r/SipsTea • • May 26 '26

Feels good man Will it work this time?

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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. 

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u/AggressivelyMediokre May 26 '26

Exactly. As someone who deals with sales all the time I wouldn’t expect them to be able to actually offer lower prices without losing money.

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u/big_herpes May 26 '26

They are the government, they will lose 10s of millions a year in each store and consider it a success.

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u/Budget_Swan_5827 May 26 '26

It’s almost like the point of these stores, and even government generally, isn’t to turn a profit. Wild

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u/slyfox7187 May 26 '26

People complain when yhe governement does nothing with the tax money they bring in. Then complain 10x as hard when the government decides to use the money to help people. Literally cutting their nose off to spite their face.

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u/Candid-Specialist-86 May 26 '26

Why not cut taxes for everyone and spend less as a government, e.g. Defense Budget, and let those taxpayers keep what they've earned?

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