock inside its window, priced honestly on how much of that window is left. Best-before works differently, but in chilled the marker that matters is almost always use-by.
What paperwork comes with a chilled or frozen load?
The manifest with use-by positions per line, storage temperatures, cold-chain records from the seller's store onwards, and delivery documentation from the refrigerated carrier. It's the same traceability the ambient streams carry, plus the temperature history.
What do I need at my end to buy from this stream?
Refrigerated or frozen storage and a goods-in that can receive a temperature-controlled delivery. Tell us what you run at registration: it decides which offers you see, and it saves both sides pricing a load you can't land.
How is chilled different from frozen on the list?
Tempo. Frozen behaves like ambient with a thermostat: planned buys, months of code, time to think. Chilled is offered the day it surfaces with the window stated up front, and the first matched buyer to reply reserves it.
How fast do I have to answer a chilled offer?
Same day is the working assumption. A chilled window is measured in days, and every hour spent deciding is an hour off your selling time. If same-day answers don't fit how you buy, register for frozen only: nothing in this stream penalises a buyer for knowing their own tempo.
Can I buy frozen stock against a longer plan?
Yes, and many buyers do. Frozen loads carry months of runway, recur across the year and suit a standing remit: register the categories and volumes once and matched offers arrive as they land.
Do chilled and frozen loads travel to Ireland and Europe?
Yes, on established refrigerated routes with export paperwork handled. Frozen makes any crossing comfortably; chilled depends on the window, and the offer says whether the sums work before you commit.
How is chilled clearance priced?
On the window, mostly. The same yogurt is worth more with ten days on it than with four, so the discount deepens as the code tightens. The manifest states the position per line and the price already reflects it: what you're judging is whether your shelves can clear it in time.
Get on the list before
the next load lands.
Buy chilled and frozen clearance stock by the pallet: dairy, ready meals, meat and frozen veg, use-by declared, cold chain documented door to door.