Re: Communal food buying | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Rob Sandelin (floriferousmsn.com) | |
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 21:01:17 -0700 (PDT) |
If there are natural food coops in your part of the state find out who delivers to them. Getting a bulk food delivery means getting on a delivery route, and this requires setting up accounts, making minimum orders, and usually establishing a credit reference. We have been doing a monthly bulk food delivery for many years now, keeping a small pantry but adequate of things in the commonhouse and supporting individual household orders. We set ourselves up as a food coop and so we get a wholesale price. However, we have found that some things can be procured cheaper, and better products by shopping the large food distributor called Costco in our area. We also do some buys from farmers and other sources. We have a Bulk food team who handles this and they do a fabulous job of providing us the opportunity to get good quality food at good prices. We have set up a budget process which allows us to make a monthly buy then bill out at the end of the month rather than trying to handle individual payments from each household on delivery. Rob Sandelin Sharingwood Snohomish County, WA -----Original Message----- From: R.N. Johnson [mailto:cohoranda [at] yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 5:37 PM To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org Subject: [C-L]_ Communal food buying Any of you folk who do bulk buying have any recommendations for good organics/natural food distributors? I've been wading through the archives looking for references to wholesale food distributors, with no luck. Thanks, Randa Johnson New Brighton Cohousing Aptos, CA _________________________________________________________________ Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L/
- Re: Communal food buying, (continued)
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Re: Communal food buying G. Campbell, September 9 2008
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subset of community paying for improvements Muriel Kranowski, September 11 2008
- Re: subset of community paying for improvements Muriel Kranowski, September 12 2008
- Re: subset of community paying for improvements Anne Fleck, September 12 2008
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subset of community paying for improvements Muriel Kranowski, September 11 2008
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Re: Communal food buying G. Campbell, September 9 2008
- Re: Communal food buying Rob Sandelin, September 9 2008
- Re: communal food buying R.N. Johnson, September 10 2008
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