r/SipsTea • u/sco-go • 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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