Grocery and Produce Wholesalers in Santa Cruz County, AZ
Produce houses make up 102 of the county's 207 wholesale employers, or 49.3% (our arithmetic). The grocery and related product merchant wholesalers group (NAICS 4244) counted 102 employer establishments in Santa Cruz County, AZ in 2023, with 1,051 employees and $60.9 million in annual payroll (County Business Patterns). 49 of them reported fewer than five workers; 47 of them were listed in ZIP 85621 (ZBP 2023). Nonemployer Statistics, a separate program, counted 31 businesses without paid employees in grocery and related product merchant wholesalers (NAICS 2022 4244) for 2024. Their funding need is the gap between paying growers and freight and getting paid by buyers, which points to working capital or inventory financing for the load itself.





