Comments on: The bulk room http://matth.org/2008/05/26/the-bulk-room/ I'm Matt Hampel, a student in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Murph http://matth.org/2008/05/26/the-bulk-room/comment-page-1/#comment-447 Murph Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:06:03 +0000 http://matth.org/2008/05/26/the-bulk-room/#comment-447 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. 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.

]]> By: Matt Hampel http://matth.org/2008/05/26/the-bulk-room/comment-page-1/#comment-424 Matt Hampel Wed, 28 May 2008 01:34:29 +0000 http://matth.org/2008/05/26/the-bulk-room/#comment-424 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. 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.

]]> By: Edward Vielmetti http://matth.org/2008/05/26/the-bulk-room/comment-page-1/#comment-421 Edward Vielmetti Tue, 27 May 2008 20:53:03 +0000 http://matth.org/2008/05/26/the-bulk-room/#comment-421 People's Food Coop has a bulk purchase program, where you can get stuff by the case or the huge bag for a discount. People’s Food Coop has a bulk purchase program, where you can get stuff by the case or the huge bag for a discount.

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