Bottled water can be derived from glaciers, springs, wells, even municipal tap water.   Spring water can be derived from an underground aquifer and collected from an artesian spring or well.   Minerals that promote good health become dissolved in the water as it moves through the underground acquifer.

Purified water can be derived from any of these sources and is then processed by reverse osmosis or deionization to produce a water that is indistinguishable from distilled water from any other source. Purified water contains no dissolved solids.  Purified water may be unhealthy because minerals and ions are being pulled out of it due to reverse osmosis.

Utah's Own bottled water from Mount Olympus, Kolob Water Company, and Park City Icewater Company are natural spring water products.

Box store refers to a style of physically large chain store, and by extension to the company behind the store. The terms superstore, megastore, and supercenter also refer to these retail establishments. Typical characteristics include:

• "Big-Box" is descriptive of the physical characteristics of the building. A big box store is a large, free-standing, rectangular, generally single-floor store built on a concrete slab.
• Floor space several times greater than traditional retailers in the sector, in North America generally more than 50,000 square feet, sometimes approaching 200,000 square feet, though varying by sector and market.
• Location in suburban or rural areas, often in proximity to freeways, as opposed to downtown shopping districts.

Generally, Utah "Big Box Stores" are not locally owned but part of regional and national chains.  Exceptions are Associated Food Stores and Harmon's as well as some of the independent stores like Emigration Market and The Store(s).

Delivery by a vendor directly to a retail store of a customer, as opposed to delivery to a warehouse operated by the customer.

Most of the time, direct store delivery is required of smaller food companies that have not achieved the volume of unit sales required for space in a warehouse.  One exception in Utah is Malt-O-Meal.  They use direct delivery because their volume is so large use of the warehouse is less efficient.

Each dollar spent on a Utah's Own product is shared with those who create and help bring that product to your store.  This sharing of revenues has the effect of creating additional economic benefit as each person who receives a share of that dollar spends it in Utah supporting themselves and their families.  With some products that "multipler effect" can amount to several dollars.

Conversely each dollar spent on an imported product has the potential of exporting a portion of our Utah economy to another community.

A slotting fee is a fee charged to produce companies or manufacturers by supermarket distributors (retailers) in order to have their product placed on their shelves. The fee varies greatly depending on the product, manufacturer, and market conditions. For a new product, the initial slotting fee may be approximately $25,000 per item in a regional cluster of stores, but may be as high as $250,000 in high-demand markets.

In addition to slotting fees, retailers may also charge promotional, advertising and stocking fees.  Some grocers earn more profit from agreeing to carry a manufacturer's product than they do from actually selling the product to retail consumers. According to retailers, fees serve to efficiently allocate scarce retail shelf space, help balance the risk of new product failure between manufacturers and retailers, help manufacturers signal private information about potential success of new products, and serve to widen retail distribution for manufacturers by mitigating retail competition.

Most Utah's Own products do not have to pay slotting fees for grocery stores but may have to pay slotting fees in grocery warehouses in order to be in their warehouse.

A warehouse item is a grocery item that is delivered to the warehouse of a chain store as opposed to direct store delivery.  It is advantageous to the producer since they can deliver large quantities to a single location as opposed to smaller quantities to several store locations.  It is a challenge, especially to smaller start up companies, to get their product into the warehouse.  It is quite competitive between companies to have space in a warehouse for their product.  There is sometimes a slotting fee associated with having a product in the warehouse.  It is easier for grocery stores managers to maintain inventory of warehouse items in their store giving warehouse items an advantage to direct store delivery items.