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Re:Costco selling $6,000 doomsday-prepper food kits – feed a... by joezydeco on Friday March 16, 2018 @03:04PM (#16603149)
It's not just preppers. Members of the Church of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) are taught to build up reserves of food and other resources.

https://ldsblogs.com/9618/mormon-faq-why-do-mormons-store-fo...

Re:Costco selling $6,000 doomsday-prepper food kits – feed a... by dragonwriter on Friday March 16, 2018 @03:27PM (#16603333)
> It's not just preppers.

Maybe, I mean it's a very cost-effective “i need to eat but not think about it” alternative to something like Soylent (assuming you have the storage space), so there may be a non-prepper market, but...

> Members of the Church of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) are taught to build up reserves of food and other resources.

Pointing to a group for whom being preppers is a religious practice (and maybe even a doctrinal obligation) is not support for the idea that the market for a product isn't just preppers.

Re:Costco selling $6,000 doomsday-prepper food kits – feed a... by bcoates on Friday March 16, 2018 @06:02PM (#16604321)
The Mormons are a great deal more practical about it than these food kits though. Mostly just encouraging canning/home cooking and keeping a rotating inventory of anything that'll keep a few years.

Prepper food isn't really practical unless you've got 100 people to feed and can genuinely use industrial food in industrial quantities.