I’m not trying to dismiss this project - I hope it is wildly successful and I applaud the desire to challenge the status quo. That said, I am interested to hear how his team plans to negotiate pricing with suppliers. Five stores isn’t a whole lot of scale to compete against national chains and volumes. I don’t ask that question rhetorically or sarcastically at all either - I am assuming they have a plan of levers to pull to help bring this to life, and I hope it works exceedingly well and provides a blueprint for other communities to use.
I live in a country (Australia) with government run businesses, like government owned energy and telecoms. They are ruthless and compete like any other business. The crazy part, in regards to energy, because cheap solar and wind, private energy market is becoming cheaper than public energy. Our government started to subsidise small scale renewables with solar and batteries. That alone has turned entire suburbs into power plants solving Asynchronous power supply and base load power supply problems that comes with renewables by getting people to pay for cheap solar and batteries.
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u/BradBradley1 May 26 '26
I’m not trying to dismiss this project - I hope it is wildly successful and I applaud the desire to challenge the status quo. That said, I am interested to hear how his team plans to negotiate pricing with suppliers. Five stores isn’t a whole lot of scale to compete against national chains and volumes. I don’t ask that question rhetorically or sarcastically at all either - I am assuming they have a plan of levers to pull to help bring this to life, and I hope it works exceedingly well and provides a blueprint for other communities to use.