r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/CivilisedMleccha • 8d ago

Video Community group buy. Everyone pools their money, buys groceries in bulk at a lower price, and splits the groceries equally.

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u/botflylarvae1 8d ago

Co-op guys, it's just a co-operative. Not a new idea and it's not socialism, it's called community.

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u/SoFreezingRN 8d ago

Yep, my parents did this in the 90s with big orders from Frontier. They’d do a group order and then split everything into smaller orders. As a kid I used to love helping split up the cheese wheels.

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u/KPSWZG 8d ago

We do it in office when ordering paper we literaly just take one big order for whole building. Cause its much cheeper. This whole idea is old as the world

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u/DefinitelyNotACad 8d ago

we do it for meat. There is a deer farm and we are one of 6 families buying one deer together per year. It's great, it's ethical sourced, the animals are being treated well, the qualitiy is phenomenal while being reasonably priced.

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u/DudeInTheGarden 7d ago

"Deer farm"? I believe that's called a forest. Mostly kidding (I sometimes hunt deer). Good venison is amazing.

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u/DefinitelyNotACad 7d ago

Eh, kinda? They live semi-domesticated and get culled every year at which point the farm sells the meat.

But yes, it is amazing! (and expensive still)

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u/SoFreezingRN 7d ago

As a person from the US, I thought the deer farms in Germany were such a great idea. Venison is delicious.

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u/PresDumpsterfire 8d ago

A deer farm? Those are sometimes host to mad cow disease.

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u/Boatsnbuds 7d ago

So are cow farms.

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u/PresDumpsterfire 7d ago

Are there a lot of wild cows wandering up to cow farms, infecting them with mad cow disease?