Case Study: Northgate González Market achieves cloud-first transformation and 40% cost savings with Zscaler

Zscaler Helped Northgate Market Become a Cloud-First Organization

Northgate Market is a family-owned Hispanic supermarket chain with 40 stores in Southern California and roughly 500,000 customer visits per week. Rapid growth and acquisitions exposed limits in its legacy MPLS/T‑1 network (with 3 Mbps per site and a 3G LTE backup), which caused frequent outages, costly backhauling of internet traffic to two data centers, poor user experience, and an inability to support mobile and tablet initiatives.

Northgate deployed VMware SD‑WAN integrated with Zscaler Internet Access and Zscaler Private Access to enable local internet breakouts and cloud-native security. The combined solution eliminated outages, improved bandwidth and visibility, delivered application-level traffic prioritization and stronger protection for roaming employees, simplified operations, and reduced overall expenses by about 40%.

Northgate González Market

Harrison Lewis

Chief Information Officer