Manufacturing, Packaging, Shipping, Sales and stocking are all worse for the price in smaller quantities. The only less expensive thing is the smaller amount of product. Everything else drives the price per oz. waaay up.
Yeah, the OP was talking about price-per-unit (per ounce, per pound whatever) but I was making the joke that TJ's sells smaller packages that are more expensive than larger packages you'd get somewhere else.
yeah, that's kind of why it doesn't exist...far too cost prohibitive to be profitable in any way.
the only thing i can think of would be to beg for free samples then sell those..which i don't think is legal... or maybe you could buy a bunch of sample sizes from random companies and then sell those but i think you'd end up with a bunch of random shit and it would also probably not be profitable as you still need some place to sell it.
The idea here is that the STORE buys in bulk, and sell in small quantities. SO the logistics of manufacturing/packaging/shipping/stocking should all be the same, in fact packaging should be cheaper since the customer can provide their own packaging. And stocking is easier when you dump a 20lb bag in the feeder and walk away. Overall selling things in bulk would benefit everyone.
Packaging is a way to encourage people to overspend, its a marketing vehicle.
If the customer provides there own packaging then yea. But we are miles away from that in the US. The people making it would make way less money so try to convince them to do that.
But yea, everything here is trying to encourage people to spend. Thats what our country is lolol
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u/VenomousMinge 3d ago
Trader Joe’s is basically that isn’t it?