Looking to join a buying club this fall, starting 1 September. Know a lot of 3-4 person households who could benefit, too.
Photos of a bulk room serving ~20 people:
A library of food?
It’s much easier to eat new things if they’re readily at hand, in large quantities.
(hm, a bit blurry)
Edward Vielmetti | 27-May-08 at 1:53 pm | Permalink
People’s Food Coop has a bulk purchase program, where you can get stuff by the case or the huge bag for a discount.
Matt Hampel | 27-May-08 at 6:34 pm | Permalink
I have a contact for a local buying club, which works through United National Foods Inc. They supply co-ops etc. in a large portion of the US: http://www.unfi.com/
More as I know it.
Murph | 08-Jul-08 at 7:06 am | Permalink
We registered our post-ICC group house as a “co-op” with the Student Buyers’ Association, the org. that does bulk buying for the co-ops, frats, and sororities. You can get deliveries (to your door) weekly, if you want, from the Blooming Prairie catalog (essentially the PFC inventory) for something like 5% over catalog, minus whatever bulk discount SBA gets beyond the catalog price, plus a gas surcharge. (Weekly deliveries are a little much for small houses, based on the gas surcharge.) SBA also gets you a GFS membership, and various other bulk discounts around town we didn’t take advantage of, with centralized billing.