Re:Why are diapers so expensive?
by celticninja on Thursday April 05, 2018 @06:19AM
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yes but storing a pallet of razor blades isn't easy and from 18 - 28 (when you would be using these razors) you are going to move a lot, due to work, college, just general renting. So moving a pallet each time is probably inefficient.
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It costs money to save money.
Someone told me that mid-rich people often group together to have a grocery accountant who will do their bulk shopping for them and it ends up costing them less than a supermarket prices for superior products.
In Park Slope we have our food coop, which is co-owned by 16,000 of us and does just bulk buys of everything we need. We also voulenteer to work 3 hrs a month (I do childcare).
Our groceries are the freshest, localist, most responsibily sourced and affordable in NYC 20-50% off other stores.
FoodCoop.com
Re:Why are diapers so expensive?
by iambateman on Thursday April 05, 2018 @11:01AM
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Thx for sharing this. Really cool. Where I live, I'm pretty sure we don't have a coop...but I want one!
We do about $50MM in revenue a year and also provide startup capital, training and voulenteer labor to help folks start their own.
Drop by for a tour and say hey if you do.
Could you please tell more about this grocery accountant? Sounds super interesting. How does it work? Thank you.
Razor blades are small. Assuming parent poster shaves every single day of that ten years, and each blade only lasts for two shaves, they'd need about 1830 blades.
That's 19 boxes of these, which probably fit in a shoe box.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Derby-100-Extra-Shaving-Blades/dp/B...
Given that he mentioned dropping $1000, I'm guessing he's talking about cartridge blades (e.g. Gilette Mach III), that cost a couple of bucks each and take up probably 20x as much space when packaged. Still not that much actual space needed. A small moving box would probably hold decades worth; definitely if stripped of the outer packaging.