Case study — MP Snacks

Live

The snack plug, by the case.

MP Snacks is the direct-to-buyer side of the same San Diego operation as MP Wholesale — viral, Mexican, and Asian snacks sold by the case to anyone who wants them, not just licensed retailers. Same warehouse, completely different customer, so it needed its own storefront and its own voice.

Client
MP Snacks
Where
San Diego, California
Sector
Ecommerce — snacks & confectionery
Scope
Custom Shopify storefront, design & build
mpsnacks.com
MP Snacks online store homepage — viral, Mexican, and Asian snacks sold by the case
The homepage — products as the design
01 — MP Snacks

Two brands, one warehouse.

MP Wholesale sells to shops. MP Snacks sells to everyone else — party planners, offices, vending operators, resellers, and people who saw something on TikTok and want a whole case of it. Trying to serve both from one storefront would have made each worse, so they are separate stores with separate voices sharing the same stock room.

Where the wholesale site is sober and trade-facing, this one is loud: an announcement bar cycling the offers, bold category tiles, and a homepage that treats the products as the design.

02 — MP Snacks

Merchandised the way people actually shop.

With 900+ SKUs, the category structure is the entire user experience. Products are cross-cut two ways — by what it is (chips, candy, chocolate, drinks, ice cream, nuts and jerky, protein) and by why you want it (Mexican, Asian, viral) — because someone hunting a specific TikTok candy and someone stocking a party shop take completely different routes to the cart.

The commercial mechanics are stated up front rather than discovered at checkout: buy by the case and save up to 10%, free shipping over $300. Both are on the announcement bar, because the entire proposition is volume.

03 — MP Snacks

Why Shopify again.

Same reasoning as the wholesale build — a catalogue this size with real inventory and real payments belongs on infrastructure that already works. The theme is custom, so the brand, the category architecture, and the merchandising are ours; the boring parts are Shopify's problem.

What we shipped

Scope of the build.

  • Custom Shopify theme
  • Case-break pricing
  • Category architecture
  • 900+ SKUs
See it live at mpsnacks.com
MP Snacks online store on a phone, showing the offers bar and snack category navigation
On a phone — the offers bar carries the proposition

Want one built like this?

Every project on this page was designed and built by us, end to end. Tell us what your business needs to do online and we'll scope it properly.

Ask Arc

AI assistant

AI can make mistakes — for anything specific, .