>Just buy in bulk bro, it's cheaper. This is almost never the case from what I've seen around me. I've checked the prices and things are always the same per unit price as smaller quantities. e.g., a four pound bag of something is double the cost of the two pound bag, and eight pound one is quadruple the two pound one. I don't know if this was always the case, but it seems to be so for the time I've been paying attention.
Sometimes it's cheaper, sometimes it's not. It depends on several factors but usually? Yes, usually bulk-buying is cheaper.
>>21696464last week on a sale I grabbed 10lbs butter to save a buck a poundbut today was gonna grab a three pack of something at $36when a single is 12.40. so to save a buck twenty, I don't think sosome bulk prices are more than the small shit, which blows my mind. GFS prices suck for a lot of the stuff they offer, even when compared to walmart.
are you fucking retarded?> 5lb flour is $3.5> 25lb flour is $5you need to learn to shop you dumb cunt
Just got 10lbs of 90/10 for $5.22/lb. 50lbs of Quaker old fashioned oats and 24lbs of dried pintos for about $50 shipped. That was actually free from my sams club cash back.
>>21696464It's brown coded to buy in bulk.
I checked out restaurant supply and the only actual deal was buying pizza sauce in gallon cans for $7. This is $30 savings.Walmart sells a fullsize 4lb ham for $15 and the small normal ~1lb stub for like $12.
>>21696464It depends how much you are buying. Actual bulk purchases are widely cheaper than unit cost - so much there is a whole industry based upon buying bulk and selling units (supermarkets)But you're unlikely to buy stuff in REAL bulk amounts. There's basically little difference between a 1kg package and a 2kg package.
>almost never the case50lbs jasmine rice, $403lbs jasmine rice, $740lbs chicken thighs : $605.5lbs chicken thighs : $14
>>21696464The problem is it can be hard to buy bulk as a consumer5 pounds of cornmeal costs 4 dollars at Walmart. 50 pounds can be had for less than 20 dollars, but from restaurant supply stores that are actually wholesale (need business license) or will cost a ton in shipping.
>buy bunch of bulk stuff>nothing ever happens, bulk supplies expire>repeat
>>21697328alot of places will allow you to do a pickup or even a delivery if your flat order is over $500 especially chinese ran food distribution companies if you have them localyou just gotta ask a rep plus you can just lie and say your a private chef/caterer
>>21697332what do you mean "nothing ever happens"? it's food, you're supposed to eat it. are you not cooking?
I only buy in bulk what I know I'm going to eat.
You just don't buy enough to get a decent enough discount
>>21697336>you can just lie and say you're a private chef/catererWhat are the consequences of getting caught? I'm guessing you get put on a blacklist, but is there any chance of legal trouble?
>>21697407They’ll throw you in jail with the hamburglar.
The kinds of people who act annoying about this are just incapable of understanding that other minds exist. Take this guy for example, >>21696701, imagine thinking everyone can get 25 pounds of flour for $5 just by driving down the street to the flour store
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>>21697407In theory tax implications. One of the reasons places like this need a business license is that if they only sell to othet businesses they do not need any of the systems, bookkeeping, or processes to collect sales tax.
>>21696701More like >5lb is $3.5>25lb is $15 Woah
>>21696464For the only thing that matters (liquor) a 1.75 liter bottle is almost always going to be cheaper than two 750 ml bottles of the same brand. Fuck you.
>>21697337they're probably buying food for disaster prep instead of regular eating
>>21697412You can just order it for delivery, retard.
>>21696756>40lbs chicken thighs : $60Jesus Christ, you're getting boned. That shit is $25-$30 in my area and $1-$1.29/lb at the supermarket. Leg quarters are even cheaper, $20-$25 for a 40lb box and 79¢-89¢/lb at the supermarket.
>>21696464How are you not getting deals on bulk?
Dont buy at grocery stores. Buy direct from suppliers grain and flour is dirt cheap DTC ( direct to consumer)Amazon sells bulk size with no shipping. Restaurant owners will cut you a deal on sysco foods truck, let them pocket 40$ or help them unload the truck that day and order buisness bulk price foods from the order guide. In particular amazon has giant evil corporation level negotiating power even kirkland brand ( costco) sells on there without having to pay membership you could buy the same thing they sell for the shelf price.If your looking for bulk price at the grocery store where you usually shop your not going to succeed. The stores mark up even bulk to profit maximum. A exception is ethnic grocery stores that regularly sell to restaurants. There bulk rice, spices and sauces are good prices.There are farmers who sell live animals for cheap, if your willing to slaughter yourself the animal and grind it. A lot of people adopt out goats for free as if their not made of meat
>>21696701these prices exist only in your head
>>21697415kys
>>21697336>you can just liemany places and online stores require a business registry number for the sale
>>21698700I mean Amazon's own brand beats grocery prices at a 5 lb baghttps://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Brand-Happy-Belly-Purpose/dp/B07Z7DY1N8/ref=mp_s_a_1_8?crid=ADSSTDEAK6AA&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Gw_K0TgDUQi5gC_95CWeUlODzcvWptJFXgHn5hsdYnTToRJg2ittfU2BQSCS0am_WtG62Q4oHIM9DCMklMPKkWWHKqv6qtLVDNEExoa9sbTS_6IFuCc18jC3-hBN-ChN9LTgAU670wzJYI3VWC87GDWqUzYTEBNr5iAnKMb0qz-ZltKs282qHO95PdORcuLwpFb--PtPo1VGe1zYtepaqA.4jGSoVwrqJDOTUKtnlXn57HFEz2ocq_6OyxJpu5BlQw&dib_tag=se&keywords=bulk+flour+50+lbs&qid=1762295627&sprefix=bulk+flour%2Caps%2C207&sr=8-8
>>21698578you're still supposed to eat the food you buy for disaster prepping, not just let it sit around and go bad. you eat it and replace it so you have a constantly rotating stock of food in case of emergency.
>>21698686>prices be different and shityeah that's how the world works
>>21698734Gee I wonder why Amazon would do something like that It must be because they're so generous and love their customers so muchAnd definitely isnt just undercutting so they can corner the market and subsequently raise prices Nahhh our friend Amazon would never do something like that so just keep guiltlessly helping them do it
>>21698746Yeah. And if I can pull those prices in NYC then yes: Anon is getting boned.
>>21696464what do you do about the weevils?
>>21698744>>21698744This. I do both prep and bulk by vacuum sealing with a oxygen absorber most things.At any time I have about a year of food rotating.Shelf stable dry bulk/prepper/ yearly purchased items:50lb multigrain wholegrain flour40lb flake potatoRolled oats 30lb this yearBulk nuts and dry fruit ( grind my own peanut butter)5 gallon bucket of honey5 gallon bucket of virgin coconut oilBulk Italian spiceBulk paprikaBulk dry garlicBulk paper10 lb saltDehydrated egg ( prepper, not price savy)Dehydrated whole milk (prepper not price savy)Wheat berriesWhatever bulk dry beans are good price preferably mixed beansBulk seasonally cheaper canned fruit Canned meatsCooking ingredients in restaurant size container like corn starch, baking powder, geletin, ect.I garden every year to supplement the fresh food. Mostly only buy discount meat and fresh fruit n veg at the store. Been learning to cure meat and make sauces and jellies. I eat well and everything homade is a better quality than I could find at the store. Sometimes at half the price or less.
>>21698766Ive never had them since I bought a damp rid bucket and put my bulk dry goods in buckets with oxygen absorbers or vacuum bags with oxygen absorbers.
>>21698750I love rural and it's way harder to get shit cheap the further you are from a big city because you have only 1 or 2 stores to choose from
>>21698772I spend about 200$ on bulk a month replacing or renewing the cabinet. At the store about 200 in the summer when the garden is producing well I've got a family of 3 eating good on that.
>>21698786Makes sense. But the air and view is enviable and I'm sure your property taxes (or rent, if you don't own) are way lower.
>>21698772When prices spike on items i just don't buy. I felt quite comfy skipping eggs when prices went up and still baked brownies, muffins, fritatta with powder egg
>>21698790the air maybe but I live in basically a rural suburb off a highway. I listen to semi Jake brakes 24 hours a day and I'm surrounded by drug addicts. my property tax is like 1500 a year I think but I only own 1/10th of an acre which is just my house plus a very small front yard. and my house is 110 years old, and not in a good way.
>>21698827lmaoSee what I mean? My property is a sixth yours and I pay more in tax than you do. Same age house, surprisingly. I was going to go into an autistic explanation about how much I love the old-ass door and lock that came with it but I'll spare you my lock autism. I fucking love locks.>>21698797Same but with chickpea flour as an egg replacement in baking. It works surprisingly well but it can't make an omelette, regardless of what vegan bitches tell you. I've actually got some egg powder in the back of the cabinet. I use it for royal icing.
>>21696464stop shopping at stores owned by jews, like costco. Their 'bulk' is fake, they ride high on their reputation and swindle goyim all day long. At my local restraunt supply store, I can buy 50 pounds of potatoes for 12$. That's enough food to feed a single adult male 2000 calories a day for 9 days. >>21698686often if theres a huge price difference its because one kind of precooked/prebrowned/seasoned and the other is raw. Read those labels carefully. >>21697407>>21697849lots of restraunt supply stores actually sell directly to the public now.Prices and availability will obviously vary on location. Learn about what your local farms produce, you can usually get a really good deal by shopping around. A turkey for example is going to cost more in hawaii than it does in Oklahoma>>21698766chuck your bag of whatever into the freezer for 24 hours to kill insects. repackage and vacuum seal for longer shelf life.>but its 50 pounds ofchest freezer.
>>21698953I have never, not once, ever seen 40lb boxes of frozen, preseasoned/precooked chicken thighs, chicken leg quarters, chicken drumsticks, chicken fucking anything except for tendies, nuggies and wings.
>>21698965NTAlook harderpic related is from today and they do this all the time. I don't live in the county so I don't keep up with the pricesbut they sell some deep fried apps that are kind of off the wall too
>>21698965Perdue sells em to restaurants and grocery store. You've just got to buy with a few friends to order 15 boxes to warrant a truck delivery to your home. Maybe a once a year bulk purchase with your neighbors.
>>21699014Why would I (or anyone, really) want bulk preseasoned/precooked chicken anyway, nevermind 600lbs of it?>>21699013That pic doesn't even remotely show that there are 40lb boxes of preseasoned/precooked chicken for sale.
>>21696464Not only is it better value but it's outright cheaper in some cases>$2.75 for 1.5L of iced tea>$3.50 for 500mlThis happens very often
>>21696464It's a good rule of thumb but stuff that is already razor thin margins won't be half the price or moreFor example stuff like meat you absolutely will save a bundle, stuff like rice not so much
>>21696464In white countries the price label always has the cost per kilo so you know how good it is to buy in bulk.Not everything is significantly cheaper in bulk but I've seen quite a few. Candies are insanely expensive and they hide the cost by giving you small packages. Milk is always cheaper in the big jugs.Generally if something is sold in small packages you are getting ripped off because it's harder to notice a markup. A small bag of flour is going to be cheap so you won't notice that they added a 200% markup. Add the same markup to 20kg and that shit is expensive.
>>21697328US Foods Chefstore if Amerishart
>>21699452Oh I used to work at a store that got giant boxes of raw chicken: wings, portioned and whole birds for the hot bar. That's what I was referring to
>>21697854*Whoa
>>21696464
You absolutely save money buying in bulk. It's the only way I can justify eating so much beef. I've got two freezers going.
>>21696464Are you eating dog food?
>>21696464Nonperishable items are worth it to buy in bulk. Why wouldn't you buy shampoo or toilet paper or dry rice or canned food that you'll eat regularly in bulk? Not like they're going bad anytime soon, and when the public gets scared by something and snatches a bunch of shit off the shelves, they're doing it because they don't have proper stores the way you do.
>>21696464>buys bulk from regular store>complains regular store overhead is the samengmisavings for wholesale mostly come from more efficient distribution and lower overhead for storesif you actually want to get cheaper prices per kg, go to / order from stores that only do B2B and wholesalee.g. I just bought 25kg organic dried white beans for ~4,50€/kgthe regular organic supermarket here sells them for ~8€/kg for up to 2,5kgalso some items are just not worth itlike >everything Aldi / Lidl carry will usually be just as cheap there as it would be in any size in wholesale
As a baker in work life I like that I can bulk order higher quality grain than would ever touch a grocery shelf at much less price than crap quality available. I'm going to post some bulk and dtc websites for y'all to check out. https://www.farmersstorehouse.com/
>>21700138https://www.azurestandard.com/Seasonal deals are great for a large family canning or church event where you can all together buy once at a low price and make for the rest of the year. The Mormon religion does this sort of thing with it's community if you needed bodies to involve a yearly investment and canning event.https://palousebrand.com/?srsltid=AfmBOopDUobObwoxCp1CWkcn1kXsvH_u5Lp8B9Y944B6WUNQVkLJAuvwhttps://www.amazon.com/greatriverorganicmilling?dplnkId=375f27d2-ca82-4e80-8d61-07221b19ab38
>>21700138>>21700151Thanks for the reccys.
Yeah it used to be genuinely cheaper but the Costco business model did so well now all retailers can take advantage of consumer idiocy. All the consumers now are convinced of the buy in bulk meme and retailers know this so they can just sell twice the volume at the same rate and retarded consumers will buy it all up thinking they're saving money. I would be surprised if even 10% of Americans know how many ounces go to the pound and how many liters go to a gallon. All the retailers have to do is change up the units and +90% of Americans wouldn't know any better.
Local farmers will let you glean from a field or orchard after harvest for cash in hand. Huge amounts of fruit or veg. The way they loophole any liability responsibility is to say your buying it for animal feed. They leave any too big or too small on the field to rot. Taste the same.Barter is a real useful thing if you live in the country where you could trade a truckload of gleaned or salvage produce as animal feed for meat or eggs.
>>21698682Bro kill yourself>delivery fee>service fee>+tipThat will be $20 for you $5 flour sir
>>21700878Many dtc ( direct to consumer)places offer free shipping over x amount order. If your buying half of your groceries or more for the year in bulk, especially in a family of adults. A 800$ order of dry goods for 3 Brothers and their family's for example. Free shipping, help unloading, tip split 3 ways if you even want to tip driver.You've just got to plan.A mac truck showing up to your house 2x a year can be many times cheaper than being nickel n dimed to death at the grocery store.
Anyone know any b2b or direct to consumer wholesalers for Canada?
>>21696473This. Examples: I bought 25lbs of onion yesterday for $7.49, far below the typical supermarket price right now of ~76¢/lb (and therefore, $19.08 for that 25lb bag). And yes, they will all be used up before going bad. Bulk was the better buy.On that same trip, I saw a clip strip in the dish detergent aisle with a book of coupons for $2 off Dawn Platinum Plus Power Suds. A woman in that aisle grabbed one paper coupon and the large, 51oz, $15 bottle. That's $13 after coupon. I took 3 coupons and 3 smaller 17oz, $5 bottles, so $3 after coupon. 17oz × 3 = 51oz total, so I got the same amount she did but paid $9 vs her $13. Smaller units was the better buy.People don't pay attention to prices anymore and don't generally know how to shop these days.
>>21699950>. Why wouldn't you buy shampoo or toilet paper or dry rice or canned food that you'll eat regularly in bulk?lmaoJust just just just just before COVID, toilet paper had a big sale, 66% off Charmin. I stocked the motherfuck up, much to my wife's chagrin. She didn't know until then how much of a deals-slut I can be and she accused me of hoarding. Then COVID hit and while everyone else was scrambling for pooper paper, I was buying my St Paddy's corned beef brisket, a sack of taters, a bag of carrots and some boiling onions. That's literally all we had in our cart and everyone else was panic buying essentials we already had at home. She wasn't upset anymore about all the basement space we lost to shit tissue at the time In fact, we only had to restock the bog roll last year-ish, I bought so fucking many packs and I had sticker shock at how pricey that stuff is now. Luckily, there was a slightly damaged but still unopened package of TP in the managers special section for half off the very day I went to the supermarket for buttwipes so I bought that and have lucked out in finding managers specials on the stuff with surprising regularity ever since. Even if we're not low, if I see it on managers special, I buy it.And most recently, I stocked up on shampoo. I noticed that with a sale and $3 off paper coupon, OGX was cheaper than VO5 (97¢ vs $1.08) so I bought two the other day then collected a bunch more of these coupons to buy more OGX yesterday. One was actually 25¢, some keratin variety. It wasn't on sale so $7.49 regular price but it was on clearance for some reason. $3.25 - $3 off coupon= 25¢. Hi, I'm Anon (and >>21701508) and I'm a deals-slut.>hi anon!
>>21696464To get a good deal you need to go to a wholesaler, for veggies it's the farmers market (i don't know what to call it in english, basically the place where veggie vendors get their daily product). For fruits you can get the best deal by buying from small orchards (they often don't have the manpower to hire transportation and get their product to the farmers market so they sell slightly cheaper but you have to come to them)I used to be a very cheap guy, used to obsess over every single item while shopping and trying to save money and get a good deal It's just not worth it guys. Live your life, save money but only in reason. Focus on quality over quantity.Just a week ago i bought myself an iPad Air with the stylus, it's really good. I spend too, just for electronics goods and not expensive groceries.
>>21696464If you are living in a white country and you are buying retarded Indian shit of course it's not going to be cheap. They have to import it after rats have shit all over it and all the men have touched it with unwashed hands, that doesn't come cheap.
When people say buy in bulk, they mean from a wholesale outlet. Boom, things now make sense. And to have a larder you have to know how to actually store food
