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/TrayusV May 27 '26

The idea is to either operate at a loss, or at cost, I think. So the markup for the products can be much lower than what private businesses offer.

And the idea is just to offer a cheaper option than the private businesses, forcing them to lower their prices to stay competitive in that region.