Organizing a Group Buy of Flour
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Organizing a Group Buy of Flour
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Re: Organizing a Group Buy of Flour
#2I hope we strengthen and cross link our food supply chains on a local and regional basis like this more in the future.
Having most everyone in a city or neighborhood buying from a single chainlink or two isn’t a very resilient system, nor does it make for very efficient markets.
Commodities like flour should be available sort of like data on ipfs; the problem is, of course, trust and risk of tampering. Hopefully it won’t be much of an issue and more decentralized supply chains can emerge, making more opportunities for more people.
I’d love to be able to be a local cache node in the food supply chain (or web, perhaps), as I imagine others would be.
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#3I’ve thought about buying one of those big sacks of flour—I bake bread and other stuff routinely, so I know I’d use it up eventually. I mean, I just got a half-pound of vanilla beans. But storage becomes an issue. I’m already struggling a bit to find places for the extra stocking up.
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#4I recently had no problem buying organic flour from the organic aisle, despite the regular aisle being sold out. People are stupid when they panic.
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#5I’ve thought about buying one of those big sacks of flour—I bake bread and other stuff routinely, so I know I’d use it up eventually. I mean, I just got a half-pound of vanilla beans. But storage becomes an issue. I’m already struggling a bit to find places for the extra stocking up.
Even something like flour doesn't really last forever--especially if you don't have ideal storage conditions. Maybe you bake enough though.
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#6I recently had no problem buying organic flour from the organic aisle, despite the regular aisle being sold out. People are stupid when they panic.
More likely, the cheaper product sells out first.
Three weeks ago, there was no flour of any sort in the store I went to. No corn meal, not grains at all. Except for matzo meal, however, on the end of aisles where seasonal products are held, so I finally made matzo ball soup for the first time! There were also no beans except for a completely ridiculous $8/pound of dried lentil in some sort of super fancy packaging.
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#7I recently had no problem buying organic flour from the organic aisle, despite the regular aisle being sold out. People are stupid when they panic.
This story reaffirms my sense that the recent explanation du jour for scarcity, residential vs commercial supply chains, isn't quite right. This person set out to buy an order of 250 lb of flour and it still vanished before their eyes.
My experience with commercial toilet paper has been the same, watching it dry up just like retail. People seem to be stockpiling cheap familiar essentials, plain and simple, wherever they can get it.
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#8I recently had no problem buying organic flour from the organic aisle, despite the regular aisle being sold out. People are stupid when they panic.
My local supermarket here in the Netherlands split their toiletpaper section and spread it across the store to make use of this stupidity.
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#9Some restaurants, with shrinking demand, are now selling their flour to consumers
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#10Our grocery chain has been buying rice and flour in bulk from restaurant supply houses and repackaging them in 1lb bags. Pretty agile if you ask me.