How Community Group Buying Cuts Out Grocery Store Markups
A news segment explores the concept of community group buying, a method where consumers purchase fresh produce directly from farmers. By bypassing traditional retail supply chains, this farm-to-table approach aims to eliminate grocery store markups, allowing participants to access food at lower costs. The video features an Abbotsford farmer and a reporter discussing how these collective purchasing efforts function as a direct alternative to conventional supermarket shopping, highlighting the economic benefits for both the producers and the local community members involved in the group buy.
And he eats for free
This exists in France for decades. Called Amap. Direct buying to producers. To switch off the supermarket
Wow its not as if this has been common in europe for years
...... americans are really dumb, aren't they.
The same trucks thatvdeliver to big resturants etc. They will also deluver to yoh .. You get super dirt cheap, but on a pallet at 4am
so we just cut off the goverment? good, very good.
nothing new. Buyers unions are as old as time. And they wont solve anything (read Rosa Luxemburg)
and I bet the farmers are making more of this as well. when we used to buy eggs from a farmer a tray which I think was 24 or 25 eggs was about the same as a dozen eggs in the supermarket, he was always very happy to sell to us because he said selling them this way he charged more
Wait until they hear about gardens!
So it’s a co-op?