r/HumansBeingBros • u/fineman1097 • 21d ago
He’s Doing THIS To Fight Grocery Prices
https://youtube.com/shorts/pec33ODeRsQ?si=APsoCHOQuw0g8hak28
u/ofthisworld 21d ago
My partner and I did the same thing years ago in California; ran a produce direct-buying club, for which I drove a little u-haul trailer back and forth from downtown LA to the Inland Empire, earning us a free share of vegetables for our troubles. It ran beautufly, doung exactly what we all need to be doing these days: recovering our independence from unchained capitalism.
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u/physicsking 20d ago
Ummm, yeah of course. He has cut out like 5 business that were skimming profits. Everyone should know this as obvious.
Hauling, storage, sorting and cleaning, packing, store, etc
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u/vladisabeast 21d ago
Watch the feds make this somehow illegal in the US
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u/French87 20d ago
Idk I also think farmers in the US maybe are also too greedy for this to work.
Like how is it my local farmers markets, and I have a lot, are all more expensive than Whole Foods for fruits and veggies?
Like, it’s local businesses setting up tents and selling their own product. They have removed the middle man. HOW IS IT MORE EXPENSIVE?
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u/DazB1ane 20d ago
Farmers markets have been shown to buy their produce from grocery stores, then repackage (wasting a shit ton of plastic), and sell it for a higher price than they bought it for
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u/thundafox 20d ago
we have a similar approach from some local farmers, where you can rent land that is then planted by the farmers with potatoes or carrots or corn and you will get a share of what has grown there either as the veg. or money
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u/giantcappuccino 18d ago
We have this already in the states. It's called a farmers market. That's where you buy directly from the farmers and cut our the middleman.
And somehow pay even more that if you were to buy it from said middleman.
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u/fineman1097 18d ago
No, this is different from a farmers market. Farmers markets are way overpriced now too and full of stalls that buy their produce from one of the central distribution centers and mark it up way higher than the supermarket whole claiming it's local and organic.
Look under the tables and in the trucks. You will see the distributors boxes. Other signs are that if someone thing is on super sale at the local supermarket, a lot of the stalls will have a large supply that week. An example is raspberries being $2 a quart at the supermarket, you will see lots of raspberries for $5 for a pint at the supermarket. If you see things that are out of season or out of area in the farmers market, like fresh peaches in my area in September are not in season and they don't grow around here.
There have been whole documentaries on this topic. Most farmers markets are mostly big scams now up charging you for the exact stuff the supermarket has.
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u/StaticSeal 20d ago
Yeah he cut at least 3 middle men who are making money too and giving someone a job. When these businesses close shop you know who to thank.
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u/tempski 20d ago
When you're a so called middle man but are only taking from the pot and not adding any value, perhaps you should be removed from the whole chain.
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u/Vee-Gee-Z 20d ago
I look at the word "business" very differently after I tried to add the suffix "ness" to the word "busy".
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u/jdunk2145 21d ago
My mom used to do this in the eighties. It was called a Co-op. She would take orders from everyone on the Co-op and then place them with the Co-op supplier. We would then get a 53 foot box semi-trailer show up at our hose and unload all the goods into our garage. So my mom got little to no help from anyone else on the Co-op and stopped taking orders. No one else took up the torch so to speak.