Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Communal buying...

[Kay Argyle (argyle]

We have a "buying club" which once a month places an order with a
organic/health food cooperative in Tucson -- I think the frequency is based
on how often the cooperative delivers to Salt Lake.  People submit their
orders to the club secretary.  If you want, say, four cans of something that
comes in an eight-can case, you can order that.  Then the secretary posts an
email listing the items to complete any partial case orders -- so many
cartons of yogurt, pounds of cheese, bags of veggy chips etc. -- and people
email back saying, I'll take all the yogurt, one pound of the raw cane
sugar, and two cans of the spinach curry.

The secretary posts the delivery date, and anyone who is around helps unload
the truck and divide up the order.  She does invoices, and the buyers write
a check to Wasatch Buying Club.

Kay

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